Scarleteen

So I been hearing that masturbation is a bad thing and watching porn is a bad thing too and I wanna know if it’s true or not because I been self pleasuring myself for a long time since I was 13 and now I’m 20 they say I’ll have more energy if I went on nofap and semen retention I remember somebody on YouTube saying if I went on semen retention woman can smell it and I’ll get more attention from them and they’ll want to sleep with me apparently I don’t know if that’s true or not since I haven’t don’t it myself but I wanna know is watching porn and self pleasuring yourself a bad thing or a good thing and is going on nofap and semen retention a good thing or not.

Hey there SilverFalcon,

I am sorry that you’ve had to hear these negative messages surrounding masturbation! It is not true that masturbation is bad for you (quite the opposite, in fact. It is healthy and normal, even if you do it a lot!)

The idea of semen retention is heavily misguided. Semen retention and the “nofap” movement actually stem more from toxic ideals of masculinity than actual science. In fact, the website that started “nofap” has a disclaimer that they do not support or allow research to be done on their website or the claims they are making. There really isn’t science supporting these ideas at all.

How does hearing that make you feel?

Hey, you don’t need to be sorry about the negative messages about the masturbation thing, and I’m glad that masturbation isn’t a bad thing, and I’m glad that it’s healthy and normal as somebody myself who is horny a lot and doesn’t have a partner to do sexual things with I tend to self pleasure myself a lot. And yes, I feel like it is steaming from toxic masculinity, and I’m glad what they are saying is wrong and not true.