Is masturbation good or bad for health?

Question

Can it have any affect on sperm count in the long term?

Answer 1

It releives stress which is good for the health!

Answer 2

Masturbation is generally not physically harmful. Frequent masturbation does not reduce your sperm count nor does it affect your ability to achieve an erection. Younger men may be able to get an erection and ejaculate every day. But as men get older, their ability to achieve daily erections may decline. This is a factor of age and has nothing to do with the frequency of masturbation. Also, there is no evidence that masturbation frequency affects a man's ability to produce sperm.

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Answer 3

Benefits
It is held in many mental health circles that masturbation can relieve depression and lead to a higher sense of self-worth (Hurlbert & Whittaker, 1991). Masturbation can also be particularly useful in relationships where one partner wants more sex than the other — in which case masturbation provides a balancing effect and thus a more harmonious relationship.

On July 16, 2003, an Australian research team led by Graham Giles of The Cancer Council published a medical study [2] which concluded that frequent masturbation by males may help prevent the development of prostate cancer. The study also indicated that this would be more helpful than ejaculation through sexual intercourse because intercourse can transmit diseases that may increase the risk of cancer instead.

Masturbation is also seen as a sexual technique that protects individuals from the risk of contracting sexually transmitted diseases such as AIDS. Support for such a view, and for making it part of the American sex education curriculum led to the dismissal of US Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders during the Clinton administration.

Some people actually consider masturbation as a cardiovascular workout.[11] And while doctors have no proof of this actually being true, those suffering from cardiovascular disorders (particularly those recovering from myocardial infarction, or heart attacks) should resume physical activity (including sexual intercourse and masturbation) gradually and with the frequency and rigor in which their physical status will allow. Some doctors will advise those recovering from heart attacks to resume sexual activity (solitary or with a partner) when one is able to climb two flights of stairs without experiencing shortness of breath or chest pain.


Risks
A study has shown that a test group which only had intercourse had, as a whole, lower blood pressure in stressful situations than those who had intercourse but also had masturbated for one or more days (Brody, 2006).

Masturbation involving both a man and a woman can result in pregnancy only if semen contacts the vulva. Masturbation with a partner can also theoretically result in transmission of sexually transmitted disease by contact with bodily fluids, so this should be avoided with a partner whose disease status is uncertain.

Objects inserted into the vagina or anus should be clean and of a kind that will not scratch or break. Care should be taken not to fully insert anything into the anus — any object used should have a flared or flanged base; otherwise retrieval can require a visit to the emergency room. Modern dildos and anal plugs are designed with this feature.

A man whose penis has suffered a blunt trauma or injury during intercourse may rarely sustain a penile fracture[12], or come later in life to suffer from Peyronie's disease[13]. Phimosis is "a contracted foreskin (that) may cause trouble by hurting when an attempt is made to pull the foreskin back".[14] In these cases, any energetic manipulation of the penis can be problematic.

Lawrence I. Sank (1998) speculated that men masturbating prone (i.e. lying face downward) could be responsible for sexual problems including anorgasmia and erectile dysfunction, as observed in four men he examined. He coined the term traumatic masturbatory syndrome to describe this theory. As of 2006 there has been no follow-up research and the idea is not familiar or widely-held within the medical community. It thus should not be credited unless further research is published and accepted.

Some sources, however, continue to give credence to the idea. One sex therapist (Margolies, 1994) condemned masturbation by rubbing against a pillow or mattress and Lipsith et al (2003) suggest that masturbation could play a part in male psychogenic sexual dysfunction (MPSD), citing Sank as their authority.

Answer 4

Its never bad for health. But i will like to tell you a joke:
once a man goes to a doctor and says my finger pains when I bend it, the doctor replys then don't do this.
Moral of the Joke is "Keep your frequency upto which you feel you are normal and have no problems"

surely 10 times a day will mwke you feel sleepy as mastubation itsely results in calorie loss

Answer 5

no harm to health, nope for affecting on sperm count

Answer 6

dont know about count but its great for prostate health

Answer 7

There is absolutely no problem doing it! Go right ahead!

Answer 8

not at all. rather its good for health. but dont do in excess

Answer 9

jerking it is good for you it cleans the pipes.... get rid of the old swimmers for the new swimmers.

Answer 10

self improvement is masturbation.