# How often do you masturbate? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 28, 2006, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-masturbate/362533 "2006-06-28T19:11:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2006, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-masturbate/362533/181 "2006-07-08T06:24:04Z")
I can corroborate mindgasms. And that’s all I gonna say. (I’m shy about this stuff–can’t believe I posted this at all) 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2006, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-masturbate/362533/182 "2006-07-08T06:26:30Z")
Incredible! Mindgasms! Man, this stuff sounds like a porn movie involving PCP and aliens. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2006, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-masturbate/362533/183 "2006-07-08T06:31:22Z")
[QUOTE=eleanorigby] I can corroborate mindgasms. And that’s all I gonna say. (I’m shy about this stuff–can’t believe I posted this at all) 🆒 [/QUOTE] Your having them, you mean? Welcome to the club. We have a secret handshake, you see, because it’s not as if our hands are busy. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2006, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-masturbate/362533/184 "2006-07-08T07:47:13Z")
[QUOTE=Telperien] Your having them, you mean? Welcome to the club. We have a secret handshake, you see, because it’s not as if our hands are busy. 😃 [/QUOTE] Yeah, but every time I try to talk to you… ---
**Author:** ![kevegan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e68b1a/32.png) [@kevegan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevegan)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2006, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-masturbate/362533/185 "2006-07-08T08:26:24Z")
[QUOTE=Misnomer] A male friend of mine once insisted that orgasm and ejaculation were not the same thing. [/QUOTE] I think he took you for one impressionable female. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2006, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-masturbate/362533/186 "2006-07-08T08:45:46Z")
**kevegan** , why are you [so](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orgasm#Male_multiple_orgasms) [insistent](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_orgasm) on this? ---
**Author:** ![Rachael\_Rage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71c47a/32.png) [@Rachael\_Rage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachael_Rage)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2006, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-masturbate/362533/187 "2006-07-08T09:25:42Z")
[QUOTE=eleanorigby] I can corroborate mindgasms. [/QUOTE] I’m not sure if this counts, but I’m positive that I’ve had orgasms in my sleep. Unlike guys and their “wet dreams” I have no proof, but I’ve had some super-intense dreams where I wake up very relaxed and happy! 🆒 The most recent was about Stephen Colbert!! ---
**Author:** ![kevegan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e68b1a/32.png) [@kevegan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevegan)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2006, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-masturbate/362533/188 "2006-07-08T10:16:18Z")
[QUOTE=fetus] **kevegan** , why are you [so](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orgasm#Male_multiple_orgasms) [insistent](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_orgasm) on this? [/QUOTE] Well, a couple of hints: 1) it’s all self-reported data, and that’s not the most reliable; and 2) “dry orgasms” by their very purported-nature are impossible to observe or measure. ---
**Author:** ![kevegan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e68b1a/32.png) [@kevegan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevegan)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2006, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-masturbate/362533/189 "2006-07-08T10:17:48Z")
[QUOTE=vaderspal] Unlike guys and their “wet dreams” I have no proof [/QUOTE] Nil desperandum. You’re on a level with guys who have “dry dreams” - they can’t prove nothing neither. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2006, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-masturbate/362533/190 "2006-07-08T10:38:18Z")
You offer good points towards skepticism of dry orgasm from a scientific standpoint, but come on, don’t be a spoilsport. 😉 Seriously though, I guess you’re right about it being self-reported. The first link I gave said “at least one scientific study supports this”, which I misread; turns out that statement was about something different. I think the guy’s sexual partner would be able to tell if he’s coming or not. But there appear to be no claims toward that particular…method of…discovery, so to speak, here. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2006, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-masturbate/362533/191 "2006-07-08T16:45:57Z")
[QUOTE=fetus] don’t be a spoilsport [/QUOTE] You should have said “spoilspurt.” ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2006, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-masturbate/362533/192 "2006-07-08T21:51:28Z")
38, single male, hetero. Twice a day, just after breakfast and just after lunch (the latter in a restroom stall at work). Now and then I have a third go, at bedtime. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2006, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-masturbate/362533/193 "2006-07-08T23:48:20Z")
