Masturbation might be a popular pastime event to people who choose to admit, but the act itself has pros and cons. Read more for the shocking truths about it.
This is a cultural taboo, it shouldn’t even be spoken about at all, not to speak of analyzing it and seeing if it has merits or not. While it’s still being thought of as a despicable act in which many of us participate in but denounce publicly
A study conducted with 5,000 participants both male and female who were aged between 18 and 34 were asked about their masturbation habit.
While it may seem like a purely male act, the females aren’t left out with impressive stats too, 83% of women who participated in the study disclosed they masturbated frequently.
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Revealed in the study includes that one third of the women said they did it several times a week, and another 12% admitted to doing it every day.
As for the male folks, they didn’t mince words, 94% of the participants said they jerk off, another 60% said they do it several times a week, and 35% do it every day.
Laura Hampson, Daily Star reveals 3 side effects of masturbation.
1. Disease prevention
Who would have thought that jerking off can help you prevent disease, this should be legalized with a time table sheet on the bathroom stall in the office for masturbation periods. According to a Harvard Medical study that studied the sex lives of 32,000 healthy guys for 18 years, 3,839 of them later were diagnosed with prostate cancer. Amongst this group, they were asked about how many times they “orgasmed” in a month and results were surprising.
The guys who were aged between 40-49 who ejaculated 21 or more times in each month had 22% lower risk of developing the disease than men who ejaculated between four to seven times.
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Not forgetting the women, it can also help fight against UTIs by flushing the cervix.
2. It can be a pain and stress reliever
Yes! Masturbation can help you relieve your stress, help you relax. Masturbation releases endorphins that elevates moods. “In both men and women it [masturbation] provides release of stress, a time to commune with oneself (taking stock of one’s emotional state and needs), and for some even the possibility of greater self-awareness or insight,” Dr. Jordan Tishler told Medical Daily.
Bonus fact, it can also help you sleep better, and for the ladies, it can reduce pain that occurs as a result of menstruation.
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3. Addiction
This is perhaps the biggest problem of them all, we’ve discussed all the good part of masturbation, the negative side is that it can become an addiction. Therapist Dee Wagner told Medical Daily that masturbation can, “serve as a chronic way to avoid intimacy with others, which in the long run can cause anxiety.”
This addiction can be damaging for the mental health, and it then leads to talking longer time to climax as the addiction persists.
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