As long as you're not stimulating yourself in public, or refusing food, friends, and gainful employment because you can't stop masturbating, then it's not harmful. In other words, if you stop hanging out with your friends or if you're always late for work so that you can masturbate more, then you're probably masturbating too much. The only harmful thing that can happen is if you let the skin on your penis get too dry and irritated. If you find that the skin on your penis gets irritated, then use a little lubrication to help.

Masturbation is definitely a healthy sexual activity. It's a great way for you to enjoy your own body and to give yourself sexual pleasure. It can also tune you in to your own sexual likes and dislikes. You then have the choice of sharing that information with a sexual partner to enhance a sexual relationship. Mutual masturbation, when two people masturbate in front of each other, can also be arousing, and is a great alternative to intercourse without the risk of transmission of sexually transmitted diseases or risk of pregnancy.

Here's a few questions for you to think about. What was your usual pattern of masturbation in the past? Did anything else in your life change in the last few weeks? Is there stress in your life about being in school, leaving a job, moving, ending a relationship?

There are a few directions you can take at this point. One, crazy as it may sound, is to masturbate more often and see if you feel any differently. Another is to try masturbating one or two times less per day and see how that makes you feel. How about a masturbation schedule? This would give you a framework for the activity so that it doesn't take time away from other things you need to do. Also, it would make you conscious about each time you are masturbating, what triggered the need to release, and whether or not there are discernible patterns.

You might want to change your style of masturbation. I'd encourage you to try to get more pleasure from each experience with yourself. Choose one time a day to make it something special, to try to change the nature of your interaction with yourself. All of this is to give you more information about your needs, desires, and wants, and make the masturbation experience more deliberate.

If the real issue is that you are lonely, angry, or resentful about someone, then you need to think about that. You might look at other stress outlets. Exercise might make a difference physically. Psychologically, there might be something you could do to become more available or more receptive to a potential partner. Don't exclude counseling as an option if this continues to be distressing for you.

Biologically speaking, masturbation is as right and normal as sneezing, coughing, laughing, and yawning. Remember this: according to most studies and surveys, about 95% of adults have masturbated or continue to do so. Masturbation is not bad for you physically, sexually or emotionally -- unless it is something you simply do not WANT to be doing -- and can be, in fact, good for you. It has been almost twenty years since the American Medical Association declared masturbation a normal and healthy sexual activity, and even then, it was long overdue. Here's a thought-provoking quotes on this subject: "True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is." - R.D. Laing (1961)

Ask yourself this: could you go blind from having sex? No, of course not. So how can masturbation make you go blind? What possible mechanism in the body could cause such an extreme reaction? The answer is, of course, that there is no connection, there never has been and there never will. This is simply a way for people who don't approve of masturbation to try to make others feel guilty about doing it.

There are many ways of doing it, but it is obviously different for men and women. For men, most commonly they will use their hand. Sometimes they will use lotion or other lubricants on their penis for smoother motions. They wrap there hand around their penis and move it up and down for stimulation. Some men like to carress the head of the penis and some men don't. Some men also like to fondle their testicles at the same time. Some men even like to put something in their butt while they are fondling their penis and/or testicles. There is also simulated vagina toys that men can buy if they are really into masturbating.

For women, most commonly they use their fingers. Most women use lotion or other lubricant to make insertion easier. Once they have put the lotion/lube on their fingers or directly on their vagina, they insert their fingers into their vagina and push in and out. They also sometimes stimulate their clitoris by rubbing it and some women like to put something in their butt while playing with the vagina at the same time. Women will also use dildos (toy penises) some times, or other penis shaped objects like carrots, cucumbers etc.

This is the basics, but of course you can do anything that gets you off!

Yes. Just as there is no harming in masturbating, there is no harm in not doing it.

No. I'll say that again: NO! Although acne is related to the production of the hormone testosterone in the body, masturbating or having sex has no impact on acne. There is also the reverse myth which states that celibacy also causes acne! This is not true either. This belongs right up there with the classic myths about masturbation causing blindness/hair loss/impotence or whatever dire consequence you can think of, none of which are true. Stress, however, DOES have the potential to cause acne. So stop worrying about it!

Almost everyone agrees that porn is the best thing that you can use to masturbate. Let's face it - everyone has all kinds of sexual urges and fantasies. Some of them might feel a little embarassing, or weird, or whatever. Or, we might have a partucilar fantasy, and we don't know how to go about doing that in real life. So, masturbating to porn is the perfect way to experience those fantasies in the privacy of your own place. There is such a wide range of porn out there, so that no matter what you think is exciting, there are many porn sites just for that.

Now there are 2 kinds of porn sites, free ones and ones that you pay for. While there is lots of free porn out there, I'd strongly recommend joining a pay site or 2. Why, do you ask? Well, there's a few reasons.

1. First, hunting for the kind of free porn that you want takes a long time, but if you join a pay porn site, new, fresh porn is always there in one spot. So, you spend MORE TIME MASTURBATING instead of wasting your time just LOOKING FOR SOMETHING TO MASATURBATE TO.
2. Second, the quality of porn on a pay site is much better than on free sites. So, you'll get more excited and aroused and have better orgasms.
3. And third, let's face it - joining one or two porn sites a month is a hell of a lot cheaper than a girlfriend. Why spend your money on dinner, taking a girl to those cheesy chick flicks, buying her flowers and gifts, all the money you have to pay for gas or transportation, etc, when the girl might not even give you a blow job? You've spent all that money for NOTHING! You can pay just a fraction of that to join a porn site, and you can use that porn to masturbate and get great orgasms ANYTIME YOU WANT and AS OFTEN AS YOU WANT!

The best part is that I've gone through all the porn on the Web, and I've got links to the best porn for the best price here on my site. So, click around on Jack's Asses, find a site that gets you off, and join it. You'll have lots of great masturbation material, and it's a hell of a lot cheaper than a girlfriend.