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dear /fit/, first time here on /fit/ but not 4chan. I have a health-related concern that I'd be too embarassed/ashamed to talk about anywhere but on the internet. Sure it'd be sensible to talk to the doctor but I haven't a way of getting there on my own yet.

Here it goes. As impossible as it sounds, I've been masturbating at least thrice weekly for the past FIVE years. It started in grade 7, which leaves me at grade 12 (assume normal north-american ages for those grades). The longest I've been between faps was the odd 2+ week vacation with family or the odd month where I just didn't feel the need/attraction to.

So I'm concerned. What are the side-effects on health from that much fapping for that long?

tl;dr I've been fapping almost nightly for the past five years, what are the health side effects?

pic unrelated, but probably would be my reaction if I saw myself at this age and didn't know it was me.
>> Anonymous
nothing....

besides feeling a bit out of it immediately after and having lower testosterone levels for the next 24ish hours, whacking off doesn't have any negative health consequences.

also, ejaculating is good for your prostate.
>> Anonymous
>>401635
wait, it took you until 7th grade to start fapping? where's your initiative man? i must have started in 4th grade, but honestly i have no idea.
also, once every 2 days or so is fine...no health problems there. men can have sex with women that often, no prob. what makes your hand any different?
>> Anonymous
welcome to male-dom. I have masturbated 4 times today. Once upon waking, once before lunch, one after working out, and one in the shower an hour ago.
>> Anonymous
I am still waiting for OP to tell us what his problem is.
>> Anonymous
>>401644
wow i thought i was the only one who started fapping at that age, my sister was 16 at the time and i would hide in the bathroom where she wouldnt see me and start fapping when she took her clothes off :)
>> Anonymous
>>401656

continue.
>> Anonymous
Switch hands every now and then so your wang doesn't go crooked.
>> Anonymous
>>401656
Shit, you fapped to your sister?
>> Anonymous
>>401649
OP here. Uh... yeah that kinda was the problem... I would assume constant fapping every night for five years (nearly) straight would have serious side effects. Although one problem is that my penis is slightly shaped different now...

>>401643
good for prostate?

>>401644
there were NO girls worth fapping to at any age before grade seven. None of them were remotely good-looking, not to mention none of them were starting to develop. When a girl starts developing curves (not fat) is when they start getting interesting.
tl;dr noone was worth fapping to until grade 7, when I had access to LOTS of hot girls and the depths of the internet

>>401656
again, something I'd only say on the internet: I fap to my cousin (two years younger than me) and my older cousin's friend (who could possibly lesbians, due to my older cousin being a tomboy).


so yes this is OP here.
>> Anonymous
what's the problem??
as a young adult, daily is pretty normal/healthy.. lol.
>> Anonymous
>>401656
i actually started before 4th grade from what i can remember, it's just that i became conscious of it around that time
i felt bad about it sometimes as well OP, but eventually i got a girlfriend and lo and behold, she likes to watch, so i am now actually fapping more than ever. it's a weird world we live in...
>> Anonymous
>>401673
>I would assume fapping would have side effects
seriously man, your body has evolved to ejaculate frequently. if anything you are improving your ability to bounce back after ejaculation
>good for prostate?
the prostate produces seminal fluid if i recall. you are helping to ensure its proper function
>NO girls worth fapping to
i guess you don't like loli
>I fap to my cousin
my girlfriend looks disturbingly like my cousin...FFFFFFFFFFF
>> Anonymous
>>401680
a girlfriend supportive of you fapping? I bet she's flattering herself thinking it's about her. Of course you're the guy, you're the one in control of the fapping, you're the mind, so it doesn't mean you have to be fapping to her, right? ;D
you go man.

In a way, I did a toned-down version of fapping when I was younger. I pretended to kiss my pillow at night as if it were a girl I liked.

OP again, will not use a name.
>> Anonymous
>>401689
loli? DO. NOT. WANT.
makes me want to strangle, maim, and obliterate those pedobear loving /b/tards.

/fit/ hasn't let me down from what I can tell. Thank you /fit/. You've restored my faith in 4chan, where my first experience was (unfortunately) /b/.
>> Anonymous
There are no serious health risks unless it becomes some kind of addiction where you HAVE to fap when you should be doing some other shit. Like some kind of OCD shit.
>> Anonymous
seems we all have our own personal fapping evolution history.

I started when I was 12, have fapped easily more than 5 times a week, and my dick is intact.


if you're worried at all about fapping too much, remember what it means to fap, it means to have intercourse, which is one of our most basic instinctual requirements in life; mating.

in nature, the guy who mated more was better, obviously, so fabricating mating to your body theoretically should be healthier than not doing anything from age 14-20.
>> Anonymous
>>401689
>my girlfriend looks disturbingly like my cousin...FFFFFFFFFFF
psycology says your cusin looks like the girl you wanted to fuck, and thus you were drawn to your current girlfriend.

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF/0
>> Anonymous
>>401635

are you still a virgin? because if so you're going to be a premature ejaculator.
fapping that much for that long hardwires your brain to get off as fast as possible.

my advice would be stop fapping and get a girl
>> Anonymous
this better be a fucking troll. thrice weekly is fucking nothing. come back to me when you're fapping at least twice a day every day and it's starting to hurt.
>> belo
you can get addicted to masturbation, but basically if you can't go a day without jerkin' it like... 8+ times, then you've got a problem lol

otherwise your a typical high libido male
>> Anonymous
>>401703
YOU'd better be a fucking troll. It only hurts at times when I get enough privacy for long enough to fap more than once (read: weekends when the family's not around).

