Poll: Masturbation and you.

[Daveman]

1) Male
2) Depends. I put 7+ in the poll because it varies from like 2 to over 10. Also when I do it one day I like to empty both barrels of the shotgun as it were.
3) Nope
4) Never had any sort of relationship at all.
5) I imagine a bit, I know how to sustain myself a bit better.
6) When I go for a few days without it I get more focused overall, but yeah, if I'm feeling it I'm going to be distracted until it's dealt with usually.
7) No. I mean like any activity it has effects, I mean orgasms have a big impact on the brain so it's bound to do something, but nothing like hair on palms or stupid shit.
8) Well I imagine I do it more now I have permanent access to computer and live on my own. I'll be honest, I also thought it was a bit fucked up that when I was like 13/14 I was masturbating to pictures of people old enough to be my mum, but don't get too Freudian about that.

 

[BarbaricGoose]

Ok sure why not.....even out the statistics a bit

1.female
2.daily (I'm actually curious if that's normal for females)
3.nope
4.if I were in a relationship I would do it less
5. Uhhhhh it portably wouldn't
6.no?
7. I don't think it's harmful and it ......feels good
8.technique changed

It's amazing to see a female who admits doing it regularly... Every woman with whom I talk about this stuff says they rarely ever do it.
I've actually come to the point of feeling quite sad and uncomfortable with my girlfriend's disapproval towards masturbation.

I wonder if they are lying or it's just not as common, aside from the general consensus that females don't have the same kind of sex drive there's also the cultural thing where that kind of.....fixation is considered expected for guys but not so much for girls

I was actually talking to a lady friend of mine awhile back about this, and she admitted to doing it quite a bit. More than I do it, in fact! In this society, we're pretty quick to call women sluts, but not so for men. It's been talked about before, so I won't start that conversation, but that may have something to do with why women say they don't masturbate. (Even though they totally do!)

Aaaaanyway. Okay. Here we go.

1. Are you male or female?

Male.

2. How often do you do the deed?

Depends on if I'm in a relationship or just... extra horny? Anywhere from 0 - 7 times a week. Although 7 is quite unusual for me. I chose 1-3 in the poll options.

3. Are you in a relationship?

No.

4. If yes do you do it more or less? If no do you do it more than you usually would?

As in... if I'm in a relationship? If I'm in a relationship, I usually don't need to masturbate. If I'm not, no real difference.

5. Do you believe it improves your performance in the bedroom or not?

Certainly. Clever masturbation can help you last longer. Or, it helps me.

6. Focus; does reduced/stopped masturbation decrease or increase your ability to focus on things?

Depends. There have been times where I felt the urge to have sex or masturbate so badly it was hard to focus on other things. It hasn't happened with masturbation as often as sex, though. And even then it doesn't happen a whole lot.

7. Do you believe that is is harmful or healthy? I.E. Reduce chances of certain cancers, mental health, stress or makes you go blind and grow hair on the palms of your hands?

I've heard nothing about how it's unhealthy, but I've heard a lot about how healthy it is. Honestly, if you're not doing it, you're missing out. As far as I've read, there are literally no downsides.

8. Is it different now opposed to when you were younger?

Oh yes. When I was younger, if I'd answered this poll, it would've been 7+ times a week. Would've been better to answer on a daily--rather than weekly--basis.

 

[Nantucket_v1legacy]

I'm such a minority.

1. Female.
2. Never.
3. Yes.
4. N/A
5. Wouldn't know.
6. N/A
7. It's very healthy but I've never fancied doing it - I've always thought it slightly unhygienic. Granted you wash your hands afterwards but I eat with my fingers so.... meh.
8. N/A

 

[Sansha]

1. Are you male or female?
- Male

2. How often do you do the deed?
- 1-3 times a week

3. Are you in a relationship?
- Nope

4. If yes do you do it more or less? If no do you do it more than you usually would?
- No, I like my 'me-time'

5. Do you believe it improves your performance in the bedroom or not?
- Actually yes, stamina starts with yourself.

6. Focus; does reduced/stopped masturbation decrease or increase your ability to focus on things?
- I don't make important decisions, go on dates or play online without masturbating first.

