Can you get blind because you’re masturbating? - Science has answer for everything #1

imperfect-one (62)in #science • 7 years ago (edited)

Contrary to what you might think, the title of this post is not a catch for collecting the views or your upvotes. It is rather a way to show, that for the science there are no controversial or uncomfortable topics to explore and that almost everything can be analyzed and, what is probably the most important, that treating certain subjects as taboo within widely understood social debate might bring lots of damage to an individual as well as for the society. So, can you get blind because you’re masturbating?

The answer is…No. Neither you’ll get hair growing between your fingers. And here this post could be actually finished. But what if we ask this question differently and start wondering if the masturbation is harmful? No, not really, even the opposite.

For most people, still this is a taboo topic, even though it is something really natural. As the anonymous survey shows, 97% of adult men have been masturbating at least once in their lifetime, and if you come across a guy aged between 16 and 44, there is 73% probability that he has been masturbating within last 4 weeks. For women, this percentage is accordingly 80% and 37%.

Even kids aged between 3 and 5 can involuntarily perform some activities that can be recognized as some kind of manifestations of masturbation. However, within the society, the topic of masturbation is strongly associated with lots of myths and understatements which are particularly harmful when they are presented to vulnerable groups of people. So why I am making this brave statement that masturbation is not harmful for our body, what is more, that it is actually beneficial? I will try to address this.

Masturbation helps to maintain the constantly high level of nitric oxide in the human body. The amount of nitric oxide that decreases with age and this substance is in charge of numerous important things, for example for keeping men’s erection, which results in stabilizing the sex drive. But if, according to you, this is not enough, we can add to the list controlling the blood pressure, prevention from leukocytes aggregation or improvement of memory. All this can be supported or fought by means of something what, for no reason, is called self-abuse….

Masturbation can be a form of therapy for sexual disorders or recovery after heart attack. All right, sexual disorders sound logic here, but heart attack? It is so that coming back to physical shape should proceed gradually. This means that if a person after a heart attack wants to continue sexual intercourses, they should start with some training, that affects the body a bit less – the masturbation.

After orgasm, the level of prolactin rises, and this in turn, results in the feeling of relax and sleepiness, in the end facilitating falling asleep. And there is no need for pills.

Both sex and masturbation contribute to lowering the blood pressure and are efficient and pleasant method of fighting this condition.

Masturbation activities are always connected with the risk of mechanical damage of genitals.

High number of ejaculations decreases the risk of the prostate cancer. It is not known why it is like that, probably this is related to the regular “cleaning” of the reproductive system. And for women, masturbation lowers the risk of vaginal infections.

Masturbation does not lead to the sexual disorders, getting addicted to this form of activity is never the cause of this kind of diseases, but very often it is a symptom that enables further diagnosis. It does not also cause impotence and premature ejaculations.

Using the same technique all the time might contribute to problems with orgasm and even maintaining the sexual arousal during actual sexual intercourse.

Masturbation leads to rising the levels of dopamine's endorphins, which in turn results in alleviating the physical pain and lowering the stress levels. Theoretically, masturbation can be taken as a form of therapy for depression treatment, as very often orgasm is accompanied with the increase of self-esteem.

In case of masturbating men, sudden increase in the amount of white blood cells results in the increase in immunity. So if you feel that you’re going to be ill and you don’t want to go down with it…

It increases the spermatozoa quality, and even though the number of spermatozoa is at the same time lowered, the men who masturbate regularly, have bigger chances for fertilizing a woman [maybe it should be counted as a disadvantage? ;)]

Masturbation decreases the number of the spermatozoa in the sperm.

Masturbation prevents from deterioration of the sexual life quality that might come with aging, The point is that during an orgasm, the pelvic floor is active. This is the muscle whose strength decreases with age and this, in turn, results in sexual dysfunctions for women and erection disorders for men.

It is very common that the science does not let us answer in a straightforward manner and many aspects of the topic should be explored. However, there are no taboos and such exploration lets us provide the answer in a scientific way regarding even most controversial queries. More is the pity that in many cultures masturbation is wrongly presented as something inappropriate, at the same time the way of thinking full of parascientific statements is used.