Documentary

Sticky

A documentary exploring masturbation through interviews with educators, health professionals, and various experts, examining why this common human experience remains taboo and difficult to discuss across cultures and religions.

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Sex & Religion

What this book knows

Masturbation is the last sexual taboo — culturally loaded, legally contested, and universally practiced yet rarely spoken aloud.

Sex: Primary
Work: Absent
Learning: Present
Religion: Present

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shame

I want you to imagine sitting next to your mother or father. If you have a hard time answering, you're not alone.
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It's sticky. It's a really sticky area — how much of our fear comes from a fear of our own uncontrollable sexual impulses.
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There was no Internet to expose your vulnerabilities to the world so pervasively.
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embodiment

Men are outlawing toys designed to help women achieve orgasms, while Viagra is always readily accessible everywhere.
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With the rise of feminism and 'Our Bodies Ourselves,' it becomes part of the rise of the clitoral orgasm.
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Based on the Koran and the sayings of Prophet Mohammed, masturbation is classed as a minor deviation because the person is not harming anyone else.
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