Is masturbation bad?

From my experience I think it bad even without porn. I recall beating off a lot in high school with or with out porn content and I remember being depressed and anxious more than being normal. But after going to MCRD boot camp for three months where there was no time to PMO and coming out I felt like I didn't care what people think and had no depression at all. That was about 5 years ago.

 

It:
-Destroys your life and relationships
-Makes you feels like a loser because you cannot control yourself
-Drains your energy and gives you nothing in return
-Wastes your time
-Is a fuel for porn
etc...

So, basically, I don't think it's bad at all.

 

Yes, it is better not to masturbate at all. I masturbated regularly for 28 years before I saw porn for the first time. Therefore, I believe I have an unusual personal experience as the basis of my opinion on this. I wish I had never done it once tbh.

Even without the influence of porn, masturbation still leads to sexual objectification. I would imagine seeing my school friends naked when I masturbated. Or even if I only imagined kissing and cuddling with them, it was still very sexual.

I would make excuses to get out of going places with others because I wanted to stay home and masturbate and daydream about whichever friends I had at the time. I never got into a relationship with anyone and felt deep shame over it.

For long periods of my life, I also relied on masturbation to help me get to sleep. So, it became part of my daily routine. It provided the pay-off for porn when I discovered it later in life. Now, my fantasies were almost endless with which to cum to.

 

In my opininon masturbating even without porn is still bad. You still get that high and you still feel terrible afterwards. I have masturbated tons of times without porn and I still fell terrible and awful afterwards!

 

Definitely Bad..... As the other guys said - still lose energy, feel like shit, anxious etc.
And I don't really see much difference- you can hardly masturbate to nothing. You still come up with 'porn' images in your head and still get a dopamine high out of it. The main problem is, once you see REAL porn you can't really 'unsee' the images/videos.
So it would be easier to recover from, but the actual act is just as bad

 

It depends. You need control the times， if you want to masurbate.

 

I think, in a time before porn, masturbation probably wasn't bad, or wasn't necessarily bad. Of course, I could see a person getting carried away with masturbation without porn, someone that would just be too indulgent can live for pleasure. But now that porn is in the picture, masturbation is different I think. It's not just a natural thing anymore. It's tricking our brains into thinking we are actually having sex. It hijacks the brain and brings something very unnatural into people's lives.

Porn is unnatural, masturbation is natural, the combination of both is unnatural. It's a tricky question I guess.

 

Masturbation is far worse than porn. The orgasm from self pleasure will leave you absolutely drained leading to low motivation, energy confidence, sexual disfunction and ultimately living a purposeless life.

 

Exactly. Why anyone thinks this is natural is beyond me.

 

Schools and the health services tell you it's natural and people have been conditioned to think that these people are 100% correct. It's sad that people don't know better.

 

Masturbation in itself is not bad, but sometimes you know that is time to quit practice and start playing the real game.

 

How is it not bad in itself?

 

What i think is that Masturbation Is not bad though i strictly recommend not doing it to all the nofappers.The reason is that if porn were not to exist we would not masturbate too often like we do these days.We would be able to control ourselves much more easily if there was no porn.But there is and as excess of everything is bad,masturbation is now bad too.You see the porn is main culprit here.Try Porn as your primary qutting objective but also stop masturbating for your complete reboot process.When you think you are porn free and will never go back to it again,you can masturbate like once a week.

 

I used to whack off twice a day and I never even touched porn. You should go find a girl once you have finished the reboot instead of masturbating once a week. It's still very destructive even once the reboot is done.

 

Bad? Bad is just not enough to describe it.

 

masturbation is a powerful tool to explore yourself when you are not fully ready to get real sex.

 

Is it bad to give yourself some pleasure after a stressful day/week/month or take some time to explore your body and know something new about your sexuality? I don't think so... Problem comes when this kind of behaviours stop being "eventual" and start a vicious circle in which at some point you can't control them. Actually they command you, and you lose control of other aspects of your life that are affected by this addictive behaviour (relationships, work, studies...).

So I also think masturbation is not bad. It is systematic/obsessive/unhealthy/whatever-you-want-to-call-it masturbation that can be really dangerous. But the same thing happens with any other potentially addictive activities like videogames, fitness, gambling, or even "proper" sex, not to mention alcohol and any other kind of drugs. Anything you can imagine has the potential to ruin your life if you can't control the limits.