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MoonLight21

Its all in your mind.. well I can keep my self not doing it as long as I wanted. Every time you feel like you can't hold on anymore, just watch cartoon or funny movies or you can just go outside your house.. If there are many people outside I don't think you will still do it unless your a perv???

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Xenonight2

Practically synonymous? No. Psychological dependency is merely the first stage of an addiction. An addiction, and I think it bears repeating, is the inability to stop despite negative consequences. Psychological dependency is more or less a nagging need to do something - it is still totally possible for the patient to stop without serious therapy. In the medical world, and this includes psychiatry and psychology to a lesser extent, terms are everything, and you must be very careful as to what you deem "practically synonymous." The two terms describe very different, discrete stages of a psychological disorder. You cannot confuse them, or use one in the place of the other, as deeming them synonyms would imply.

Looking at isolated tribes is unnecessary. You simply have to look at history. In fact, in modern times, if you look at it from an anthropologist perspective, you will see that most socieities support polygamy. However, most men have only a single wife, because it is only the men who have a lot of resources and are older and rich that can support more than one wife.

Long before civilization, and even right now, Polygny has been one of the dominant cultural aspects of marriage in Africa since before Western monogamous culture ever existed.
http://www.africanholocaust.net/news...ageritual.html

Got it backwards there, dude. I don't have the time to go into super detail of why polygamy was extremely common in our tribal days, but you can still look at almost any period of history and you will find elements of polygamy, or at least polygyny. Or you can just look at Africa, where polygynous marriages were more common than non-polygynous marriages until colonialism. It was polygamy that happened first, but was later suppressed in many cultures, but not every culture. One of the few cultures that you just so happen to live in is the one that suppresses it. If you had been born virtually anywhere in Africa, you would be many times more likely to practice it. If you are a Muslim and you move to India, you are allowed to practice it. In Tibet you are allowed to practice it. If you are a Muslim and moved to Saudi Arabia, you would be allowed to practice it.

Polygamy is even in the Old Testament, although it mostly consists of David and Solomon.

Just remember, polygamy is legal in many more countries than it is not. However, polygamy has always been rare because, well, most men at a young age could only afford to have one wife. It was the older men that got all the other wives. Personally, I'm quite happy to be living in a non polygyny society, because it means that I have more women to choose from when it comes time to look for a relationship. Let's face it, as guys, serial monogamy rocks.

LtPurcy

The answer to this

Testorone

some people have a bucket full of it

some people have bugger all of it

for me
the science behind it, you wank, you explode, your happy.

Happy days

Serebii

Why is it that the smartest, most literate people on OnRpg are typing up paragraph after paragraph in a thread about the science of masturbation?

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GrandHustle

What's even stranger: they've completely strayed off the topic of masturbation.

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Serebii

Oh really? I didn't bother reading the walls of text.

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ControlKill

Same I don't think many people read those walls of text.

About masterbation, I do it 1 or more times a day.

illgamez

hells yeah xd

feofilakt

Psychological: The science that deals with mental processes and behavior.
Dependency: A compulsive or chronic need; an addiction.

Yes, they're practically synonymous.


I'm not going to quote the remainder because you're obviously not looking at the correct tribes nor are you referring far enough into the past. All of your references are from written history, ignoring what only modern theory suggests how humans lived prior to written history.

If the theory of human evolution is indeed correct (humans evolving from chimpanzees), then the differences between physical traits (including sex-related) are telltale signs of there being differences between the two systems. Chimpanzees live under a patriarchal system with promiscuous sexual behavior, with some exceptions which include a hierarchical system between the male chimpanzees.

This system, over the long term, caused females to need to have a distinct sign of being ready to have reproduce (which is swelling of certain regions I don't desire to repeat). This maximizes the female's ability to reproduce, due to making it more noticeable to males.

Female humans do not exhibit the same trait, meaning humans probably existed under a different sexual system for a majority the split from chimpanzees estimated to be 2 million years ago. Another adaptation specifically to human females is the the unconscious ability to synchronize periods if multiple females live within the same enclosed group for a lengthened period of time.

Some anthropologists theorize these two adaptations, along with evidence seen from many modern-day hunter and gatherer tribes (primarily found within South America), that humans survived primarily through a monogamous system whereas males mostly got one female.


The reason your examples are insufficient is because African tribes were affected by civilization, altering the outcome over the longer term and not allowing their modern-day hunter and gatherer tribes to be sufficient examples. The bible is a written document, meaning civilization had already existed for quite some time (meaning polygamy could have very well existed in shocking amounts due to it being within a society larger than a tribe). Modern religions generally feed off whatever they designate the people would want, as to maximize the number of followers.

Norrin Radd

Until sex is seen by society for what is is; something simple that shouldn't be held as sacred, thus greatly available. Why not masturbate?

Being horny is one of the most unproductive mindsets ever. If masturbating gets it out of your head (Har!) so that you can concentrate on, ya know, all the things in life than ACTUALLY matter, why not?