True or False? Male Masturbation Myths
Though doctors and scientists have agreed that masturbation is a common,
natural practice for teenagers and sexually mature persons, social and
religious rules projected the image of masturbation as a shameful act
associated with embarrassment and guilt.
Trying to prevent young boys from masturbating, almost all societies
have created their own myths about this practice, such as "if you masturbate,
you'll go blind" or "if you masturbate you'll grow hair on your palms".
Of course, no mature man will believe those, but there are other modern
time myths that can fool you very easily.
Masturbating frequently will cause you to run out of semen
FALSE If in females, the number of eggs is limited, a man's testicles
produce semen throughout his entire life. As long as your testicles are
healthy, there is no way you will run out of sperm
.
Masturbation can cause homosexuality
FALSE If every man who ever masturbated turned became gay, human race
would have been extinct by now. Masturbation does not determine a person's
sexual orientation. If a guy touches his own penis
, it doesn't mean he
would like to touch another man's!
Masturbation causes your testicles to shrink
FALSE It may seem so, right after you masturbate, because when you
are aroused, blood flows into your testicles
making them look bigger.
Masturbating reduces testicle size to normal, but they won't be smaller
than after the last time you masturbated.
Masturbation causes your penis to get smaller/shrink
FALSE It may seem so sometimes. Same explanation as above. On the other
hand, if you imagine that it will help you get a bigger penis…
you're wrong. Masturbation has no effect at all on penis size.
Masturbation makes you unable of being aroused by a woman
FALSE On the contrary, masturbating
is a good way of finding out more
about your own body, it won't make you less responsive to a woman's
stimulation. Plus, you can learn how to postpone an ejaculation.
Only people who can't "get any" masturbate
FALSE Masturbation is a common practice within marriages too. Men who
masturbate tend to have better better performances
with a partner,
since they know more about their own bodies.
You can get STD's from masturbating
IMPOSSIBLE There is, at least theoretically a chance that you can get
an STD by practicing manual sex, that is, when you touch the partner's
sexual organ with your hands, or when the partner touches yours.
But the T in STD comes from "transmitted", which means the germ that
causes the disease must come from the partner, not yourself.
You cannot get an STD from playing with yourself.
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