Ask Auntie Karuoya - Is self-pleasuring unhealthy?

Dear Auntie Karuoya,

I hope you can help me with my problem, which is masturbation. Can this act impact a person’s sex power? What about his or her health? Also illustrate whether it is necessary to masturbate. What are the ways to stop masturbation? Please help as I’m really concerned.

Mogaka

Dear Mogaka

To best answer your question, I have appended a news feature that was published by Fox News last week. It is titled: ‘The health benefits of masturbation’."While people love to make wisecracks about it, few will actually admit to doing it. Yet, according to Martha Cornog of ‘The Big Book of Masturbation’, self-pleasuring is surely the second most common human sex act. And, despite its torrid history, it turns out this once taboo behaviour has plenty of health benefits and can do wonders for your sex life. While the shackles of masturbation have been loosening around our loins, it is only recently that society has started to let go of its guilt around solo sex. This is in part thanks to sex researchers affirming that most of us do it, as well as the embracing of it by television sitcoms. Even if you are not a conformist, there is something about safety in numbers when it comes to this topic. This more relaxed attitude is also due to the medical community challenging its own original claims that masturbation was a serious medical-ethical problem with dire results. Anybody with "solo sexploration" experience can tell you that, contrary to popular myths, masturbation does not lead to acne, warts, hair on the palm, insanity, blindness... What many may not know, however, is that stimulating yourself can ultimately boost your health in many ways.

"Research summarised in a 2007 article in ‘Sexual and Relationship Therapy’ found that masturbation may help men by:

Improving his immune system’s functioning.

Building his resistance to prostate gland infection.

Making for a healthier prostate. Australian researchers have reported that frequent masturbation may lower a man’s risk of developing prostate cancer. A survey of men found that the more frequently a man masturbates between the ages of 20 and 50, the less likely they are to get prostate cancer. In fact, those who masturbated more than five times a week were one-third less likely to develop prostate cancer.

"When it comes to a woman’s health, self-pleasuring serves her well by: Building her resistance to yeast infections.

Combating pre-menstrual tension and other physical conditions associated with their menstrual cycles, like cramps.

 

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