Three days ago one user wrote in one of the threads:

Women have an awful lot of shame associated with masturbation which is often difficult for men to understand.

I inquired further but got no meaningful response.

I am particularly interested in the non-religious aspects. Both social/sociological and scientific.

Context:

In men (and especially boys), the sudden drop in endorphins and testosterone after ejaculation leads to an odd feeling - which is perceived as even odder in pubescent boys. For obvious reason: it's still a new feeling.

The same feeling is more attenuated when ejaculating during a sexual act with a partner.

The feeling after this perfectly natural and biological phenomenon was mercilessly exploited by religious leaders to try to shame boys/young men into no longer masturbating. This practice rarely convinced boys/men to stop it but it absolutely had an effect on how those boys would later on express their sexuality.

The surprise to me was when I learned of women who never masturbated even though they weren't brought up in a strict (religious/cultish) manner or environment.

So my questions are as follows:

  1. What are (if any) the biological factors that makes women susceptible to shame wrt masturbation? I'd love to read both some scientific literature and personal experiences.

  2. What are the secular/non-religious/non-cultish sociological factors that convince and/or keep women into a relative state of shame associated to masturbation?

I'm sure a lot of women don't understand the shame associated to masturbation in men, so that's why I didn't put this post as "Question for women" but rather as "Debate". Would be great if we could discuss this topic more openly (since we're all anonymous here).