How old were you when you first started masturbating regularly (at least weekly)?

How old were you when you first started masturbating regularly (at least weekly)?
I've never masturbated regularly (at least weekly)
Vote A
I started masturbating regularly when I was 10 or younger
Vote B
When I was 11 or 12
Vote C
When I was 13 or 14
Vote D
When I was 15, 16, or 17
Vote E
When I was 18 or 19
Vote F
When I was 20 or older
Vote G
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  • Wow. That's a really great question. I've never masturbated "regularly.". Because I've never fully accepted it as okay (for me, anyway. I realize that it can be perfectly fine and natural for others.). So when I masturbated, it was always a struggle. Not a physical one -- I'm not saying it was hard to masturbate haha -- but it was a mental and spiritual struggle. [Masturbation was usually coupled with porn, in my case, for the purpose of clarification.] So my intention was always to NOT look at porn and NOT masturbate. I just wasn't very committed to that goal. So my underlying belief would be that it was wrong and I shouldn't do it, but I would still do it because there was something in me that kept wanting to rebel and do it anyway. My little devil was more powerful than my little angel (because I gave him that power.). But it was a constant vicious cycle of not looking at porn and then looking at porn and then not looking at porn again. So it was never a regular thing. There was nothing routine about it. It wasn't on my daily or weekly schedule or anything like that. Later on I realized that my casual interest and/or hobby (or maybe we should call it a dirty obsession) had actually become an addiction. But I was in denial. It took me until age 31 to finally confront the issue and do something about it. I took the first step last fall by signing up for a group for people trying to quit porn. This was very helpful, and I was finally able, with the help of friends, to convince myself that 1) looking at porn was actually wrong, 2) that I needed to quit), 3) that I wanted to quit), and 4) that I had the ability to quit. Even with the group, I went back and forth several times. But I was finally able to break through and put myself on a long-term winning streak early this summer. Shortly afterward, I started on the NoFap journey (which was inspired by your question, @Misitxs, and I thank you for that from the bottom of my heart.)

    So, getting back to the original question, masturbation was never a regular thing for me. It was very intermittent. But if this was an electrocardiogram or a seismograph image, then peaks on the graph -- which would indicate the periods of greatest frequency of masturbation -- would reach the vertical mark of 7 (times per week), and they would be clustered around the period between 2013 and 2018. There was a short spike in 2014 followed by a lull, followed by a relapse and continuation later that year or possibly sometime in 2015. But I wasn't masturbating that much in 2014; that was mostly just porn. So if you marked the beginning point at 2015, then I was 28. (But I had also looked at porn and masturbated when I was 18 or maybe 19. ... So, it's complicated.)

    • Oops- I spelled your name wrong, @mistixs; sorry. Also, the emoji thing was supposed to be a 3.

    • OMG religion is so damaging!

    • @supercutebutt What are your thoughts on the matter?

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  • In this era, information is very easy to come across and that is both a good thing and a bad thing. The first time I heard about masturbating was from a movie my father watched. I was about 10. I only saw like 2 minutes of it, I was passing by and I stopped to take a look and a man was presenting his big house to a friend and they get into a big room, with a cozy sofa and a fireplace and he said that that is the place where he masturbates and his friend was a bit shocked or grossed out. The room had brown/red hue to it, but I can't remember anything more. If anybody knows the movie I am talking about, please tell me its name, I would love to watch it as an adult now. After that scene I went to my room and searched on my PC running Windows XP what masturbating was. I didn't quite understand it, so it took a few months since I started to do it. But, at first, I masturbated to pictures so I haven't really seen anybody do it, so I didn't know how it was right. (As a note, back than the censorship on internet wasn't so excessive as today and the internet was a grim place for porn. I remember I saw all kinds of pussy, very non-anatomycal, photoshopped streched pussy that had the hole as big as a head, but the dicks were terrifying. Imagine a field full of gigantic dicks. I also stumbled upon a song about the 4 types of pussy and the thing that scared me the most at that age was the type 4 in the song which could clench so hard, it will break every dick. ) So, at first, I held my hand the way you hold it when you want to grab 3 pieces of popcorn (honestly, I don't know what's the singular for popcorn or how to call the individual pieces) and I held my penis with my straight fingers and when stroking the head of my penis would hit my palm. It was only a few years later when I started watching porn that I began to hold it like a sword, but for a long time I did it with my left hand. By 12 I was masturbating regularly and quite obsessively.

