Is masturbation a cultural thing?

I've been masturbating since I was 10 years old, my first ejac/orgasm at 11; this is as natural to me as getting dressed in the morning. A day doesn't go by without my favourite activity.

However, my wife is from a different culture (Asian) and to her, masturbation is sick. She caught me a couple of times and can't understand why I do that. She claims only white people masturbate!

It's hard for me to comprehend that Asians from her country don't feel those urges as teenagers, like most of us do. I understand it's a different way of life and they have no privacy at home, like the whole family would sleep together in one huge mattress on the floor; and I think the parents' sexual activities are limited to quickies at night in the dark...

I'm now 40 and I can't get rid of this "habit".

Do you think in some cultures, people don't masturbate?

 

I can tell you for a fact that people masturbate on every single populated corner of this earth.

 

Apparently his wife doesn't.

 

Probably not. My relatives acted like it was such a horrible sin, that I thought to myself that I was going to hell for sure. Now that I am older I have found out that it is more normal than we all thought as young people.

 

masturbation has nothing to do with the culture is a physical need

 

So how come many filipino women that I know don't seem to feel this need until they are married or in a serious relationship? And even then, they don't masturbate, the only way they know is with their husbands.

 

dude ime west indian and pretty much all of my friends guys and girls touch them selves. so i would have to say that all peopleform all different cultures do it.

 

It's a natural instinct - moreso in men than in women, but an instinct nonetheless.

Culture has nothing to do with as babies have been observed masturbating while still in the womb - long before they've been introduced to their eventual culture

It is also a fact that all mammals masturbate in somme way or another, which proves it to be an instinctive urge, rather than a cultural perversion - in fact, if you think about it, by conciously refraining from masturbation one would be performing a totally unnatural act, so it's the ones that go against their urges & choose not to masturbate that are sick.

Of course, there's nothing wrong with not masturbating if you don't feel the urge, as is the case with some people, but to deny the body release from sexual frustration because of a cultural or religious belief is unnatural as well as unhealthy.