When I was in puberty and going through my sexual precociousness, masturbation became a recurrent wonder for me. I wanted to do it, but wondered if it was really okay. By definition I am a “Christian” and grew up in a biblically spiritual household, so part of my wonder was would it be sinful for me to masturbate, but I also had big wonder about it being healthy or not. My mom said she really wasn’t sure if she thought masturbation was really evil either. So looking for answers I would spend obsessive hours at the library reading through adolescent body development books and also secretly combing through adult sexuality books for the answer, and trying not to get caught.
Just about every source I’d read said masturbation is an okay, normal human behavior as part of our sexuality and sexual development, and is the safest way to have sexual pleasure. The books would also detail old terms like “self-abuse” and old wives tales about how you’ll go blind from masturbating or grow hair on your palms and all that stuff, as a way to make it sound like it’s crazy to believe it really is bad. So at 14, when my sexual hormones were really raging, I couldn’t take it anymore and started masturbating. And it felt good. I couldn’t stop. Many times I would masturbate 3 times a day. And other times I would feel guilty for how much I was doing it and needed to stop, so I would go periods without it. But through the years I mostly maintained the frequent habit, no longer doing 3 times a day anymore but still pretty regularly.
Over time though I learned that there is a such thing as too much masturbation, or what is called ‘over-masturbation,’ and how some of those old wives tales actually are not that far fetched. A lot of people think it’s funny or ridiculous for anyone to believe that masturbating can be dangerous or harmful to you or to worry about it, but it really can be. I one day decided to Google ‘too much masturbation’ and found quite a lot of stuff about it, that happens to both men and women, that I want to share. Maybe you’ve wondered why you feel funny lately, or tired, or off balance in some way, or notice even some physical problems. If you’re someone who masturbates a lot, these things could be why.
The dangers of excessive masturbation for males…
Hair loss
Some time back I noticed that the hair at the corners of my hair line by my temples had seemed thinner, as if it was the start of a receding hair line. My grandfather, my dad, my brother, and other men in our family have never suffered with hair loss, so when I started noticing that with me I wondered why. Was it stress from everything I’ve had to deal with in the last some years? Is my diet not as good as I thought? Am I not getting enough sleep? Those things actually were the least of it.
Masturbating excessively can lead to hair loss in men. And that was beginning to be the problem with me, and one of the symptoms I found when I’d Googled ‘too much masturbation.’ I’ve often wondered why it seems to be that so many young guys in these times are balding so soon, and now I wonder if it’s because of the American male’s chronic whacking habit. Hair loss happens because your hormones are in a deficiency from over-masturbation that causes stunted growth in hair follicles, and lucky for me I caught it early.
Chest pain
Chest pain is also another symptom I had once, and noticed it after having really heavy masturbation periods. This too is something I found other men on the forums complaining about, and is documented as an adverse affect of over-masturbation. It worried me when I first noticed it, but when I gave masturbation a rest for a while and drank some wine one night before bed, I did fine after that.
Blurry vision or eye floaters
This is where the old wives tale isn’t entirely false either. Excessive masturbation can also cause vision problems for men. For me it was the eye floaters thing, those really annoying foggy spots you will see in your eyes sometimes. As a teen I definitely noticed getting them from beating off so much, but they usually went away after awhile. But some time ago I had one that was the worst ever and stayed for some weeks.
Over-masturbation can cause eyesight problems because the hormones in your body are going through a terrible imbalance that even affects the blood cells in your eyes.
Depleted body fluids
One of the things that too much beating off can really hurt males with is the heavy loss of semen and its nutrients. When you’re masturbating several times a day added to several times a week, you deplete your bodily fluids and stress your hormones, sending them into a terrible frenzy and danger zone where your body now suffers a deficiency that will take a long time to recover from.
Infertility/sexual dysfunctions
I haven’t experienced these, but they are said to be another adverse effect of too much masturbation, and victimizes both men and women. Over-masturbation can kill your sperm and your outlook on sex, making you feel like real sex is boring, or make women sexually inhibited. This is because of it’s psychological effect. Self-pleasuring really can be a form of mental abuse on yourself.
Other symptoms I read about are fatigue, loss of energy, a feeling of being hung over (probably from the drugging sensation of orgasm), prostate problems, involuntary semen release after urinating or having a bowl movement, poor sleep, nervousness, porn addiction, and no interest in real sex.
The dangers of excessive masturbation for females…
Science and the media still tends to be more biased about female sexuality and has basically taught women that it’s mostly men who suffer from sexual dysfunctions. Our modern day sexperts, feminists, YouTubers, and authors are still on a kick of over-glamorizing female multiple orgasms, squirting, and the right for women to sleep around “like men,” but won’t really teach women much reality. Although doctors and researchers have talked about sexual dysfunctions in women - and you actually can find out about it if you Google it - the main stream media is not really going to educate women about it unless it falls under situations of rape, or if they can still somehow find a way to blame it on the “sexual repression” of women by society over the years, or if they can still try to imply that women are sexually superior to men in some way at the same time.
