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I feel so guilty when I wank

"Every conceivable ill from pimples to insanity, including stooped shoulders, loss of weight, fatigue, insomnia, general weakness, loss of manly vigour, weak eyes, digestive upsets, stomach ulcers, impotence, feeble-mindedness, genital cancer, and the rest, was ascribed to masturbation.

Patients in mental institutions were observed to engage in frequent masturbation, and this seemed significant proof that the insanity was a product of the sexual behaviour. Since the lives of university scholars were not so easily observed, it was not so generally known that masturbation occurred quite as frequently among them."
Alfred Kinsey

Negative ideas about masturbation can be very influential for many of us, since they were pounded into us, sometimes literally, as children and adults. You may feel guilty about doing something which you were told was sinful or you may feel a vague kind of discomfort which has no particular content other than that you are doing something which isn't "nice".

Because of these feelings, and also because men have had little permission and practice in being sensual, many men do not derive as much pleasure as they could from masturbating. It is usually done very quickly, the whole object being to achieve orgasm and get it over with.

However, masturbation has definite therapeutic benefits. Masturbation is good for learning ejaculatory control and in dealing with erection problems. You can use it to learn about your body and its needs, and to learn skills useful in sex with a partner.