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Is watching porn without masturbation bad?

I am 19 years old and am experiencing pretty much all the symptoms of over masterbating, from fuzzy vision, to fatigue, to soft erections/premature ejaculation. I usually watch porn when I masturbate. Now I know that masturbation causes pretty much all of these problems, so I have learned to watch porn without masturbating (If anyone is curious as to how, i just lay on my stomach while watching porn. Doing this doesnt let me get erect and for whatever reason keeps me from wanting to masturbate to a degree that I'm usually comfortable with). Now my question is am I still causing any form of damage in relations to the ones mentioned earlier, and is watching porn slowing down the healing process, and by healing I mean my body returning to the way it was before i started "over masturbating?" Someone please help me, id really appreciate the advice.
P.S. and yes i know i should just stop watching porn altogether.
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684030 tn?1415612323
I've never heard of "over masturbation" causing the symptoms that you mentioned; but since you feel that it's a problem maybe you could cut back on how frequently you do masturbate.

Anyway, the troubling part about what you described isn't so much those "symptoms" ...or the masturbation ...or the porn. What would concern me is the act of suppressing a normal physiological reaction such as an erection and/or ejaculation.

I don't know if or what potential damages exist when one quashes any natural biological response. I could only speculate that over the long term, no good can come from it.
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Some good advice here. In general, masturbation is not harmful in & of itself. Obviously porn can cause prblms - you can condition’ yourself to be aroused only by certain things you see & often you have to progress to more extreme forms once the ‘usual’ things are no longer arousing. My comment is, by watching porn without getting aroused, you could unintentionally ‘train’ yourself to NOT be aroused by the things that normally stimulate you. I think anyone can see where that could lead - at some point, most ‘normal’ things would no longer cause any arousal. And finally, what’s the point of looking at porn & NOT getting arousal from it ??
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Boy, seems like a lot of borderline stuff said on this thread.  Making your penis insensitive?  Uh, no.  Folks, people have been looking at "porn" since humans learned to draw.  There's "porn" on cave walls.  How you define it has a lot to do with how you feel about it.  Because we've lived for centuries under the influence of prudish religions, it's possible we're just so trained to feel guilty about anything that feels good it's become a problem.  Who knows.  People are different, though, and whether you ever watch "porn" or not you are going to develop preferences for looks and what you like to do sexually and if you don't get that you might not enjoy it as much, and often you aren't going to get that.  Humans have preferences.  The trouble with sex with actual other humans is that there's two people involved and they probably don't share the same preferences, so adaptability is important in this as in all things.  But I'm guessing "porn" affects different people quite differently.  Never cared for it myself, always preferred looking at pictures of attractive women wearing provocative clothing.  I'm much more affected by an ad for shorts than I am by watching other people have sex, which is usually portrayed to me at least in a way that makes it look really unappetizing, but to each their own.  But over-generalizing is probably not the right approach.  Peace, all.
Agree bonzodog. Your advice is pretty solid here.
Thx, GR - you always provide good advice & insight as well. Always great to see other viewpoints, it’s possible we can miss smthg obvious that someone else sees & points out…
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I’d like to point out nobody here has mentioned the psychological affects porn has on the brain. Everyone is correct.. ejaculating everyday has no harmful affect and there are studies that show it decreases the chance of prostrate cancer; search it up.
Therefore, it’s not the masterbation it’s the porn buddy.
So what kind of porn are you watching? Cause the lorn has your dopamine levels all ******! Not to sound harsh, but you quite literally are a walking human with no life force energy because you expended it to a screen.
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There is something to that NoFapMunk.  I'm not antiporn or anything but there is a book called 'your brain on porn' because it WILL begin to act like a drug.  I also think that we as visual people can get used to that direct stimulation of the eyes and senses that when in 'real life' situations that are hardly ever like porn, we have trouble staying at that level of arousal.  It has certainly probably interfered in plenty of relationships for people over the years. And the more and more needed issue comes into play as well. So, your input here is valid.  
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It's not that masturbation is bad for your health in itself, it's just the way most people do it that's "harmful" in a way. If you do it using your hand, you usually squeeze quite hard and, when done a lot, your penis becomes insensitive. That may cause awkward situations in bed when you can get erect only under harder stimulation (e.g. by mouth or your partner's hand). Good workaround seems to be the "fleshlight" masturbator, since it's vagina-like and doesn't make your penis insensitive, even when used often.

This whole thought process is one I heard from a professional, one of the top earning legal sex worker in US Alice Little. The conversation took place in a audio interview, a podcast, by a guy named Tim Ferriss. I recommend you to listen to it, not only to learn how to masturbate without any consequences. Hope this helps, have a nice day, you guys.
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When you masturbate, you become stupid in bed.
You dont feel for sex like masturbation.
You'll be disappointed for sex since you dont feel ok like when your masturbating because that is what your brain has been wired for.
With a real woman, your hands start shaking, your arms becomes sweaty, your heart starts beating.
Due to this, blood cannot pump to give you full erection.
which is =zero erection.
Your partner will feel angry and dissappointed
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You are 100% dead on with this because it is something I have personally experienced.  
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man what are talking about that "their is no bad effects on over-masturbation i say there is a deferince between one fornicating your wife and between masturbation alone by some one's self ,i describe masturbation as an act to throw out what the body has from nerve power ,through out semen.
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1305762 tn?1311548999
Masturbating does not cause any of the symptoms you are describing. So if you're experiencing these problems you need to get yourself checked out by a doctor because something else is going on.

Masturbation does not cause any medical problems. Masturbating excessively can become an addiction and thus present a problem but the simple act of masturbating does not cause fatigue or fuzzy vision.

Recent studies on the long-term effects of masturbation have linked it to ZERO medical problems and in fact are now suggesting there is a direct relationship between the frequency of ejaculation and prostate health.

19 year old guys masturbate. 14 year old guys masturbate. 40 year old men masturbate. There's nothing wrong with it. It's not a requirement though. If you don't feel like you want to do it then by all means don't.

But it isn't going to hurt you either way.
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wooow...i cant believe i never thought about that, ****, now i really will have to stop watching porn :( .Its a good thing ive onli started doing this recently. Thank you for helping me prevent a potentially worse problem then im facing now
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