MASTURBATION MYTHS:
from http://www.jackinworld.com/library/myths.html
Chances are, of all the things you've heard about masturbation, most of them were absolutely false. For some reason, misinformation surrounds masturbation like virtually no other topic. How do you spot a masturbation myth? One simple method is to ask yourself if the statement is also true of sexual intercourse. When you're masturbating, your body only knows it's getting sexually stimulated; it doesn't know by what means. So, for instance, if the question is whether or not masturbation causes acne, think of it this way: If it did, intercourse would also cause acne. In fact, neither masturbation nor intercourse cause acne.
MYTH:
Masturbation causes hair to grow on your palms.
FACT:
How many people with hair on their palms have you seen?
MYTH:
Masturbation causes hair loss, chronic fatigue, and other problems.
FACT:
Internet scam artists have tried to invent a concept called "overmasturbation," insisting that you have to buy their expensive herbal pills in order to counteract the effect of masturbating more than a couple of times per week. But the pills have absolutely no effect — and masturbating once or twice a day will not make your hair fall out, or cause anything else they claim.
MYTH:
Masturbation is bad for your eyesight.
FACT:
Masturbation does not affect eyesight. This myth probably originated because boys often start having to wear glasses at about the same age they start masturbating.
MYTH:
Masturbation causes your penis to stop growing (or) to get bigger.
FACT:
Masturbation has no effect on penis size whatsoever.
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Masturbation causes your testicles to shrink.
FACT:
Absolutely false! It is true that if you're highly aroused, your testicles become engorged with blood and may appear slightly larger and heavier, and that masturbating will make them revert to normal. But they will absolutely not be any smaller than after the last time you masturbated.
MYTH:
Masturbation causes acne.
FACT:
It doesn't cause acne. Like the eyesight myth, this is a case of two things that happen at the same time, even though one doesn't cause the other.
MYTH:
Masturbation causes sexually transmitted diseases.
FACT:
Hello? "Sexually transmitted" means from one person to another. You can't give yourself a sexually transmitted disease!
MYTH:
If you masturbate too much, you'll run out of semen and become sterile.
FACT:
Semen is a fully renewable resource. When you ejaculate semen, your body simply makes more — the same way your body makes more saliva after you spit.
MYTH:
People can tell whether you masturbate by how your penis looks.
FACT:
Masturbation does not change the appearance of your penis. (It does tend to cause an erection, but that usually goes away when you're finished.)
2006-12-15 00:52:01
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answered by ButtahChick (ButterChick) 4
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Hey kiddo, don't let guilt get the best of you no matter what kind of household you live in... other than that, you might wind up with swollen penis skin, but that's not much of an issuee, goes away with a little time, but it's nothing to worry over either. In the event (which is extremely unlikely) that you should injure yourself just keep in mind that your fingers heal if you sprain them... so your dick will too! Seriously though, the only thing you need to worry about the search for the ultimate Orgasm. Good luck, I hope you find it.
2006-12-14 17:52:48
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answer #2
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answered by flynbob3 2
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Not really no. Unlike females who are born with all the eggs they will ever have, males manufacture semen. Your sperm count IS dependent on previous issue, but unless you're trying to get someone pregnant, not a concern. (Well, if you ARE trying to get someone pregnant at your age that IS a concern.)
Negative effects are social/psychological rather than physiological:
Embarrassment at being caught, stains in clothes etc. if you have a religious or cultural prohibition against masturbation, then guilt feelings can potentially be a problem.
2006-12-14 15:48:06
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answered by jim 7
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Why are you worrying about sperm count at your age? Unless you have been lab tested, you have no idea what your count is, and unless you are attempting to reproduce you don't need to know anyway. Semen is the product of ejaculation, and it contains sperm, but it is mostly other fluids. Sperm % is insignificant amount of the semen. Just keep enjoying yourself and don't worry about sperm count or any other stuff like that until you are married and trying to have kids. Most guys don't have a low sperm count, so even then, worry only if you have tried to conceive for more than a year.
Daily masterbation is normal for most teens, 20s, 30s, 40s, etc.
2006-12-15 01:05:16
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answer #4
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answered by Anonymous
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I'm sorry, I don't know what mastrabation is. However, I do know that masturbation is healthy and normal and is nothing to be ashamed of.
2016-03-13 07:05:50
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answer #5
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answered by Anonymous
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I would say a 14 year old who does it less than once a day has a problem with an underdeveloped sex drive. Not kidding, either.
The testes will produce all the sperm he can ejaculate. Won't cause a bit of harm. Not masturbating will not harm him, his body will get rid of excess sperm and semen by means of a wet dream.
2006-12-14 15:30:13
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answer #6
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answered by Anonymous
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suggestion: Until you can spell masturbation dont do it!!!
Male bodies produce sperm by the millions each and every day. Unless there is something wrong with the production the male body will continue to produce sperm.
If a male has a vasectomy, the production of sperm still happens it just can not pass through the vessicles.
Ejaculant will continue as well.
2006-12-14 16:46:06
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answer #7
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answered by Igottheanswers 3
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Id say go for it! nothing wrong with mastrabation.
2006-12-14 15:46:18
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answered by Tropicalboy 3
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You need to worry about grade production at 14. But to answer your ? once a day was nothing for me and I got 3 kids now. I'm not a doctor but I think it should answer your?
2006-12-14 15:30:33
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answer #9
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answered by Him Roy Dull 2
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Whats masturbation do for you that wet dreams dont, they get rid of the build up on the same fronts that masturbation dose. Only difrince is wet dreams are what God set up, but masturbation is what we take insted.
2nd best allways sucks in the end.
Just like sex before marige.
Its settling for second best and then giving the "only one for you"
Second best.
But who cares these days about purity?
2006-12-14 19:01:35
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answer #10
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answered by robertt223 4
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