Masturbation frequency, urges, and cultural mores.
I'm going to get married soon, and we want to have a baby quite quickly.
Does masturbation affect a man's fertility and ejaculation volume? Has volume got anything to do with fertility in the first place, and if so, should I stop masturbating?
Apart from reducing the volume of the next ejaculation slightly (and very temporarily), no, it doesn't affect your fertility. There are many, many millions of sperm cells in a regular-size ejaculation, and all it takes is one to get a woman pregnant – so I doubt abstaining from masturbating would have much effect.
I'm almost 17, and I've masturbated only once – and it wasn't a very pleasant experience.
I was about 13; I started rubbing my penis, and finally I ejaculated. I remember it kind of hurt, and the semen had a yellowish color. I did not want to do it again, and I haven't since. The only time I ejaculate is when I'm asleep, and I've never ejaculated with a girl. I'm too scared to masturbate, although I would like to try it again. Sometimes I'll start playing with myself, but I stop after a short time. How can I get over the fear of ejaculation?
How come whenever I'm done masturbating, I feel like I was being stupid and have the urge to put on my clothes immediately?
- age 14, New York
That is an extremely common reaction, and it's almost certainly physiological (i.e., physical rather than mental) in origin. For most guys, something just shuts their brain off to sex when they're done ejaculating. For many, this manifests itself in the form of guilt – that you were "being stupid" (as you put it), or they ask themselves, "Why did I just do that?" This is all normal, and you'll probably outgrow it as you get older.
I'm 14. A lot of my friends – I can think of 6 or 7 off the top of my head – claim they have never, ever masturbated in their whole lives. Are they lying, or could that be possible?
It's possible. But out of your 6 or 7 friends, I'd say it's likely some of them aren't telling you the truth – and there's a chance none of them are. If they're your age, some of them may not have discovered masturbation yet. However, I'd say it's quite unlikely – although certainly not impossible – all of them have never masturbated.
I want to know how many of the other boys at my school masturbate. There are about 3,000 people altogether.
- age 16, Utah
It's hard to say, because I don't know what grades we're talking about. If your school is 9th through 12th grade, at least 90% is masturbating, or 2,700. If it's 7th through 12th, it's still probably well over 2,000.
In your surveys it says the average 15-year-old masturbates 9 times a week. Well, I like to do it 4-5 times a day, or around 30 times a week. Is that too much?
- age 15, Missouri
Probably not. The "9" figure was an average. Plenty of guys your age masturbate as much as you do – and as long as it isn't taking a lot of time away from other activities, go for it.
I've heard about some people masturbating 7 times a day.
I can't even have a third orgasm in one day. How do they do it 7 times in one day? And how can I get myself to do it 7 times a day?
- age 16, Minnesota
If 2 times a day weren't enough for you, you'd be able to masturbate more! If you're satisfied with 2, there's no real point in doing it more, is there? Everybody's different, and just because some people masturbate more often than you do doesn't mean you're not perfectly healthy and normal.
I masturbate about seven times a day. That's 49 times a week, which is a lot.
Is there any way to bring down my horniness?
- age 14, Canada
For centuries adults have tried to use sports and other activities to reduce the sex drive in teenage boys, but nothing seems to work – except, of course masturbation! (As temporary a solution as it may be.)
I'm 13 and I go to JackinWorld often. I read about people who masturbate 3-6 times a day
– but if I masturbate more then 2 or 3 times, my erection feels like a bruise, and I can't masturbate for about 24 hours. I don't even masturbate that aggressively or intensely. Is this normal?
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