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What Are The Adverse Effects Of Masturbation?
Question: I have been masturbating for several years now - ~8 yrs . I do not know how much of it is good or harmful. Perhaps I feel this also is a reason for my extreme hair loss since years. Hair density now reduced to drastically low levels. I masturbating sometime once in 2/3 days. There are some weeks where i dont. But i have felt that, over time, my time taken from start to ejaculation has come down. I seem to go from Non-erect to erect to ejacualate stage very fast in under 10 mins. Sometime i do before going to bed at night. I feel immensely relaxed after doing it. It gives me good sleep as well. So my queries can be summarised below -
1. Am i masturnating too often to be worried ? Should i drop it completely
2. Is mastrubation doing harm to me ? Am i right in doing it for stress busting purposes
3. Is my hairfall primarily caused by my masturbation ?
4. Am i secretly damaging my reproducing organs in some/any way doing this ?
1. Am i masturnating too often to be worried ? Should i drop it completely
2. Is mastrubation doing harm to me ? Am i right in doing it for stress busting purposes
3. Is my hairfall primarily caused by my masturbation ?
4. Am i secretly damaging my reproducing organs in some/any way doing this ?
Brief Answer:
Masturbation is not harmful at all
Detailed Answer:
Hello XXXXXX,
Thanks for using healthcaremagic.
Your concern is like of many young males.
Just understand the fact that masturbation is a natural process, which is done by 95% of males in the world during lifetime.
When any boy attains maturity at age around 14-15 there is increase in production of testosterone hormone and semen production in prostate and testis. Boys become attracted towards girls, like to see them and sexual feeling is generated. They learn to masturbate to satisfy their desire of sex. The white gel like fluid is semen which is ejaculated from penis after successful masturbation and orgasm(an exciting beautiful feeling of relief at the end of masturbation).
Masturbation has nothing to do with health until it is compulsion to do and excess in frequency.
You are doing masturbation since 8 years that is normal. Your frequency is also normal. You do it for your desire satisfaction, which is also normal. Variation of time is there. As your age increases, your sensitivity may increase during masturbation and time decreases. You feel relaxed after doing it, that is also normal.
Ans.1: No need to drop masturbation until you marry. You are not doing too often.
Ans.2: Masturbation does not cause harm, if you have to do it in stress compulsorily then only it is wrong. In your case, it seems normal.
Ans.3: No, masturbation has no relation directly to hair fall. It is mostly due to testosterone level which cause normal male pattern hair loss and responsible for masturbation desire.
Ans.4: You are not at all doing any damage to your reproductive organs. It is completely natural.
On the contrary, you are preventing yourself by sexual transmitted diseases.
Masturbation can be done during whole lifetime to satisfy your sexual desire without causing any damage to another person. Most of the men do it until marriage.
Hope I have answered your query, I will be happy to help further.
Regards,
Dr.Chintan Solanki
Masturbation is not harmful at all
Detailed Answer:
Hello XXXXXX,
Thanks for using healthcaremagic.
Your concern is like of many young males.
Just understand the fact that masturbation is a natural process, which is done by 95% of males in the world during lifetime.
When any boy attains maturity at age around 14-15 there is increase in production of testosterone hormone and semen production in prostate and testis. Boys become attracted towards girls, like to see them and sexual feeling is generated. They learn to masturbate to satisfy their desire of sex. The white gel like fluid is semen which is ejaculated from penis after successful masturbation and orgasm(an exciting beautiful feeling of relief at the end of masturbation).
Masturbation has nothing to do with health until it is compulsion to do and excess in frequency.
You are doing masturbation since 8 years that is normal. Your frequency is also normal. You do it for your desire satisfaction, which is also normal. Variation of time is there. As your age increases, your sensitivity may increase during masturbation and time decreases. You feel relaxed after doing it, that is also normal.
Ans.1: No need to drop masturbation until you marry. You are not doing too often.
Ans.2: Masturbation does not cause harm, if you have to do it in stress compulsorily then only it is wrong. In your case, it seems normal.
Ans.3: No, masturbation has no relation directly to hair fall. It is mostly due to testosterone level which cause normal male pattern hair loss and responsible for masturbation desire.
Ans.4: You are not at all doing any damage to your reproductive organs. It is completely natural.
On the contrary, you are preventing yourself by sexual transmitted diseases.
Masturbation can be done during whole lifetime to satisfy your sexual desire without causing any damage to another person. Most of the men do it until marriage.
Hope I have answered your query, I will be happy to help further.
Regards,
Dr.Chintan Solanki
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