Psychology of sex - Total No. of Records in System :: 2032

PSYCHOLOGY OF SEXthat among 125 academic students only about 6 per cent,assured him that they had never masturbated, and Brockman,even among theological students, found that 56per cent, stated, without being asked, that they practicedmasturbation. Tchlenoff among Moscow students foundthat 60 per cent, acknowledged, spontaneously, thatthey had masturbated. Such spontaneously offered informationnecessarily indicates a really much greater frequencysince many individuals are far too ashamed of thepractice to acknowledge it.As to whether masturbation is more common in one sexthan the other opinion formerlyvaried and the chiefauthorities were about equally divided, though among thegeneral public it was usuallyconsidered more common inThe question may now, however, beboys than in girls.considered in the light of definite statistics, to which referencehas already been made in discussing the first appearanceof the sexual impulse. The sexual distribution ofmasturbation has been somewhat obscured by the tendencyto concentrate attention on a particularset of autoeroticphenomena. We must group and divide our factsrationallyif we wish to command them. If we confine ourattention to very young children, the evidence shows thatthe practiceis more common in females, and such a resultis in harmony with the fact that precocious puberty ismost often found in female children, which is, in manycases, associated with precocityin sexual habits. In pubertyand adolescenceoccasional or frequent masturbation iscommon in both boys and girls, though, I believe, lesscommon than is sometimes supposed:it is difficult to saywhether it is more prevalent among boys or girls; one isinclined to conclude that it prevails more widely amongtraditions and their more activeboys. It is true that boys' life keep the tendency in abeyance, while in girls there is