Merry Masturbation Month!

Hello, my name is Dioneo, and I'm a masturbator.

As you may already know, May is International Masturbation Month.  While I imagine most visitors to this blog celebrate year-round, I invite you to make a special effort throughout this month to show your appreciation to yourself.  Give yourself a hand--or a toy if that's how you roll--for May is a month where you celebrate you.

Original photo courtesy of Random Nudes, via Cantamar.  Modified by Dioneo Daspanca.

In the News: You're not as deviant as you think (yeah, right...)

The New York Post recently profiled a soon-to-be-released book A Billion Wicked Thoughts, which analyzes Google search data to discern sexual proclivities.  The researchers basically argue that categories of fetish thought to be deviant (i.e. rare) among sex therapists are in fact quite common.  The Post's article, linked here, describes the findings in more detail and provides some critique.  I haven't read the book, so I'll reserve comment, but I thought my readers might like the heads up on this study, considering how deviant you all are. ;)

I must be seeing things again...

The snow must be getting to me...

Or maybe it's being cooped up indoors...

Or having to navigate the icy roads...

Whatever it is, I have a pronounced desire to thoroughly spank the goddess of snow.  Have you seen that naughty Snowzilla?

Credits:

• Cloud photo courtesy of NASA's GOES-13 satellite.
• Naughty girl photo used for bump map courtesy of Ciao Bella.
• Composition by Dioneo Daspanca.

Look at it this way...

When you get out of bed and the skin-piercing chill makes you regret it,
When you look out the window and the whitewashed street makes you squint,

When the door fights you as you try to leave,
When the sidewalk fights you as you try to walk,

When your stomach drops as your car doesn't start at first,
When your heart stops as your tires lose traction for a second,

When, in crawling traffic, you want to jump out of your car,
When, at your destination, you want only to stay in,

When the sight of snow makes your back hurt...

Remember that these snows replenish our lakes,
Remember that these snows protect the roots of our trees,

Think of the kids that will run wide-eyed into the abundance,
And think of the angels and astronauts who can marvel at the sight from the heavens.

Photo courtesy of NASA's GOES-13 satellite.

In the News: America is a Little Less Vanilla than Previously Thought

An interesting study hit the wire yesterday.  The National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior (NSSHB) has published the first in a series of findings on how contemporary Americans have sex.  They surveyed almost six thousand individuals from across the country between the ages of 14 and 94 and asked them surprisingly interesting questions about how they got it on.  I've looked through several reports on their findings and it doesn't appear that they asked about spanking.  Despite this limitation, the findings still make an important contribution to our understanding of sexuality.

Below is a summary table from the NSSHB about what Americans have been up to lately.  You can click on the image to see it full-sized if the numbers are too small below.  Most of us probably already suspected that not all our neighbors are having only missionary sex.  Still, it's always nice to be able to point to hard data that says you're not a freak.

Having poured extensively over this data, here are the conclusions I've drawn:

• 16% of men between the ages of 25 and 29, and 20% of men between the ages of 30 and 39, lie to researchers in surveys on sexual behavior.
• That every lovely lady I encounter spent their 20s in sapphic exploration with other beauties is statistically unfounded.  Yet I will continue to believe it.  Note that there is hard evidence for some such experimentation during the college years.  Yes!
• About 4-8% of men in their 20s are selfish.  Come on, guys, it's not that bad!
• It's good to see that people are masturbating together.  Why not share a good thing?