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  "path": "/article/masturbation-benefits",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-23T06:00:00.000Z",
  "site": "https://www.vogue.co.uk",
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  "textContent": "‘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?”",
  "title": "I Finally Shed My Hang-Ups Around Masturbation. It Changed My Life"
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