Comments on: Masturbation Addiction Explained

By: prasan

prasan — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 09:35:55 +0000

i am from an orthodox hindu family and i have wrought sin upon myself and grief upon my family due to this wasteful habit of 14 years. i am now 26.
i will swear it anywhere that heroin or any other drug is a baby compared to this demon of masturbation.i think God makes sinners addicts of this habit as a form of terrible punishment in this world. punishment in hell will come separately.

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 23 May 2008 11:47:22 +0000

I started masturbating when i was 12, I am now 13 and am 3 days off from my last masturbating time. I realise it’s unhealthy and i just felt bad.
when i started masturbting I was feeling really, really horny. I’d try to imitate sex with anything i could, a tissue box, my soft toy. I never would have realised that my own hand would be most effective.
I felt the orgasm (dry as i hadn’t gone through puberty at the time) and i felt like i was having a fit. My family is a spiritual one, so i thought i would literally be cursed. I went to the toilet and tried to pee, I don’t know, maybe i thought i could cleanse myself… and i couldn’t. I vowed never to do it again. But i realised that it had felt nice. So two days later i tried again. And every time i just kept going. Each time (almost) that I would never do it again. Im pretty good. And i’ve even stopped talking about all the gossip over msn in a hope to distance myself from any sexual feelings for a while. Wait until im married and i love someone dearly. I hope my willpower will stand up to the addiction of masturbation.

By: jt

jt — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 20:46:49 +0000

i am 38 years old and i have been addicted to masturbation since i was 18. i have masturbated almost every day since then and have only stopped for brief moments due to sickness or post surgeries. I have also stopped a few times when trying to prove to myself that i can stop masturbating. of course, it is a futile attmept. i have also suffered from other addicitons such as drugs and such but this one has ruined my life. it takes alot for me to not commit suicide and the only reason i dont is because i am scared to blow my brains out and beacuse i was taught that you go to hell if you do. if you are in your teens or early twenties, please stop mastrubating daily. i think it is ok to masturbate once a week. but if you do it at the rate i have been doing, your life will be a total hell. i guarantee it.

By: James Payne

James Payne — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:23:43 +0000

Thank you for this helpful information. I began masturbating at age 15 and am now 40, I pray I can overcome this addiction.

By: Scythe

Scythe — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:46:18 +0000

I found that masturbation had become my primary stress reliever without me realizing it. This has made sobriety hard and led to slip ups because I had no effective coping mechanisms other than masturbation for dealing with stress.

Stopping masturbation is kind of like going for a swim. It takes time to adjust to the water, but once you’re swimming you’re glad you didn’t just go home before the cool water got up to your balls and caused a moment of discomfort.

I’ve come to realize that masturbation is as dangerous a drug as any other because it makes us ignore our real problems for another few hours or days while the problems persist, grow, and eventually crash down on us with devastating consequences. Those celebrity drug addicts don’t ruin their lives because cocaine or heroin is $10 per “hit.” They can afford more hits than they’ll ever consume in one life. Their lives are shattered because the drugs destroy their ability to cope, just as masturbation does for us. Losing your wife, job, or possessions due to masturbation is every bit as tragic as a celebrity or professional athlete losing those things due to snorting coke. Your losses might not make the tabloids, but you still have to suffer with them.

By: bak .h

bak .h — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:42:35 +0000

im 18 years old and i have been masturbating from the age of 12 i can’t stop and i have side effects like back pain and fatig so if some one think’s that it’s good he is wrong

By: Jacob Thomson

Jacob Thomson — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 01:18:36 +0000

It is very true that Masturbation is unhealthy for any person, but in terms of gender, more thank likely harder for men than women. I have been affected by this and still am affected by this unhealthy habit. I can tell anyone that it is not healthy! The addiction can become such a problem that depression becomes masturbations best friend. Once that occurs a women’s or man’s social status with the opposite sex declines rapidly. This is not good at all. One can start to feel uneasy around the opposite sex, which causes his or her to drift away.

It is no doubt that masturbation is unhealthy, moreover the vices, such as pornography, lust and sexual disrespect to oneself and others causes the eruption of masturbation addiction. The more interesting thing to remember to is that you have to have the will to stop. It is more difficult for people who suffer from this problem because it is initiated by hormones. In order to stop the addiction it takes time and patience. The body uses hormones as the key initiator of sex response stimulus. Now when masturbating and frequently masturbating the body learns of shooting off hormones for a set time (i.e. per day, per week or even month), when we get emotionally excited about a picture or emotion. The problem is that it can learn to be habitual. So to fix this we have to fight it for a very long period. The good news is it can be fought.

The most important aspect is to realize that it is not in the best our interest to seek masturbation for any reason. Masturbating is not intended to be used at all. The other facet as well, is if any one person desires to have a family that it must be fixed or the entire family could be deeply affected by the vice.

I hope this helps. I know that it is an extremely difficult addiction to stop but the reward I am sure is more than worth one’s time in effort.

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