These Are The Major Side-Effects Of

Excessive Self-Pleasuring On Men

15 Feb,2016 Health & Fitness

Watching adult films are not considered as an uncommon activity for men in a lot of modern societies. Likewise,
self-pleasuring actually has some health benefits, such as reducing one's risk to prostate cancer.

However, it can also be argued that not jerking off can be a good thing. Find out why, ahead:

A study about not self-pleasuring

Redditor Alexander Rhodes stumbled upon a study that revealed that men who did not ejaculate for at least
seven days had increased serum testosterone levels by 45.7 percent.

He tried it out
Because he was quite intrigued by the finding, he did not self-pleasure for a week. Note that he was a 22-year-
old guy, so being sexually active was not uncommon.

Alexandar loved the self-pleasuring part

Before doing the experiment, he would masturbate around 10 times a day while watching porn. When he feels
horny in public, he immediately goes to the bathroom to jerk off.

The results

Once he stopped himself from masturbating, he began having heart palpitations. Likewise, seeing attractive
women always made him nervous.

Creating a community
He did not analyse his testosterone levels, but he noticed that he became more focused, energised, and
productive. So, he decided to create the NoFap group on Reddit.

More than 150,000 members

Now, the NoFap community has 157,000 members and many of them are trying the experiment. Some of them
also joined to recover from porn or masturbation addiction.

A Cambridge University study

NoFaps users were approached by Cambridge University to understand the effects of porn. It was revealed that
those who were porn addicts had brain activity similar to alcohol and even drug addicts.

Does watching porn change your brain structure?

Psychology assistant professor Matthew Johnson believes that it's the other way around: our brain structure can
affect how we can be addicted to porn and masturbation.

Case studies
 Some case studies have also shown that a damaged prefrontal cortex can influence one's sexual behavior.

To masturbate or not?

However, even Johnson acknowledged that he would probably masturbate in the future. This is because the
seemingly positive feeling of not masturbating is similar to getting rid of other impulsive behaviors. Moreover,
Masturbation helps relieve stress and tension, aside from other health benefits.