Monkeys Don’t Spank It, But We Do!
If you’ve read our blog for a while, you know that we’re big fans of masturbation and orgasms. Both are healthy and normal activities for human beings. Our website offers sex toys, like the Monkey Spanker, that help people to enjoy both. We also get excited when we find research that supports the health benefits (and in this case, reproductive benefits) of masturbation.
The Monkey Spanker
Scientific American’s Jesse Bering has a great post on why humans are so good at masturbating (Hat Tip to the Reverend Monkeyspank), and why, contrary to what you may believe, masturbation is a healthy part of the reproductive cycle. Wait! Masturbation helps men to be more effective in reproduction?
You betcha! Here’s Bering’s documentation:
“When it comes to sex, we put this capacity to very good—or at least, very frequent—use. In a now-classic, pre-Internet-porn (I’ll get to that later on) study by British evolutionary biologists Robin Baker and Mark Bellis, male university students were found to masturbate to ejaculation about every 72 hours, and “on the majority of occasions, their last masturbation is within 48 hours of their next in-pair copulation.” If they’re not having intercourse every day, that is to say, men tend to pleasure themselves to completion no more than two days prior to having actual sex.
Baker and Bellis’s quite logical argument for this seemingly counterintuitive state of affairs (after all, shouldn’t men try to stock up as much sperm as possible in their testes rather than spill their seeds so wastefully in a rather infertile swath of toilet paper or a dirty sock?) is that because there is a “shelf-life” for sperm cells – they remain viable for only 5-7 days after production – and because adult human males manufacture a whopping 3 million sperm per day, masturbation is an evolved strategy for shedding old sperm while making room for new, fitter sperm. It’s quality over quantity.“
I won’t recite the entire article here – you really should read it – but I will say that Bering’s research is thorough and entertaining. Monkeys don’t spank it very often, you know. It turns out that humans have an edge (no pun intended) when it comes to masturbating. What is it? Imagine all the possibilities.
So those women who are looking for a new addition to the family, maybe it’s time to let your partner do his thing. We can provide him a huge supply of sex toys for men to help him along his way.
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