For millennia, high-horse moralists have been dispensing fear and loathing among generations of impressionable young boys by peddling preposterous myths and outright lies about masturbation. You’ve heard them all before: masturbation leads to blindness, hairy palms, insanity and just generally being a bad person.
What’s perhaps most perplexing is that these fairy tales have persisted for such a long time. After all, the majority of boys discover that they are entirely devoid of truth by the time they’re 14.

For children it’s a normal and natural part of growing up and discovering their bodies, sexuality and the joys of having opposable thumbs. For adults it’s a pleasant, safe and healthy sexual activity that, rather than being vilified, should be universally encouraged. Woody Allen’s oft-quoted quip bears repeating: “Don’t knock masturbation - it’s sex with someone I love.”


ADVANTAGES:

It's may seem superfluous to belabour the fact that it’s good for you - it feels really, really nice, right? - but there are some benefits to masturbation you may not have thought of before:


➡ Unlike sex with a partner, you can’t contract a sexually transmitted disease and nobody falls pregnant.

➡ It’s a great reliever of stress and sexual tension and for many a pleasurable cure for insomnia

➡ It increases the flow of testosterone through the body which can help to strengthen muscles and bones. Testosterone also helps to transport a hormone called DHEA which is important in the functioning of the immune system.

➡ It helps you to learn how your body and penis respond to various stimuli - what feels good and what doesn’t - a basic requirement for a fulfilling sex life. It also teaches you to recognise that point-of-no-return moment just before orgasm and can teach you to avoid premature ejaculation.

➡ Since the body releases endorphins - natural feel-good chemicals - during masturbation, it can improve your mood and may help to fight depression.

➡ It can help you build stronger pelvic floor muscles which lead to better sex – women have long know about this, of course.

➡ According to a pamphlet aimed at teenagers and distributed by the UK’s National Health Service in 2009: “Health promotion experts advocate five portions of fruit and veg a day and 30 minutes physical activity three times a week. What about sex or masturbation twice a week?” The pamphlet’s punch line says it all: “An orgasm a day keeps the doctor away.”




DISADVANTAGES:

Of course masturbation can be dangerous, but so can using a toaster:

➡ Energetic and frequent masturbation can lead to an irritation of the skin of the penis. Surprise, surprise!

➡ Very very rarely - when the erect penis is forced downward too far or hit against a hard object - masturbation can result in penile fracture. This involves a painful tear in the tunica albuginae, the tissue around the penis' spongy layers, and is a medical emergency that requires surgery.

➡ Frequent masturbation while lying face down can lead to “urethral trauma” or “traumatic masturbatory syndrome” in which the urethra is injured, resulting in urine exiting the penis in a haphazard shotgun spray rather than an easily-controlled narrow stream.

➡ Experts warn that men who frequently masturbate in a way that’s very different from sex with a partner may find it difficult to climax during sex with a partner - a type of sexual dysfunction called retarded ejaculation.


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