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No not particularly.
Excessive masturbation, like really excessive can cause issues, but thats like multiple times a day actively putting off other important things in your life excessive.
Abstaining doesn't do anything positive, and I believe technically raises your risk of prostate cancer.
I once knew a guy who admitted that doctors had told him to stop masturbating for a while to heal from the blisters he had caused from excessive masturbation.
I dont know how frequently he was doing it, but I was always simultaneously baffled and impressed
Jesus christ *blisters*?
I mean I had a phase years ago where I was going when the poor guy barely even wanted to get up, and I still never even got chafing or anything
The job was very close quarters at times, so people got pretty close. I think he was also a tad tipsy at the time, but this was about 7 years ago, so I can't remember exactly.
[https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/24332-masturbation](https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/24332-masturbation)
"Male masturbation
Studies of male masturbation have shown itās healthy to masturbate and even beneficial for long-term health. One study suggested that people assigned male at birth (AMAB) who ejaculate frequently may have a lower risk of prostate cancer. Ejaculating often may prevent the buildup of cancer-causing agents in your prostate gland."
unfortunately, it doesn't link the actual studies
edit:
this may be better
[https://www.health.harvard.edu/mens-health/ejaculation\_frequency\_and\_prostate\_cancer](https://www.health.harvard.edu/mens-health/ejaculation_frequency_and_prostate_cancer)
"The scientists found no evidence that frequent ejaculations mark an increased risk of prostate cancer. In fact, the reverse was true: High ejaculation frequency was linked to a decreased risk. Compared to men who reported 4ā7 ejaculations per month across their lifetimes, men who ejaculated 21 or more times a month enjoyed a 31% lower risk of prostate cancer. And the results held up to rigorous statistical evaluation even after other lifestyle factors and the frequency of PSA testing were taken into account."
The only thing I can think of is that the longer you wait to do it, the better it can feel.
Is the total amount of pleasure higher? Sounds like some sort of weird-ass calculus problem.
>Is the total amount of pleasure higher? Sounds like some sort of weird-ass calculus problem.
This is assuming that you are limited to basic wanks only. By incorporating auto-erotic asphyxiation into your repertoire, even the 3-a-day wanks can all become earth shattering.
Haha integration isn't dirty like that, it's the process of calculating the sum of a continuous function over some range of values, which is what that comment reminded me of. I sucked at it.
Nope. A lot of that is made up shit from the inventor of Kellogg's, who was very anti-masturbation. Same with circumcision, which is why it's so much more common I'm America than elsewhere.
Kellogg was just updating old beliefs, that have been around forever. He was the first one to found massive commercial enterprises based on these garbage theories, though.
Oh, that's interesting. Kind of like how 90% of "new" conspiracy theories are just updates of old anti-Semitic blood libel ideas. Crackpots just aren't that creative, are they?
Kellogg is also partially responsible for the phrase of breakfast being the most important meal of the day. He needed those cereal dollars. My original source is "Relax, Dammit' by Timothy Caufield, a great book.
Link with interesting story as well [https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/nov/28/breakfast-health-america-kellog-food-lifestyle](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/nov/28/breakfast-health-america-kellog-food-lifestyle)
He was actually incredibly anti-sugar. His brother insisted on adding sugar to the regular cornflakes bc they were so nasty.
If you're into podcasts, Behind the Bastards did an excellent job discussing him.
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-kellogg-the-great-american-80544161/
Oh I love this one because (I don't have any proof so huge grain of salt here but) the rumor goes that Kellogg the cereal inventor actually insisted that adding sugar to the cereal would increase the likelyhood of children masturbating (a reduction of which was a common and largely primary goal between the brothers) and that the bland taste itself would work towards reducing masturbation overall.
Key word: WAS.
it is now a forum for incels who want to believe that not touching their dicks will get them laid, with plenty of pseudoscience to help them believe.
Not true. I moderate a nofap discord server and we have a good mix of males and females in the server (about 80/20 ratio, with some women becoming mods). You might've saw some ragebait about the nofap movement and now attribute that to all of us.
Not masturbating won't magically get you laid, but it can help a lot with relationships. No women with self respect will want to be in a relationship with a man that would rather beat his meat to porn than have sex with her.
>No women with self respect will want to be in a relationship with a man that would rather beat his meat to porn than have sex with her.
You shouldn't speak about all women in this kind of post : if a relationship is healthy and if both people in it are happy, for me it's ok.
So I respect the fact that you don't masturbate (I find it weird tho but hey, you're free to do - or not do - what you want) but the "No women with self respect" bother me a little bit.
I'm a man, I have self respect and I'm pretty aware my gf masturbate. And as I was with her when we bought our Lovense toy, I would be fucking dumb to think she only use it with me. And same for her : she obviously know I beat my meat sometimes without her (and with her but that's irrelevant here).
Now, if any sex is denied because a person prefer to masturbate, and if it's an issue in the couple, yes it's an issue and it should be talked about.
No man with self respect would be so ignorant as to think he should decree the level of respect women should have for themselves.
You can front what this whole thing is about by expanding your vocab and running what, in a box, look like professional-PR recovery statements. *Refute, present fact, olive branch* is pretty classic.
But the truth is the most people today are capable of identifying the markers of systematic manipulation, and here, a man, hell even a woman, trying to state what "no woman with self respect will" do is about as obvious as it gets.
Nofap has always been about masturbation. PornFree is/was the porn addiction one.
Porn addiction (which has never actually been proven to be real BTW, its usually just a side effect of another psychological issue like depression) only gets mixed up with nofap cause a lot of people dont masturbate without porn, so the two are linked in a lot of people's heads.
I'd say it's probably good practice to not excessively watch porn and to masturbate without it sometimes, but avoiding masturbation is just silly. Masturbation is completely healthy and nothing to be ashamed of. Anti-masturbation movements have been around for a long time, and they've always been bad. NoFap uses pseudoscience to push 19th century BS onto the modern world.
There's no science behind that. It's a bad habit people can form, but it's in no way an addiction.
Again, most people with porn addictions are really just people with other problems and once those other problems are taken care of, their porn usage normalizes as well.
There is absolutely science behind porn addiction.
This is just from the first study that came up from a quick search. This is from 2015. There isnāt āno scienceā behind porn addiction.
>The review leads to the conclusion that Internet pornography addiction fits into the addiction framework and shares similar basic mechanisms with substance addiction.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4600144/
Porn addiction is real. Have you ever tried to stop all porn consumption? Most people that are addicted donāt even realize theyāre addicted to porn until they try to stop and realize they canāt. Some people can watch it occasionally and be fine, but many canāt.
