Hello beautiful people. Hope your day has been awesome. Well, I really don't know why this topic came to my mind, and not many people will give a second thought to the act of masturbation but I'll like to share this with you.
Around five years old, we tend to discover that touching our genitals creates a lot of pleasant sensation. The messages we receive about this self-touch influences whether our masturbation shifts into a private activity or a secret, shameful one.
•What Is Masturbation?
According to Angie Gunn, Masturbation is the act of stimulating your own body and brain to create pleasure, usually involving genital touching or other sexual play on your own.
To put it in other words: anytime you find yourself stimulated by something you see, hear or touch, or you desire to feel sexual so you find something that turns you on, that’s masturbation.
Masturbation is healthy and it is part of sexual health and necessary to maintain hormone levels, Dawn Michael, Ph.D., relationship expert and author says.
“There is only a problem when masturbation becomes a replacement for daily actives that one should be doing in life, such as school, sleep, work, relationships and more.”
The good news, as Wagner says, is that taking time to understand your own erogenous zones is a healthy practice that can improve your sex life, It relieves tension, makes you forget about your worries, make you a more balanced person and all that.
The bad news now is that there can actually be some pretty serious risks to your physical and emotional health when it comes to masturbation, specifically if frequent masturbation may be turning into chronic or compulsive masturbation and it is important to be aware of what you’re risking when you reach into your pants.
Here’s what you need to know about jerking off:
From having so much anxiety about a particular period in your life ,losing your job, the passing away of a family member or other difficult events ,to becoming obsessive and out of control, here are some dangerous mental side effects to watch out for:
Your Penis Is Raw Because You Stroke So Much And So Hard
At times, chronic masturbation can become too frequent, creating conflict in the relationship or injury, causing a painful erection. In regards to injury, some men can masturbate too often creating rawness on the penis or injury to the soft tissues of the penis,” Geter says. “Typically, this compulsive behavior stems from an increase in anxiety or inability to manage anxiety with other coping skills.”
You Can No Longer ‘finish’ During Normal Intercourse
If you once enjoyed orgasming at the same time with your partner, but now you can’t seem to get there unless you’re doing it on your own, you might have developed a mental block due to masturbation. “Although not detrimental to a man's health, chronic masturbation can also impact enjoyment or pleasure of other sexual activities with a partner.
The brain learns that masturbation feels good. When other equally enjoyable stimulation is introduced after long periods of masturbation, a man can have trouble with orgasm or ejaculation since the stimulation of a vagina, mouth, or partner's hand is not the same as that of the man's own hand,” Geter says. “Many men present to my office with this concern. After behavioral modification treatment, they are able to orgasm and ejaculate to different stimuli. One tool I suggest men utilize is a male masturbation sleeve. This sleeve helps stimulate a vagina, mouth, or rectum though they are not replacements for those body parts.”
•Compulsive Masturbation Can Impact Your Relationships
It’s a tricky road to go down, as Gunn explains, when you have masturbation as part of your sexual routine with your partner. Though perfectly healthy, and not exactly a health risk to your body, it could be troublesome for your heart if you and your partner begin to argue or drift apart, thanks to your masturbation habit. That being said maintaining a masturbation habit, even once you’re happily married, is OK as long as you talk about it together.
“One of the common messages related to masturbation shaming is the idea that once you’re partnered, they gain ownership of your sex and your genitals, requiring their involvement or permission in every expression. This is a really harmful approach to relationships and leads to many conflicts, sexual repression and secrecy. Every person, partnered or single, retains private ownership of their genitals and can choose when to share them with others, and how to enter into agreements with others around the use of their sexual self,” >“I encourage all my clients to maintain masturbation as a part of any relationship agreements in order to ensure the protection of their sexual identity, control over their ability to have pleasure on their own terms at times, and creating erotic mystery to allow for increased desire in a relationship. If respected and continued on both sides, masturbation provides fantasy material, sexual relief, and reignited desire for partnered sex.”
Gunn says.
However, if you’re starting to not want to have sex with your partner, Gunn says talking it out and really, truly getting to the root of the issues is key. “Clients with relationship strain, differences in libido or desire from their partner, or challenges with depression, trauma, anxiety or obsessive compulsive disorder may increase masturbation as a coping tool,” she says. “In these cases the potential harm done is not related to the masturbation itself, but to the distress experienced as a result and the other factors driving the behavior.”
•Compulsive Masturbation Can Negatively Impact Your Orgasms
If you can’t seem to find the same joy — with or without the use of your hand or someone else’s — you might be desensitizing yourself in a dangerous way. “Some men will talk about reduced intensity of orgasms after frequent masturbation. This is a result of extended periods of refractory, the time after you climax when your body is releasing additional inhibitory (feel-good) chemicals in your brain, which basically prevent your body from coming down between periods of arousal. During this extended refractory, any orgasm experienced would be weaker until you give your body the chance to process the chemicals fully,” Gunn explains.
“The refractory period is different for each person and varies by age, body chemistry, diet and genetics, so give yourself some grace. If you’re concerned about changes to your orgasms as a result of masturbation, try reducing your masturbation frequency a bit, adding more time between episodes, or not always climaxing during masturbation. The practice of edging,coming to the point of climax and then backing off multiple times and over the course of a few days, has been shown to increase intensity of orgasms. Long term, increased orgasms have been linked to increased sexual pleasure on the whole.”
Advantages
¶It provides a safe sexual outlet.
¶It can be a pleasurable alternative to intercourse, offering STI and pregnancy prevention.
¶It can improve sleep patterns.
¶It helps you learn about your sexual desires and what works for you sexually.
¶It can help reduce stress levels.
¶It can increase the ability to achieve orgasms.
¶It can prevent and relieve menstrual cramps.
¶It can improve self-esteem.
¶It can strengthen pelvic floor muscles.
¶It can help treat sexual dysfunction.
¶Reduces risk of prostate cancer .
Disadvantages
∆ If you watch porn frequently along with it, you might have reduced libido when things become real
∆ Masturbation doesn't have the health benefits that sex does.
∆Masturbation isn't risk free
∆ You find sex to be less interesting , and every time you tend to go for more of these videos, Hence wasting time in very less productive activities. This would end up in guilty feeling and depression.
∆ You might find yourself addicted to this and can result in performing it as much as 8 to10 times a day, and this would really take toll.
∆ You'll suffer from nutritional issues if you aren't taking adequate diet and exercise.
Note again that excessive mastubation is the culprit. So Beware.
References
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Thanks so much for reading...
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One thing too... females do indulge in masturbation :)
Yes
Wow, nice piece. I think men should really read this.
True
No , No, No, i think everybody should read this. women too masturbate.
More advantages than disadvantages 😂
I give up on u
Maybe.....but the disadvantages are mostly psychological and that means they tend to have more effects on the person.
Like everything, too much is bad most times.
10 times a day! That is one veteran's number. It will zap everything good or even life out of someone.
Too much of everything is bad
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Personally, i consider it as demonic and sin.
Yea... Right
I think by implications, one has to be moderate with masturbation, for anything done in excess results to risks.
Well, I discourage it often too.
Thanks for reading
Excess of everything is bad.