Solitary Pleasures, or World Masturbation Farm
Saturday, December 27th, 2008
Concept of this article belongs to genuine Galina’s ideas intellectual store, which excludes imitations or copying of others, even if they are great thinkers of the past.
Johann Nepomuk Geiger was a Viennese artist (1805-1880), who, apart from his erotic illustrations, used to make oil paintings for the Austrian Royal Family.
The early-twentieth-century Viennese satirist, Karl Kraus, remarked once that one may meet a better class of intimate partner only in masturbatory fantasy. The evidence accumulated by surveys suggests that over 90% of men and 50% of women masturbate regularly or masturbated some time during their lives. Reading or viewing pornography, or sexual fantasy – are common accompaniments of masturbation. Masturbation activities are often ritualized, and various fetishes can play a part in a ritual.
Talking about mechanisms of masturbation in general terms can bring me too far. Masturbation as global act of self-indulgence better than anything else manifests truth that all we perceive and do is individually determined. (more…)