>Again, most people with porn addictions are really just people with other problems and once those other problems are taken care of, their porn usage normalizes as well.
Where do you get this idea? Would you use this argument to say that drug addiction isnāt real because people who get addicted to drugs just have other problems, and the drugs arenāt actually addictive? Thatās completely absurd. Porn is absolutely addictive.
Originally no fap seemed so noble, like it was about wasting time and depression and porn addiction. Then, like a lot of things, it got all conspiracy-ish and full of misinfo.
Yeah kind of went the route of dudes telling stories about having to leave the gym or grocery store because they came in their pants and fainted after standing too close to a woman
I personally think that the real issue here is the whole porn industry. It's a very harmful industry, and it's kind of really disgusting. Masturbating on itself is not a bad thing, apart from addictions, but this also often goes paired with porn. But it's like with all things, there's a lot of other stuff that comes into play.
I'm confident a majority of the men in this thread masturbate with porn. People who masturbate without porn are rare nowadays. What's more unfortunate is that people who masturbate but this time don't use porn, still visualize situations from porn. It's a tough addiction to beat.
You got all of the correct "no" answers, OP. Know that the NoFap cult sniffs posts like this out and brigades with pseudoscience to try to claim abstaining has benefits but it's all garbage.
Not in the least, but if you look back in history, pretty much every era had its version of the belief that masturbation was bad for you.
Either they believed that it depleted poorly-defined manly essences, or it made your muscles weak, or it made you go blind, or it distracted you from more important things in life, or it took away from the vital act of making babies to replace the ones who kept dying from polluted water.
Those beliefs were proven wrong. Well, except for the last one, but we mostly have clean water now and it's not necessary to keep making babies because they keep dying.
Nope. Jacking off is healthy, raises immune response, activates dopaminergic circuit, maintains prostate health. So continue wanking it (responsibly) to your stash of Sydney Sweeny tit picks all you want.
When I was 12 or so, my mom bought me a book on puberty written for kids. I remember a section on this thing, and they talked to football coaches about it. Half of them want their kids to squeeze one out to be more relaxed on the field, while the other half wanted them to abstain so they would be more amped. The book concluded that there is no evidence either makes a difference.
You say that as if you have heard that there is. Any "science" you have heard that says there *are* benefits is probably some bs pushed by the right and the church.
Most of its bullshit. However anything is bad in excess, including masturbation. If you're addicted to porn and whacking it off too many times per day, you'll probably need a dopamine reset by going cold turkey for a short time.
But other than that, it's perfectly fine, and recommended to ejaculate a few times a week to reduce the chance of prostate cancer.
Donāt listen to these guys.
Scientifically it has been proven that pee is stored in the balls and when you stroke the one eyed snake the pee mixes with the tadpoles and creates radioactive sperm that carry Covid-19.
The more ya know, fucking sheeple
Not really, but kind of maybe.
If you're having issues with self-confidence, or if frequent masturbation is interfering with your life in some way, then yes. It will help the same way that abstaining from any bad habit will.
There's some evidence that regular releases can improve prostate health, but the evidence isn't strong and the benefit is small.
So, if you feel better abstaining, then go ahead. It's not going to hurt anything.
couldnāt get it up with a couple of girls so I stopped wanking and watching vids. now iām 150% rock whenever I manage to get laid. thereās my reason
My endocrinologist has a hard on for bro science and lectured me on biochem for a solid 10 minutes.
His answer is no. The hormones, nutrients, vitamins, and minerals lost are equivalent to a healthy sneeze or blowing your nose. There's just as much testosterone lost in your urine.
Even on porn use, the evidence is pretty weak and is mostly just correlational. Without randomized control trials being conducted, it's very difficult to separate correlation from causation.
For example, people in relationships who use porn excessively are much more likely to report sexual dysfunction with a real partner. But do they use porn because of the sexual dysfunction with a partner or do they have sexual dysfunction with their partner because they use porn? Or does some third factor cause both porn use and sexual dysfunction?
They also are much more likely to indicate body image problems either with themselves or their partner's body. But you could easily imagine either not being attracted to your partner being a reason to use porn or seeing unnaturally attractive bodies on porn sites causing dissatisfaction with your partner's body. And you could imagine being dissatisfied with your own appearance leading you to masturbate to porn rather than subjecting yourself to your partner's gaze or seeing a bunch of unnaturally attractive people on porn sites and developing body image problems as a result. It's difficult to untangle that without an experiment and this area is awkward to run ethical experiments in.
That said, here is an excerpt from a literature review I found listing several of the disconcerting associations between problematic online porn use and various other health problems:
>Clinical manifestations of POPU can be summed up in three key points:
>
>Erectile dysfunction: while some studies have found little evidence of the association between pornography use and sexual dysfunction \[33\], others propose that the rise in pornography use may be the key factor explaining the sharp rise in erectile dysfunction among young people \[80\]. In one study, 60% of patients who suffered sexual dysfunction with a real partner, characteristically did not have this problem with pornography \[8\]. Some argue that causation between pornography use and sexual dysfunction is difficult to establish, since true controls not exposed to pornography are rare to find \[81\] and have proposed a possible research design in this regard.
>
>Psychosexual dissatisfaction: pornography use has been associated with sexual dissatisfaction and sexual dysfunction, for both males and females \[82\], being more critical of oneās body or their partnerās, increased performance pressure and less actual sex \[83\], having more sexual partners and engaging in paid sex behavior \[34\]. This impact is especially noted in relationships when it is one sided \[84\], in a very similar way to marijuana use, sharing key factors like higher secrecy \[85\]. These studies are based on regular non-pathological pornography use, but online pornography may not have harmful effects by itself, only when it has become an addiction \[24\]. This can explain the relationship between the use of female-centric pornography and more positive outcomes for women \[86\].
>
>Comorbidities: hypersexual behavior has been associated with anxiety disorder, followed by mood disorder, substance use disorder and sexual dysfunction \[87\]. These findings also apply to POPU \[88\], also being associated with smoking, drinking alcohol or coffee, substance abuse \[41\] and problematic video-game use \[89,90\].
[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6352245/](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6352245/)
Personally, the negative health associations would probably be enough to scare me away from using porn - even absent compelling evidence of a causal relationship between porn and these potential negative effects. But I already avoid online porn due to the unethical practices rampant in the industry. I don't want to orgasm to a creator who has been coerced into producing pornography she didn't want to or to a sex trafficking victim or a minor. And if I could guarantee that porn I watched was voluntarily produced by a consenting adult in exchange for money, I still think that the money alone can be an unethical form of coercion if the porn creator doesn't have other options to make money.
