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Welcome to the age of self-love

It's the perfect cause for our narcissistic times

28 June 2014

9:00 AM

28 June 2014

9:00 AM

Remember when masturbation was something everybody did but no one talked about? It was not most people’s idea of a conversation starter. Certainly nobody boasted about being a self-abuser. It was seen as a sorry substitute for sex, a sad stand-in for intimacy.

Not any more. Masturbation has been reinvented as ‘self-love’, a healthy and positive form of self-exploration.

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