United States - January 29th, 2008: A recent research showed that in spite the growing of the sex toy industry around the world, most of the production of masturbation toys is female-oriented. 

United States - January 24th, 2008: Strange cases of inmates being convicted on the state of Florida after being caught masturbating alone in their cells are causing controversy.

United States - January 22th, 2008: An interesting research has just confirmed the obvious. Masturbation is not as good as sex. What basically anyone who had sex at some point of their lives (and even some who never did) is able to say now acquires the state of scientific truth.

United States - January 17th, 2008: Specialists and sexologists are still fighting to debunk one of the more common and erroneous myths about our sexuality.

United Kingdom - January 15th, 2008: Some masturbation devices invented by the industry seem to be a very good idea at first, but when manufacturers put such ideas into practice, the result is not always the expected.

United States - January 10th, 2008: A recent study tried to link sexual customs and preferences to a woman’s ability to reach orgasm.

United States - January 08th, 2008: Virtual encyclopedia Wikipedia recently published a list of the most viewed pages at its portal. Surprisingly, many sexual terms are among the most popular pages of the website.

United States - January 05th, 2008: A recent research conducted by an American organization in South Korea tried to determine the effects of circumcision in men’s sex lives, particularly masturbation.

United States - December 27th, 2007: Specialists are alarmed with the current trend of casual sex and oral sex among adolescents, ages ranging from 14 to 16 or even younger. Most of them agree that is a question of education.

United States - December 20th, 2007: Popstar Madonna was recently photographed leaving a hotel while carrying a very unusual and interesting item on a transparent plastic bag.

United Kingdom - December 18th, 2007: A recent survey revealed the habits of British women and men when it comes to choosing a place to masturbate. Results are at the same time surprising and interesting.

United Kingdom - December 13th, 2007: An organization called Rabbit Amnesty is drawing attention thanks to a very unusual method of recycling materials.

United States - December 11th, 2007: A manufacturer of masturbation toys promises to release within the next few months a toy that may cause a revolution among the options men find today in the market, when it comes for self pleasure.

United Kingdom - December 06th, 2007: A village on the Welsh borders is campaigning to change the name of one street, because thanks to a mistake on the register, the street ended up with a very unusual name.

Scotland - December 04th, 2007: A man from Air, Scotland was put on the sex offenders’ register after being caught masturbating with his bike. Robert Stewart was surprised by cleaners at a hostel simulating sex with a bike and was later put on register and probation for three years.

Washington, USA - August 29th, 2007: The prohibition of selling masturbation and sex toys may see its end soon, thanks to the efforts of a woman.

Michigan, United States - August 17th, 2007: A very unusual case is drawing attention to the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity house in Michigan. Recently, an unknown woman just entered the frat house’ living room and started to perform masturbation while sitting in a couch in the place.

United States - June 20th, 2007: During a sex toy workshop occurred recently and organized by a Toronto feminist sex shop, masturbation specialists offered tips and advice on how to better use masturbation toys and other sex gadgets.

United States - June 06th, 2007: A job that is certainly envied by many people is becoming more and more popular, as the demand for sex toys particularly on the internet rises.

United States - May 30th, 2007: Recent studies affirm that not abandoning masturbation customs and actually introducing such customs into partner sex it’s essential to maintain a good and healthy long term relationship.

San Francisco, United States – May 23th, 2007: In the end of May, San Francisco will witness the event that it’s quickly becoming the most celebrated time of the year for masturbation, and also for sexuality in general.

United States - May, 11th 2007: Recent studies revealed that in the last decade, much of the prejudice and myths about masturbation are finally gone.

United States - May 07th, 2007: American Idol is already a very controversial TV program, now setting to become even more bizarre with the recent case of Mario Vazquez and the masturbation sue.

United States - May 04th, 2007: Another case of sexual crime involving masturbation is drawing attention of people in the country. A 26 years old teacher in Fort Ann allowed and encouraged students of his class to perform masturbation in front of him, as a natural and average school activity.

United States - April 30th, 2007: Specialists say that many women feel afraid of their long-term partners preferring masturbation over having sex with them.

United States - April 27th, 2007: It’s no news that masturbation may reduce the risk of prostate cancer, since many researches around the world already confirmed the fact.

United States - April 27th, 2007: A masturbation toy called “The Cone” is being praised by several websites and magazines as one of the best devices for self-stimulation in the recent years.

United States - April 16th, 2007: Once again the prejudice against the use of masturbation devices and other sex toys is causing controversy in an American city.

United States - April 11th, 2007: A research showed that some women actually believe that masturbation toys may be more efficient “partners” for sexual stimulation than men.

Sweden - April 11th, 2007: A Swedish company called Lelo, designer of masturbation toys decided to redesign the common masturbation toys to give them a more appealing look.

United States - April 9th, 2007: More and more specialists are concerned with the use of a substance called phtalates in masturbation toys such as dildos, vibrators and artificial vaginas.

United States - April 9th, 2007: Las Vegas is the place where all new gadgets for masturbation and sex toys in general are gathered, at least during the 2007 AVN Adult Entertainment Expo. Some people claim that this is where sex and technology slip into bed together.

United Kigdom - April 04th, 2007: A man created a website on the internet to explain his techniques on how to “make love” with cars, what’s drawing the attention to some unusual masturbation techniques.

United States - April 04th, 2007: Recent studies published by the University of Vermont show that men usually fantasize more during masturbation. More specifically, men also fantasize more about other people than their parents during masturbation.

Israel - January 29th, 2007: A funny yet interesting case involving masturbation toys happened recently with a renowned local sexologist.

