Did she ever ask the question or just stop caring? I mean, it just seemed kinda important to her. Anyway, on the topic. Masturbation is completely normal, healthy, and pretty much everyone does it (enough that if you don’t (as in have never) you’re technically the weird one). It really shouldn’t be embarrassing. I would say I understand the embarrassment, but we currently lives a society where people not only openly talk about their sex lives, but brag about them. I don’t understand how one is embarrassing and the other is bragging rights (generally speaking). If anything sex comes with more risks and should be more embarrassing than masturbation.