Women’s masturbation can have benefits both for health and relationships. Here are five things about masturbation women may not know:

1. “Normal” masturbation in women takes many forms.
Women may feel guilty about it, especially if they are in a committed relationship, but there’s no need for guilt, sex therapists say. Sometimes a partner is tired, out of town, or otherwise unavailable. And it doesn’t mean a woman needs to go without.
Fingers and vibrators are two common methods of women’s masturbation. More than half of 2,056 women, aged 18 to 60, used a vibrator either during masturbation or intercourse, says Debby Herbenick, PhD, MPH, associate director of the Center for Sexual Health Promotion at Indiana University, Bloomington, who led the survey.

2. Masturbation can improve your mood – without the ‘’obligations'’ of partnered sex.
However a woman chooses to masturbate, it can improve her spirits. “It can improve a depressed mood,” says Kathleen Segraves, PhD, a sex therapist and associate professor of psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University and a therapist at Metrohealth Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio. “Not clinical depression, but the ‘blue funk’ days.”
“With solo sex, there is no distraction, and you can focus on your own experience without making sure someone else is having a good time,” she says.

3. Masturbation can improve your sex life with your partner.
4. Masturbation can help you relax.
5. Masturbation can provide pain relief.

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