United States - January 26th, 2007: Creativeness is a bliss, and when it comes to sex and particularly to masturbation toys, people in general can be very inventive. When it comes to protests and sarcasm, people may also be very creative, so why could we expect when masturbation toys and protest come together?

United States - January 26th, 2007: Masturbation is always pointed as completely necessary even if you are married or having a long-term relationship, with a very sexually active partner.

Canada - January 24th, 2007: Motivated by a recent study which tried to evaluate the importance that people with spinal cord injuries give to sex, the British Columbia Institute of Technology started to develop masturbation devices and special masturbation toys to help handicapped people to enjoy their sexuality.

United States - January 24th, 2007: More and more it seems that masturbation and sex toys are becoming common ground in court, whether as a means of evidence, or sometimes being the main topic of the case.

Iran - January 22th, 2007: Iranian supreme leader Sayyid Al Khameini, which is the most important political and religious figure in the country, has recently posted a message in his website talking about masturbation.

United States - January 22th, 2007: The Ig Nobel prize is a parody of the famous Nobel prize, where the most unusual, weird or bizarre scientific researches are awarded.

Canada - January 19th, 2007: A child psychiatrist was excluded from the right to practice medicine accused of sexual misconduct with three young female patients in the period of 2000 to 2001.

United Kingdom - January 19th, 2007: In the current trend of masturbation movies and TV programs, the movie Rabbit Fever, which tells the story of the most famous masturbation toy, the Rampant Rabbit is drawing a lot of attention.

United Kingdom - January 12th, 2007: It seems that more and more female masturbation not only becoming a common and non-taboo subject, but also a trend or something fashionable in the media in general.

United Kingdom - January 12th, 2007: Female masturbation is still a very fashionable topic today, and now it seems that every type of media is trying to take some advantage of such fashion. It’s now time for the movie industry to give it a try.

United States - January 8th, 2007: Masturbation in public has becoming more and more a common subject as free internet access computers become more common in places such as cyber cafes and also libraries.

United Kingdom - January 8th, 2007: A website is still moved by the masturbation week impression and decided to put on a list naming facts about masturbation that can be considered funny, amusing, strange or even bizarre.

United States - January 2nd, 2007: A unusual crime it’s drawing attention to Monroe, in Los Angeles, as a 70 year old lady called Alvena Johnson has been arrested for selling masturbation toys and other sexual paraphernalia on a novelty store.

United States - January 2nd, 2007: The teenage oral sex craze that has been reported in several researches is still drawing the attention of sex educators and sexologists, but most remarkably for parents.

United States - December 27th, 2006: In a recent interview, Janet Jackson revealed that thanks to her new relationship with Jermaine Dupri, she’s actually discovering a new sense to her sexuality.

United States - December 27th, 2006: A research pointed out that pornography could actually reduce the incidence of rapes and other sexual crimes. Although it was considered a plausible theory for some years, now it was confirmed.

United States - December 21th, 2006: Sex toys today represent a major part of the incomes of adult entertainment, becoming more and more popular among couples and also single men and women.

United States - December 21th, 2006: Currently, masturbation toys are becoming more and more subject of articles and even ordinary conversations, as they are starting to be seen as a real complement to the relationship and not something only people who are naughty and lonely should use.

Canada - December 13th, 2006: Researches are pointing that masturbation toys are starting to be seen as real aids for couples in Canada. Once regarded as something used only by “naughty” single people, and were sold as “personal body massage” in old catalogues where in spite of their obvious shape, toys were showed massaging a person’s neck.

Jamaica - December 13th, 2006: Physicians are pointing out the several benefits of masturbation in Jamaica, where the subject is still a taboo for most people, particularly men.

Canada - October 13th, 2006: A blog maintained by a guy who claims that masturbation it’s the only sexual life he can get it’s drawing attention of many internet users by presenting some weird and yet funny stories about his masturbation customs and preferences.

Japan - October 11th, 2006: A website in Japan has collected some weird stories about masturbation methods that some believe are actually proving that average sex toys are being left behind as old-fashioned apparatus.

Japan - October 11th, 2006: A doctor who advocates masturbation as means of sexual enhancement and to promote an increase on one’s libido is being highly criticized, since accordingly with some people, his ideas are doing little to help with the country’s current low birth rate problem.

Canada - September 27th, 2006: A recent research is trying to narrow down the history of masturbation toys through history. More and more scientists are convinced that toys have been constantly used throughout the whole history of mankind, offering valuable information about our sexuality.

London, United Kingdom - September 27th, 2006: The so called masturbate-a-thon, which took place recently in London, was declared to be a success. Intended to promote the idea of masturbation as a safe, natural and normal sexual practice, the event gathered together people from different ages and cultural backgrounds for charity.

United Kingdom- September 25th, 2006: Although the announcement of a series of documentaries about masturbation to celebrate the so called “wank-week” has caused many controversy and protests, Channel 4 has decided to actually continue to air the masturbation programs. The first episode was focused on the masturbate-a-thon week, an event that gathered tenths of people masturbating at the same time for the sake of charity.

United States - September 25th, 2006: An event called Adult Novelty Expo is presenting the most recent news when it comes to masturbation toys in the industry.

United States - September 22th, 2006: The most recent romantic comedy on the big screen across the country is causing embarrassment among some viewers.

United States - September 22th, 2006: Autoerotic asphyxiation is still becoming a common practice, particularly among adolescents. Although being a controversial (and dangerous) masturbation technique, doctors do confirm that feeling asphyxiated may actually intensify the pleasure when a person is masturbating or having sex.

Alaska, United States - September 18th, 2006: Crimes involving public masturbation and other lewd acts are worrying the population of the city of Anchorage, in the state of Alaska.

Canada - September 18th, 2006: More and more the wide variety of materials used in masturbation toys is worrying specialists when it comes to potential side effects of some substances used.

