# 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:** 9
**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, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-masturbate/362533/161 "2006-07-08T03:22:51Z")
You knew it was cumming. ---
**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, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-masturbate/362533/162 "2006-07-08T03:25:34Z")
[QUOTE=kevegan] You knew it was cumming. [/QUOTE] ::groan:: ---
**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, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-masturbate/362533/163 "2006-07-08T03:27:36Z")
**kevegan** ’s coming and **Telperien** ’s groaning! Quick, someone get the fire extinguisher! ---
**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, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-masturbate/362533/164 "2006-07-08T03:33:22Z")
[QUOTE=fetus] **kevegan** ’s coming and **Telperien** ’s groaning! Quick, someone get the fire extinguisher! [/QUOTE] :rolleyes: I just now realized the implications of that groan. I thwap you for pointing it out. I also have a question, which I recently asked of a male friend. Guys, when you come, do you ever come “dry” or do you always ejaculate when you come? One of my friends claims to have cultivated his ability to have orgasms without shooting, and I’ve read of people doing this, but it seems somewhat unusual. ---
**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, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-masturbate/362533/165 "2006-07-08T03:33:23Z")
Not so quick. No knowing what use **Malacandra** ’s hot colleague might find for that. If she’s run out of bananas, that is. ---
**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, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-masturbate/362533/166 "2006-07-08T03:35:23Z")
[QUOTE=Telperien] Guys, when you come, do you ever come “dry” or do you always ejaculate when you come? One of my friends claims to have cultivated his ability to have orgasms without shooting, and I’ve read of people doing this, but it seems somewhat unusual. [/QUOTE] You should give about as much credence to this as to Ken Lay’s claims about Enron. ---
**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, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-masturbate/362533/167 "2006-07-08T03:36:59Z")
[QUOTE=kevegan] You should give about as much credence to this as to Ken Lay’s claims about Enron. [/QUOTE] Oh, so you’re saying it isn’t even possible? That seems a bit harsh. Granted, not being possessed of the equipment in question, I can’t try it out myself. ---
**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, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-masturbate/362533/168 "2006-07-08T03:40:52Z")
A bit harsh?! But I am my own site/cite/sight on this one. Any man who says he can come without shooting (unless he’s as old as Methuselah and the grapes have turned to raisins - and you’re specifically talking about an ability that has been cultivated) is just trying to get a rise out of you. ---
**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, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-masturbate/362533/169 "2006-07-08T03:42:49Z")
[QUOTE=kevegan] A bit harsh?! But I am my own site/cite/sight on this one. Any man who says he can come without shooting (unless he’s as old as Methuselah and the grapes have turned to raisins - and you’re specifically talking about an ability that has been cultivated) is just trying to get a rise out of you. [/QUOTE] But…we’re not that kind of friends. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2006, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-masturbate/362533/170 "2006-07-08T03:59:07Z")
[QUOTE=Telperien One of my friends claims to have cultivated his ability to have orgasms without shooting, and I’ve read of people doing this, but it seems somewhat unusual.[/QUOTE] Coitus reservatus, I believe the technique is called. I took a human sexuality course in college, and the professor (and author of the textbook) told a story about his co-author: CoAuthor was doing anthropological research somewhere in the South Pacific. Apparently the tribe he was studying had mastered this technique. CoAuthor was dallying with the ladies of the tribe; the tribe had no problem with CoAuthor gettin’ busy…but one of the men of the tribe took him aside, and said that the women would prefer if he wasn’t so…messy. ---
**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, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-masturbate/362533/171 "2006-07-08T04:01:43Z")
I have my reservatuses about this story. Wasn’t one of Margaret Mead’s South Pacific “research” projects, was it? ---
**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, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-masturbate/362533/172 "2006-07-08T04:02:08Z")
> [@Telperien](#): > > I also have a question, which I recently asked of a male friend. Guys, when you come, do you ever come “dry” or do you always ejaculate when you come? One of my friends claims to have cultivated his ability to have orgasms without shooting, and I’ve read of people doing this, but it seems somewhat unusual. It’s possible. There’s a book called The Multi-Orgasm Man that supposedly teaches you how to come dry several times before unleashing The Big One. ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2006, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-masturbate/362533/173 "2006-07-08T04:03:58Z")
“Come dry”? Wow. I don’t know if I should be intrigued or frightened. ---
**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, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-masturbate/362533/174 "2006-07-08T04:07:39Z")
When you get old enough, you come dust. ---
**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, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-masturbate/362533/175 "2006-07-08T04:41:30Z")
[QUOTE=fetus] It’s possible. There’s a book called The Multi-Orgasm Man that supposedly teaches you how to come dry several times before unleashing The Big One. [/QUOTE] Hmm. There’s also a fairly amusing sidebar in _The Big Bang_ about that, as well. It’s just that the guy doing it seemed more depressed about it than anything else. ---
**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, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-masturbate/362533/176 "2006-07-08T05:03:02Z")
Depressed? 😕 I would _love_ to never shoot a big sticky mess again, but still orgasm. ---
**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, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-masturbate/362533/177 "2006-07-08T05:07:41Z")
[QUOTE=fetus] Depressed? 😕 I would _love_ to never shoot a big sticky mess again, but still orgasm. [/QUOTE] I think it was more because his orgasm turned out a little flat when he kept himself from shooting. You’d think, though, that the ability to keep coming would mitigate that. ---
**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, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-masturbate/362533/178 "2006-07-08T05:25:07Z")
Maybe he somehow figured out the no-sticky-mess part and hadn’t yet mastered the keep-coming part. That would stink. But not as much as the sticky mess ---
**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 8, 2006, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-masturbate/362533/179 "2006-07-08T05:27:58Z")
[QUOTE=Telperien] I also have a question, which I recently asked of a male friend. Guys, when you come, do you ever come “dry” or do you always ejaculate when you come? One of my friends claims to have cultivated his ability to have orgasms without shooting, and I’ve read of people doing this, but it seems somewhat unusual. [/QUOTE] A male friend of mine once insisted that orgasm and ejaculation were not the same thing. Another male friend said that he was insane. So my thinking is that it depends on the male. 🙂 ---
**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, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-masturbate/362533/180 "2006-07-08T05:51:04Z")
[QUOTE=fetus] Maybe he somehow figured out the no-sticky-mess part and hadn’t yet mastered the keep-coming part. That would stink. But not as much as the sticky mess [/QUOTE] He kept masturbating and coming. Now that I think about it, perhaps the fact that he was masturbating instead of being with a partner might have been bothering him. That’s not unknown, after all. [QUOTE=Misnomer] A male friend of mine once insisted that orgasm and ejaculation were not the same thing. Another male friend said that he was insane. So my thinking is that it depends on the male. 🙂 [/QUOTE] Yeah. I mean, everyone’s different, after all. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-masturbate/362533.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-masturbate/362533.md?page=10)