Masturbation and Health

Is masturbation healthy?

Yes, very much so. Masturbating is normal and essential for your sexual health. It releases stale body fluids and promotes good blood circulation. Therefore, it should be part of your personal fitness and health care routine.

Masturbation helps to relieve stress, stimulates the immune system to build up resistance to common infections, releases mood elevating hormones, helps when you have trouble falling asleep, reduces embarrassing spontaneous erections and unwanted wet dreams for young men.

Do I have to masturbate at all?

Yes, it is necessary for you to masturbate, because it is necessary for guys past puberty to ejaculate. If you don't ejaculate while having fun with friends, or during wet dreams, then it is necessary for you to masturbate.

The male sexual organs produce a number of fluids that have to be eliminated periodically. Doctors specializing in sexuality generally agree that a man must ejaculate at least once a week to stay healthy. However, most guys ejaculate more often than this.

Don't abstain from sex and masturbation for an extended period. It may cause some distinct changes in your personality for the worse. Men have evolved to have sex, and if we don't it's bad for us.

What are Blue Balls?

Prolonged sexual arousal in men without an ejaculation can cause pain due to blood congestion in the genital area. The proper term for "Blue Balls" is vasocongestion, a discomfort in the male pelvic area caused by sexual arousal going unrelieved by ejaculation.

The cure is to ejaculate if you have been sexually aroused for a while. Your body doesn't care whether you ejaculate through vaginal intercourse, manual intercourse (i.e., your partner's hands), or masturbation.

If not relieved by ejaculation, the congestion will go away within a few hours. It is quite unethical to use "Blue Balls" to pressure your partner into intercourse.

When is the best time?

Your sex hormone (testostrone) levels are highest around sunrise and sunset. This would be a good time to get busy. In the morning it will wake you up and get your circulation going. In the evening it will make you sleepy.

Does masturbation help with weight loss? It seems like I get skinnier after masturbating.

Weight loss is caused by burning more calories than you consume. Masturbation burns calories like any exercise, such as swimming, running or cycling, perhaps not as much. The longer you play the more calories you use, roughly about 500 kcals per half hour. This is one of the most enjoyable ways to lose weight. Combine it with a calorie controlled diet and good nutrition and you'll be a hot stud soon.

Is it safe to swallow semen?

Yes, it is digestible, contains much protein, and is absorbed into your body. Avoid swallowing other guys' semen for health reasons. Only eat your own jizz.

Can masturbation cause a sperm shortage?

No. It doesn't cause any long term shortage. Men manufacture sperm as needed. You can keep this running in a healthy way by masturbating several times a week. After you masturbate your sperm count may be low, but you will regain the required amount of sperm within a day or two.

The spermatozoa (sperms) are made in the testicles and stored in seminal vesicles. This process goes on every day. The sperms stored in seminal vesicles are shed either by sex, masturbation or by involuntary nocturnal emissions. Sperms are maximum stored for 24 to 48 hours in the body before they are shed off by above actions.

If you don't masturbate or enjoy sex with friends, production may be reduced over time or stop. This should be avoided.

I am 18 years old and have masturbated many times. Now my penis shrinks after I have an orgasm and ejaculate. Later it goes back to normal, but it takes a few days to fully regain its size. Is this normal?

At your age, as I'm sure you know, hormones are raging through your body. When you haven't masturbated in a while, this can result in your penis being in some condition of low-grade erection 24 hours a day. When this happens, your penis isn't necessarily firm or erect but does have some added thickness, since it contains more blood than at other times.

After you masturbate, your penis may become completely un-erect for a while. The shape you're seeing is just what your penis is like in a state of non-erection. Then, as time passes, you begin to develop that base-level erection again. Don't worry about it. You're just loaded and ready for more fun. Enjoy!

What are these white pimples around my penis head?

They are called Penile Papules. They are harmless and slowly become less noticeable with age. They are not a disease and are not transmitted sexually. There is no medical treatment for them.

What causes that "squishy" sound that comes from my penis when I masturbate?

Let's assume you're not talking about the sound of a lubed-up hand on the penis, but rather the "squishy" sound that sometimes happens without lube. Just inside your penis head, the urethra (the tube that carries urine and semen) widens out a bit, forming a little "reservoir." When you masturbate, that "squishy" sound is air going in and out of the urethra to and from this reservoir. If you secrete a lot of Cowper's gland fluid ("pre-cum"), you may have noticed that it tends to get a little bubbly when you masturbate; that, too, is a result of air entering and exiting in this way.