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Is Masturbation On A Daily Basis Harmful?

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Posted on Tue, 13 Dec 2016
Question: Hi,

I want to know about the short and long term term bad effects of masterbation as I think I, while living alone in a foreign land, has caused me to masterbate more and more to kill alone time.. sometimes more than 7 times a week...
being committed.. I dont have the option of dating somebody else.. this may sound more to do with my mind.. but lately I had fely my testicles shrink.. may be just in mind.. but I would like to know.. what can really happen to a persons body on overmasterbating.. I will confess about 3 months back I felt I had hydrocele..swollen testiclea.. and pain.. throbbing paon
. I had it when i was 18.. I am afraid my habit cam screw up something..

I am also considering visiting a psychologist.. but I want to know what kind of a damage I could hace caused already to myself over my habit..
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Answered by Dr. Dr. Ashok Kumar Choudhary (28 minutes later)
Brief Answer:
There are no bad effects of masturbation other than self guilt

Detailed Answer:
Dear XXXXXXX
Thanks again for using Healthcaremagic.

I think we have discussed last week that there are no bad effects of masturbation. It will not be wrong to equate masturbation with sex. This is because you get almost same pleasure as sex and get relieved after doing masturbation. In addition the masturbation never causes you to STD although sex may lead to development of sexually transmitted infections.

I mean to say that masturbation is just like sex. As we never heard somebody got problem due to doing sex how can anybody get problem due to masturbation. The ill effects of masturbation are just myth prevalent in our society and nothing more.

Even I have mentioned the recommended frequency in last answer to your query and that is for keeping limits sort to avoid the addiction to masturbation. What you are doing is for pleasure only and not as habit. This is completely normal and there is nothing to worry.

I hope this answers you completely.
If you have more questions feel free to write back to me.
Thanks and regards.
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Is Masturbation On A Daily Basis Harmful?

Brief Answer: There are no bad effects of masturbation other than self guilt Detailed Answer: Dear XXXXXXX Thanks again for using Healthcaremagic. I think we have discussed last week that there are no bad effects of masturbation. It will not be wrong to equate masturbation with sex. This is because you get almost same pleasure as sex and get relieved after doing masturbation. In addition the masturbation never causes you to STD although sex may lead to development of sexually transmitted infections. I mean to say that masturbation is just like sex. As we never heard somebody got problem due to doing sex how can anybody get problem due to masturbation. The ill effects of masturbation are just myth prevalent in our society and nothing more. Even I have mentioned the recommended frequency in last answer to your query and that is for keeping limits sort to avoid the addiction to masturbation. What you are doing is for pleasure only and not as habit. This is completely normal and there is nothing to worry. I hope this answers you completely. If you have more questions feel free to write back to me. Thanks and regards.