98% of Americans have masturbated at least once, 39% do so weekly, and 59% think it's healthy. The speaker challenges the idea that it's a universal biological drive, pointing out how much attitudes vary despite cultural and religious messaging against it.
But what's really interesting is that out of that 98% of Americans that masturbate at least once in their lives, only 39% of Americans do it weekly. Meaning that you can claim all you want that masturbation is just something that people do for sexual release. It's, it's like innate within us to want to masturbate right after puberty. And there's also another counterargument, which is why is it that some people start at the age of 18 when they hit puberty towards the age of 13? For example, but 39% of Americans would do it weekly out of that 98%, meaning that some of them rarely do it or they don't even do it, which shows again that masturbation is not necessarily something that will be forced for you to do if you don't engage, for example, in intercourse. And on top of that, if you look at that study, 59% of Americans believe that masturbation is healthy. And that's also the narrative. Even if you were to believe that masturbation is unhealthy because of religious beliefs, most people already got taught from a young age that masturbation isn't bad, but more so good.
