Why are some British women so prudish?

Why are some British women so prudish ?

They all say, oh I don't masturbate, that's dirty.

How many of you girls admit to masturbating and how many of you wouldn't normally stand up and say I don't masturbate ?

I admit it. I masturbate when I get the chance but not all the time

Britsh girls are normally not really prudish compared to American girls. But if you once have excited them - both Britsh and American - they will enjoy it!

Doesn't everyone masturbate? Even animals masturbate, it's a pretty natural thing to do! I just did it until I needed really thick glasses! And still enjoy doing it, although my vision seems to be getting worse! 😃

This is one of the most ridiculous generalisations I have ever heard! I know girls from both sides of the Atlantic...

I'm in the UK and I masturbate on a regular basis. Don't think us girls actually do it as much as guys (think that would be an impossibility!!) but we definitely enjoy it and I don't think it matters were you actually come from. Its a natural urge and something that just needs looking after and I'm certainly not prudish about it, although I don't think I'd ever feel comfortable doing it in company with other female friends!

I'm not sure I can agree with this sweet dreams

Don't think us girls actually do it as much as guys

Guys MAY have more frequent sessions but they're typically shorter. Very few of them are capable of more than one orgasm an hour. (My personal best is six [solo] I've never had the mental capacity to count when I'm with a partner). As far as trying it with a friend... mmm... you don't know what you're missing.

I am not afraid to admit I masturbate...sometimes quite frequently, others not so often. I'm also not afraid to admit that I have a vast range of 'equipment' from Ann Summers and the likes.

Its only natural to have the want and need for pleasure...if I am very very stressed a nice orgasm always helps calm me

I am Canadian and I masturbate!

It's truly one of the greatest pleasures in life ...and if there are women out there not masturbating ... they should .. the world would be a happier place 😜

I am from Hongkong and I mastrubate all the time to relieve my tension.

Heavens! I am British and masturbate and am happy to admit it - in fact, why do I use the word 'admit' as though it is something wrong to do? It's a great thing to do.

Most of the time, it is normal for me to masturbate at least once in the morning before I get up, maybe 3 times before I go to sleep and again in the night if I wake up and can't sleep. At weekends when I have more time and no other committments, I will use my toys and other items such as one of my speculum, my clitoral pump and play regularly throughout the day. I may wander around the house doing housework etc with a dildo held in place inside me and feel myself being stimulated.

I love it and it helps me relax and destress my mind and body. What can be more wonderful than to feel the ripple of a deep intense orgasm flow through my genitals.

So girls, get masturbating as often as you can and enjoy it. And if anyone wants to chat with me about it - and probably make me orgasm online as a result, then please get in touch.

I can state with some degree of confidence that British women are better at concealing their desires than are North Americans. Although I have recently been surprised by two women, both thought to be very conservative in regard to sex. The American has not only adopted thongs as her standard undies, but she has shaved her pubes too. These acts done at the urging of her daughters. The Brit has now gone commando. She is headmistress at a very prestigious school in England. One never knows, does one?

I'm british, happy to say i masturbate when i want, have a fetish for everything gyno and more and many friends who will admit their fetishes etc. Were not all prudes!!!

Its sometimes one's upbringing that can make them prudish in life. We all have our moments and if something is not your desire it can cum across as you being a prude. As for masturbation - defy anyone to say they don't, whoever they are !!

Maybe they say they don't masturbate because you came on too strong, too fast. Were you looking for an online quickie or did you take the time to get to know the person, develop a relationship with them? There are a lot of us here that do not or will not play (even on-line play) with people they don't know.

I remember I have seen a sociology report about masturbation - 90 % of men and 60 % of women admitted they masturbate on usual basis.

Not sure how precise it was 😃.

I have been with my new partner for about 3 months now, but 2 weeks into our relationship she asked me if I had any porn that we could watch, she said she loves watching it whilst masturbating, yes it was a surprise as I am not used to girls being that open about sex and masturbation

(we are both British)

I don;t know why. I masturbate a lot, many times a day sometimes. All my fantasies are medical related too.

I have never found British women any more or less prudish than a woman from any other country.

Pretty sweeping generalisation. In my experience British girls are far from prudish.

