“You don’t expect it and, bam, it hits you!” My sexual eruption took place around 11 years old. » This is how Julie, 45, describes her discovery of masturbation. Julie is one of those people with busy lives: an entrepreneur, she is also a researcher in cognitive sciences, and has taught at Harvard. She is training in psychoanalysis, which can be heard throughout her story. “At the time, the urges came at night, she continues. I masturbate knowing very well what I'm doing. One day my mother puts me and my sister in separate rooms, I can't help but wonder if it's because of that. I never talked about it with them. At home, sexuality was more than taboo. Even today, with my sister, we wouldn't talk about it. I find it a shame not to have been accompanied at this moment. » A strong, embarrassing emotion, bordering on the forbidden. A “secret garden”as it is sometimes called.
So secret that we continue to associate this intimate swear word with boys, who are much more represented in the cinema than women, moreover. The pie scene in American Pie certainly tells you something. Does a female example come to mind so quickly? We visualize male masturbation techniques much better than female masturbation techniques. We imagine – wrongly – that women put their fingers in their vaginas and that in a few moments, almost miraculously, they orgasm.
From childhood, a taboo weighs on the discovery of the female sex. “The concept of the sweet and clean little girl, completely under control, from the playground to the sexual sphere, has always existed and still persists”, explains Miriam Felix, co-founder of the French Institute of Support for Child Sexual Health.
However, a small revolution is underway. According to the major survey “Context of sexualities in France 2023”, conducted by Inserm and ANRS-Infectious Diseases, the first data of which was made public on Wednesday November 13, female masturbation is experiencing a sharp increase. In previous editions of this scientific study, the percentage of women declaring that they had already masturbated was 42.4% in 1992, 56.5% in 2006. It has now reached 72.9%. Without allowing men to completely catch up (92.6%), this surge is significant enough to be presented as “a major change” by Armelle Andro, demographer at Paris-I-Panthéon-Sorbonne University and one of the survey coordinators. “Today, women have a masturbation trajectory identical to that of menshe explains. Until 2006, women who reported masturbating did so after becoming sexually active, as a form of secondary or marital sexuality. This is no longer the case at all. Young girls learn to control their sexual pleasure alone, disconnected from their first adventure with a girl or a boy. »
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