7. Do you believe that is is harmful or healthy? I.E. Reduce chances of certain cancers, mental health, stress or makes you go blind and grow hair on the palms of your hands?
- I firmly believe masturbating is physically and emotionally healthy. Prostate cancer, sexual frustration...

8. Is it different now opposed to when you were younger?
- Yeah, I do it less often. Porn never changes, though.

 

[Risingblade]

I'm just going to say this and leave it there.

I have been single for 10 years.

You could beat superman in an arm wrestling contest D:

 

[Sir Thomas Sean Connery]

1. Are you male or female?
[b/]Male[/b]
2. How often do you do the deed?
[b/]Around once a day. Sometimes twice, sometimes not at all[/b]
3. Are you in a relationship?
[b/]Nope[/b]
4. If yes do you do it more or less? If no do you do it more than you usually would?
[b/]N/A[/b]
5. Do you believe it improves your performance in the bedroom or not?
[b/]Couldn't say[/b]
6. Focus; does reduced/stopped masturbation decrease or increase your ability to focus on things?
[b/]It restores my sanity and rationality[/b]
7. Do you believe that is is harmful or healthy? I.E. Reduce chances of certain cancers, mental health, stress or makes you go blind and grow hair on the palms of your hands?
[b/]There isn't much evidence for either side and I believe that's because it doesn't really matter. It's like saying "Is doing 5 pushups healthy or not?". It's not unhealthy, but not particularly beneficial either.[/b]
8. Is it different now opposed to when you were younger?
[b/]A fair bit. I do it more now, but I also enjoy it FAR more as I find even more and more interesting porn[/b]

Spoiler: Side Note

[sub/]lololol fapfapfap[/sub]
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[Musette]

1. Are you male or female?
Female

2. How often do you do the deed?
Never tried it

3. Are you in a relationship?
No

4. If yes do you do it more or less? If no do you do it more than you usually would?
Not really

5. Do you believe it improves your performance in the bedroom or not?
Never had sex before, so I couldn't say. If anything, I think a mix of my asexuality and my lack of a libido would have a larger effect on my performance in a bedroom setting.

6. Focus; does reduced/stopped masturbation decrease or increase your ability to focus on things?
To my knowledge, I don't have a libido, so there's no effects that I know of at the moment.

7. Do you believe that is is harmful or healthy? I.E. Reduce chances of certain cancers, mental health, stress or makes you go blind and grow hair on the palms of your hands?
In general, I can't say. For me personally, masturbation does not feel relevant to my health at all since I have never desired or engaged in it.

8. Is it different now opposed to when you were younger?
Not really, apart from not knowing what the term was before.

To be honest, if I did have a libido and/or desired to masturbate, I probably would do so at least somewhat frequently. I perceive masturbation as a positive thing, regardless of gender or biological sex, but it just doesn't feel like it applies to me.

 

[Sansha]

To be honest, if I did have a libido and/or desired to masturbate, I probably would do so at least somewhat frequently. I perceive masturbation as a positive thing, regardless of gender or biological sex, but it just doesn't feel like it applies to me.

Thanks, it's interesting to hear the perspective on masturbation from somebody who's asexual.

 

[Psykoma]

1. Are you male or female?
2. How often do you do the deed?
3. Are you in a relationship?
4. If yes do you do it more or less? If no do you do it more than you usually would?
5. Do you believe it improves your performance in the bedroom or not?
6. Focus; does reduced/stopped masturbation decrease or increase your ability to focus on things?
7. Do you believe that is is harmful or healthy? I.E. Reduce chances of certain cancers, mental health, stress or makes you go blind and grow hair on the palms of your hands?
8. Is it different now opposed to when you were younger?

1. Female
2. Been about 19 months since the last time. Time before that was maybe around 4 years, was the second time
3. Nope, never been in one also
4. N/A
5. N/A, still a virgin
6. It doesn't distract my thoughts particularly often so I guess not?
7. I think it's likely healthy
8. Still the same

 

[Starik20X6]

Ok, I'll bite.

1. Male
2. I'd say on average once a day, sometimes more, sometimes less.
3. Not currently.
4. I've noticed my desire to fap drops to almost zero when I'm in a relationship.
5. Not that I've noticed.
6. Again, not that I've really noticed either way. I'd say it's likely that my ability to focus is temporarily increased after the deed.
7. As far as I can tell there's nothing harmful about it. Unless you're going 10+ times a day and neglecting all other aspects of life, then you've got a problem.
8. I guess, if only because now I've got more area to work with, and it's a lot easier to find 'stimulating material'.

