Is There a Place for Sexual Shame?

This post is accidentally safe for work. Sorry. I didn’t have time to put in pictures before posting it.

I saw a post with this title on the Naked Truth blog, and thought it was a great idea for a post. My plan, as usual, was to read it and then come here and talk about essentially the same thing, linking back to the article. Except then I read it and it turned out to just be talking about masturbation and why men feel shame after they yank it – even men (as with the case of the blogger’s husband and subject of the post) who weren’t raised to think of masturbation as shameful.

That’s an interesting question, and one that’s worthy of a blog post, but when I saw the title my mind went in a different direction: are there types of shame which are actually valid? Are there times when we should feel shame? In other words, literally: is there a place for shame?