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Male or Female?
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What age did you start?
11-ish -
Did you know what you were doing? If not, did you do it anyway?
sort of - I knew what masturbation was, but I didn’t really set out to try it, it’s just something I started doing. I think it dawned on me later exactly what I was doing. And, no, I didn’t stop.
Pretty much. Yeah, I did it when I was 11 (and probably earlier, but I don’t remember), but I sure as hell wasn’t mentally capable of having a mature sexual relationship with another person.
Woman here. I always ‘touched myself’ growing up, but I started climaxing at 10 years old. I didn’t understand the concept of ‘masturbation’ until several years later.
It was very much sexual and I had (totally non-graphic) fantasies, etc, or would get turned on by reading stuff in books. I was a pretty sexual kid from an early age, although I never touched other kids.
I didn’t go through puberty until I was 14, so I was somewhat ahead of the curve. I didn’t have any sexual contact with another person until age 19.
Um, no. Most children are certainly sexual beings, but that doesn’t mean it’s not morally wrong and extremely damaging for them to be molested/raped by an adult. I have less of a problem with consensual sexual activity between kids around the same age (and it seems to be very common)… but it too can easily go wrong and be traumatizing for one party, in part because most adults are so stupidly convinced their child is asexual that there is no way for them to learn about not sexually pressuring (or worse) other people.
I don’t know when I started. My mother used to yell at me for “playing with myself” (through my clothes, by the way) but I think I was mostly just scratching in that area. I did have eczema, after all.
But I had my first orgasm in bed one night, age maybe 11 or 12, doing what I must have been doing at least for a little while. Since it was dark and it was a warm liquid coming out of me, I thought it must be blood, and I was too afraid to turn on the light and look. In the morning I was relieved to see there was no bloodstain, so I went to town from then on. I’m afraid I wasn’t very clean about it, I just did it in my pajamas or underwear. My mother would comment obliquely once in a while about the smell, but neither parent talked to me about it - lack of guts, apparently.
Fantasies about other boys soon came into it, but since I had no idea what boys would do with each other, they were just mostly about seeing my latest crush naked. So I would classify the fantasies as semi-sexual.
Roddy
Male
Sometime around Age 12. The funny thing is for the life of me I can’t place exactly when I figured it out, but when I did it was a HUGE deal- like some incredible invention that actually worked.
My dad was very upfront about the concepts of things like masturbation and sex. I guess I’m glad he was so relaxed about them, but hearing it from him was mortifying. For many years I was convinced I was the only person on the planet that masturbated (even though my dad told me guys do it and its normal, I wasn’t convinced guys actually did it.
Female
Started rubbing on stuff around 6 or 7. I did a lot of horseback riding. What they say about girls and horseback riding is true!
Didn’t use my hand or vibrator with the purposeful goal of orgasm until about age 12, which makes sense because that’s when my period started and to this day, what - 27 years later - the day before my period starts I get so horny that if I don’t have sex or masturbate I have an orgasm in my sleep.
Masturwhatening?
Male
Really young. Probably about 4-5 or so.
Found a vibrating thing and felt it on my head. On my neck. On my elbow. On my…OH…HEY! Didn’t know what the hell was going on until MUCH later. Probably about 10.
Male.
Eleven.
Mostly.
I actually read about it in a book telling you not to do it. I thought I was too young, and it wouldn’t work, anyways. I was bored waiting in the car, so I thought I’d try and find out. I didn’t think it would be that big a deal.
Incidentally, I’ve never utilized any pornography. And it was a long time before I even associated it with anything truly sexual.
Oh, and I didn’t get an erection without stimulating myself until I was like 14.
Male.
Pretty much as early as I can remember. Originally started by rubbing myself against my pillows or blankets; didn’t do it “the regular way” until 12 or so.
I didn’t know what I was doing exactly super early on, but by age 5 or 6 I at least knew it was related to the “sex thing” people are always talking about.
How did you cover that up after the driver came back?
I was 11 (male). I actually remember it pretty vividly. I was in bed wondering what oral sex would be like and licked my fingers and started touching myself trying to approximate a tongue. Suddenly, something went off like a religious awakening and it was fapfapfap. When I orgasmed, I had no idea what had just happened except that it was fan-freaking-tastic.
Female here. I was 11 and discovered that placing myself under a running tap in the bath was rather good… I took a lot of baths. I knew what I was doing but didn’t consider it ‘proper’ masturbation because I was passive and not particularly involved in the whole process, just lie back and enjoy it! I can’t remember when I started using my own… erm… manual dexterity. I’m pretty sure I was out of high school. I do still occasionally take baths when in the opportunity arises, I do wish I had one in my house 
Boys can get erections starting before birth.
Me, female, around 13 (after puberty hit, anyway), and I had the general idea.
My first time was this summer while sitting on a bidet at a Holiday Inn.