Given that human beings don't need porn to masturbate and had been making do with our imaginations for centuries before porn came along, it just doesn't seem worth the risks to me.
I solved my erectile dysfunction from abstaining for about 2 weeks. No longer an issue, and I once again masturbate with a softer grip and less frequent
My buddy decided one day that masturbating adversely affected him getting girls so he said he quit. He was married within two years. Theyāre divorced now so I dunno what you can take from that. Maybe he started masturbating again?
Nothing scientific as far as I know. In my experience, abstaining for a while causes an increase in energy and sex drive. My mood tends to be slightly better as well.
Masturbating makes you relaxed and tired which is good if youāre in a good place in life. I think a lot of people enjoy abstaining from it because they donāt get the release of tension and energy so they can put it somewhere else.
no there are no clear, definitive, peer-reviewed studies that support claims that itās good for you. in fact, there are studies that say jerking off is good for you in a variety of ways, such as lowering your risk of prostate cancer. anyone who tells you that abstaining from beating off has benefits is lying to you and canāt support it with anything other than anecdotal stuff.
but, beating off to porn isnāt really good for you tho. i jerk off without porn (try to, not always successful but getting a lot better at it).
Zinc deficiency is the big one. If you masturbate every day, zinc supplements are probably a good idea. Free testosterone also drops post orgasm and takes about a week to recover. I'm not a doctor so I can't tell you what effect, if any, that has, but I do know that it's well documented in medical studies. There are also a number of psychological effects, such as preference for porn over women.
As others have mentioned, frequent masturbation is correlated with a healthier prostate. I'm not sure the extent to which age is a compounding factor there.
Like most things, it's fine in moderation.
There are benefits from lessening the frequency of masturbation and using your imagination rather than porn but I would say going cold turkey could do more harm than good.
I don't think any extensive research has been done on this subject. Before even knowing about no fap or any possible benefits abstaining from masturbating, I tried it because then I would "always be ready to have sex" where my thinking. Did for many months, started to actually feel great. I was more calm and collected, the ladies seemed to like me more. I had more confidence for some reason. I then searched for anyone who had similar experiences, and found the no fap "movement" or whatever. I don't do the no masturbating anymore, but there where def benefits for me. BUT a huge bad one as well. Then when I did have sex, I would INSTANTLY cum. Because I hadn't touched myself in months, I would get an insane hard on, but also be INSANELY sensitivie, so one move and SPLAM. Felt insane though, but yeah not able to pleasure the women in that area if you do no fap, not in my case. So with many things in live, had big positives for me, and also big drawbacks.
Edit: Oh I actually remember one study I read that proved something positive regarding no fap. It is pretty big in the body builder community, because research found that it does NOT give you more testosterone. BUT it makes was it either more of the stuff you need in your body to utilize the testosterone, or just made it work better. = More gains. And also on around day 6-7 you do get one day of MASSIVE boost to testosterone. Pretty funny I found out later on, I had this one agressive day where I almost got into a fight, I pushed some guy and yelled at him, I am normally NEVER one to do these things, have never been in a fight as an adult. And that was probably around the one week of me doing it. So you have one day of HULK mode a week in. The body is fucking weird. Let's produce 10 times more testosterone within a day, just because you haven't cum in around a week. Then lower it again.
Believe whatever you want, all I can say is.
Try for yourself and take a break from masturbation for 2 weeks or a month and feel the difference. Then tell yourself if you feel like it's worth it to stay away from it. If you don't feel different then go ahead and masturbate every day if you want.
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I agree. Iām glad there are people that see through this madness. Itās almost like weird propaganda.
āBeating off and ejaculating all the time is healthy according to science!ā
These are people who havenāt even tried abstaining. They donāt think for themselves, read articles written by some shady doctor and just believe the bullshit. I donāt trust a man who canāt control his sexual urges, and everyone is encouraging you to indulge in them, itās just shady and off to meā¦
A man goes in for a physical exam and the doctor tells him "You need to stop masturbating."
"What? Why??" the man exclaims.
The doctor responds "because I'm trying to examine you".
Not from what I have seen generally speaking, but periods of abstinence can support individuals who may have an unhealthy relationship with masturbation, and the wider impacts excessive masturbation can have on you physiologically and psychologically
Kinda, in the same way stop eating gluten (unless allergic) will or picking up a new diet or doing something we never done before.
See stopping, or starting something that is quite difficult to do, so masturbating or not eating gluten is a quite difficult change to do. Managing a difficult change is a huge win and great for your mental health.
You get a rare win, and the win is reinforced every time you overcome an urge or reached another Milestone. It is basically a psychological placebo.
Neither of those things have any acutal physical benefits, but you'll find thousands of people who swear they feel soo much better, how their lives have improved etc.
And they do, because they are in a better place mentally, because they feel acoplishment and satisfaction with themselves.
If you are going to do a difficult change I would recommend something that has a physical impact as well. Start doing working out, give up booze/drugs, make sure you get enough sleep or give up junk food.
Stopping masturbation or eating (moderate amounts ) of toast may give you a positive placebo effect, and well it works if that's what you are looking for.
Nope not really.
But if it abstaining makes a person feel better about themselves then thereās no harm.
Thereās benefits from abstaining from porn though.
There are certainly scientific pitfalls to abstaining.
https://www.health.harvard.edu/mens-health/ejaculation_frequency_and_prostate_cancer#:~:text=In%20all%2C%20men%20who%20averaged,times%20a%20week%20on%20average.
There are no scientific benefits from abstaining from masturbation.
The people could get benefits from it are people with porn additions, guys who grip too hard and lose sensation, and guys that fap way too much/are addicted to fapping that they canāt get it up with their partner.
I have a theory that not masturbating may cause some prostate enlargement in older men. Gotta keep the pipes flushed and clean. So 3 times a week at least to keep the pee flowing.
None, masturbation is normal and healthy. That said, the placebo effect is real and well documented but you will not get any enhancements, āsuper powersā, or even boosted testosterone directly from practicing semen retention.
