So this caught my attention today. Click the link at the bottom to read the rest. This isn’t even an new article, but I was unaware we knew this about a fetus. Now I must go read the article, and see what follow-up research has been done.
Those of you flying solo on Valentines day should know that masturbation is nothing to be ashamed of — in fact, there’s a good chance you’ve been practicing it since you were in the womb. What you see here is a sonographic image from a paper titled “Sonographic observation of in utero fetal ‘masturbation.’” In the image on the left, the baby’s hand can be seen hovering above the penis. In the image on the right, the yellow arrow shows the hand engaged in what researcher Israel Meizner describes as “the hand grasping the penis in a fashion resembling masturbation movement.”
Sonographic observation of in utero fetal “masturbation”.
Meizner I.
