Maybe I’m a big old freak, but I’ve always thought that if anyone should touch you, it should be yourself. Not saying that you shouldn’t give others the chance, of course.
No, I understand what you mean. It’s just that the thought of me touching myself is something I don’t find particularly sexy. I’ve tried to smash that mindset out of me, but so far I haven’t been able to.
Yep, just a joke. 
No problem. To each her own!
I also tend to “think myself off” too.
you sound exactly and eerily like me before I started. I think it was more because I wasn’t so satisfied with my sex life up to the point I started masturbating, so I never got turned on enough thinking about sex to really want or need to get myself off… I never had any desire whatsoever until I started getting into reading/watching porn, and/or having erotic conversations with people who were not immediately available. so basically, until I got so turned on when a sex partner wasn’t around that it was pretty much a need… and then I realized hey, that feels pretty good, and I’m rather good at it… and um… whee! 
I’m quite the proponent of masturbation and think it should be discussed frankly and strongly encouraged in all sex ed programs.
Porn, though, I’m pretty meh about. I’ll read some erotica every couple months or so, but pictures don’t really do anything for me and the movies sound so ridiculous and unarousing that I’ve never bothered watching even part of one.
I assure you that the former of that statement is untrue.
I’ve always had GF that didn’t enjoy Porn or masturbation… or even try to… so I’m surprised by the number of women here that claim to enjoy it.
Maybe we should have a few women posting that don’t enjoy either…
6% of men in my age range are estimated to masturbate daily. That means I have 94% of men beat!
American females, on average, masturbate less than men. I doubt this is due to sex drive, but it is probably because of social factors. Women who are career women versus homemakers have mastrubation rates similar to those of men.
I like watching porn sometimes, and I always get turned on by it. But I’d rather follow that with actual sex than with masturbation.
I find if I watch porn very often, it becomes difficult for me to be turned on by anything less intense. So it is initially a ‘help’ to sexual arousal, but if used often, it’s a hindrance.
I’ve never heard of anyone else describe this.
Well, I’m 42 and haven’t had that “fade out” thing happen yet…
Cartooniverse ( male )
Late reply, I know, but better late than never, right? I’m a male myself, but my female roommate and I have discussed masturbation. She is 20 and sexually active with a male partner, but not only has she never masturbated, she finds it verging on repulsive to touch herself down there in any way. I’ve never asked her about porn.
Ah. There’s the problem. Try gentler handling of the delicates. 
(I kid, I kid, to each her own, I just couldn’t resist)
Another poster touched on this, but not exactly - I find if I watch too much porn, I’ll eventually just lose the “turned on” feeling, and I can look at it and feel nothing. Sometimes it turns into mild repulsion and I have to turn it off. It doesn’t hurt my actual drive, since I can bop on down to the bedroom and then have a good time with my husband or my Bob (Battery Operated Boyfriend, for those vibrator virgins out there). But I might go a couple days to as long as a week without looking at porn. It’s rare, but it does happen.
I find this incredible… but yet too common. Most of my GFs describe something similar about not liking to “touch themselves”. One admitted embarrased she did it because she missed me during a longish business trip I had.
Other less repressed girls just said that they would rather just have sex… and that porn isn’t too much of a turn on. Naturally it might be a bit easier for women to get sex on demand.