Other researchers argue allowing masturbation could help prisoners restrict their sexual urges to their imaginations rather than engaging in prison rape or other non-masturbatory sexual activity that could pose sexually transmitted disease or other health risks.
其他研究人員認為，允許自慰可以幫助囚犯以他們的想像力釋放他們的性衝動，而不是在監獄裡強姦或參與其他非自慰的性行為，其可能会造成性傳播疾病或其他健康風險。