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Take The Shame Out Of Teen Masturbation To Conserve Water Resources

Staff Editorial
Published November 24, 2012

Each year California struggles harder to cope with its chronic water shortage.  Abundant rainfall this year might give a respite, but water conservation efforts will need to accelerate to avoid calamity.  While we have installed efficient shower heads, planted native shrubs and flushed with low consuming toilets, we have yet to put an end to water use as concealment of untoward, teenage bathroom activity.

In every household with healthy teens – boys in particular – the teen years bring about more time spent in the bathroom.  Minutes can lead to tens of minutes can lead to an hour or more.  Inevitably, running water serves as a teen's sonic curtain of choice.  Now consider that each minute the average shower pours 1.3 gallons of water.  A recent UCLA study projected that we lose 41.4 million gallons each year to masturbation.

Californians must become more accepting of domestic self-gratification, including by young teens and young adults.  Once masturbation ceases to be a source of embarrassment, 30-minute showers will become 10-minute showers.  Running water in the sink will be replaced by the soft rhythmic sounds of self-gratification.

“Californians must become more accepting of domestic self-gratification, including by young teens and young adults.  

Sex-ed in our public schools helps, but parents must assure their kids that admitting to self-gratification in the bathroom should not cause shame.  In fact, as well as giving pleasure masturbating serves key biological functions such as clearing depleted seminal fluid to make room for more.  It also teaches young people about their own bodies

Ideally, very soon parents will ask their teenage children “what is taking you so long in there?” and their child will respond with something like “I’m just masturbating and am almost finished” or, more likely, “please bring me a fresh bottle of Jergens.”