Im not British but I say that as well. It's not because Im prudish but because I think sexuality is a private thing and that life does not revolve around it. It's just a more polite way to say "its none of your business". There is more to life than eating, sleeping and multiplying (and related activities).

I'm British, I'm not prudish, I'm 21!, I suggest you don't ask 75 year old British public about masturbation?

I play, regularly, and I fuck regularly (not with anybody, I am engaged)

Bit of a general sweeping comment wouldn't you say?

I really doubt there is much to such a statement.

But it is a good line for gags and punch lines and even plays. If I'm not mistaken there was a hit play called 'No Sex Please, We're British'. A funny title and it sets the tone nicely if most likely very improbably. And besides, doesn't the British tabloid press always manage to find more than enough topless photos of local girls to publish? They can't be as prudish as all that if the papers are full of such shots ... ha ha

Prudish???????? I have been lucky enough to have met a number of British women and found them far from prudish once past the initial reserve. Two of the women were dommes and the others were totally uninhibited. Some of the best sex I have had was with them, including learning to love CBT.

Prudish huh !!...That's some sweeping statement as if to suggest they're goody two shoes - pull the other one it plays jingle bells...Perhaps some perceive the "English Rose" tag or "Stiff Upper Lip" as confirmation that British subjects are somehow closeted or reserved & that's really generalizing....There's very few that can consistently knock out bawdy humour or tongue in cheek sexual innuendo like the Brits -- gotta be something to it.

Hell !!!!!!

What a load of rubbish .

I'm British and far from " prudish "

I masturbate at least once a day .

I've done plenty of things that would make people think " OMG ! You really did that "

So I personally think your assumption is incorrect .

Hell !!!!!!

What a load of rubbish .

I'm British and far from " prudish "

I masturbate at least once a day .

I've done plenty of things that would make people think " OMG ! You really did that "

So I personally think your assumption is incorrect .

Totally agree! British women are certainly not prudish as a breed, far from it. Some I've known, particularly those I've known intimately, have been into things that have occasionally made me feel slightly staid and prudish, and I don't normally consider myself that way! The number of women who have been buying lingerie in the shops that my wife regularly likes to take me into are strong evidence that British women are very sexual creatures.

My wife certainly isn't prudish. That is certainly not a word that could be used to describe her.

I wonder where this assumption came from. There is still a reputation for 'British reserve', which I think is fair for much of the time, but there is certainly very little actual prudishness under the surface.

There is some evidence to suggest that women of my grandmother's generation were under pressure to be prudish - that 'nice people' did not think about 'those things'. I think that in those days there was much ignorance surrounding sexual matters, and some of the repressive, forbidding influences did hold sway, but not always.

Times have changed, and women are not as sexually quiet as they used to be.

This is rubbish. British women think about sex a lot, we have sex a lot, we dress up for sex, we have dildos, vibrators and other sex toys. We talk about sex a lot and we laugh at jokes about sex.

I masturbate when I am feeling hot and my husband will not be back home for hours.

I talk and laugh with my friends about sex, I talk to my mum about sex and I have been able to talk to my husband's mum about sex. I can joke with my husband's friends about sex and terrify them. Hehehe

While I can't speak for any other country but my own, I have the following to say about this issue concerning you Brits.

First my own personal view and take on it. I happen to know quite a few Brits who are younger than myself by about 10 years or so plus, and I have known them to be not only very smart, but brilliantly funny. I haven't noticed them to be overly prudish, at least not all that much more, if any, than any other country is. From what I gather the English might not be quite as open about naughty things as we Americans are in general, but times are changing as they have changed for us over the past 50 years.

The Brits have their Kings and Queens and the entire royal family respectively who are taught to be, well, for lack of better terms here, prudish. It was not until the worlds beloved Diana generally speaking who all on her own started to change England's outlook on the Royal family and their traditional ways. Along that time there were a few other members of the Royal family that also started breaking the Royal traditions.