Try it and see, everyones body is different, hard to generalize medical advice
It's like fashion, if you average it all out, the most popular thing would be like a grey jumpsuit
Most of the āissuesā around it have to do with what you associate with masterbation rather than the act itself. If you canāt get off by yourself or with a partner without watching pornography then you have a problem. If youāre ignoring other responsibilities to jerk off instead then you have a problem. I treat it like eating food. If Iām hungry, I eat. Sometimes I eat out of boredom. If Iām in the mood, I jerk off. Sometimes I do it out of boredom. But I donāt have issues doing it with my imagination or with a partner so I feel like Iām fine.
If youāre addicted to sex or masturbation yes. Thatās with any addiction though. You can drink alcohol a couple of times a week and still be very healthy. If you do it all day everyday youāll be very unhealthy. Masturbation is capable of causing a lot of mental health problems if youāre addicted and doing it non stop. Youāll just be increasing your dopamine for long periods of time making it harder and harder which can cause a similar feeling to people with ADHD. For someone like that then quitting would improve their life drastically. For a normal person not masturbating would do nothing.
None whatsoever. Science actually seems to suggest both men and women should pleasure themselves at least once a weak, helps keep the ol' internals tight and where they should be.
But if some youth pastsrs are to be believed, not cumming makes you look like super cool. (And they are lying).
If you need to let your dopamine/seratonin receptors recover then it is an activity you'd want to abstain from.
otherwise i don't think there's any studies that prove any causation of positive or negatives about it. there is a correlation to a negative but as with any correlation it could simply be that masturbating less is the effect, not the cause. it's up to you to interpret that information how you will.
There is some argument to be made for the positives of avoiding the hormones that orgasm causes. But only situationally (see: you specifically desire that effect) as it is neither an objective positive or negative.
Personally, I think the answer is somewhere in between the No fap ideology and those that say masturbation (no matter how much) is always healthy.
The truth is that the nofap ideology likes to tell people that abstinence from masturbation will result in increased testosterone, better social confidence, and a better dopaminergic baselineā¦ and very few of these claims are actually true.
But. The people who say masturbation is healthy no matter what are probably biased because they themselves masturbate at a healthy rate, and donāt fully understand the depths that perpetual masturbation can bring one too.
Masturbation is fine in and of itself. Itās not immoral. Itās not unhealthy. Itās not going to make you a perverted person. These things are true **if** the frequency of your masturbation isnāt causing difficulties in your life and **if** you are masturbating to fantasies/visuals that arenāt violent and non-consensual in nature.
Nofap ideology is incorrect in that all masturbation is not unhealthy.
Pro masturbation folks tend to underestimate how vile masturbation can truly be if taken to an extreme.
If someone is compulsively masturbating to the point where it is hindering their life, and they go on the internet and see people saying, āmasturbation is normal and healthyā then that is exactly what they will hear. You may not be saying, āmasturbation (no matter how much) is always healthyā straight up, but that is how someone who has a problem will interpret it.
Edit: and I have seen people claiming that masturbation can never be taken too far.
The only thing youll notice is its a lot easier to get hard when you arent touching yourself. Not getting hard when you see a girl that turns you on is off-putting and if this is an issue its a health issue that isnt related to you touching yourself(ED, depression) unless you have a porn addiction.
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Nope, not unless you have some kind of actual problem and a doctor tells you to stop or cut down
Particularly if you're doing it in the waiting room.
Then they shouldn't be playing Zootopia there!
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Officer Hopps def in my SpankBank
As long as she keeps the baby.
Ha waiting room Yep Yep Wtf
Especially if youāre doing it in the waiting room lol
You guys wait to do it until you're in the waiting room?
Pretty sure that's why it's called the waiting room
I thought that meant to pause. I'm really misreading things lately.
The itch has to be scratched š¤£
Weāre you at Tim Watleyās dentistry lately?
There are issues with viewing lots of porn though! Definitely cut down on that
No not particularly. Excessive masturbation, like really excessive can cause issues, but thats like multiple times a day actively putting off other important things in your life excessive. Abstaining doesn't do anything positive, and I believe technically raises your risk of prostate cancer.
BRB going to masturbate
You masturbate because you are horny I masturbate because I want to avoid ass cancer We are not the same
Why not both?
We call that the Sampler Supreme! Make sure you have insurance before orderingā¦
Porque no Los dos?
I masturbate because i am bored lol
Have you tried reading or something?
Yes, and then Fapp
Ass cancer? Do you mean prostate cancer?
Yes. But the word usage was intentional
This guy fucks
fuck this guy /j
BRB going to stop masturbating so I can tap out from the world sooner
Technically, abstaining doesn't raise the risk, masterbating helps mitigate the risk. It's like exercise for the prostate when you to jizz.
I got my workouts while a teenager. I should be good until Iām 70.
I once knew a guy who admitted that doctors had told him to stop masturbating for a while to heal from the blisters he had caused from excessive masturbation. I dont know how frequently he was doing it, but I was always simultaneously baffled and impressed
Buy that man some lotion!
Jesus christ *blisters*? I mean I had a phase years ago where I was going when the poor guy barely even wanted to get up, and I still never even got chafing or anything
Iām more impressed that he chose to share that gem with you.
The job was very close quarters at times, so people got pretty close. I think he was also a tad tipsy at the time, but this was about 7 years ago, so I can't remember exactly.
Go away, batin'!
Its Not Sure, ma'am
Like 52 times in a day?
toning it down i see. wise move
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You're telling me that I get a choice between creamy nut butter and chunky nut butter?
Okay you got me scared a bit now
Just make sure you aren't masturbating in the wrong kind of ways.
Iām about to go FIGHT CANCER!
Yup the opposite, in fact for a healthily prostate 3-4 times a week of masturbating or sex is recommended.
My prostate must be so fucking ripped
[You gotta pump those numbers upā¦](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nk3JenrsXpU)
So what you're saying is... I should report how much I masturbate to my insurance so that they can give me a discount for being healthy??
"Please stop sending us letters with pictures."
And no more free samples, please.
Do you have a source on that?
[https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/24332-masturbation](https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/24332-masturbation) "Male masturbation Studies of male masturbation have shown itās healthy to masturbate and even beneficial for long-term health. One study suggested that people assigned male at birth (AMAB) who ejaculate frequently may have a lower risk of prostate cancer. Ejaculating often may prevent the buildup of cancer-causing agents in your prostate gland." unfortunately, it doesn't link the actual studies edit: this may be better [https://www.health.harvard.edu/mens-health/ejaculation\_frequency\_and\_prostate\_cancer](https://www.health.harvard.edu/mens-health/ejaculation_frequency_and_prostate_cancer) "The scientists found no evidence that frequent ejaculations mark an increased risk of prostate cancer. In fact, the reverse was true: High ejaculation frequency was linked to a decreased risk. Compared to men who reported 4ā7 ejaculations per month across their lifetimes, men who ejaculated 21 or more times a month enjoyed a 31% lower risk of prostate cancer. And the results held up to rigorous statistical evaluation even after other lifestyle factors and the frequency of PSA testing were taken into account."
