Using The Correct Terms With Your Physician.

You know you should always use the correct technical terms with your doctor and specialists. Because he or she will try to be up on the latest slang. But sometimes they just don't know. Or maybe they will think you mean something else, which can lead to misunderstandings.

But this next one I learned in HS and it involves masturbation. But you know masturbation is often part of adult life too. It's found still in marriage and other relations. (And it tends occurs more often after marriage I've heard it said.) And this actually has to do with the correct medical term to use, if this subject comes up with your doctor or therapist or someone like that. Masturbation. Or more specifically stroking material.

I got interested in pornography around high school. And I always wondered what I should tell a doctor if he ever asked about it. And I read in a book around this time (possibly the Joy of Sex written in 1972) that said since I was using it for sexual fantasies and masturbation, the correct term is "adjunct to masturbation". Because an adjunct is something added to or used in conjunction with something but not an essential or core part of it, even though it is very important or helps the process along a lot. Kind of like a catalyst in chemistry.

So a lubricant, for example, would be an essential part of masturbation. But pornography (and things like sexual fantasy, sex toys and foreplay, I was reading online when researching this subject) would be correctly called an adjunct to masturbation.

If that subject ever comes up like that, like I said. And you want to use the correct term, and not some term that you think might sound slang or dirty even.