Canada - September 13th, 2006: Again, a crime involving a priest engaged in lewd acts is drawing negative attention to the church. Konstanty Przybylski has been sentenced to five years in jail after being pleaded guilty for sexually abusing two altar boys from a period that lasted from 1995 to 2000.

California, United States - September 13th, 2006: A new sex law it’s about to be passed soon in California, and it’s already raising controversy. The law would make people who infect partners with the HIV virus to be held responsible, even if the person was never tested for the virus before. Knowingly passing on the virus it’s already a crime in the state, but some authorities are asking if someone should be guilty even if not aware of the disease.

United States - September 8th, 2006: Researches point that o­ne of the issues that upset adolescents the most is referring to the frequency of masturbation.

United States - September 8th, 2006: The case of Judge Donald Thompson which took several weeks finally has come to an end. Accused to use a penis pump to perform masturbation acts during trials, the judge was found guilty of the four counts for indecent exposure he was been accused. Authorities said that the system worked as expected. The same justice that Thompson abused ended up arresting him.

United States - August 28th, 2006: Specialists are ready to put on the test one of the so-called penis enlargement techniques that is being utilized by many people. Those techniques promise to increase the length and girth of the penis by natural or surgical procedures.

China - August 28th, 2006: Following other countries in an effort to improve sex education in schools, educators are considering a rethink in the content of such classes.

Australia - August 25th, 2006: A new research has come to corroborate previous studies that believe that masturbation could be an effective way to prevent prostate cancer later in life.

New Jersey, United States - August 25th, 2006: A disturbing case is drawing attention of the citizens in New Jersey. An 83 years old man is being accused of performing masturbation in front of 3 years old boy and trying to molest him afterwards in a restaurant bathroom.

United States - June 23th, 2006: As previously reported, May has been called the masturbation month since 1995, when a famous sex shop from San Francisco called Good Vibrations decided to celebrate this act of self love and self knowledge and trying to debunk the several myths and misconceptions surrounding the subject.

Jamaica - June 21th, 2006: Jamaica is the next country to start promoting masturbation as an alternative in safer sex. Sexologists and safe sex advocates are pointing that the explosion of HIV infections on the country, promoting the idea of a 100% safe practice is a way to ensure prevention for some couples.

United Kingdom - June 19th, 2006: Scandals involved military and porn websites are becoming common sense. Now, it was a 21 years old soldier from the 82nd Airborne Division that was involved with a porn military-themed website.

Canada - June 16th, 2006: As cybersex is today no longer enigmatic and weird a word as it might’ve sounded just recently past, specialists are now trying to figure out what would be the future of masturbation in front of the computers.

Iraq - June 14th,2006: A new fight is worrying minds of American soldiers who are committed in long tours through the Iraq and other near regions. They are no longer praying for courage to fight their enemies, but in fact courage to face themselves.

Singapore – June 12th, 2006: A weird epidemic that was strongly on the news during the late 60’s still affecting some people in places such as Singapore. The condition is in fact a sort of mental disturbance, or even some kind of delusion, in which men become convinced that their penises are shrinking and retracting into their bodies.

California, United States - June 9th, 2006: A priest has been suspended in the Sacramento’s catholic diocese under allegations of sexual crimes committed in the 80’s. Rev. Rodolfo Delgado is now under investigation and suspended from his position as priest, after 24 years of priesthood.

United States - June 07th, 2006: Specialists say that masturbation is not only fun and necessary even when you are engaged in a long term relationship, but it’s also fun when you are actually with your partner.

United States - June 2nd, 2006: This May marks once again the celebrations from what is called the masturbation month. Established by sexual educators to promote advice on masturbation as a healthy sexual practice that may enhance sexual life and skills, besides being the only 100% safe sexual practice available, the masturbation month offers many activities. Several websites will be offering special articles, surveys and essays on masturbation, while sex stores and organizations will be featuring special events.

Canada - May 31th, 2006: A sex shop called “Come As You Are” is distributing a free button on their website, with the intention to help fight what they call “the war against masturbation”. Its goal is actually to promote advice on masturbation as a normal and healthy activity, particularly for women.

United States - May 29th, 2006: A recent research proved that sex toys and masturbation devices in general could be more effective if projected in a different way. Or at least, they should be created by a team of designers of a different gender.

Columbia, United States - May 24th, 2006: A bill proposed by Republican Ralph Davenport is due to make the sale of masturbation devices or sex toys illegal in the state. The law is not yet approved, but if it is, stores which sell masturbation toys will face up a fine of $10.000, and proprietors up to five years of prison.

United States - May 22th, 2006: Journalist Veronica Harried, from Sex out loud recently wrote an article on Wisconsin-Madison University website talking about the importance of masturbation for both men and women, and how the subject should be openly discussed by everyone.

United States - May 19th, 2006:Once in a while, some website becomes highly known and famous among daily internet surfers. This time, it’s a website about masturbation. Although everyone knows that there are in fact thousands (maybe even millions) of porn sites out there, this one it’s different: it’s not pornography, but masturbation treated as an actual human feature.

United States - May 17th, 2006: Kiefer Sutherland is one of the most popular actors of the USA scene today, thanks to the success of the real-time adventure 24 Hours. However, the latest news about him doesn’t not concern either to adventure or real time experiences. On a recent interview Sutherland did with Rolling Stone magazine, he talked about masturbation and relationships.

New York, United States - May 15th, 2006: Hoyt became famous on the virtual world last year for having his picture posted on the internet. He was caught on picture by a girl he was stalking in the NY subway, using her camera-equipped cell phone.

