Masturbation is the stimulation of the genitals for sexual pleasure often to orgasm. There are some common expressions used for masturbation such as fapping, jacking off, jerking off, playing with oneself, pleasuring oneself, touching oneself, and wanking. This stimulation is done with the hand, sex toys or household items. Many people are on the two ends of the rope as regards the ethical perception of masturbation. While most religious bodies frown at it, most medical reports consider it a medically healthy and psychologically normal practice.
While medical opinions hold that masturbation (not overindulged) has some positive effects on health like high self-esteem, a way out of depression, lower probability of having prostate cancer amongst others, it should be noted that these things may happen to you if you are chronic masturbator.
1. You may always be Late.
Yes, chronic masturbators are always late in what they do. This is because masturbation has a way of affecting one’s time-consciousness. One who keeps engaging in this activity will have his/her schedule for the day disorganized. Minutes which would have been committed to being productive would go down the drain for the sake of masturbation. If lateness becomes successively repeated for over a week, there is a possibility that it will become a habit for one. One will need to fight with timing to get this corrected.
2. Your Sexual Orientation may be Corrupted.
Am I straight or gay? Do I even need a partner to enjoy my sexual life? These may be the thoughts of one addicted to masturbation. Masturbation kills the natural longing for a sexual partner since one can reach orgasm by one’s self. Even when an addict is involved in penetrative sex, the enjoyment would not be as it should be. Ladies who masturbate by inserting cucumbers, dildos, vibrators or other forms of sex toys in their genitals may find sex with the opposite gender boring. The knowledge of these things might have given the ladies a redefinition of sex, heightening the sexual climax, and making it difficult for them to enjoy natural sex with their partner.
Compulsive masturbation might have caused many straight women to think of themselves as bisexuals or lesbians. Mutual and interpersonal masturbation between a lady and another usually takes them to their sexual climax several times. This sexual fulfilment, as opposed to sex with males, has made many ladies comfortable to identify as lesbians or bisexuals.
3. You may Lose Focus.
When one masturbates, there’s a possibility that the person may not be mentally alert for the day’s job. It causes one to be lazy and less active contrary to the real nature of that person. So, if some files are stacking up on your desks at work or your responsibilities as a father, mother, child, boyfriend, girlfriend, boss or worker seem to be dangling in the air, it may be because you have many things clouding your mind or because… you are masturbating a lot!
4.Your Future Sex Life may Suffer.
If you are a teen or a young adult reading this, it will interest you to know that some married people are faced with the challenge of having a healthy sex life because of masturbation. What am I driving at? Yea! You guessed right. Make a conscious effort to break free from compulsive masturbation or addiction so that you may save your marriage tomorrow. Well, saving a marriage is not solely determined by just a partner; it takes the two. However, if your marriage is failing or falling tomorrow, it should not be that it’s because your sex life is unhealthy or poor (from your end).
5. Your Social Life may be Failing.
Are there things you used to enjoy that you no longer have an interest in? Well, it probably could be because you have grown passed that stage. It could be because you are saddled with new responsibilities that have ceased your time to catch the flight of your fun activities. It can be because you have been jerking off a lot. This wanking activity that gives one instant pleasure, when addicted, can also retire one to a deep cage of solitude like a snail whose tentacles has been touched. One who masturbates a lot will unconsciously lose interest in so many things. It even shows in the way they relate with other people. It can go this far. So, you have a choice to make, considering if the tunnel is worth crawling in alone for the sake of sexual pleasure.
In conclusion, even if, as the medical experts have claimed, masturbation is a healthy psychological practice without any direct side effect, we should be aware that excessive engagement in it may indirectly affect the commitment to our work and our personal lives.
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