What are some of the positive and negative effects of masturbation for you?

It certainly feels good. But I feel like I’m rushing to the end most of the time.

positives would definitely be the visuals of the women and the sounds are a huge turn on. You also feel great when you are about to climax and you can feel your heart pumping.

negatives would be that after jerking off I feel super lazy and don’t want to do anything. I also feel like I have become less imaginative as porn just turns you into a robot because it seems like the natural thing to do after doing it for so long.

Positive: the feelings of being relaxed and pleasuring myself just how I like.
Negatives: it’s hard to get someone else to pleasure me in just the right way and I know I fall into routines.

In my culture it’s wrong to talk about sex, so masturbation has always been a taboo and something I’m very guilty about

Negative effects are that it leaves me desensitized with my wife and contributes to ED. The positive effect is it allows me to connect with my body, reduce stress and feel sexual pleasure. The mindful masturbation exercise was helpful as I got to retrigger my brain to experience different sensations.

The positive is a release of tension on top of the pleasure of orgasm. The negative is that as I learned at the start of this focus, I may inadvertently trained myself to react only to my own touch.

It is positive in the sense that I feel safe and relaxed and it obviously feels good. However the negative side is that I never feel sex is as good because my partner doesn’t know my penis as well as I do and it desensitises me

It helps most of the time unless I’m about to cum to quickly and I loose my erection so quickly

The death grip etc, but I think this varying form of touch was helpful

Well it obviously feels good and helps me sleep and sometimes clears the mind.
The negative effects are that I’m probably addicted to masturbation and while it doesn’t always occur, the sensations of sexual experience don’t quite feel as good as they should, in other words, I’m better at getting myself off than my partner is. Though admittedly I’m not sure how much this is the case and how much it just depends on how good my partner is or how in my head I am at the time.

I feel like i masturbate the same way. And that make me desensitized to different toes of touch. The pro is I know how to get what I want by myself quick

I am trying to save myself for my wife and not masterbate.

I feel like I’m doing a disservice to myself by touching myself and not waiting to see my girlfriend. But the positive is the physical satisfaction and dopamine rush.

Positive effects are the obvious release you get from ejaculating.
Negative effects are that I have become addicted to porn and find myself only attracted to girls who looks like porn stars. Meaning fake everything. It has set an unrealistic standard for the women I want to be with.

The positives are I feel completely relaxed and realize my dick actually works the negative is that I only feel the sensations when my hand touches it not my partners and eventually I lose my erection.

Positive: it’s affirming to know that erections can occur regularly negative: to high a dependance on variety of visuals and isolation of where i feel pleasure. It’s harder to get stimulated in the dark or if the rooms poorly lit and be satisfied with the one visual of the girl im with, and it feels like im training the interactive parts of sex out of myself and when the chance for sex happens it feels foreign and gets me in my head and i start thinking of all the other neglected aspects of orgasming, like there’s another person there and i have to satisfy her but i dont know what she’s into or if she likes this or what do i do next. And the perception with porn, the “perfect/successful” simulation of sex doesnt help with the pressure either.

I am much aroused even with the anticipation of watching porn and once I start watching I never have issues getting hard, even without touching myself. However with a mix of performance anxiety and partners expectations (spontaneity and no foreplay) I often struggle.

The positives are pretty much the same as everyone else

The negatives for me, I think, is that my body is used to the touch and treatment of my own hand, and doesn’t cooperate when a partner starts to touch me

Turned into a routine then started to effect my sex life.

Positive is it’s enjoyable

Negative is I often lose erection even by myself so feel shit. Also I generally rely on porn and that conditions me to need it more and desensitises me more