Masturbation is a normal and healthy behavior and a way to please yourself. But excessive masturbation is not only unhealthy, but also harmful to your life. So what is excessive masturbation?
What is masturbation addiction?
Masturbation itself is a normal and healthy behavior, but if you need to masturbate compulsively or continuously, and even affect your life, work and rest, and mood, then masturbation becomes a problem.
What causes people to masturbate excessively?
Masturbation addiction is affected by many factors, and the reasons for masturbation addiction vary from person to person. The following factors may increase the probability of masturbation addiction, such as easy access to pornographic content, mental health conditions, family inheritance or physical abuse, sexual abuse history, etc.
There are many factors that lead to masturbation addiction, but not all of these factors will lead to masturbation addiction. These factors just mean that there is a greater probability of masturbation addiction.
What are the disadvantages of masturbation addiction?
Masturbation addiction is harmful to both the body and mind, such as dissatisfaction with sex life, interference with normal life and work and rest, inferiority, and mental health.
8 signs of masturbation addiction
1. Stimulation of the genitals
Excessive masturbation will cause irritation of your genitals. Excessive friction and stimulation may cause congestion, swelling, bleeding, poor urination, genital pain and even injury.
Using lubricants can reduce friction with the genitals, causing discomfort and pain, and reduce the probability of injury.
2. It will confuse your relationship
If masturbation addiction also affects interpersonal relationships, causing your relationship to become chaotic. Whether it is family, friends or partners, if you are addicted to masturbation, it will have a negative impact on these relationships, because you always over-emphasize masturbation and ignore caring for them and connecting with them.
3. Cause oversensitivity
Stimulating the genitals will cause congestion in the genital area, making it sensitive. However, excessive and long-term stimulation will cause the genital area to be in a state of congestion for a long time, which will cause oversensitivity or numbness.
4. Ruining your lifestyle
Masturbation requires time or emotional preparation. If you are addicted to masturbation, it will disrupt your rhythm of life, work and rest habits, etc., which will ruin your lifestyle and even affect your physical and mental health.
5. Emotional instability
Although masturbation can relieve stress and anxiety, excessive reliance on masturbation will only bind your emotions to masturbation, forming a mutually dependent relationship. Masturbation will make you happy and lose self-blame in a short period of time, which will make your emotions unstable, and this vicious cycle will lead to addiction to masturbation.
6. Affecting sex life with your partner
Although masturbation is a normal and healthy thing in a long-term romantic relationship. However, if you are addicted to masturbation, it will affect your sex life with your partner. You may lose enthusiasm for sex and reduce each other's sexual experience. Lead to contradictions, conflicts and alienation with your partner.
7. Becoming guilty and self-blaming
If you are addicted to masturbation, whether it is the withdrawal reaction after masturbation or the discovery that masturbation has an adverse effect on your life, it will make people feel guilty and self-blaming.
8. Unable to control your desires
If you cannot control your desires, they will appear anytime and anywhere, and you cannot control their growth and spread. This will cause you to be unable to concentrate on doing anything, and even affect your communication and exchanges with others. In the long run, you will become impatient and energyless to deal with complex things, which will make you repeatedly fall into a vicious cycle, and fall into seeking various ways to please yourself again and again.
How to improve masturbation addiction?
1. Understand the reasons
Understanding the reasons for your addiction to masturbation can help you better solve and improve masturbation addiction. For example, avoiding some bad habits or pornographic content can help you better control your desires.
2. Cultivate new hobbies
Divert attention and try to cultivate new hobbies, such as exercise, ball games, swimming, dancing, etc. Improve your work and rest habits and bad living habits, and increase daily exercise. After all, there are many more important things in life than masturbation. Trying new things will make your life more positive.
3. Seek help from a third party
If masturbation addiction has seriously affected your life and interpersonal relationships, it is important to seek help from a third party. You can tell a friend or partner you trust, or seek help from a psychologist or sex therapist.