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I wish I can have my own place so I won’t have to worry about someone interpreting me. So I been living with my mom and it sucks. One of the things that sucks about living with your parents is there’s time where I can’t even self pleasure myself without my damn mom interrupting me and of course I need to hide it from her since she’s a religious person and think that self pleasuring yourself is a sin. I can even moan that loud either even when I self pleasure myself it can make noise so I needed to use a dry towel to make the noise much quieter. Can you relate?

Hi SilverFalcon!

Agh, I hear you. You’re definitely not alone here, you can see on the boards that we talk with folks about this frequently. We even have a whole article addressing this worry, and you might find it helpful to read it: https://www.scarleteen.com/read/sex-sex ... ating-home

You said there’s times when your parents are home and you can’t find privacy to masturbate. I have a few thoughts/ideas about this:

1. Is it possible to set some sort of boundary with your mom around interruptions? Maybe you can tell her you’re taking a nap or shower?

2. Are there times when your parents aren’t around where you might feel more comfortable masturbating at that time?