Pennsylvania, United States - May 10th, 2006: Inmates from the Pennsylvania’s state prison are no longer allowed to receive pornographic magazines from visitors. Receiving such kind of erotic material was common practice among inmates who use it with means of releasing sexual tension through masturbation. At the end of year, it will be also prohibited to possess any pornography in cells.

United States - May 08th, 2006: There’s not much truth in that old stories about men going blind or having hairy palms, but specialists say that there are in fact some disadvantages in masturbation, when becoming too frequent.

United States - May 5th, 2006: A recently identified sexual condition is surprising and concerning the medical community by its possible commonness. What it’s being temporarily called Persistent Sexual Arousal Syndrome (PSAS) characterizes by a constant and unrelieved feeling of involuntary genital arousal. Such arousal may not be relieved by any sexual activity, not even masturbation.

United States - May 3rd, 2006: Parents of a kindergarten school in Ocean County are angry with an incident that took place last December. Accordingly with the superintendent of the school, there was a case involving masturbation between two kindergarten children during a bus ride to a day care program. The only measure the school took was to include a 20 minute sex education program in kindergarten agenda, rather than in second grade.

United States - April 26th, 2006: A surprising yet disturbing study published in one of the first academic studies about sex toys shows that there could be a link between masturbation using sex toys, recreational drug use and sexual risky behavior. The study collected answers from people age ranging 18 to 39 living in Seattle.

United Kingdom - April 24th, 2006: A site about sexuality was conducting a very curious survey on masturbation. They wanted to determine the average number of strokes a guy takes to reach orgasm during masturbation.

Gilroy, United States - April 5th, 2006: Bruce Randal Tebo, it’s the name of the latest criminal caught by a police operation involving an officer pretending to be a young girl on the internet.

United Kingdom - March 31th, 2006: Judith Croft has a really interesting and curious (to say the least) job. She is part of the team of 15 sex toys testers and designers for High Street sex chain Ann Summers.

United Kingdom , March 29th, 2006: A watch advert for Accurist watches that ran in Glamour magazine was banned by the Advertising Standard Authority after a reader’s complaint that considered the ad offensive and degrading to women.

Canada - March 27th, 2006: Recent surveys show that definition of sex activities are a bit confused for Canadians, particularly adolescents. 22% of the surveyed include mutual masturbation in the definition of sexual intercourse, while for 26% of them, sexual abstinence may include oral sex as well.

Tennessee, United States - March 24th, 2006: As surveillance cameras are already largely used by many cities as a means of fighting vandalism and preventing theft, a controversial decision is proposing that three Nashville parks start to use such cameras to fight public lewd acts. Public masturbation and other sexual activities are unfortunately becoming routine in places such as parks where seniors and parents with their children should walk without distress.

London - March 21th, 2006: This conclusion may be obvious for most people who have already tried both experiences, but now science knows why orgasm feels so different. In fact, researches proved that such fact is associated with the so called “recovery period”.

Woodstock, United States - March 17th, 2006: A weird case involving a drive thru, hot coffee and masturbation brought attention upon Woodstock recently. A man simply drove up to a drive thru completely naked in his car, to the astonishment of all the people around.

United States - March 15th, 2006: One of the weirdest theories ever, resulted in a product that this month celebrates its hundredth anniversary. Very few people in fact know that the Kellog’s Corn Flakes were invented as a treatment for masturbation, but it was in fact the idea of Doctor John Harvey Kellog back in 1906.

San Francisco, United States - March 13th, 2006: A case of a former writer’s assistant for the TV show Friends from Warner Bros. Productions has been causing discussion on the methods of writing comedy.

New York, United States - March 10th, 2006: Not even being a pervert is something so easy these days. Recently, a guy who was having fun stalking women and performing masturbation while looking at them in the subway had an unpleasant surprise.

Tzaneen - February 20th, 2006: It was an embarrassing and scaring situation for women near a mall in the small town of Limpopo, when a group of adolescent street kids decided to perform masturbation for anyone to see and started to stalk women at the streets. One of the victims told the police that the started to follow her inside the mall drooling and screaming because she was wearing a sexy mini skirt.

Colorado, United States - February 17th, 2006: A very peculiar case is disturbing the attention of the people at the Morgan Library in Colorado. Larry Holgerson, aged 48, is being accused of spattering a computer screen, keyboard and chair with semen after masturbation last January.

United States - February 15th, 2006: It seems disturbing an idea that children have sexual “partners” at a very young age, but it’s in fact an important phase of the sexual development of a person.

Chicago, United States - February 14th, 2006: A detailed study with the gorillas of the Chicago zoo showed interesting patterns of sexual behavior and physiology that stress the similarities of primates and men.

United States - February 10th, 2006: The most debated surgery procedure today in the United States is a clean cut one, known as circumcision. What people say is that it has nothing to do with medicine, psychology, religion and sex.

United States - February 08th, 2006: A study involving parents’ responses about their children masturbatory practices was made by the Department of Sociology; the State University of New York to realize what was going on with the idea of parental counseling regarding early sexual behavior of their children.

United States - February 06th, 2006: Some say that the procedure of bleaching the anus area could be considered a myth. It would be a few years ago, but now it is reality. It started with female celebrities about four or five years ago, initially in Log Angeles. Now this kind of treatment is popularized and many people are going to visit those professionals that offer this service.

United States - February 3rd, 2006: A man was arrested last Wednesday, accused of exposing himself to two 14 year old girls and to a school employee outside the Yelm Middle School. The happening occurred Tuesday and the two teenagers reported that they were approached by the suspect, separately. He was driving a golden car and stopped to ask for informations. The girls said they saw him pulling down his pants and handing his genitals.

Editors - February 1st, 2006: If we wonder who is more engaged in self-exploration and exploitation – men or women – we, instantly will think the same answer: men. That might be the result of our occidental culture so repressive towards feminine sexuality.

