I Finally Shed My Hang-Ups Around Masturbation. It Changed My Life

‘Pleasure’ author Emma-Louise Boynton hired a sex therapist, who helped her to shed her ingrained hang-ups around masturbation – a process that changed her life. “I never established a sexual relationship with myself outside of the context of sex with – and for – someone else,” she writes. “If sex was performance, what use was there in putting on a show without an audience?”