The positive thing is that it relaxes me. The negative is that I do it too often and sometimes to the point of pain.
The positive effect of masturbation for me is that it is a form of sexual pleasure that I enjoy, so when I have other problems, I know it’s not because I’m incapable of feeling. The downside is that I have trained my body and my erection to be present under specific circumstances.
Positives:
helps to relive stress and troubles you have had in the day. It also for me allowed me to have a period of time where my mind could just focus on pleasure and I wouldn’t have any external factors intruding into my thoughts or being worried/anxious about anything that bad happened that day or week
Negatives:
While the short term effects are relieving and pleasurable soon after you lose these feeling rapidly and your again stuck with the problems in your head or the anxieties your facing in life so it can turn into a habit where you abuse pornography in order to get these short hits of happiness and calmness which can lead abuse and problems when your in a real sexual experience with a partner
Positives are: relieving stress, experimenting with prolonging my endurance before cumming. I “edge”. I also try to eleminatr the sensitivity in my penis by masturbating, as I have problems with cumming too quickly because the sensation of sex with my partner excites me a lot. I do also fantasize about my partner when I do this and seek out similar body types and features as hers when searching through porn. I think this can also be a negative. I narrow my fantasies and spend more time than I should going down the rabbit holo.
Positive effect is that it feels amazing and I get a sense of calm and release afterwards. Negative effect is I worry if it will translate into actual sex where there’s more pressure.
Positive effect is that it feels amazing and I get a sense of calm and release afterwards. Negative effect is I worry if it will translate into actual sex where there’s more pressure and different sensations.
for me currently, im having trouble with wrapping my head around positives of masturbation. I’ve told myself that stopping masturbation especially to porn and using a death grip is one of the keys (a major one) to solving my erection and ejaculation during penetration issue. this last session in mojo has just told me different and I’m excited to discover more about myself during these next sessions
Positive: Stress relief, satisfies kinks
Negatives: Should not take the place of actual human-to-human interactions
Porn for me is a convenient stimulation. It just helps me to finish. I dont think any other aspect is particularly harmful other than now learning about the physical difference between how my penis is stimulated when im masturbating as opposed to when im with my girlfriend. I think i will now try learn to be softer and slower with myself to try recalibrate my stimulation
POSITIVE: as others have mentioned, it’s an affirmation that everything still works as it should.
NEGATIVE: it can be a reminder that you’d rather be SHARING the experience with a partner and not just having a sexual experience by yourself.
I dont know if anyone has the same experiences, but when I masturbate head of my penis tends to get dry. To an extent when i have a dry skin flaking off it which is not hurting me- yes at some times it does change sensation - but it scares me off as I never had that before. I know its not a disease and not an allergy to soap or condoms either. Does anyone else experience the same?
I feel like I’m cheating on my partners, but I have needs, so that push and pull between my own pleasure and their’s. The fear that I won’t be able to perform for them if I orgasm. On the positive side, it actually helps me to destress and reduces the pressure to perform.
Positive is it feels so good and gives me a sense of calm afterwards, but negative is I always do it in roughly the same way and I feel like it’s not as easy if I adjust the formula.
Very interesting. I had a great time with this exercise for about 10 or 15 minutes, and then lost interest and lost my erection and couldn’t get it back. Wondering if other people had this issue and what solutions might exist
The positive effects have been that it relaxes me when I’m stressed. I genuinely love myself and love making myself feel good. The negatives are now that I’ve been with a long-term partner for several years I’ve often preferred it to sex because I don’t have to do as much work.
I feel although I rely heavily on the visual stimulus when I masturbate. Although physical touch does still get me plenty aroused at the time, I sometimes find that I can get ‘bored’ -for want of a better word - of the stimulus quickly and I end up losing my erections. However, when I do manage to stick in the moment it can really enjoy the time I’m having
Positive: Releases stress, explore kinks
Negative: Not a substitute for person-to-person touch, overdoing it
Positive- gives me a relief from sexual tension when I cum; gives me pleasure; often relaxes my body and gives me stress relief
Negative- makes me anxious and stressed when my erection goes down and I cant bring it up; makes me frustrated when I struggle to get it up
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Positive: nice feelings, release, the thrill (especially when watching porn or visualising a sexual fantasy).
Negatives: mind is usually not in the present moment, I fixate on fantasies which are based on porn and not real life relationships