Positive: as many have mentioned, it’s a reminder that everything still works and is a fun way to let your imagination run wild.
Negative: I feel like a loser afterwards because it seems like an opportunity for an experience that I should be having or sharing with my girlfriend.
I used to mastibate alot, especially to porn. The pros: enjoyable, fast and a good release
Cons: desensitised to my partners touch both oral and penetrative, leading to loss of errections alot of the time
I know my touch well. Over use of porn leads to spectatoring. Getting back into my body and using my imagination has helped shift that.
Get to explore kinks and gets things done fast. Reduces drive, needs visual simulation and more physical
Positive. I can pleasure myself whenever I want. I can practice different things that I wouldn’t be able to with a partner. It’s fun to able to play with yourself with no agenda and be free to express yourself sexually. Negative: it does train your brain to be used to certain things about self pleasure and how you feel when your doing it to yourself versus with a partner. It’s not often as fulfilling as sex is. And I don’t get to share a connection with someone sexually.
Pro… I get the pleasure without the pressure. Con… It’s awkward when my partner tries to get me aroused but I take over because I know what I like.
direct touch towards an erection
Negative is that it can be a predictable routine with a destination in mind.
positive is discharge and negative is not getting hardness while with partner
I can go on for longer. It has made me addicted to it and it has affected me staying hard in real life. So I try to li.it how much I do it per week.
I masturbate for stress release sometimes at work but it takes times and sometimes thinking can someone hear so I often stop without completing
It lets me know that I am still fully capable of getting hard and having sex, but it reminds me that I still get anxious about sex and have problems when it comes to actually having sex
The negatives for me is that i am not as aroused as before. The positives are pleasure
I spent many days trying to rush or get it over with quickly.
+ves Stress relieve, looking at women of your fantasies
-ve over reliance and morphing of reality
Negatives: I’ve noticed I’m masturbating more when I’m stressed. Therefore sex became connected with stress instead of pleasure in my head. I used to feel a lot of guilt after a jerk off thinking I should have had sex with my partner.
Positive: I feel I’m treating myself and am more relaxed afterwards.
Positive- it feels good
Negative- I am not doing it with my partner as easily
i can get really hard and have explosive orgasms through masturbation. I just wish I could do the same with a partner.
Positive it relieves me
Negative it makes me less horny
Dependably to feel like I have to let it go before sex. Positive effects is I can pleasure myself, makes me want my partner more, negative effects is I would worry if I can get up again back then