hi Carrot i do appologise for my inadequacy in being able to explain myself correctly. no there is no way one can do post-modernism such an injustice but i am doing the survey in order to substantiate a point.

it is difficult for me to tell you exactly what i am trying to achieve without rewriting my essay but i will try and be brief.

here goes: i believe post-modernism is relative based on a person's upbringing. if a child comes from a conservative family and the word sex is not to be mentioned let alone spoken about a child who is discover stimulating themselves as a todler will be punished severely and therefore when growing up experiance guilt feeling with regaurd to masturbation and sex.it is often based on a religious taboo or so people think. on the other hand a child who comes from a liberal family may be told that masterbation is a healthy way of relieving frustration and then be told that they may do it as long as it is in private.

Women feel particularly guilty and according to Freud it is completely natural.

my perspective is that the period of post mdernism should promote feminism and free both male and particularly female to be open about these issues and our children as the future generation should not have the same restrictions placed on them and experiance a feeling of guilt for something which is natural and human.

what i intend doing is using Freuds theories which were very post- modern in its time and comparing it with people's opinions today to see if we have made the paradigm sift and are post-modern.

if you would like i can post my essay for you to read and i would love your opinion. all comments are welcome

yes i had a probably about 7 people respond to my survey in two hours before it was taken off line. 6 out of the seven were women.5 confessing to not feling guilty after masturbation but this is not sufficient to base an essay on.