 

[The Nossa]

1. Are you male or female? Male
2. How often do you do the deed? 3-5 times a week
3. Are you in a relationship? LOL!
4. If yes do you do it more or less? If no do you do it more than you usually would?
5. Do you believe it improves your performance in the bedroom or not? I doubt it
6. Focus; does reduced/stopped masturbation decrease or increase your ability to focus on things? Reduction of sexual thoughts
7. Do you believe that is is harmful or healthy? I.E. Reduce chances of certain cancers, mental health, stress or makes you go blind and grow hair on the palms of your hands?
I believe it's good, often relaxing afterwards
8. Is it different now opposed to when you were younger?
Probably less, but only slightly

 

[Musette]

To be honest, if I did have a libido and/or desired to masturbate, I probably would do so at least somewhat frequently. I perceive masturbation as a positive thing, regardless of gender or biological sex, but it just doesn't feel like it applies to me.

Thanks, it's interesting to hear the perspective on masturbation from somebody who's asexual.

No problem! There are actually quite a few asexuals who have libidos and masturbate just as much as people who are not asexual. Their libido is just not directed at anyone of any gender. If I remember correctly, there may be more asexuals with libidos than without, if not, then just as many. I just happen to personally lack a libido or desire to masturbate. It's definitely interesting just how varied perspectives on masturbation can be in and out of the asexual community.

 

[Dimitriov]

1. Are you male or female?
Male

2. How often do you do the deed?
Usually once a day (5-12 times a week)

3. Are you in a relationship?
No

4. If yes do you do it more or less? If no do you do it more than you usually would?
I would probably do it less, but that isn't really surprising considering the normal frequency.

5. Do you believe it improves your performance in the bedroom or not?
I am certain that as a guy it must improve stamina.

6. Focus; does reduced/stopped masturbation decrease or increase your ability to focus on things?
It helps to do it. Not doing it is very distracting.

7. Do you believe that is is harmful or healthy? I.E. Reduce chances of certain cancers, mental health, stress or makes you go blind and grow hair on the palms of your hands?
I am sure it's healthy.

8. Is it different now opposed to when you were younger?
>_>
<_<

It's the sort of thing that just needs doing. I can't understand people who have so little sex drive as to not regularly do it!

That's not meant as an insult, it's just genuinely outside of my life experience.

 

[thejackyl]

1. Are you male or female?
2. How often do you do the deed?
3. Are you in a relationship?
4. If yes do you do it more or less? If no do you do it more than you usually would?
5. Do you believe it improves your performance in the bedroom or not?
6. Focus; does reduced/stopped masturbation decrease or increase your ability to focus on things?
7. Do you believe that is is harmful or healthy? I.E. Reduce chances of certain cancers, mental health, stress or makes you go blind and grow hair on the palms of your hands?
8. Is it different now opposed to when you were younger?

1: Male

2: 3-5 times a week. Depends on how stressful my week is

3: Nope; though I did it while I was in a relationship, but I stopped for a few weeks once we started getting physical.

4: See above

5: Idk, it doesn't seem to take me any longer to finish compared to when I started. But the first tie someone else did it... She could have tried for hours and wouldn't have got me off. I'm no sex expert or anything, she was just that bad.

6: Idk. It's been a few says since I've done it and the only thoughts toward it was "It's been a while, meh."

7: I've been doing it since I was 14 and am currently 25. Nothing negative so far apart from the normal lethargic feel afterwards. Nothing positive that I noted either. So, there's that

8: Technique and when. I used to do it differently when I was younger, and I used to do it nearly daily.

Snip

Women do it just as often as Men. Most(that I know, at least) just won't admit to it. I had a close friend who after hanging out we got on the subject of masturbation and she admitted not only doing it, but thinking of me while she did it. Normally I wouldn't know how to feel about that, but the bad part was she was engaged... pretty big boner-killer for me.

