The spasmodic experience

In many ways I am a small, depraved man. But not as bad as some. Take, for example, the following quote from a serious academic work.

'In the absence of normal sexual outlets masturbation is to be expected among those who found celibacy too trying and it appears to have been widely practiced in the POW camps of World War II. Younger men who had little or only spasmodic experience, or perhaps had not sampled the delights of sex before captivity were probably less prone to indulge than married men. The latter, when they had nothing to do and when their stomachs were full, would relive their courting days, the wedding nights, the honeymoon and Sunday afternoons on the carpet.'

I need to get out more. Or, perhaps, I need to get in more.