Is Too Much Masturbation Bad for You?

Masturbation is the stimulation of own genitals to achieve sexual arousal and orgasm. Usually, during masturbation, people touch, stroke, or massage the penis or clitoris until they get an orgasm. Some women also stimulate the vagina or use sex toys, such as vibrators. Almost everyone does it. This is a very common type of behavior, even among those who have a partner. According to the research data, 95% of men and 89% of women claim that they have masturbated at least once. For most people, this is the first experience of a sexual nature. Masturbation in children is a natural part of growing up and exploring their bodies. Most continue to masturbate throughout the whole life.

In addition to the pleasant sensations, masturbation is a great way to relieve accumulated sexual tension, especially for those who do not have a partner or an opportunity to have sex. It is a safe alternative for those who fear pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. Without masturbation, a man will not be able to give a sperm sample for fertility analysis or a sperm bank. In the case of sexual dysfunction in adults, sexologists may recommend onanism for the speedy achievement of orgasm (in women) and its delay (in men).

If earlier masturbation was considered a perversion or a sign of mental illness, today it is recognized as a healthy and common phenomenon. This is a good way to get sexual satisfaction, which can be practiced throughout life. It becomes a problem only when it suppresses sexual activity with a partner, when it is done in public, or causes discomfort in a person.

In general, medicine recognizes masturbation as a natural and harmless expression of sexuality in men and women. It does not cause physical damage to the body and is considered a normal sexual behavior. In some cultures and religions, masturbation is sinful, and practicing it can cause a feeling of shame or guilt. Some experts believe that masturbation can positively affect sexual health and relationships. Examining your own body helps to determine what you like the most, and you can share this information with a partner. Sometimes couples practice mutual masturbation in order to add novelty to sex and become even closer.

Why we masturbate

Masturbation is incredibly good for health: both female and male. Sexologists strongly recommend that women masturbate before reaching orgasm in order to improve sexual health and strengthen relationships with a partner. Masturbation lowers blood pressure, helps to fall asleep, eases menstrual pain, and even reduces the risk of prostate cancer in men.

And no matter how old you are! Yes, older people also masturbate. The research showed that about 30% of women in relationships between the ages of 60 and 69 masturbate from time to time. More than half of women after 70, who do not live with a regular partner, do not deprive themselves of the joy of self-satisfaction. Among married women over 70, the percentage is much lower - only 12.2%.

Will sex after masturbation get worse? Do not believe! Of course, this is a myth. As numerous studies and surveys show, the sexual life of women who regularly engage in masturbation only gets better: firstly, now they can tell their partner exactly what they want, secondly, they know their own body better, thirdly, they make their brain “remember” the pleasant sensations they have experienced. The brain will strive for this incredible feeling again and again.

How much masturbation is too much?

Doctors say that in most cases this exercise is useful to the body. But how often can we masturbate so as not to harm our health?

Teenage boys and adults from 24 to 50 years masturbate most often. As for frequency, some meet their sexual needs in a similar way rarely (a couple of times a year), while for others it becomes a bad habit: they resort to it daily and several times a day.

Representatives of the sterner sex are much less likely to puzzle over how often you can masturbate. As many sexopathologists say, a man can do it when he wants it. That is, one will masturbate once a month, and the other - every day without any damage that can be caused to the body. There is no current norm in this matter. To get an orgasm in such a way about 2 times a week will not deplete the male body at all.

To decide how often you can masturbate, a woman should focus on how often she has the need for sexual satisfaction. Of course, even the repetition of manipulations will not cause physical exhaustion. A man who is fond of masturbation can provoke fatigue and overexcitement. It is impossible to give recommendations that will suit everyone. But it is believed that a woman can do it on her own 1-2 times a week or daily to get an orgasm (but it is better not to do this more often than 1-2 times a week).

What can too much masturbation do to your body?

Masturbation that becomes a habit is a negative phenomenon, which destroys the organism over the years, as well as the inner world of a person, causing chaos in human life, generating a lot of negative consequences. The first few times a person literally “flies away” from experiencing an orgasm, an unusually bright feeling, because the human body has a huge amount of free vital energy, which causes the feeling of euphoria in the human body. During this period, a stable habit of repeating the pleasure is formed, a person begins to live with masturbation, it becomes their habit, the same as the habit of washing, eating breakfast, or brushing the teeth. Accordingly, a huge amount of vital energy of a person begins to go to masturbation.

During each ejaculation, a man’s body loses 150,000,000 spermatozoa. Each sperm cell is literally a piece of new life, and the body gives all the best that it has to generate new sperm. To produce the sperm that a man loses with one ejaculation, the body spends as much energy as on producing 150 grams of blood. As soon as this sperm leaves the body, the human body generates the same amount of new sperm immediately. Naturally, this undermines the body, because instead of functioning normally, the body urgently throws all its strength and all the hormones into sperm production. Now imagine that this happens all the time.

