How Healthy Is Masturbation?

Is it helpful to masturbate?
Here is a story shared by someone:

"I was watching a movie. A recently divorced mother did not know what to do about her son who kept complaining about pains in his private parts (her husband was no longer in the picture). She took him to a pediatrician. The pediatrician told her that the son was fine and was just going through puberty. "I suspect he might have some routine arousal that doesn't fully culminate", he said. Then, he advised her to encourage her son to masturbate.

I know there's a school of thought that considers masturbation not only normal but healthy. I know there are people who advocate for it, as a health practice.
On the other hand, there's a huge religious backlash against it."

I've always wondered about the validity of claims that masturbation is a good health practice.

Fun fact, Porn and masturbation, are one of the most statistically common reasons for divorce in America (linked to over 50% of divorces).

Answer

The symptoms that was said earlier on were those suggestive of 'epididymal hypertension'...

In English, it's a consequence of a lot of stored up semen in the epididymis(the pipe that carries sperm from the testis out to the penis).

So imagine the pipe can carry only say 1 litre, then u have sperm of 1.2 Litres, the increase in volume would stretch the 'pipe' walls, and in men, this will cause pain.

Now nature has a way of managing these things. Semen is sperm + seminal fluid. Now the issue is that the seminal fluid isn't really produced much unless a guy is sexually aroused. More production anticipating release... No release... Pain due to excess stored up. If he wasn't aroused the body can handle the small produced per time and deal with it without pain, unless the guy has other underlying illnesses.

Now when I see patients like these, that have epididymal hypertension (**"blue balls" **colloquially). I assume they were sexually aroused prior to presentation, and I'm usually right.

Yes, the usual common sense management is to get the semen out by masturbation, but I have sedated a guy, and by the time he woke up about hours later, he was fine. The body can naturally solve it's problems itself. I believe God knew what He was doing.

As for the health benefits of Masturbation, I think it follows with d health benefits of sex. But it doesn't mean u should have sex cos of the health benefits at the expense of Spiritual health (Faith). So it really isn't a valid question to ask the health benefits. There's no point asking.

Health wise the Damages of masturbation are not really written in black and white. And are usually associated with other things...

Mental health issues regarding addiction

Poor hygiene and its own wahala. Etc

But as an entity in itself. I'd have to look past science to Faith to find a reason not to masturbate.

How true is is that masturbation can lead to low sperm count?

Trust me 8 out of 10 men would have low sperm count and immature ejaculation if that was true. most of us at one point of the other... Especially in our teens were masturbating.

Let me try to explain what low sperm count really is..

Low sperm count is when there is less than a particular number of sperm cells per volume of seminal fluid.

So the seminal fluid needs more sperms. Like say tea needs more sugar.

CAUSES OF LOW SPERM COUNT

-Not enough are being produced -Most are damaged by d time they are released. (Issues with storage)

-Production problem is usually an issue with the testis and usual causes are:

• testicular trauma, some men were kicked when they were boys in their 'balls', others maybe had an accident that involved blunt trauma to d testis.

• childhood mumps. Bilateral swelling of the jaw. It's a vaccine preventable illness but I've seen a boy have it. A complication is low sperm count when he grows up. The reason is quite interesting. The virus that causes mumps and some cells of the testis looks alike to d body's defense system. So in attacking the virus, the body attacks the testis too unknowingly.

**STORAGE PROBLEMS **
Now the issue here is that sperm is produced in d testis but stored in d epididymis. Now they are immature by the time they get to the epididymis and mature there. They need cool conditions to mature well.

So warm conditions like driving long distance, working with overheating laptops on ur lap etc r common things that can keep the testis 'too hot'...

Then quite honestly, most of the time we can't find a reason why some men have low sperm count

As for premature ejaculation. Honestly, I don't know much about that. The times I've seen it was cos the men were not able to satisfy their wives, more than that they ejaculated too early. But apparently it's in d books. I'm no really knowledgeable enough to talk about this really. I have read it, but I haven't seen patients that have it classically.

I would like you reading this post to contribute to the discussion of if masturbation causes low sperm count or not.

Thanks for reading.

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