I only recently discovered your fine magazine, and I can’t sing your praises enough!

I have worked hard and conscientiously over the last several years to accept my feelings about sex and rid myself of the inhibitions and guilt instilled in me by my parents. I love sex, I love bodies, I love sharing with other people. Your magazine reinforces my desires. Each issue I’ve read has sparked my imagination and given me all sorts of new ideas to think about.

I was stimulated to write to you because of the recent letter concerning female masturbation. I felt very guilty when I began masturbating at the age of twenty (I’m twenty-six now, by the way), but I thoroughly enjoy it now. I love masturbating in many different positions and places. I enjoy using my fingers, a dildo, a massager, carrots, candles, cucumbers, pillows, the bed sheets, and any other item that strikes my fancy at the time. It excites me to sit on the floor in front of a full length mirror and watch while I insert different items into myself. I have very sensitive nipples, and I enjoy rubbing them against the wall mirror while in a standing position. I especially enjoy manipulating my nipples and clitoris after I have applied a small amount of body lotion or baby oil to each area.

Masturbating while in water (in a full tub, under a shower, in a swimming pool or pond) can be delicious. I have two different types of bead curtains hanging in my apartment and they feel so beautiful when I hold them still and rub my nipples and pussy against them. I enjoy masturbating manually when driving on interstates or turnpikes in light traffic. I like to play when talking on the telephone to people I like, both male and female. They don’t usually have any idea what I’m doing unless I tell them. Once a man was so excited by the knowledge that he began masturbating and we both had very exciting orgasms!

Like your correspondent, I enjoy pornographic films and either masturbating myself while watching them or masturbating a willing partner who’s gone along with me while he or she reciprocates. Porno photographs and books also get me started!

I enjoy pressing my pelvic area against the front of public juke boxes playing records, while I am supposedly checking out what records are listed. I have never achieved an orgasm like this, but the vibration is wonderful. I imagine a woman could get the same effect from a washing machine or dishwasher.

I have found it very helpful, when with a new partner, to masturbate in front of each other in order to understand better how each other likes to be stimulated and manipulated.

I certainly enjoy all forms of sexual activity, including one or more partners of either sex. I’m not stuck into only masturbating, but I felt sparked at this moment to share my masturbatory practices with you and your readers. Hope it gives some women some new ideas about taking advantage of the sensual possibilities surrounding them of which they may not be aware!