How can I stop feeling guilty about masturbation?

If it is supposed to be healthy and normal, why do I feel guilty afterwards?.

It is healthy and normal to masturbate. It provides a great physical and psychological release.

The guilt you feel derives from the unhealthy practise of considering natural activities disgusting and shameful.

Maybe you have always been told that masturbation leads to madness, is a sin or is just not a "nice" thing to do.

The madness theory comes from studies made of inmates at an English mental institution in the late 19th century. It was found that most of the inmates masturbated and this was taken to mean that masturbation was the activity of the insane. No one thought to conduct a study of students at Oxford University, for example, where it would have been discovered that the country's future leaders also masturbated.

The question of sin and your sensibilities I'll leave to your conscience. Sins of the flesh. The very idea!

The best way to overcome your guilt is to keep masturbating: it'll take your mind off the guilt and relax your body all the more. Use the time to learn more about your body and, hopefully, learn to like yourself a little more.

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