However, with masturbation, there are also many cases of it affecting women negatively like with men. Most are the same as men's but some are different. Females have been documented as not touching themselves as much as men, but the average girl and woman is just as much of a masturbator as a man.
Damage to the clitoris
One of the things I found in reading about over-masturbation in women is how it can desensitize the clitoris or cause pain and soreness to the point where even wearing underwear is uncomfortable for women. Over-masturbation can damage nerve endings in the clitoris and even cause deformity. I’ve heard chronic female masturbators call in to late night adult radio programs in total panic about how they noticed their clit is turning in on itself to one side, while others on web forums are asking what to do because it hurts so much or they can hardly orgasm anymore.
Loss of bodily fluids
Just like with men, females can also lose much of their bodily fluids from overdoing whacking off. In fact too much masturbation or too much sex period can hurt women in this way. Unlike the penis, the vagina needs to lubricate itself first when it’s aroused before anything can get inside. So when a woman has depleted her fluids from too much whacking or sex, she increases her risk of poor lubrication which leads to pain.
Josephine, who authors the site Natural Health Protocol, says that women don’t deplete their fluids as badly from too much beating off as men do, though it may actually be worse for women because their bodies use more fluid for sexual activity.
Damage from vibrators and sex toys
Although they’ve been glamorized and fed to women through TV and movies as great solo sex tools for women, using foreign objects like vibrators and other sex toys can actually destroy the clitoris and vagina as well over time, cause abrasions, and lead to dryness and even infection. These objects are inhuman and inanimate, nothing like a flesh and blood penis that’s meant for the vagina, so they put women at risk for certain damage. They have even caused overactive bladder a lot more than most women realize because the vibrating sensation stimulates deeper than just the clitoris or G-spot, hitting the urethral nerves. But neither the vibrator makers, Kara Sutra, Dr. Laura Berman, and all the others who want to empower women sexually are ever going to tell you this.
No interest in real sex and difficulty having orgasms
One of the ways masturbation has been glamorized is in it’s ideology that it can help women better learn about their sexuality - which is somewhat true, but women who masturbate excessively can reach a point of feeling like that’s better than real sex, have little or no interest in sexual intercourse, and have numbed themselves to a point where orgasm is harder and harder to achieve even with a male partner providing stimulation.
Hormonal imbalance
Just like with men, women also can suffer from an out-of-whack hormone imbalance that causes irregular periods, ovarian problems, back aches, eye floaters, poor memory and concentration, and even migraines.
Start reversing it while you can…
In some sense, we really have been lied to through the years when we’re told that masturbation is a normal, healthy habit we all can maintain. I question that now. In our modern sexually decadent culture, we are oversexed, and I really don’t think we’ve realized how masturbation may actually play more of a role in our health problems than we think. It has been pretty amazing for me to read about.
If you’re someone who masturbates to excess and you know you do, now would be a good time to cut it back or even cut it out altogether. They say that the maximum you should beat off is about 2 or 3 times a week, not several times in a day, and not every day either. If you can get it down to those few times that's good, but if you can have the strength to stop completely that's even better, and I think that's what I'm gonna aim for myself. Some of you - especially if you’re young - will probably say, “Nonsense, I’ve been masturbating for years and nothing’s wrong with me,” but that’s because you obviously are not at the threshold of serious damage or danger yet, but it doesn’t mean it won’t happen. If you already are dealing with some or all of the symptoms I described in this Take, you can get a head start in reversing them now by taking certain supplements and getting active.
Zinc
Zinc helps with the deficiency of the body's natural hormones and components that have been depleted. It also supports eye health and is one of the best uses for eyes, as well as helps with hair growth.
Yoga
Gives your mind something else to think about and helps put you at ease, and calms down that need for so much orgasming.
Excercise
Also helps brings the body's strength, immune system, and hormones back into shape.
Green tea
It's antioxidant properties and health benefits will also help in restoring what's lost.
Further reading:
https://www.herballove.com/guide/over-masturbation-symptom-and-solution-guide
https://sexualreboot.com/chronic-masturbation-masterbation/
https://www.herballove.com/guide/your-guide-female-sexual-exhaustion
I mentioned the woman Jospehine from Natural Health Protocol earlier. The article she wrote on over-masturbation I think impacted me the most because she did talk about it in more depth, though I still advise you not to take everything she says entirely as truth, especially because she talks about certain spiritual disabilities and ‘entity attachment.’ And she is a female, so she still wanted to make it as if over-masturbation is worse for men than women. https://www.naturalhealthprotocol.com/masturbation--dr-lawrence-wilson.html
“In my experience as a healthcare practitioner I have found that socially, culturally and physically it can be a debilitating, brain-altering act. When I hear the word ‘masturbate’ I think of how it can take a person away from another human being’s touch and affection, what we truly want as pair-bonding beings, and how it has the tendency to throw us into a neurochemical spiral without the benefits of human touch, cuddling and kissing.” - Masturbation Myth: How to Overcome Addiction to Solo-Sex https://www.opposingviews.com/i/health/addiction/masturbation-myth-how-overcome-addiction-solo-sex
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