As a way of sexual release, masturbation refers to the stimulating behavior of sexually stimulating one's own reproductive organs to obtain sexual arousal or other sexual pleasure. These stimuli may include hands, everyday objects, sex toys such as vibrators, etc.
As a normal physiological phenomenon and sexual behavior of human beings, masturbation will accompany a person's life, with different frequency and manifestations at different stages of development. Due to various factors such as history and culture, there are many controversies and misunderstandings in human's knowledge and understanding of masturbation. At present, modern medicine generally believes that there is no clear causal relationship between the act of masturbation itself and mental or physical diseases.
Masturbation itself may improve sexual health, promote intimacy, and reduce unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, but academic discussions and knowledge popularization about masturbation are relatively lacking in the academic and educational circles. Issues related to masturbation are often inappropriately discussed in the commercial media rather than being rationalized in families, schools, and the public. Understanding knowledge about masturbation, establishing a comprehensive and correct understanding of sexual behavior, learning sexual decision-making skills, avoiding and rejecting risky sexual contact, is conducive to maintaining the health and well-being of oneself and others.
Men and women of all ages can masturbate, and for different reasons. After puberty, due to physiological changes in the body, sexual impulse and desire are generated, full of desire, curiosity and fantasy about sex. Normal sexual desire is a basic requirement for human maturity and reproduction, and it is a normal physiological phenomenon.
The most common form of male masturbation is to hold the penis and rub it up and down. These stimulations usually lead to orgasm and ejaculation, and then the masturbation behavior is stopped because further stimulation is often uncomfortable. It is worth noting that circumcision may have an impact on the way men masturbate: men who have not undergone surgery can indirectly stimulate the glans by twitching the foreskin, and the foreskin and its own secretion can rub the glans more smoothly to produce pleasure ; but for many circumcised men, the glans is mostly or completely exposed, which may make it difficult or less pleasant to masturbate in this way. In fact, one of the reasons why some Western countries began to implement circumcision was to prevent boy masturbating. There are also some men who masturbate by stimulating the prostate, perineum, and anus.
The most common way for women to masturbate is to repeatedly rub the labia minora or clitoris with their fingers, and may also use a finger or a vibrator to insert the vagina for stimulation. Stimulation of the vulva with water jets in the shower, or frictional stimulation from bicycle seats or other objects for sexual pleasure are also common among women
It must be noted that some masturbation behaviors may cause harm or even death to the human body. The hazards of masturbation
1. Masturbation will not only damage the body's motivation, but also damage the mood, lethargy, weak will, hesitation, indecision, irascibility, suspicion and fear
2. Masturbation can also affect intelligence. Long-term masturbation will obviously destroy memory and thinking ability, and the rapid decline in learning ability and academic performance is the most obvious manifestation.
3. Once masturbation is addicted, it is difficult to restrain. That's why masturbation patients obviously feel uncomfortable after masturbation, but they can still persist.
4. Masturbation extracts the human body’s energy reserves through shortcuts. In an emergency, the human body cannot initiate emergency measures. Many chronic diseases breed and persist for a long time. Keep pace with the times.
Regardless of the method of masturbation, it should be based on safety, privacy and hygiene