Japan - January 30th, 2006: Vibrators, dildos and other types of masturbation toys are becoming so popular in Japan after companies started to avoid the sleazy image that they used to have in the past and that they are in fact being treated as accessories that every Japanese woman carries on her handbag on a daily basis.

Connecticut ,United States - January 25th, 2006: In a recent interview, specialist John Rosemond talked about the issues regarding young girls masturbating at around the age of 3, when in general, many girls discover their "magic button".

United Kingdom - January 23, 2006: British supermarkets will never be the same now that the sale of such brand of products is unleashed. Supermarket chain Asda, o­ne of the biggest in the country has announced that will start to sell sex toys, and accessories for masturbation (particularly vibrators) o­n their 300 stores spread across the U.K.

Editors - January 20th, 2006: A research which analyzed the cases of 12 young girls who were diagnosed as having pediatric movement disorders proved that all the girls were perfectly normal, and were experiencing regular episodes of infantile masturbation. Some of the patients were treated with medicaments and invasive medical procedures before doctor realize what in fact was happening.

Africa - January 18th, 2006: The question sparked a very strong
discussion when raised during a conference in Abuja to discuss solutions for
the fast and growing spread of AIDS infections in the continent. Winnie Madizikela
Mandala, ex-wife of the former South African president was o­ne of the activists
in favor of masturbation and abstinence being the best solution for the problem.

Malaysia - January 13th, 2006: The Malaysian Education Minister announced recently that sexual education will start to make part of the regular curricula starting in pre-school and extending until university and community sexual programs for adults, as a way to fight deviant sexual behaviors that are becoming so common in the country such as internet pornography, pedophilia and sexual harassment. Topics will range from masturbation to safe sex and pregnancy prevention.

Editors - January 9th, 2006: The world of easy access of the internet shows its dark side as teenagers are starting to use broadband connections and easy-to-use web cams to inadvertently and sometimes even unknowingly show their image to a public of over 1.500 people, while they take showers, perform masturbation or even have sex in front of the cameras.

California (USA) - January 6th, 2006: A workshop featuring educational sex books, videos and displaying sex toys for both men and women will take place at the UcDavis.

Oklahoma (USA) - January 4th, 2006: David Rector is the name of the latest sex offender caught by the police in an operation using undercover officials. Rector, 40 years old, was using the internet to visit chatrooms and to seduce young girls.

United States - December 26th, 2005: The Department of Pediatrics, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, made a test, involving five girls aged 7 to 27 months, which used to have masturbatory posturing that did not involve rubbing and/or stroking the genitalia or copulatory movements.

United States - December 21th, 2005: The prank was set up by a Yale student who posted false notices around the bathrooms of several residential colleges. The fliers read that students will be no longer allowed to masturbate in the shower to avoid pipe bursts.

Editors- December 19th, 2005: A recent essay showed that the great majority of women do not accept or tolerate their boyfriends to have a porn stash, either o­n the closet drawer or o­n the computer.

Belgium - December 16th, 2005: A 27 years old man became famous in Belgium by going to the public together with his mother to ask the welfare office to pay for prostitutes.

Editors - December 14th, 2005: Surprisingly, masturbation is still one of the aspects of sex which accumulates the biggest amount of myths and misconceptions.

Arizona, United States - December 12th, 2005: Masturbating in front of webcams using live chats and instant messenger software is becoming more and more common among young people. However, in some cases this activity may lead to illegal and inappropriate consequences.

United States - December 9th, 2005: a study published by the University of California showed surprising and interesting results o­n how distracted and how altered decision making could become when a person is highly aroused by masturbation.

United States- December 7th, 2005: Cay L. Crow, a sex therapist who teaches sex education classes in a communitarian service gave a recent interview talking about the benefits of masturbation and the way the practice has been viewed through time.

UK- November 28th, 2005: A case involving a divorced mother of five who decided to fight the right of every parent to be told if their children are seeking masturbation and sex advice is raising issues o­n how much involved parents should be in the subject.

United States, November 23th, 2005: A stratified study with parents of children with ages ranging from 3 to 11 showed what the parents' reactions and attitudes are towards the discovery of their children masturbating.

Editors - November 21th, 2005: Scientists are more and more convinced that sex starts in the mouth.

Japan - November 18th, 2005: Researches are being made in order to improve the quality of semen samples of infertile men engaged in programs of assisted reproduction. The quality of the semen collected for such procedure is essential to the success of the fecundation process.

United States - November 16th, 2005: It seems that all Universities around the US are heading to a new kind of informative content, and yes, they are masturbation and sex. o­n the universities' papers sex columns started to be the first reading option.

Editors - November 14th, 2005: Scientists reveal more o­n the female orgasm, ejaculation and masturbation.

United States - November 11th, 2005: New the NASA project for a manned trip to Mars puts in question sex and masturbation in space - with the perspective of 30 months minimum mission to Mars that would lead 6 to 8 people to stay isolated in space.

Editors - November 9th, 2005: New book uncovers the mysteries o­n female, orgasm, ejaculation and masturbation - Professor Karl Stifter, a world-recognized sexologist and psychologist has presented October 19 his new book called "Vaginal Orgasm Sexology" which promises to reveal the secrets of female sexuality by showing the results of a 25 years old intense research about all topics o­n the women's sexual life.

United States - November 9th, 2005: Article demystifies the male orgasm and recommend masturbation before sex - an article o­n the Cavalier Daily states that according to the famous Hite report o­n sexuality, 71% of men would like to continue intercourse longer than they are able to, revealing that it's a common source of anxiety for men, likewise the so-claimed obligation for a woman to have orgasms in every sex play.