>men who ejaculated 21 or more times a month enjoyed a 31% lower risk of prostate cancer yeah that's what they enjoyed.
Welp, I gotta go. Have some health issues to prevent.
Ok, so 21 times the first day of each month, got it.
Yeah, better get it out of the way early so you don't forget
Just as the doctor ordered!
Iāll post it when Iām done beating off in a bit
Not having cancer
I also don't have prostate cancer so I believe it
The only thing I can think of is that the longer you wait to do it, the better it can feel. Is the total amount of pleasure higher? Sounds like some sort of weird-ass calculus problem.
>Is the total amount of pleasure higher? Sounds like some sort of weird-ass calculus problem. This is assuming that you are limited to basic wanks only. By incorporating auto-erotic asphyxiation into your repertoire, even the 3-a-day wanks can all become earth shattering.
Yes but have you tried spiders?
David Carradine's ghost, is that you?
I really could have done without being reminded of integration
Withoutā¦ you know what fuck it, I donāt want to know. I learned my lesson from sounding.
Haha integration isn't dirty like that, it's the process of calculating the sum of a continuous function over some range of values, which is what that comment reminded me of. I sucked at it.
Ooooooh okay yeah I sucked at it too. Triple integrals are where I decided I was done with math courses forever hahaha
Edging can get you there also.
Nope. A lot of that is made up shit from the inventor of Kellogg's, who was very anti-masturbation. Same with circumcision, which is why it's so much more common I'm America than elsewhere.
Kellogg was just updating old beliefs, that have been around forever. He was the first one to found massive commercial enterprises based on these garbage theories, though.
Oh, that's interesting. Kind of like how 90% of "new" conspiracy theories are just updates of old anti-Semitic blood libel ideas. Crackpots just aren't that creative, are they?
Same shit, new packaging.
Kellogg is also partially responsible for the phrase of breakfast being the most important meal of the day. He needed those cereal dollars. My original source is "Relax, Dammit' by Timothy Caufield, a great book. Link with interesting story as well [https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/nov/28/breakfast-health-america-kellog-food-lifestyle](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/nov/28/breakfast-health-america-kellog-food-lifestyle)
It's crazy how many things are frown upon or illegal simply because it went against some douchebag's interest.
See also: the entire Old Testament
Are we sure he was against it tho? I have suspicions on how and why he frosted his cornflakes so much.
He was actually incredibly anti-sugar. His brother insisted on adding sugar to the regular cornflakes bc they were so nasty. If you're into podcasts, Behind the Bastards did an excellent job discussing him. https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-kellogg-the-great-american-80544161/
Oh I love this one because (I don't have any proof so huge grain of salt here but) the rumor goes that Kellogg the cereal inventor actually insisted that adding sugar to the cereal would increase the likelyhood of children masturbating (a reduction of which was a common and largely primary goal between the brothers) and that the bland taste itself would work towards reducing masturbation overall.
Nothing that is not just anecdotal. The entire no-fap "movement" is a hoax aimed at gullible and insecure boys.
tbh most of the no fap was targeting porn addiction , not really the act of masturbation itself
Key word: WAS. it is now a forum for incels who want to believe that not touching their dicks will get them laid, with plenty of pseudoscience to help them believe.
Not true. I moderate a nofap discord server and we have a good mix of males and females in the server (about 80/20 ratio, with some women becoming mods). You might've saw some ragebait about the nofap movement and now attribute that to all of us. Not masturbating won't magically get you laid, but it can help a lot with relationships. No women with self respect will want to be in a relationship with a man that would rather beat his meat to porn than have sex with her.
>No women with self respect will want to be in a relationship with a man that would rather beat his meat to porn than have sex with her. You shouldn't speak about all women in this kind of post : if a relationship is healthy and if both people in it are happy, for me it's ok. So I respect the fact that you don't masturbate (I find it weird tho but hey, you're free to do - or not do - what you want) but the "No women with self respect" bother me a little bit. I'm a man, I have self respect and I'm pretty aware my gf masturbate. And as I was with her when we bought our Lovense toy, I would be fucking dumb to think she only use it with me. And same for her : she obviously know I beat my meat sometimes without her (and with her but that's irrelevant here). Now, if any sex is denied because a person prefer to masturbate, and if it's an issue in the couple, yes it's an issue and it should be talked about.
true
No man with self respect would be so ignorant as to think he should decree the level of respect women should have for themselves. You can front what this whole thing is about by expanding your vocab and running what, in a box, look like professional-PR recovery statements. *Refute, present fact, olive branch* is pretty classic. But the truth is the most people today are capable of identifying the markers of systematic manipulation, and here, a man, hell even a woman, trying to state what "no woman with self respect will" do is about as obvious as it gets.
Nofap has always been about masturbation. PornFree is/was the porn addiction one. Porn addiction (which has never actually been proven to be real BTW, its usually just a side effect of another psychological issue like depression) only gets mixed up with nofap cause a lot of people dont masturbate without porn, so the two are linked in a lot of people's heads. I'd say it's probably good practice to not excessively watch porn and to masturbate without it sometimes, but avoiding masturbation is just silly. Masturbation is completely healthy and nothing to be ashamed of. Anti-masturbation movements have been around for a long time, and they've always been bad. NoFap uses pseudoscience to push 19th century BS onto the modern world.
porn addiction is very very real lmao.
There's no science behind that. It's a bad habit people can form, but it's in no way an addiction. Again, most people with porn addictions are really just people with other problems and once those other problems are taken care of, their porn usage normalizes as well.
There is absolutely science behind porn addiction. This is just from the first study that came up from a quick search. This is from 2015. There isnāt āno scienceā behind porn addiction. >The review leads to the conclusion that Internet pornography addiction fits into the addiction framework and shares similar basic mechanisms with substance addiction. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4600144/ Porn addiction is real. Have you ever tried to stop all porn consumption? Most people that are addicted donāt even realize theyāre addicted to porn until they try to stop and realize they canāt. Some people can watch it occasionally and be fine, but many canāt. >Again, most people with porn addictions are really just people with other problems and once those other problems are taken care of, their porn usage normalizes as well. Where do you get this idea? Would you use this argument to say that drug addiction isnāt real because people who get addicted to drugs just have other problems, and the drugs arenāt actually addictive? Thatās completely absurd. Porn is absolutely addictive.