 

[Killclaw Kilrathi]

1. Male
2. Usually at least once a day, it varies a lot based on how busy I am or if I'm working. I find being busy reduces the frequency of it a lot.
3. No, not in quite a while.
4. How much it changes depends on the relationship.
5. I don't think it improves anything, except right forearm strength of course.
6. When I stop doing it (like when staying away from home/at a con or whatever), I find I lose a bit of focus and I'm also a bit more anxious.
7. That's like asking if urinating is healthy, ejaculation is a natural process the body has to do, and without a partner handy the choice is obvious.
8. I was raised to be religious, so I felt a lot more guilt when I was younger. When I came to the conclusions in the question above I got over that, more or less.

 

[Pandaman1911]

1. Male.
2. As frequently as possible.
3. Nope.
4. Lololol fap fap fap.
5. Probably.
6. No, not really, unless it's been like 2 months, I imagine.
7. Healthy, unless you do it -way- too often, and start to get friction irritation and stuff. (Which yes, I have done.)
8. Pretty much kept the same schedule since I first did it.

 

[Sansha]

To be honest, if I did have a libido and/or desired to masturbate, I probably would do so at least somewhat frequently. I perceive masturbation as a positive thing, regardless of gender or biological sex, but it just doesn't feel like it applies to me.

Thanks, it's interesting to hear the perspective on masturbation from somebody who's asexual.

No problem! There are actually quite a few asexuals who have libidos and masturbate just as much as people who are not asexual. Their libido is just not directed at anyone of any gender. If I remember correctly, there may be more asexuals with libidos than without, if not, then just as many. I just happen to personally lack a libido or desire to masturbate. It's definitely interesting just how varied perspectives on masturbation can be in and out of the asexual community.

... I'm going to pass that on to a friend who's confused about her own sexuality because that actually sounds a lot like her.
I'm 25 and I think I may be turning asexual myself. I've always been into it but... I'm very quickly losing interest and starting to look at my own libido as a bother.

 

[Something Amyss]

poll is currently busted so i'll check back later but a doctor has actually advised me to do the deed at least 3 times a week so if i ever get caught i'll just say "its ok i have a note from my doctor"

Damn it, I wish I had your doctor.

 

[Musette]

No problem! There are actually quite a few asexuals who have libidos and masturbate just as much as people who are not asexual. Their libido is just not directed at anyone of any gender. If I remember correctly, there may be more asexuals with libidos than without, if not, then just as many. I just happen to personally lack a libido or desire to masturbate. It's definitely interesting just how varied perspectives on masturbation can be in and out of the asexual community.

... I'm going to pass that on to a friend who's confused about her own sexuality because that actually sounds a lot like her.
I'm 25 and I think I may be turning asexual myself. I've always been into it but... I'm very quickly losing interest and starting to look at my own libido as a bother.

I'm glad I can be of help! Asexuality isn't very well known, and the community itself is pretty diverse, so it's easy to have misconceptions about asexuality, and most people don't even know that it exists as an actual sexual orientation. I was lucky enough to stumble on the Asexual Visibility and Education Network online when I did, since I was really starting to question my identity by that point and their FAQ's really helped clarify things for me. Ever since, I have kept myself fairly informed about Asexuality, romantic orientations, and the GSM in general, so if you ever have questions on any of those topics, feel free to send me a message! I hope this information will be of help to your friend, whether she ends up identifying as asexual or not. =]

Also, there are people that consider sexuality to be somewhat fluid. There are people who went from identifying as asexual to sexual as well as sexual to asexual, often with their sexualities shifting long after puberty is finished. I think that fluidity of sexuality varies from person to person, but I definitely consider it a valid experience even if it rubs some people who support the "born this way" argument the wrong way sometimes.

 

[Xan Krieger]

1. Are you male or female?
Male
2. How often do you do the deed?
once or twice a day
3. Are you in a relationship?
no
4. If yes do you do it more or less? If no do you do it more than you usually would?
I don't know, never been in a relationship
5. Do you believe it improves your performance in the bedroom or not?
I'd guess so
6. Focus; does reduced/stopped masturbation decrease or increase your ability to focus on things?
Decreases, I get angrier, probably testosterone overload.
7. Do you believe that is is harmful or healthy? I.E. Reduce chances of certain cancers, mental health, stress or makes you go blind and grow hair on the palms of your hands?
Healthy, it reduces stress
8. Is it different now opposed to when you were younger?
Nope