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  • Id say its cyclical..
    So cannot guarantee there has ever been a point where it has been a weekly occurance..
    I don't schedule it in or keep a track of it.. So maybe.. Maybe not. Also sometimes depends of convenience.
    But I suppose I was seven when i first discovered self pleasure.
    That was a bit of a phase. But it came back I don't know when.

    • Convenience is important

  • Young. Like 4. It actually became problematic as I would do it in school sometimes in like third grade. I had a behavior chart and everything. Started watching porn when I was like 7 or 8. Let’s just say that, now at 18, I really know how my body works lol.

    • I'm sure you do lol... I bet you tell the guy what angle gets it best.

  • I unknowingly did it... I didn't know why.. All I knew that it help relieve my stress, depression and mood. I was going through so much crap in my youth.

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  • Its hard to exactly tell when it was, as I have never cherished the day :-)

    But it would have been on 15 or above, when I really failed to stop my urge.

  • I started Dec 2015. I think i was like 20. I stopped like May 2016. After that i did it only on occasion for Skype sex with my ex. So i really started at 20 and stopped at 21 in a way

    • Y did u stop

  • 13 or so

  • 13 mostly clit rubbing

    • Ever use things

    • Me too, but a year earlier

    • Ever use a pillow

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  • Who actually keeps track of this anyway? I don't know.

    Besides, masturbation is a complete waste of time, and I try not to do that. It's pretty disgusting habit anyway.

  • I was 12 and still doing it to this day i still remember the first time lol

  • I blame the media, porn, the 2000s era of Internet porn... and probably my distant red-hair genes and distant Italian genes... probably explains my anxiety which in turn leads to more masturbating.

    I think I have a high drive, because I'm an anxious person. Ah well. I cope pretty well when I'm on the job, lol.

    • I started when I was 10 or younger, which is the answer choice I selected in your poll. I would almost every other night masturbate. Great memories :) ha.

  • I came alive pretty young age. Don't know why or what but I started noticing my babysitter's booty and have been so crazy about the derriere ever since. Love it too

  • I was 12 and masturbate about 1 to 2 times a day now - especially right before I get my period.

    • I am everyday. Your fav way. Ever in public

  • Must've been around 15, it's kinda blurry 😄

  • Younger than 10.

    • you had sex drive at that age? did someone impose upon you? They did on me but didn't kick in til later.

    • I explored my body at a young age. I just knew it felt good. I don't think anyone imposed.

  • I voted C

  • 14 I think

  • I was about 11 years old, but I had no idea how to do it correctly to be honest, lol

  • I voted 10 or younger. But it was different then.

  • I started masturbating regularly when I was around 5 years old.

  • I haven't really masturbated but I remember my first erection, It was few days before my 13th Birthday, I was sitting in my room (can't remember what I was doing?) when i started feeling uncomfortable in my penis, I stood up and pulled my pants down and saw my penis get stiff, I started freaking out as I saw my foreskin being pulled back as it erected.

  • 14 i was when i was wanking 3 to 4 times a day my foreskin got loose fast😊

  • I remember humping a teddy bear and then it got sticky. I thought of a girl in my elementary school class. She had nice eyes.

  • I was 24 or 25. It was a few months after I'd finally lost my virginity by going to a prostitute.
    I'd attempted to masturbate in my teenage years on the basis that we were all supposed to. But I couldn't really get an erection and gave up.
    One time in games at school some lad had admitted he masturbated and gradually got all the other boys to admit it too. The only two who didn't were me and a boy who once said he wanted to be a priest.

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