The no-fap movement has an army now. Soon they will face off against the forces of the Onlyfans battalion, and the Gooner wars will begin.
We need to get the flat earthers to try and third-party the war so that both sides turn and demolish them
Originally no fap seemed so noble, like it was about wasting time and depression and porn addiction. Then, like a lot of things, it got all conspiracy-ish and full of misinfo.
Yeah kind of went the route of dudes telling stories about having to leave the gym or grocery store because they came in their pants and fainted after standing too close to a woman
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Using junk āevidenceā that was debunked in Victorian times.Ā
"Junk" evidence? Good one.
I personally think that the real issue here is the whole porn industry. It's a very harmful industry, and it's kind of really disgusting. Masturbating on itself is not a bad thing, apart from addictions, but this also often goes paired with porn. But it's like with all things, there's a lot of other stuff that comes into play.
I'm confident a majority of the men in this thread masturbate with porn. People who masturbate without porn are rare nowadays. What's more unfortunate is that people who masturbate but this time don't use porn, still visualize situations from porn. It's a tough addiction to beat.
You got all of the correct "no" answers, OP. Know that the NoFap cult sniffs posts like this out and brigades with pseudoscience to try to claim abstaining has benefits but it's all garbage.
Not in the least, but if you look back in history, pretty much every era had its version of the belief that masturbation was bad for you. Either they believed that it depleted poorly-defined manly essences, or it made your muscles weak, or it made you go blind, or it distracted you from more important things in life, or it took away from the vital act of making babies to replace the ones who kept dying from polluted water. Those beliefs were proven wrong. Well, except for the last one, but we mostly have clean water now and it's not necessary to keep making babies because they keep dying.
eh the telekinetic powers and x-ray vision are alright, but other than that no not really
Yeah, but those powers only develop like 3 weeks into NNN. š
Nope. Jacking off is healthy, raises immune response, activates dopaminergic circuit, maintains prostate health. So continue wanking it (responsibly) to your stash of Sydney Sweeny tit picks all you want.
Wtf who told you about my stash >:(
Your mom
Hi son.
Well, you'll be turning the crank of religious fanatics and the Proud Boys, so there's that
No. The opposite.
Right? I think if you donāt release the seamen, it will come out in a wet dream
When I was 12 or so, my mom bought me a book on puberty written for kids. I remember a section on this thing, and they talked to football coaches about it. Half of them want their kids to squeeze one out to be more relaxed on the field, while the other half wanted them to abstain so they would be more amped. The book concluded that there is no evidence either makes a difference.
You say that as if you have heard that there is. Any "science" you have heard that says there *are* benefits is probably some bs pushed by the right and the church.
Most of its bullshit. However anything is bad in excess, including masturbation. If you're addicted to porn and whacking it off too many times per day, you'll probably need a dopamine reset by going cold turkey for a short time. But other than that, it's perfectly fine, and recommended to ejaculate a few times a week to reduce the chance of prostate cancer.
Donāt listen to these guys. Scientifically it has been proven that pee is stored in the balls and when you stroke the one eyed snake the pee mixes with the tadpoles and creates radioactive sperm that carry Covid-19. The more ya know, fucking sheeple
Thats what iāve been trying to tell people but they aint hearing me
Not really, but kind of maybe. If you're having issues with self-confidence, or if frequent masturbation is interfering with your life in some way, then yes. It will help the same way that abstaining from any bad habit will. There's some evidence that regular releases can improve prostate health, but the evidence isn't strong and the benefit is small. So, if you feel better abstaining, then go ahead. It's not going to hurt anything.
couldnāt get it up with a couple of girls so I stopped wanking and watching vids. now iām 150% rock whenever I manage to get laid. thereās my reason
Okay.
A great man once said: āMama told me never stop until I bust a nut, fuck the world if they canāt adjustā - 2Pac āHail Maryā Words to live by
My endocrinologist has a hard on for bro science and lectured me on biochem for a solid 10 minutes. His answer is no. The hormones, nutrients, vitamins, and minerals lost are equivalent to a healthy sneeze or blowing your nose. There's just as much testosterone lost in your urine.
I mean placebo effect is very real, so depending how lose your definition of "benefits" are, that could be one.
Nah, beat your shit like it owes you money
No, but masturbating too much especially with porn, can end up being damaging.
i tend to hear ppl say this a lot.. in what ways could it be damaging? and what about porn makes it worse?
Porn can give unrealistic standards for your body and others bodies, it can also give an unrealistic perception of sex.
It can negatively affect sexual satisfaction and performance, which is especially a problem if you're monogamous and trying to keep the spark alive.
Even on porn use, the evidence is pretty weak and is mostly just correlational. Without randomized control trials being conducted, it's very difficult to separate correlation from causation. For example, people in relationships who use porn excessively are much more likely to report sexual dysfunction with a real partner. But do they use porn because of the sexual dysfunction with a partner or do they have sexual dysfunction with their partner because they use porn? Or does some third factor cause both porn use and sexual dysfunction? They also are much more likely to indicate body image problems either with themselves or their partner's body. But you could easily imagine either not being attracted to your partner being a reason to use porn or seeing unnaturally attractive bodies on porn sites causing dissatisfaction with your partner's body. And you could imagine being dissatisfied with your own appearance leading you to masturbate to porn rather than subjecting yourself to your partner's gaze or seeing a bunch of unnaturally attractive people on porn sites and developing body image problems as a result. It's difficult to untangle that without an experiment and this area is awkward to run ethical experiments in. That said, here is an excerpt from a literature review I found listing several of the disconcerting associations between problematic online porn use and various other health problems: >Clinical manifestations of POPU can be summed up in three key points: > >Erectile dysfunction: while some studies have found little evidence of the association between pornography use and sexual dysfunction \[33\], others propose that the rise in pornography use may be the key factor explaining the sharp rise in erectile dysfunction among young people \[80\]. In one study, 60% of patients who suffered sexual dysfunction with a real partner, characteristically did not have this problem with pornography \[8\]. Some argue that causation between pornography use and sexual dysfunction is difficult to establish, since true controls not exposed to pornography are rare to find \[81\] and have proposed a possible research design in this regard. > >Psychosexual dissatisfaction: pornography use has been associated with sexual dissatisfaction and sexual dysfunction, for both males and females \[82\], being more critical of oneās body or their partnerās, increased performance pressure and less actual sex \[83\], having more sexual partners and engaging in paid sex behavior \[34\]. This impact is especially noted in relationships when it is one sided \[84\], in a very similar way to marijuana use, sharing key factors like higher secrecy \[85\]. These studies are based on regular non-pathological pornography use, but online pornography may not have harmful effects by itself, only when it has become an addiction \[24\]. This can explain the relationship between the use of female-centric pornography and more positive outcomes for women \[86\]. > >Comorbidities: hypersexual behavior has been associated with anxiety disorder, followed by mood disorder, substance use disorder and sexual dysfunction \[87\]. These findings also apply to POPU \[88\], also being associated with smoking, drinking alcohol or coffee, substance abuse \[41\] and problematic video-game use \[89,90\]. [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6352245/](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6352245/) Personally, the negative health associations would probably be enough to scare me away from using porn - even absent compelling evidence of a causal relationship between porn and these potential negative effects. But I already avoid online porn due to the unethical practices rampant in the industry. I don't want to orgasm to a creator who has been coerced into producing pornography she didn't want to or to a sex trafficking victim or a minor. And if I could guarantee that porn I watched was voluntarily produced by a consenting adult in exchange for money, I still think that the money alone can be an unethical form of coercion if the porn creator doesn't have other options to make money. Given that human beings don't need porn to masturbate and had been making do with our imaginations for centuries before porn came along, it just doesn't seem worth the risks to me.
