Pleasure and You - The New Masturbation Playbook of 2024

By Katrina Fairhurst (SatisfiedKatComms - The spicy copywriter for all things sex, sexuality and pleasure) 

Masturbation is a part of self care that often gets overlooked =, even though it offers multiple health benefits: better sleep, better mental health, a cure for headaches and period cramps and even a way to build up your self-confidence. Is it any wonder that May is the month of masturbation, a chance to celebrate masturbation and the hedonism that is exploring your body and all things pleasure. 

Whether your a sex toy connoisseur, a shower-head fanatic or enjoy getting down and dirty to the latest audio erotica, masturbation is a time to be fun and flirty with yourself and as we enter May, you may be looking to spice it up and add some new tricks to your your usual playbook of tricks to get yourself off. So what is the new masturbation playbook of 2024? 

Today we look at how you can throw out the rule book when it comes to masturbation and focus on you and your needs and your desires. 

Get Personal

Personalized pleasure has become a key focus of 2024, from sex toys you can connect to your music or create personalized vibrating patterns to, to apps focused on audio erotica where you can either immerse yourself into a world of guided masturbation or create a 3D fantasy where you can hear what your ideal partner wants to do to you or using AI to help you develop your very own stories based upon your carefully selected prompts. 

Focus on all the Senses 

Everyday new brands are releasing new ways for you to invoke all your senses and immerse yourself in new sensations. 

From vibrators focused on new nerve endings (such as ones that massage and vibrate around the opening of the vaginal canal or stimulate the entirety of the vulva instead of making you choose to focus on penetration or clitoral stimulation). Taste hasn't been left out either, with a growing popularity in aphrodisiac chocolate, CBD and cannabis products to enhance pleasure, sensitivity and sensations. 

In 2024, it's time to focus on all the senses! Invest in sexy underwear or silk sheets so you're surrounded by comfort, light a candle with a sexy smell or invest in a blind fold to deny yourself sight and add a thrill to your solo session? 

Why not also try putting on music or your favorite erotica to stimulate your ears and set your imagination ablaze or let yourself moan aloud if you are able to. 

For extra sensitivity try adding CBD drops or take a bite from aphrodisiac chocolate to make yourself extra sensitive. 

Caress, stroke and pinch your entire body and don't just hop to the main event to set your body tingling with anticipation and when you finally do get down to business, you can tease yourself by playing around with different settings. In 2024 hedonism is what self pleasure is all about and you should be treating yourself to more more more. 

Spice up your Vanilla Sessions

BDSM and Kink is usually seen as a partnered act, but for those brave enough there are ways to add some spice to a usually vanilla solo session. Start slowly and build up, from  wearing a collar around the house to investing in easy to remove bindings to tie a hand to the bed as you use o=your other to get you off. There are ways to ramp up the spice! 

/for the brave or those already used to BDSM play, you could also try impact play by spanking your things with a cane, paddle or flogger or add a pinch of pain with nipple clamps. You could also try safely choking yourself. However, always play safe and do your research before you start implementing BDSM or kink within a solo session. 

If you're looking to spice things up without a need for nipple clamps or a flogger, why not imagine yourself being called a ‘good girl’ or ‘dirty slut’ or even say it outloud? Immerse yourself in your fantasy and block out the outside world as you explore your deepest fantasies. Remember, your night in getting off is all about you.    

Do You 

Masturbation has entered the era of individuality and you can take note. Look at creating a routine or session that focuses on you and your needs alone. No outsiders welcome! 

Glass dildos, vibrating grinding mats, lube or in the shower, the whole point of masturbation is that it is focused on you and you alone, so why not do yourself in a way that feels pleasurable and authentic to you? Mastubration should be a chance to explore your pleasure and what you enjoy, however it can feel like if you're not doing it like the magazines, porn or even the latest instagram post is saying, you can feel like you are doing it wrong.

The final rule of the playbook for masturbation in 2024 is, throw out the rulebook and you do you. If it feels good to you that is all that counts. This could be wearing cozy socks so your feet don't get cold or listening to a specific song on repeat, trying a new sex toy you have always wanted to or adding lube to your session for a more slippery feel. Enter your villain era with your masturbation sessions and focus on doing less of what everybody else tells you to do and more of what feels good to you! 

If you're really looking for some new ideas to help you with your masturbation sessions this year, why not make a checklist for the month or the year of all the new sensations, positions, toys or even kinks you would like to experience alone and get exploring? Or treat yourself to a subscription to an audio erotica app, OnlyFans creator or even porn producer, Make Love Not Porn and Erika Lust movies offer some beautifully shot ethical porn movies for every style and taste. 

To wrap up, masturbation in 2024 is less focused on achieving an orgasm but focused on suffusing your body in pleasure, tapping into each of your senses; physical, audio, oral and even through smell, creating experiences that leave you falling back in love with yourself time and time again. 

As we celebrate Masturbation May, throw the rulebook out of the window and give yourself over to pleasure and self love.