Not nearly as often as I used to! ☹ ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2006, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-masturbate/362533/194 "2006-07-09T00:04:27Z")
Wait, I thought orgasm without ejaculation was called “retrograde ejaculation,” and that the guy \*does \*ejaculate, but it goes up into the bladder, not out the urethra. Can’t we verify it by finding sperm in the bladder? [Yeah, here you go.](http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/retrograde-ejaculation/AN00648) Appears to be a real, scientifical thingy. It doesn’t say on that page that it can be learned, but if people can learn to control reflexes, I don’t see why this should be too hard. It’s obviously physically possible with your plumbing. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2006, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-masturbate/362533/195 "2006-07-09T00:11:23Z")
[QUOTE=kevegan] I think he took you for one impressionable female. [/QUOTE] Um, no: I don’t think that the term “impressionable” has ever applied to me, and it certainly didn’t then. I admire your chutzpah, though: You don’t know anything about me, the guy in question, the nature of our relationship, or the context of the conversation, yet you feel comfortable smugly suggesting that I must have been whooshed. Bravo. What makes you so sure that there can’t _possibly_ be such a thing as male orgasm without ejaculation? I mean, it’s one thing to not be able to prove it on a messageboard, but I see no reason to assume that any man who claims that it happens _must_ be lying. One guy says it’s possible, another says it isn’t: why is the first one automatically wrong? [QUOTE=WhyNot] Wait, I thought orgasm without ejaculation was called “retrograde ejaculation,” and that the guy does ejaculate, but it goes up into the bladder, not out the urethra. [/QUOTE] I have no doubt that what you describe is the cause of some (maybe even most) dry orgasms, but I see no reason to assume that it’s the cause of _all_ of them. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2006, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-masturbate/362533/196 "2006-07-09T00:35:45Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] Wait, I thought orgasm without ejaculation was called “retrograde ejaculation,” and that the guy \*does \*ejaculate, but it goes up into the bladder, not out the urethra. Can’t we verify it by finding sperm in the bladder? [Yeah, here you go.](http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/retrograde-ejaculation/AN00648) Appears to be a real, scientifical thingy. It doesn’t say on that page that it can be learned, but if people can learn to control reflexes, I don’t see why this should be too hard. It’s obviously physically possible with your plumbing. [/QUOTE] Yes, I should have said that was happened with the man in the book; he said at the end of the piece that when he went to the bathroom, his pee had “more head on it than a pint of Guinness.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2006, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-masturbate/362533/197 "2006-07-09T01:07:39Z")
That sounds painful and possibly dangerous. Any doctors in the house? ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2006, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-masturbate/362533/198 "2006-07-09T01:24:35Z")
[QUOTE=fetus] That sounds painful and possibly dangerous. Any doctors in the house? [/QUOTE] What he did was press on his perineum to keep himself from ejaculating; it does sound like it could be bad for you, not to mention the pee thing. I bet that was a weird surprise. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2006, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-masturbate/362533/199 "2006-07-09T01:25:26Z")
[QUOTE=fetus] That sounds painful and possibly dangerous. Any doctors in the house? [/QUOTE] Nope, not painful, or so I’m told. As [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrograde_ejaculation) points out, retrograde ejaculation is taught in some Eastern Philosophies so that men don’t waste their “qi” or life-force. (Hijack: In Traditional Chinese Medicine, the qi lost during ejaculation is a kind called “jing”, and it’s sort of your “bank” of life. Once the jing is lost, you’re dead. Men loose jing to ejaculation and women to childbearing. Hijack of the hijack: I once had a guy come up to me at a bonfire and tell me he wanted to give me the great honor and ecstasy of receiving his “jing”. :rolleyes: are not enough.) I had a married couple as teachers once, and they introduced their infant daughter to me as “the failed Tantric experience.” 😃 AND :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2006, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-masturbate/362533/200 "2006-07-09T01:27:51Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] Hijack of the hijack: I once had a guy come up to me at a bonfire and tell me he wanted to give me the great honor and ecstasy of receiving his “jing”. :rolleyes: are not enough.) [/QUOTE] Man, and I thought _I_ had suffered some goofy pick-up lines. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-masturbate/362533.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-masturbate/362533.md?page=11)