Chicago, United States - November 3rd, 2005: Many districts of the city having problems with people engaging into lewd acts of masturbation - it seems to be a wave of cases of lewd acts in some parts of the US, as police districts are having serious problems with people engaging into mutual masturbation or oral sex in public places such as bathrooms.

Oregon, United States - November 3rd, 2005: State law against live sex and masturbation shows is declared unconstitutional - together with a local ordinance which said that nude performers must dance from at least 3 feet from viewers, the law prohibiting sex and masturbation shows due to accusations of promotion of prostitution was struck down yesterday, since both were declared against the free-expression guarantee of Oregon's Constitution.

Editors - October 27th, 2005: Scientists reveal more o­n the female orgasm, ejaculation and masturbation - a group of scientists is trying to prove that anorgasmia or incapability of having orgasm is not quite a problem, but the fact is that most people don't realize what the orgasm really is. Instead of the mind blowing that we usually see in movies, orgasm may be just a relaxing release of sexual energy. However, every specialist still believes that masturbation is the best and most guaranteed way to discover what turn women o­n.

United States - October 27th, 2005: Boys (and perhaps some girls) are already waiting in front of their computers to see if the story of an x-rated homemade video Britney Spears and Kevin Federline is true. Supposedly, this tape would be at the hands of a member of Britney's security team, who would have made a copy from an alleged personal collection from the couple.

Editors - October 25th, 2005: This controversial comment of a notable psychologist is causing a rush among sexologists and specialists as he claims that watching porn movies and sexy pictures while engaging into masturbation may be psychologically addictive.

United Kingdom - October 25th, 2005: Rick Parfitt, guitarist from the legendary band Status Quo, o­ne of the oldest rock bands still in activity (officially since 1962) spoke in a recent interview about the band's weird ritual of passage back in the seventies.

United States 13th.October.2005 - Judge Donald D. Thompson was charged in late January since a court reporter told the authorities he was using a penis pump to masturbate (a device also used to allegedly enhance the size of the penis) when he was presiding a murder trial.

Editors 6th.October.2005 - Currently, less so than piercing done is to get your genitals pierced. As whoever would pierce oneself just for the sake of aesthetics, but few use such steel-made accessories in order to increase sex-linked stamina most for themselves as for peers.

United States 5th.October.2005 - Paris Hilton, the world famous “accidental porn star” and hotel heiress affirms in a recent interview for Vanity Fair that she is actually not sexual. Despite her incident starring the sex tape called “One Night In Paris” (which still one of the most downloaded video files on the internet) where she was filmed by ex-boyfriend Rick Salomon for 45 minutes performing masturbation, fellatio and intercourse in front of a digital camera, she claims that all of her boyfriends had complaints about her being un-sexy.

Japan 4th.October.2005 - As adult oriented (and most of the time, hardcore) content became daily more available through the internet, kids are likely to experiment with some unusual objects for masturbation.

United States 3th.October.2005 - Jen Sincero, besides being a musician is an eloquent sex-pert. She is the author of the bestselling book “The Straight Girl’s Guide to Sleeping with Other Chicks”, a book that gives to the straight, but curious women a full view of the girl versus girl action, according to personal experiences and hundreds of interviews. She wrote, too, the semi-autobiographical novel “Don’t Sleep with your Drummer” – a hilarious guide trough the music industry.

Editors 30th.September.2005.- A new Bible approaching pornography, sex and masturbation in a very frank way was recently released. And condemned by traditionalists for “dumbing down the message of salvation” as soon as released. Published by the Bible Society and Collins (that also publishes more traditional and conservative bible versions with no plethora in sex and masturbation contents) approaching in modern language with special passage solely about youth issues. In addition, the section on masturbation bears a describing passage of St. Paul's eloquent and persuasive speech on not to be “slave of your desires”; and other approaching adolescents baffled by their sexuality in that sex and masturbation a reminder that “today, the world is a sex free market”.

United Kingdom 28th.September.2005.- Britain has recently achieved the distinction of being the capital for sexual content on TV in the whole continent. Accounting 27 porn channels (while its nearest competitor, Germany has only five), the country has five times more adult channels than any place in Europe, also having 400.000 subscribers.

Editors 22th.September.2005.- The voyeur behavior characterizes itself when a man or a woman get satisfied by watching other people naked, having sex or just heavily petting another people. That might vary, indeed. As some people like to watch, there are those who like to be watched while naked or having sex. However, this specific (and very normal) fantasy requires a little bit of attention, since being naked and/or having sex in public is illegal, but that does not mean that, if you are a voyeur, you can not practice your fantasy.

According to Debby Herbenick - the sex educator at the Kinsey Institute for Research in, Gender, and Reproduction - people that suffer of several stress crises, could benefit from knowing that reaching orgasm with partner, or even masturbating, might help to relieve a good deal of tension.

Editors 22th.September.2005.- The fears and doubts about masturbation and its exceeding proportions during the nineteenth century is the theme approached by jean Stengers and Ann Van Neck in their book called Masturbation: The History of the Great Terror. Stengers and Van Neck demonstrate by facts that the church and its religious authorities condemned the practice of masturbation in the Middle Ages despite all medical denial about some kind of side effect or debilitating result.

Editors 21th.September.2005.- Wilhelm Stekel (1858 - 1940), early in the 1950's wrote, while alive, a study book that became, many years after, a classic, called "Auto-Eroticism: A Study of Onanism and Neurosis". As a crescent interest by masturbation was appearing, after books like Bockting and Coleman's 2003, Cornog's 2003 and Lacquer's 2003, the New Yorker Kegan Paul saw this market niche as good for exploration and reprinted the Sketel's book that, all the time, was academically neglected.

