Geschmackssache

Context

Since getting my Macbook Pro Retina 13”, and installing a library of iBooks, four texts, in particular, have inspired me to reflect on the delicate topic of masturbation.

The four texts are

Mach’s Dir!

Niederwieser, S

Translated Miller, D

2012

Osez .. la Masturbation

Dole, A

2012

Diario Erotico di un Ragazzo

Dialoghetto sul Sesso Solitario

With two graphics by Lorenzo Ridolfi 2008

Aretino, A

2012

Sexual Health

Forty years ago the WHO articulated this definition of sexual health

The integration of the somatic, emotional, intellectual and social aspects of sexual being, in ways that are positively enriching and enhance personality, communication, and  love.

WHO 1974

Psychological Cock Care

With this graphic concept, Herr Niederwieser rehearses the spirit of the WHO Declaration. Here, before going on, I must pay tribute to Mr David Miller’s masterly translation of this lively text.

Never be bored again by the basics, encourages the author. He asks, What feels limiting?

This candid, yet manful text offers a sense of boldness in self-gratification (the preferred synonym of the author), and this in turn points to psychological satisfaction.

Un Rapport Personel

M Antoine Dole encourages

..développer un rapport personnel et singulier avec la masturbation, au rythme de nos envies, et désirs..

He offers the sexual practice displays four basic elements

Le rythme

Le Contact

Le Dynamique

La pression

Three of the four elements, though important in M Dole’s model, are unremarkable, or obvious.

The notable element le dynamique, is intriguing

rapport, écart  entre les niveaux extrêmes (du plus fort au plus faible) d’une grandeur physique

Le Petit Robert

Edition 2015

Perhaps one ought not to take unremarkable to insinuate expendable, thus, I appreciate

Rythme, caractère élément harmonique essentiel; mouvement général (de la phrase..), mouvement régulier, allure, vitesse..

Contact, latin racine tangere, toucher, position, état relatif de corps qui se touchent

Pression, du latin pression, famille de premere  ‘presser’ force qui agit sur une surface donnée; action de presser; (Abstrait) influence

op cit

The Aretino Texts

Signore Aretino’s texts, in traditional Tuscan meter, have kaleidoscopic imagery of this passage to manhood.

His topic, he says, is the most liberal and most widely indulged of sexual practices, yet attracts distinct public shyness.

The evolving neuro-circuitry of adolescence is quite unready to reflect or to philosophise over so imperative a sexual practice.

It is not meant to.

The craft of Signore Aretino’s canvas affords an adult reflection over a past boyhood, redeeming, in a delicate way, suggestion and explanation for hastily consumed sensation.

Geschmakssache

In the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung den 12 september 2014, Herr Jürgen Dolasse presented an absorbing account of a cuisine of authentic taste; appreciating terroir of produce, unalloyed

..de terre considérée du point de vue de ses aptitudes agricoles

Le Petit Robert

Edition 2015

A related point: M Alain Ducasse Plaza Athénée Restaurant Paris will offer simpler cuisine with an emphasis on naturalness, less meat, cream, sugar with the philosophy: the humbler the product,  the greater attention it merits. Saturday Telegraph September 6.

I looked at a French page, and noted a subtle difference in emphasis of M Ducasse's announcement from that presented in the English paper.

Beati Mites

Mites, ripe, mellow, soft, mild, gentle.

In the context

Beati mites.. quoniam ipsi heriditate possidebunt terram.

LH IV:174

Is self-gratification the handmaid of ripeness, mildness, gentleness?

Psychological Satisfaction

..the integration of the somatic, emotional, intellectual and social aspects of sexual being..

WHO 1974 Declaration on Sexual Health

Metaphorically, then, the models for self-gratification, of the four iBooks’ Library texts; the sense of appreciating the Geschmakssache, the terroir; and the handmaid of ripeness, in the imagery, augment my grasp of this sexual activity, and its psychosexual inspiration for my persona.

More Intimately

Herr Niederwieser asks why do males not invite candid sharing of masturbatory technique, as they might with modern digital gadgets? Eerhh.. well.. surely males can pay for a sexual coach to get this?

Why shouldn’t there be a relaxed exchange?

Of course, there is no real reason why not.

In my case, those who want to help me enjoy such an uncomplicated mode of sexual pleasure, are most welcome to offer me their findings and research. Perhaps these potential sharers need to appreciate one intimate physical characteristic: I am circumcised, and was so in infancy.

Circumcised males employ techniques which differ from their uncircumcised fellows.

There is nothing competitive between the two groups. The net pursuit is uncomplicated pleasure, and bonus for psychosexual nourishment in the spirit of the WHO Declaration.

Grateful Acknowledgement

To the Texts mentioned in my post.

The images are my own.