From day to day, from month to month, from year to year, the body constantly produces precious sperm, loses it again, and again produces it at a breakneck pace, while the entire endocrine system can no longer cope with overloads. The bones become thin, the body lacks vitamins and nutrients, the hormonal system is undermined, the body gets weak, painful, the skin is pale, the body begins to function poorly with all the ensuing consequences.

Masturbation causes the body’s balance to shift, and the “lower center” becomes the dominant center of the body. A man loses his natural balance. The balance is broken. Roughly speaking, the habit is formed in the body to produce and store sperm constantly, not caring about anything else.

This is where difficulties begin to arise. Even if the person wants to give up onanism, the following things will occur.

An organism that is used to spending all its resources on sperm production and storing it will produce the right amount of sperm quickly and will start producing it more and more when it is no longer necessary. In this way, the “lower center” will be more and more filled with vital energy, or sexual tension (while the whole body will lack it), and a man will be tormented by a constant erection and obsessive thoughts about masturbation. He begins to pay attention only to what is connected with sex.

Therefore, it is not surprising that people who are used to masturbation exclaim: It’s impossible to give up, it will take you a couple of days to go crazy in torments without masturbation! That's right! In this case, the remark is quite true. Just as addicts are addicted to drugs, they are now addicted to masturbation. A physiological habit is formed according to the fact that the body allocates its resources in favor of maintaining the active state of the reproductive system.

Too much masturbation side effects

Masturbation can ruin your sex life. And there are exactly five reasons for this.

Masturbation is a drug

Scientists have long proved that a person is not in a position to give up pleasure which does not require putting much effort. This is how any drugs work. Being engaged in masturbation too often, you will do it for fun and lose control of yourself.

You will lose the scent of women

Your mistresses are chic porn stars on a computer screen, while ordinary women seem completely unattractive in comparison to them. And when you suddenly like a real girl, you will realize that you have squandered your sexual energy on pornography.

Masturbation and guilt

Masturbation is bad for the psyche. Western psychologists say that we are devoured by the feeling of guilt because of "religious prohibitions." But let's be honest: most of us think about religion not very often. And yet, after masturbation, headaches and depression were observed.

The problem of chronic masturbation

From the biological point of view, chronic masturbation can affect the chemical composition of our brain and body. Indeed, too many sex hormones and neurotransmitters are produced because of it. This “overproduction” affects each person differently and can be expressed in fatigue, pain in the pelvic region, changes in eyesight, back pain, or even hair loss. In medicine, there is the concept of "obsessive masturbation." A person experiences certain difficulties as a result of this habit. One can masturbate six times a day and feel great at the same time, and the other can be affected in exactly the opposite way. Compulsive masturbation can negatively affect your work, relationships, self-esteem, finances, social support, and even lead to legal problems if you are unable to combine responsibility and satisfaction of your desires.

Erectile dysfunction caused by masturbation

Masturbation is not a psychological disorder. Practically all men are engaged in self-satisfaction since adolescence. The hormonal changes begin when boys are 13-15 years old.

Androgens such as free testosterone and dihydrotestosterone are actively produced. Changes in hormonal levels are accompanied by an increase of libido, that is, a sexual desire. As a result, adolescents develop a craving for the opposite sex, and they begin to have sex and periodically engage in self-satisfaction.

Does masturbation influence male potency? Certainly not. Impotence cannot develop from masturbation. In any case, due to the self-satisfaction, erectile dysfunction of organic genesis cannot develop.

The advantage of masturbation is that long-term masturbation allows you to control ejaculation over time. This is important for those who do not use contraceptives but use the method of interrupted intercourse.

Onanism can be harmful in some ways:

 - The full emptying of the vas deferens does not happen when masturbating, so it is much more useful to have a full sex life.

 - Constant self-satisfaction leads to the fact that a man loses interest in women over time.

Too much female masturbation

Some women still wonder: "But how much do I masturbate?" Masturbation is useful for both physical and psychological health of women. It allows you to expand the boundaries of your own sexuality, get psychological relaxation, and also serves as a good sedative. Masturbation can improve sleep, relieve muscle tension, reduce stress and pain during menstruation. Female masturbation helps to keep the pelvic muscles in tone, which is very useful for reducing the likelihood of accidental urination. It has been scientifically proven that frequent orgasms help to lower blood pressure and improve appetite. In addition, masturbation is a great option if you decide to abstain from sex for a number of reasons. As you can see, masturbation benefits your health even outside the bedroom.