As someone who loves to study culture and traditions of the world, this time in the lives of you Brits drastically changed, for the better in my opinion, and broke many of the stiff and or prudish traditions of the Brits culture and way of life as they knew it. The English are in love with the Royal family, there is absolutely no question about that which is fantastic. They Royals up until Diana were very prudish and many, probably most of the older generations still are. They were raised to be proper, polite, correct, reserved and a slue of other things along those lines. Which as role models for their country and basically the world as well, they needed to be and should have been. It makes perfect sense and is psychologically in line as to why the Brits for generations have as a whole been a bit on the prudish side. They were emanating the people they looked up to the most.

So with Diana came change not only with the Royals but with the country in general. I happen to have great respect, and admiration for her as a person, as a world ambassador, and as a woman. Personal feelings aside she pretty much single handedly changed a nation and their ways of thinking. She stood up for herself, her boys, and for women in her country. She bucked the Royal system and did what she felt was the best for her family. Because from the time Diana stepped into the spot light as a soon to be Royal, girls of all ages started to follow her, emanate her. They wanted to be her, be like her, look like her and whatever else like her that they could.

While everyone in the world was falling in love with Diana, the little girls in England which would be basically my generation and younger, were worshiping her. They finally had a role model that wasn't your 60 year old Queen, and I don't mean any disrespect by that. However you Brits can't deny that your current Queen is really the epitome of prude, which again is fine. Her generation was raised that way and children learn what they live. If you are only taught to act one way and you never are exposed to any other way then that is all you know. The girls in your country up until my generation only basically saw one way of acting, one way of thinking. Their moms acted that way, their grandmas and every generation before them. It is all they knew.

Diana taught the girls of England to be strong, stand up for themselves, for what they want, deserve, and for what makes them happy. She pretty much single handedly changed a nation. Not many people can say that you know. So moving to the United States, who is it we have seen most from your country? Is it the normal ladies that you can find here on EC? No, it's your Royals, and until Diana we were only seeing your older Royals who, for lace of better terms are prudish.

Also, something else many people are forgetting. In America again we have limited exposure to real life over in England. What we were exposed to besides the 6 o'clock news about your Royals was basically Monty Python and Benny Hill. Both of those shows portrayed most of the women in your country as extremely prudish. So not making excuses for us Americans, but if we only see one thing and are never seeing anything else, that is all that we would think as the truth. See what I am saying?

So please forgive us Americans and our narrow mindedness on this topic. Hopefully you Brits can help educate us and other countries and help to break some of the stereotypes associated with the women of your country.

Mashie

What we were exposed to besides the 6 o'clock news about your Royals was basically Monty Python and Benny Hill.

Don't you mean 'Not the 9 o'Clock News'? Cause I mean as a comedy it was anything but prudish ... ha ha

Mashie, Interesting analysis of British reserve and the prude stereotype being linked to the royal family. You have hit on one of the problems with the way Britain, England in particular, is sometimes perceived by other countries. It seems we have an image that makes people believe that as a nation we all speak with the same accent as the Queen, all wear tweed jackets and at 11:00 every day we have tea and cakes before going to see the Beefeaters at the Tower of London. The thing is, we have moved on since 1953.

British women have become more independent. Long gone are the days when they were expected to be 'housewives', essentially stay-at-home women whose only functions were child raising, house cleaning, shopping for provisions and reluctant sexual compliance on Friday and Saturday nights. Now, women have jobs - no, careers - and desires of their own. My wife is a modern girl who wants sexual services from me every day. She will let me know what she wants and how she wants it. No lights-out missionary here, let me tell you - and she is not alone. Her friends are all well settled in long term relationships, and some of the conversations they have about sexual matters are quite startling. On occasions I have caught them glancing at me, or looking me up and down, and giggling among themselves. My wife never discloses what they have been discussing about me, but it's obviously something sexual. Women sometimes complain that modern society still objectifies them. Really? Isn't it the other way round sometimes? 😁

Groups of women can and do go on the hunt for men. I have been propositioned by drunken women more times than I care to remember. Obviously I have not been in any position to take them up on their offers even if I had wanted to, so they have had to look elsewhere, perhaps hooking up with some equally drunken male for their action.

The two shows you mention, Monty Python and Benny Hill, deliberately play up to the old stereotypes of British prudishness, as do many British situation comedies. This exaggerated element of prudishness has often been an essential part of such shows in fact. It is worth pointing out that these shows present a laughably distorted view of the truth - they are not documentaries! 😁 😁 😁