United Kingdom 17th.September.2005.- Britain has recently achieved the distinction of being the capital for sexual content o­n TV in the whole continent. Accounting 27 porn channels (while its nearest competitor, Germany has o­nly five), the country has five times more adult channels than any place in Europe, also having 400.000 subscribers.

Editors 15th.September.2005.- Websites such as RetroRaunch seem to become increasingly more popular, as retro porn turns to be a “cult” subject, especially o­n the internet. If masturbation in front of the computer is o­ne of the pleasures brought by technology, enjoying porn it’s not an exclusivity of today.

Editors 13th..September.2005.- A lube cream that heats up from stroking called Stroke 29 is promoting an o­nline survey to determine how is the average number of strokes for a guy to come.

Editors 13th..September.2005.- Author Jonathan Margolis’s new book presents an interesting look at the history of orgasm, since it was a secret, becoming a “right”, until today, when it’s practically a duty.

United States 10th.September. 2005.-Martha Cornog, the award winning editor of “Libraries, Erotica and Pornography”, releases a book that could be considerate as the Masturbation’s encyclopedia: “The Big Book of Masturbation: From Angst to Zeal – 2003, 335 pages, $22.00”. This book is very informative and can be easily enjoyed by professionals and general public, since its approach is as simple as its content.

United States 9th.September. 2005.- Not everybody knows that in May the International Masturbation day is celebrated. It claims that you must spend some quality time with yourself, for it’s a way to show love from you to inner self. The invention of this celebration month took some specialist to think about current masturbation-approach with the internet globalization. What used to be a solo-sex-act is now, sometimes a collective o­ne. That is because the internet so- helpful in gathering people who wishes to masturbate in chat rooms, and that might as well result in a physically lonely act, but “sponsored” by other people, just like those phone sex services.

United States 6th.September.2005.- Author Jonathan Margolis’s new book presents an interesting look at the history of orgasm, since it was a secret, becoming a “right”, until today, when it’s practically a duty.

United States 6th.September.2005.- Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger, age 62, is considered a sex god icon since the sixties and his unbelievable sex appeal is becoming even a subject of analysis.

Sexologists say that his combination of power, wealth, fame and sexual charisma explains all the oomph he causes o­n women (and men) of all ages, while his free, wild and constantly active sexual life would be the answer for his youthfulness and health.

China  3rd.Sept.2005.- A recent survey has determined that the Chinese people are the most discrete when buying sex toys for masturbation or sexual health products. As the lack of sex shops in the country or the low traffic in the o­nes that remain active could give the wrong impression of Chinese being not so interested in sex, the fact is that they are actually embarrassed in purchasing such items from a salesperson.

United Kingdom 3rd.Sept.2005.-Received with a lot of feedback by both the press and the medical community, the National Office of Statistics' report o­n Contraception and Sexual Behavior reports that today the usage of female condoms is so low in the country that it registers as 0%.

France 29.August.2005.- A book released in France suggests that soon the internet will be the most common vehicle to promote adultery and to unsettle relationships. The book called “In Bed With The Web: Internet and the New Adultery” draws attention to the growing number of couples getting divorced due to o­nline cheating.

United States 29.August.2005.- Novelist Emily Maguire has recently published an article pointing not the importance of the mass media or peer and friends pressure, but the importance of what hormones are telling us. Masturbation, desire to kiss boys and to have sex are no longer considered normal, and regarded as simply media influence.

United States 27th. August.2005.- Surprisingly, Amazon, that is o­ne of today’s biggest o­nline stores that sells books, CDs, DVDs and other products started to care about masturbation. The section “Health and Personal Care” o­n the site now features amazing 37.000 items under the label “Sex and Sensuality”.

United States 27th. August.2005.- The popstar recently declared during the recording of a documentary called Britney’s redneck roots” that the book 'Satisfaction: The Art of the Female Orgasm' written by Sex And The City’s Kim Cattral helped her to master the art of oral sex. The book contains detailed instructions o­n several sexual practices such as masturbation, different positions and evidently fellatio.

United States 21.August.2005.- As many women feel discomfort in being penetrated during the period after birth, mutual masturbation it’s an option to keep the flame alive until body and mind are ready to get back to normal sex play.

United States.- 14th.August.2005.- At first it was o­nly Grand Theft Auto, which has been highly criticized since a patch that reveals a sex scene was discovered. But now, other games are being discussed o­n having masturbation, nudity and sex scenes hidden in patches.

Japan –12th.August.2005– The counseling service for teenagers, which gives daily answers to questions and issues about teens’ sexuality is facing an unexpected problem. Kids are using the service to masturbate while female counselor gives advice.

Japan 8th.August.2005.- The classic The Lover’s Guide, a British publication widely translated to many languages since 1992 was banned from Japanese stores and classed as pornography. The book, entitled in its Japanese version as Rabaazu Gaido has gone into four prints, selling 50 thousand copies. Not including any graphic image of intercourse or masturbation, authorities are accusing the book of pornography since its depictions of genitalia are “too real”.

Japan 8th. August.2005.- From the very beginning of the movie industry, Japan has prohibited genitals to be exposed o­n screen at movie theaters. No matter the context – whether a scene masturbation or plain nude scene – genitals have to be covered with digital mosaic.

China –4th.August.2005– This week, sex toys, lingerie, masturbation and condoms will be the topic at the Shanghai International Exhibition Center, as the Second China International Adult Toys and Reproductive Health Exhibition has opened yesterday, expecting to pass the mark of 20.000 visitors from last year’s edition.