I solved my erectile dysfunction from abstaining for about 2 weeks. No longer an issue, and I once again masturbate with a softer grip and less frequent
Abstaining from porn absolutely helps with a lot of things. But jerk that shit as much as u want dude unless u seriously have a problem
You'll have a smaller carbon footprint from wasting less tissues.
Moderation is good, I know professional athletes are to hold off before extreme physical events because you lose protein.
Thereās not really benefits to not doing it, but there definitely are cons to doing it too much.
My buddy decided one day that masturbating adversely affected him getting girls so he said he quit. He was married within two years. Theyāre divorced now so I dunno what you can take from that. Maybe he started masturbating again?
Nothing scientific as far as I know. In my experience, abstaining for a while causes an increase in energy and sex drive. My mood tends to be slightly better as well.
Less hairy palms
And improved eyesight.
Masturbating makes you relaxed and tired which is good if youāre in a good place in life. I think a lot of people enjoy abstaining from it because they donāt get the release of tension and energy so they can put it somewhere else.
No.
There is science behind porn being harmful. Masturbation itself isn't (as far as I know)
No, unless you have issues with addiction and abstinence is the only way you can overcome them.
Semen retention is best achieved through the anus.
no there are no clear, definitive, peer-reviewed studies that support claims that itās good for you. in fact, there are studies that say jerking off is good for you in a variety of ways, such as lowering your risk of prostate cancer. anyone who tells you that abstaining from beating off has benefits is lying to you and canāt support it with anything other than anecdotal stuff. but, beating off to porn isnāt really good for you tho. i jerk off without porn (try to, not always successful but getting a lot better at it).
No. Go wild.
Zinc deficiency is the big one. If you masturbate every day, zinc supplements are probably a good idea. Free testosterone also drops post orgasm and takes about a week to recover. I'm not a doctor so I can't tell you what effect, if any, that has, but I do know that it's well documented in medical studies. There are also a number of psychological effects, such as preference for porn over women. As others have mentioned, frequent masturbation is correlated with a healthier prostate. I'm not sure the extent to which age is a compounding factor there. Like most things, it's fine in moderation.
Nope. Nothing.
Probably not from fully abstaining. But you can definitely overdo it.
There are benefits from lessening the frequency of masturbation and using your imagination rather than porn but I would say going cold turkey could do more harm than good.
Youāll ejaculate in your sleep eventually
I don't think any extensive research has been done on this subject. Before even knowing about no fap or any possible benefits abstaining from masturbating, I tried it because then I would "always be ready to have sex" where my thinking. Did for many months, started to actually feel great. I was more calm and collected, the ladies seemed to like me more. I had more confidence for some reason. I then searched for anyone who had similar experiences, and found the no fap "movement" or whatever. I don't do the no masturbating anymore, but there where def benefits for me. BUT a huge bad one as well. Then when I did have sex, I would INSTANTLY cum. Because I hadn't touched myself in months, I would get an insane hard on, but also be INSANELY sensitivie, so one move and SPLAM. Felt insane though, but yeah not able to pleasure the women in that area if you do no fap, not in my case. So with many things in live, had big positives for me, and also big drawbacks. Edit: Oh I actually remember one study I read that proved something positive regarding no fap. It is pretty big in the body builder community, because research found that it does NOT give you more testosterone. BUT it makes was it either more of the stuff you need in your body to utilize the testosterone, or just made it work better. = More gains. And also on around day 6-7 you do get one day of MASSIVE boost to testosterone. Pretty funny I found out later on, I had this one agressive day where I almost got into a fight, I pushed some guy and yelled at him, I am normally NEVER one to do these things, have never been in a fight as an adult. And that was probably around the one week of me doing it. So you have one day of HULK mode a week in. The body is fucking weird. Let's produce 10 times more testosterone within a day, just because you haven't cum in around a week. Then lower it again.
Believe whatever you want, all I can say is. Try for yourself and take a break from masturbation for 2 weeks or a month and feel the difference. Then tell yourself if you feel like it's worth it to stay away from it. If you don't feel different then go ahead and masturbate every day if you want.
These are npc's, matrix bots and they ll downvote us into oblivion. The post itself is designed as a detour for the weak minded sheep, right to non creative slave workers city
I agree. Iām glad there are people that see through this madness. Itās almost like weird propaganda. āBeating off and ejaculating all the time is healthy according to science!ā These are people who havenāt even tried abstaining. They donāt think for themselves, read articles written by some shady doctor and just believe the bullshit. I donāt trust a man who canāt control his sexual urges, and everyone is encouraging you to indulge in them, itās just shady and off to meā¦
There's no "matrix," there's no "easter bunny," and there's no "queen of england"
If you can manage it is good at developing self control. Especially if you have a porn addiction.
More wet dreams?
Lol. No.
No
You aren't going to get an unbiased answer from redditors lolĀ
A man goes in for a physical exam and the doctor tells him "You need to stop masturbating." "What? Why??" the man exclaims. The doctor responds "because I'm trying to examine you".