>>401700
ok that's a concern now...
>> Anonymous
>>401690
i AM fapping to her she is amazing...maybe i am blinded by my infatuation but she is the only thing i fap to now
maybe i'm weird, but i am the one with a woman that enjoys watching me touch myself
>> Anonymous
>>401699
wait, are you saying that we are attracted to people who share the same positive characteristics as our close genetic relatives (which makes perfect sense) or something else i'm missing?
>> Anonymous
3 times a week isn't a lot. Shit once a day is probably normal.

the only bad thing I've experienced is that if you do it too much before you start having sex on a regular basis, you might start to prefer it over the real thing. see portnoy's complaint.


not that it can't be reversed with enough partners.
>> Anonymous
>>401695
lol my cousin (the one that looks like my gf) got stalked briefly by a guy dressed as pedobear at Otakon. she didn't understand what was going on until i explained. then she lol'd heartily
>> Anonymous
>>401700

>are you still a virgin? because if so you're going to be a premature ejaculator.
>fapping that much for that long hardwires your brain to get off as fast as possible.

Total bullshit.
>> Anonymous
i Dont fap anymore, i made a promise to myself that I wouldnt till sex, i feel no depression and i feel more alive knowing I dont have to do it, and i feel bad after i fap anyway
>> Anonymous
>>401700
if that were even close to true, I have hardwired myself to ejaculate an hour to 7 hours after I started fucking
kewl
>> Anonymous
>>401722
yes
dump your gf and go for the real thing
your cock shall fit perfectly sir.
>> Anonymous
>>401754
heh. although my penis is approximately average size, my lovely young thing is somewhat small for her age and is sweet and tight. i am TOO big, to the point that i couldn't go all the way in without impaling her
>> Anonymous
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>> Anonymous
>>401695
u wanna strangle us pedobear following /b/tards... dude what the hell kind of anon are you?! sure i dont have to like us, but /b/tards like us are the ones helping protect your freedoms. protect them from terrorists like jack thompson, and ophra.

that's how dad did it, that's how america does it, and it's worked out so far.


tl;dr i used to masturbate 2-4 times a week but as i got older and started long term dating i rarely fap at all.

srs tl;dr HAVING ONLY ONE STEADY GF KILLS YOUR SEX DRIVE
>> Anonymous
>>401659
Yeah, i need to switch over to the left hand. My cock goes slightly to the right. Its not curving, but when i stand up with a hard on, it points slightly right.
>> Anonymous
i didnt start masturbating till i was 23

can anyone beat that?
>> Anonymous
>>401842

I didn't start masturbating until I was like 12.

I beat you by over a decade, sucker
>> Anonymous
>>401635
3x/wk? i'm 25 and still do it at least that frequently
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>>401772
>> Anonymous
i think i'm gonna fap right now
>> Anonymous
http://fitness.scoobysworkshop.com/mythmasturbation.htm
>> Anonymous
3x a week??? fuck man its normal that i fap at LEAST twice a day.
>> Anonymous
On /b/ they'll tell you that you need to up your game to 4x daily. Which I am too guilty of on occasion... My penis works just fine.
>> Anonymous
I don't understand how do you fags fail to realise this is a troll... Fucking God... I lost all hope in /fit/... Retards...
>> Anonymous
I went for 8 years without fapping.
>> Anonymous
>>402599
so you started when you were 8?
>> Anonymous
>>402599
I went for 18 years without having sex.
>> Anonymous
I started fapping when I was 12. I never did it to ejaculation. I stopped and started again at 15.
>> Anonymous
LOL, man. I'm also grade 12, just to put it into perspective here. You seem a little on the sheltered side in terms of sexual knowledge, but let me enlighten you. I've been jerking it daily (sometimes more) since I was in Grade 5. I'm fine.

Jerking off is, if anything, healthy and not to mention normal. Release eases physical and mental tension, serving to relax and calm you. If you're only wanking 3 times a week, then you're well below average in terms of frequency. The only physical issue with wanking too much is that you might get a sore dick for awhile from the friction and even then, unless you're wanking HARD 5 times a day without lube, you won't experience that.

Everyone you know does it, no matter what they say. Chances are they wank it more than you do.

Don't fap with Drano or steel wool gloves and you'll be fine.
>> Anonymous
Oh yeah, one more thing. Some guy said fapping lowers your testosterone levels for 24 hours. The fact is, that it doesn't lower them at all. It's been scientifically proven many times. The only reason people thought that, why boxers don't fuck for 2 weeks before a fight and all that crap, is because athletes and such were having 4 hour anal sex marathons with multiple women the night before their event which, as you can imagine, served to hinder their performance.

Wanking off can be tiring depending on how intense it is, but it has no effect on hormone levels.
>> Anonymous
Eurofag here: Hahahahahahahahahahahaha
>> Anonymous
I've been fapping for 10 years on an average of twice a day. I started masturbating at six and started doing it regularly at 10.

Health concerns? Well, I'm on 4chan, perhaps that counts as one, but otherwise I'm the picture of health.

Rubbing your dick too much would be a truly amazing feat, requiring ridiculous effort to actually injure yourself with such an activity. You don't actually fap that often. A bit below 4chan average, I believe.
>> Anonymous
>>402740

cool intellect bro
>> Anonymous
>>401659
Lies. I switched to lefty after I started to torrent porn and my dick shape didn't change.
It still goes left.
>> Anonymous
Yeah, the fapping-drops-testosterone rumour is probably myth. I wouldn't go so far as to say it's been "scientifically proven, many times" because it's hardly a heavily-researched topic, but anyway...

What does seem to be true is that there are definite behavioural changes if you *don't* jerk it. Sex drive shoots up, you seem to be much more motivated to go and get some of the real thing... some interesting questions are whether these changes are a positive thing and whether it makes you more productive in all sorts of other areas, as you channel that pent-up energy into other activities as a distraction...