July 31. 2005. Editors.- o­ne century ago, notorious thinker Sigmund Freud released the theory of female orgasms in studies about sexuality and masturbation. Despite the fact that such date it’s not receiving as much credit as the centennial of Einstein’s theory of relativity, it also caused a revolution in our lives. Particularly, in our sex lives.

United States 26th.July.2005.- A recent research showed that even women in established long-term relationship, is still female masturbation the best way to achieve orgasm, especially when associated with sex toys.

United States 26th.July.2005.- For an activity that o­nce started as a gay phenomenon now earning hearts and minds of ever so growing youth enthusiasts, according to a recent research. Regarded as somewhat weird as obscene in the past ( with plenty of scenes of masturbation and promiscuity), clothing-optional resorts and nudity resorts are now attracting families, committed couples and particularly youngsters in their twenties for whom nude recreation is not just something as natural as healthy, but also fun.

London   24th.July.2005.-  “No flash or masturbation, please” could be the sign at the entrance of Charing X, a gallery that recently opened in London, claiming to be the first commercial gallery in the word specialized in erotic art, fashion photography and even furniture.

United States 22.Jul.2005.- Research points tips o­n how to boost your sperm production whether to increase chances of getting your wife pregnant or just because they want to feel like an actual porn star, men are always thinking about how to augment their sperm production.

Japan 16.July.2005 -  Couples broadcasting live sexual performances are becoming somewhat banal among Japanese, as nearly every erotic website o­n that country has such kind of service. Female exhibitionists who obey orders from male users while they are engaged in masturbation becoming custom as well.

United States 13th.July.2005.- As the industry seem to lose interest o­n the idea of personalized cell phone ringtones by using music. People discovered that there’s a way to make the ultimate personal ring: by recording an orgasm (if during masturbation or sex, nobody knows).

United States 11.July.2005.-  After being impressed by seeing him and ex-wife Pamela Anderson’s famous amateur movie ,which includes notable performances o­n oral sex and mutual masturbation.

Botswana – 06.July. 2005 – Masturbation recognized and promoted by the Youth Health Organization (YOHO) as another option in HIV infection prevention.

United States  2.July.2005.- USA research proves, women more interested in porn and erotic movies than ever, but seemingly unsatisfied with quality of the explicit content found in both video industry and internet. Masturbation watching raunchy pictures seems no longer exclusive of the male gaze.

Australia – 30.June.2005.- Episodes of Big Brother Uncut where there is apparent masturbation in the spa and graphic housemate chit-chat are going to be investigated by The Australian Broadcasting Authority “as a matter of urgency”. A formal complaint was made by federal MPs.

United Kingdom .-24.June.2004.-  Psychiatrist Dayananda Rajapakse used to hypnotize her in order to help with her depression o­nset. He used to induce her to remove her own clothes and touch herself. At least o­nce, he put his fingers in her vagina, had oral sex with her, among other abusive conducts.

United States.- 24.June.2005.-  Even with the constantly growing amount of data o­n the web, sex is still the most popular keyword typed everyday o­n search engines.

United States .-18.June.2005.- Jurors in the sex abuse trial decided o­n last Monday that the masturbation, the videotapes and the porn weren’t enough to put the artist in prison.

United States .- 17.June.2005.- Erotic Podcast market o­n spot, as digital consoles such as the iPod become more and more popular around the world.

United States .-15.June.2005.- A recent AARP magazine study of the sexual attitudes and practices of Americans 45 and older pointed out that most of the surveyed women who are not in a relationship, masturbated at least o­nce in the last six months

12.June.2005.- The study published in the June issue of Biology Letters has a survey o­n female masturbation and orgasm.
33% of the surveyed women said they never or rarely reach orgasm; around 10% said they always reach it during the sexual intercourse. Most of them reach orgasm during masturbation; 34% ,however, always have orgasm along with masturbation.

Hamilton .-10.June.2005.- In Hamilton, police has discovered that a group of teenagers was maintaining a private network using webcams and instant messaging programs where they peep at each other masturbating and later having sexual intercourse. They called it The Safe Sex Club and used the service for at least two years.

United Kingdom .-8.June.2005.-   Bizarre Magazine, o­ne of the top notch erotic magazines from the U.K. celebrates its 100th edition this month with an issue that promises to be o­ne of the hottest issues when it comes to sex, masturbation and related subjects.

San Francisco 6th-June-2005.- “Masturbate-a-thon” in San Francisco Saturday 29 May was a success – says Carol Queen, director of the San Francisco's Center for Sex and Culture.

SANTA MARIA, Calif. 3.June.2005.- At the molestation trial, Attorney Ron Zonen asked the jury to remember that Michael Jackson repeatedly masturbated a young boy, as to say this is not the first time the star molests a child. But it definitely may be the first time he pays for his crimes, if ever committed. 

Easton.- 2.June.2005.- A 66 years old surgeon was charged and arrested for masturbating in public – Dr. Charles D. Gianetti, a former Bridgeport surgeon was finally arrested after several attempts of public self-exposure and masturbation in public.

2.June.2005.- New study confirms masturbation as a prevention for prostate cancer – contrarily to previous researches that suggested that having frequent sexual activity could increase in 40% the risk of developing prostate cancer

Indiana. US- 31.may 2005.- While male orgasm is something intrinsically connected to the human reproduction, female climax’s purpose remains a mystery for evolutionary science still. Over the last four decades, many theories have been put in place to try and explain the very existence of the female orgasm, none of them conclusive, though. ....

Japan.-30.May.2005- Japanese scientists claim that masturbation is vital for men’s well-being. Researches show that a man in his 20’s should ejaculate about 24 times a month, combining masturbation with regular sex play, while a man in his 30’s should go for it 10 times a month and o­n his 40’s, aiming for 6 times a month. Not enough masturbation may bring further problems such as enlargement of the prostate.