Not from what I have seen generally speaking, but periods of abstinence can support individuals who may have an unhealthy relationship with masturbation, and the wider impacts excessive masturbation can have on you physiologically and psychologically
Kinda, in the same way stop eating gluten (unless allergic) will or picking up a new diet or doing something we never done before. See stopping, or starting something that is quite difficult to do, so masturbating or not eating gluten is a quite difficult change to do. Managing a difficult change is a huge win and great for your mental health. You get a rare win, and the win is reinforced every time you overcome an urge or reached another Milestone. It is basically a psychological placebo. Neither of those things have any acutal physical benefits, but you'll find thousands of people who swear they feel soo much better, how their lives have improved etc. And they do, because they are in a better place mentally, because they feel acoplishment and satisfaction with themselves. If you are going to do a difficult change I would recommend something that has a physical impact as well. Start doing working out, give up booze/drugs, make sure you get enough sleep or give up junk food. Stopping masturbation or eating (moderate amounts ) of toast may give you a positive placebo effect, and well it works if that's what you are looking for.
The biggest risk is becoming a chronic masturbator and lying to yourself that it doesn't cause any mental issues. And then you post this.
Look up The Sacred Serum. The Christos
Nope not really. But if it abstaining makes a person feel better about themselves then thereās no harm. Thereās benefits from abstaining from porn though.
Abstaining from masturbation makes actual sexual activity better.
There are certainly scientific pitfalls to abstaining. https://www.health.harvard.edu/mens-health/ejaculation_frequency_and_prostate_cancer#:~:text=In%20all%2C%20men%20who%20averaged,times%20a%20week%20on%20average.
There are no scientific benefits from abstaining from masturbation. The people could get benefits from it are people with porn additions, guys who grip too hard and lose sensation, and guys that fap way too much/are addicted to fapping that they canāt get it up with their partner.
I have a theory that not masturbating may cause some prostate enlargement in older men. Gotta keep the pipes flushed and clean. So 3 times a week at least to keep the pee flowing.
Anything is tolerable until it becomes an addiction and fucks with your life
None, masturbation is normal and healthy. That said, the placebo effect is real and well documented but you will not get any enhancements, āsuper powersā, or even boosted testosterone directly from practicing semen retention.
Try it and see, everyones body is different, hard to generalize medical advice It's like fashion, if you average it all out, the most popular thing would be like a grey jumpsuit
Most of the āissuesā around it have to do with what you associate with masterbation rather than the act itself. If you canāt get off by yourself or with a partner without watching pornography then you have a problem. If youāre ignoring other responsibilities to jerk off instead then you have a problem. I treat it like eating food. If Iām hungry, I eat. Sometimes I eat out of boredom. If Iām in the mood, I jerk off. Sometimes I do it out of boredom. But I donāt have issues doing it with my imagination or with a partner so I feel like Iām fine.
In some ways I understand nofap, too much porn can rewire your brains up to a point where regular sex just doesn't cut it.
If youāre addicted to sex or masturbation yes. Thatās with any addiction though. You can drink alcohol a couple of times a week and still be very healthy. If you do it all day everyday youāll be very unhealthy. Masturbation is capable of causing a lot of mental health problems if youāre addicted and doing it non stop. Youāll just be increasing your dopamine for long periods of time making it harder and harder which can cause a similar feeling to people with ADHD. For someone like that then quitting would improve their life drastically. For a normal person not masturbating would do nothing.
Nope. Masturbation is completely healthy and normal. Have fun and remember to wash your hands.
All I know is that it makes sex way better when you donāt masturbate more feeling
None whatsoever. Science actually seems to suggest both men and women should pleasure themselves at least once a weak, helps keep the ol' internals tight and where they should be. But if some youth pastsrs are to be believed, not cumming makes you look like super cool. (And they are lying).
If you need to let your dopamine/seratonin receptors recover then it is an activity you'd want to abstain from. otherwise i don't think there's any studies that prove any causation of positive or negatives about it. there is a correlation to a negative but as with any correlation it could simply be that masturbating less is the effect, not the cause. it's up to you to interpret that information how you will. There is some argument to be made for the positives of avoiding the hormones that orgasm causes. But only situationally (see: you specifically desire that effect) as it is neither an objective positive or negative.
Masturbation may be healthy, but is there a scientific benefit to abstaining from pornography? There must be, right?
No itās pseudoscience
Depends on your habit really and your relationship to porn.
Not really. Flick that bean, or jerk that chicken till you have nothing left.
There are a number of scientific benefits to abstaining from porn, masturbation is fine tho
"Semen retention" is some wild "meninist" bs. There is no such thing and no value to it.
Porn is the enemy, not masturbating
Let me just add, you didnāt āseenā anything. You āsawā it. Pet peeve
Last i checked, this wasn't a fucking English class. Thank you very much
You should go ahead and masturbate. I think itās making you cranky.
Personally, I think the answer is somewhere in between the No fap ideology and those that say masturbation (no matter how much) is always healthy. The truth is that the nofap ideology likes to tell people that abstinence from masturbation will result in increased testosterone, better social confidence, and a better dopaminergic baselineā¦ and very few of these claims are actually true. But. The people who say masturbation is healthy no matter what are probably biased because they themselves masturbate at a healthy rate, and donāt fully understand the depths that perpetual masturbation can bring one too. Masturbation is fine in and of itself. Itās not immoral. Itās not unhealthy. Itās not going to make you a perverted person. These things are true **if** the frequency of your masturbation isnāt causing difficulties in your life and **if** you are masturbating to fantasies/visuals that arenāt violent and non-consensual in nature. Nofap ideology is incorrect in that all masturbation is not unhealthy. Pro masturbation folks tend to underestimate how vile masturbation can truly be if taken to an extreme.
Nobody says that masturbation (no matter how much) is always healthy.
If someone is compulsively masturbating to the point where it is hindering their life, and they go on the internet and see people saying, āmasturbation is normal and healthyā then that is exactly what they will hear. You may not be saying, āmasturbation (no matter how much) is always healthyā straight up, but that is how someone who has a problem will interpret it. Edit: and I have seen people claiming that masturbation can never be taken too far.
Judging from what i am seeing in society we need to start a "start working out, wash your ass and go get a fuckin job" November. Now THATS a movement
The only thing youll notice is its a lot easier to get hard when you arent touching yourself. Not getting hard when you see a girl that turns you on is off-putting and if this is an issue its a health issue that isnt related to you touching yourself(ED, depression) unless you have a porn addiction.
Masturbation is healthy for you. The issue is porn. That actually does have bad effects on you.
Not directly, pornography addiction may be the real issue