Are you embarrassed about masturbating

[PeterWatson]

Lets say you are in your own home, in your bathroom with the door closed. You just towelled off from taking a shower and you are feeling a bit horney, so you squirt some handcream onto your palm and start massaging your hard cock. You are just about to unload into the sink when the door opens, someone gets a full profile view of you masturbating, and says, 'Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't think anyone was in here.'

Even before you turn your head to see who it is that caught you masturbating, what is your initial feeling? Are you embarrassed because they caught you jerking off? You didn't plan it, it was in the privacy of your own home and bathroom, you closed the door so you did not set up the situation to be caught. It's perfectly innocent and masturbation is perfectly natural, but many of us feel some shame about masturbation.

If I were shaving, I would not stop because someone walked in on my. I would keep going, but if I were masturbating, I would stop and quickly cover up, ashamed of what I was doing.

How about you. Would you stop or finish the act? Would you be embarrassed?

[bimarried49il]

It would depend on who walked in on me. If it was my wife, she is used to seeing me jacking off and would not be embarrassed. Anyone else might give me some pause and some embarrassment.

[Don Williams]

Absolutely, stop. Even if it were my wife. She has always hated that. Still does, after 30 years.

[BrokenQuill]

I think I would want to die from embarrassment.

(despite my profile picture)

[PeterWatson]

It would depend on who walked in on me. If it was my wife, she is used to seeing me jacking off and would not be embarrassed. Anyone else might give me some pause and some embarrassment.

I don't masturbate in front of my wife. If she is downstairs and I am lying in bed in the morning playing with myself, I immediately stop if she starts coming up the stairs. She makes me feel embarrassed about masturbation. Not that she has said don't masturbate, but her general attitude towards sex and the dissapproving look she would likely give me would make me very uncomfortable. I don't even know if she thinks I still masturbate. We don't talk about sex of any kind anymore.

I masturbate quite a bit but I do it secretly when there is no one to see. Maybe its from my upbringing but deep in my subconcious, there is a little voice that says masturbation is sinful and shameful and you need to hide this from other people, even though most people masturbate.

I would love to be in an environment, like a sexually open nudist colony, where I could lie on a beach chair and watch the pretty women and handsome men walk by. When I felt the need, I would open my towel exposing my cock and start to stroke myself to full erection. People would walk by and glance at me. Women would smile and some guys would give me a thumbs up. The young lady sitting on the chair 10 feet away starts watching with interest and she nudges her boyfriend and points at me. He smiles and watches as well, waiting to see the cumshot. He rolls on his side and his girlfriend starts massaging his cock while they both watch me. I enjoy this audience and the complete acceptance of my desire to masturbate. After a couple of minutes, I blow my load all over my chest. While I clean up, people just go back to what they were doing. Show's over, all good.

[PeterWatson]

I think I would want to die from embarrassment.

(despite my profile picture)

I understand the feeling, but why? Lets say it was the 35 year old female neighbour from next door. She opens the door and sees you there doing what she knows her husband does also. After getting an eyeful, she looks down, appologizes without great embarrassment herself for walking in on you, and backs out of the bathroom closing the door behind her.

Now she has seen you, she knows what you were doing, and she has left. Could you finish jerking off? Why do you feel embarrassed for doing something that is natural and most people do it, and how would you feel 20 minutes later when you came face to face with her in the backyard?

Why are we so ashamed of masturbating?

Who in this group would be just fine with the situation described above and have a laugh with the neighbour 20 minutes later when seeing her in the back yard? Who would be avoiding her because the situation would be so awkward. I think I would try to just pretend it didn't happen and hope she did likewise.

[PeterWatson]

Absolutely, stop. Even if it were my wife. She has always hated that. Still does, after 30 years.

Any idea why she hates the idea of you masturbating? Is it jelousy? Does she object to you thinking about other women while having sex with yourself, or is there some other reason for the dissapproval?

[Don Williams]

Jealousy.

[Markshark]

I am embarrassed, yes. But, when someone accepts that I am doing it without ridicule and more than that, is actually turned on by me doing it, that’s a huge turn on for me. My pleasuring myself is turning someone on? Yes! It’s a little exhibitionist maybe, but it’s more about sharing pleasure to me, along with acceptance of what I’m doing. If it wasn’t embarrassing at first, it would not be a turn on in that way I think.
But, if I’m caught by someone who disapproves and looks down on me for it - I feel shame.

[Hilton1958]

If it was either my wife or my son, yes I would be embarrassed and maybe ashamed too. While my son must surely know I masturbate, I still wouldn't want him walking in on me doing it, I have walked in on him before and it was pretty awkward, and he covered up very quickly. On the other hand, most of my guy friends know that I masturbate (because I have told them that I do and that I love it), so I really doubt I'd be embarrassed if one of them should see me, in fact I would like it.