Is Masturbation harmful?

 

Self sex, solo sex, self pleasure or masturbation is a very normal activity and the easy way to enjoy own sexual feelings. The opinion and views on masturbation across the globe varies according to their beliefs, customs, religion, culture. Many explain that it is bad and abnormal while some believe that it is immoral and sinful. Masturbation can easily be described as sexual stimulation of own genitals for sexual pleasure. It is supposed to be completely normal activity and not only men but also women do and enjoy it.

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Undoubtedly, there are numerous misconception and myth regarding masturbation. Those might be due to religious, regional and cultural beliefs. But there is no medical or scientific evidence to prove that masturbation may cause any adverse effects.

According to medical experts normal masturbation will not cause to –

Erectile dysfunction.

Shrink your penis.

Physical weakness.

Penis curvature.

Make you blind.

Early ejaculation.

Low sperm count.

Make you unable to satisfy your partner. 

Indeed masturbation has not been proved harmful by researchers and medical experts, but there are other potential and harmful side effects of masturbation that you may experience. 

Guilty feeling – Although masturbation is not immoral and wrong and you are not hurting anyone in any way by doing so, but some people who worry that it will conflict with religious and spiritual recognition might develop the feeling of guilt. If you discuss this guilty feeling with your friends or with sex therapist, they can easily help you to get rid of this guilt feeling related with masturbation.

Adversely affecting daily life – This is common problem with the persons who are indulging in the habit to masturbate more frequently than desire to feel more pleasure. This certainly have adverse effects on daily and personal life. You might prefer to run away or avoid your responsibilities.

Since masturbation normally need privacy and time to experience the pleasure of it, but you may also start to ignore to your family and partner and feel unable to give them quality time. You might start to miss or getting late to attend college, work place and other social and family events. In such a condition, it will be better to consult a medical specialist. They will definitely help you to get out of this problem.

Relationship misunderstandings – Few couples might get worried that their relationship can be unsatisfying if any one of them prefer to masturbate, this is another type of myth. Most men and women enjoy to masturbate alone and sometime together to enhance the sexual pleasure. According to study that has found that women who love to masturbate are less dependent on their men for sex and had happy and successful marriage when compared to those who didn’t like to masturbate.

Insensitivity in genitals – In few cases it has been observed that if males used to aggressively masturbate using tight grip on the penis, and females masturbate without getting ample smoothness, they might feel decreased sensation. It’s not a big problem and it can be resolved by changing in masturbation technique. To enhance stimulation vibrator or any other substitute can be used to improve erectile function in males. It has been observed that women who like to use vibrator with proper lubrication, it will increase sensuality in their genitals and improve sexual function.

Masturbation dependency – Masturbation is treated as normal and it serves a self soothing need. But what should be the frequency and consistency? If someone feels that without doing this daily or multiple times in a day, there is some lacking in daily routine, if it is not done, there is a lot of irritation, change in behaviour. It might be the sign of compulsive hyper sexuality behaviour disorder, which is a real disorder in the international classification of diseases that you need to go back for sexual behaviour  because your brain is pulling you back for mood regulation, making you feel good and it has to do with the dopamine that is released in your brain is pulling you back for mood regulation, making you feel good and is has to do with the dopamine that is released in your brain, when you masturbate. So it becomes a masturbation dependency, this situation might need to consult a therapist.

Porn addiction – Another side effect of masturbation is that it might leads to spending more time to enjoy porn and masturbate multiple times. Healthy masturbation habit is when you stay in touch with the feeling in your body like a massage. If you get a healthy massage, you are feeling your muscles relax and tension in your genitals. When masturbation includes watching porn or sexually fantasise about someone else. It might take a turn into wrong direction, and if this practice continues for a long time, it might affect erection adversely. In some cases porn or abnormal sexual fantasies become essential to get erection. It is advisable to avoid this addiction for normal sexual life.   

Prostate cancer – It is still a matter of debate whether masturbation increases or decreases the risk of your prostate cancer. There is misconception in your brain that masturbation is good to ward off prostate cancer. The science on masturbation for prostate cancer is not conclusive. There are studies that show that masturbating too much might be unhealthy for your prostate. If you ever visited your urologist,  have they ask or suggested you to masturbate multiple times in a day, or watch porn many times in a day? Urologist are well trained to suggest people that if you are having prostate problems, normal masturbation might be good for you, but on the contrary if you masturbate a lot, it’s not good for you.

Of course masturbation helps to flush out potential cancer – causing agents, urinary tract infections, and harmful bacteria in semen.

Masturbation might increase anxiety – There is a certain time table for everyone to act upon as go to school, college, work place, business and perform house hold activities. But when the specific working time clashes or get disturbed due to untimely masturbation, it creates anxiety, and as a result, your way of thinking, remember focus, feel motivated to go to work, to plan something and follow through it, is decreases. At the same time social anxiety goes through the high. Health anxiety increases because your brain is deregulated neurologically, meaning that at the time of masturbation it is using too much fast speed and too much slow speed, which is what pushes you back for more masturbation. So again it will make you feel more depressed. So masturbate wisely and timely and keep it away from your normal daily work routine and don’t let it disturb your self esteem and confidence.

Well, from a sexual health point of view, masturbation is one of the safest sexual activity. No report has been found so far that there is any risk of pregnancy or transmission of sexually transmitted infections, there is no risk of disappointing a partner or of performance anxiety and there is no emotional carrier. But always avoid excessive masturbation.

 

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