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Is masturbation an addiction?
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I think it is. Some people say it's just a hobby but usually they haven't tried it. I myself think I'm addicted. What is your opinion?
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Well not necessarily, I think you could be addicted to anything without it getting in the way. But addictions do tend to become problems. It's possible to be in the habit of masturbation, speaking as a guy with a fairly high sex drive at time it can be frustrating that you feel compelled to do something every 12 hours or so... but because masturbation is comforting it can be habit forming and eventually addictive. Not in a physiological sense like you could be addicted to cigarrettes but in a psychological sense masturbation could become a crutch where you masturbate because you are unhappy about something without ever addressing the deeper issues.
Like drinking a glass of whiskey a fortnight is not an addiction, you can - of course - be addicted to alcohol.
There are some boxes to tick off, if something is an addiction or not and masturbation can too.
(sorry for incoherent post)
very insightful.
I agree.
The OP wrote "Is masturbation an addiction?". Well, no, masturbation is NOT an addiction, whatever way you look at it. It's a perfectly normal body function. However, excessive masturbation including the reasons whch ShyBoy put forward so eloquently, can be addictive. I think the OP's heading was, in itself, misleading.
I think you've made that up.
It's really just a medical way of saying 'you do this to a harmful level' - http://sexuality.about.com/od/masturbation/a/chronic_masturb.htm
I guess if you needed rehab for it a doctor would use the term - but in the sense of the post by Rex, it isn't a virus or an sti or something - more like something that would sit alongside a sex addiction, or shopping addiction.
Wow! I never knew people got THAT bad - where it stops you from going to school, work etc! How do people stay hard 24/7? And produce enough semen (presuming it's a male)?
My sincere apologies, Wankasaurus .....
Jim V? Over to you ...
Weird saying this, but when I was younger, It was a lot more frequent during the day
It can be seen as the start of a downward spiral that leads to greater sins, like oh I don't know...shagging proper?
A perv in the making ...
coming from a guy with such a fitting username, this can be nothing but true