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Teen Vogue|Volume 1 2017

Your body, your rules. So why is female masturbation still a major no-fly zone today?

Vera Papisova
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It’s time we lift the shame from one of America’s greatest taboos. Before modern science, masturbation was considered the root of nearly every unexplainable medical issue, including blindness, epilepsy, fainting spells, memory loss, and stunted growth in children. All of these claims were false, of course, but that kind of stigma is hard to shake.

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