# Masterbation **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 22, 1999, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/masterbation/5597 "1999-12-22T21:12:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DaneH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e495f1/32.png) [@DaneH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaneH)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 1999, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/masterbation/5597/1 "1999-12-22T21:12:00Z")
Is there a survey or some statstic out that shows the percent of men who masterbate? because if there is it should be 100% do it. If its not then the ones who said no are lying. What do you think, is my theory true? What percent of women do it? ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 1999, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/masterbation/5597/2 "1999-12-22T21:21:00Z")
First, learn to spell. Then, stop trying to justify yourself, you little wanker. Why should you care who else does it? Are you looking for a support group? So long as you don’t frighten the horses, who cares? ---
**Author:** ![mega\_the\_roo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@mega\_the\_roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mega_the_roo)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 1999, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/masterbation/5597/3 "1999-12-22T21:22:00Z")
there was a special on tv called ‘private dicks’ and they said that 90% of men masturbate, and the rest of them lie. 🙂 * * * “human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust; we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.” - albert einstein ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 1999, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/masterbation/5597/4 "1999-12-23T01:36:00Z")
A wealth of information on the subject can be found at [www.jackinworld.com](http://www.jackinworld.com) Informative without being TOO salacious, for all sexes. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 1999, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/masterbation/5597/5 "1999-12-23T03:17:00Z")
salin, from that site, “Masturbation In The News A phone-sex worker developed carpal tunnel syndrome from her line of work. And you thought only office workers and supermarket checkers developed this problem!” ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 1999, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/masterbation/5597/6 "1999-12-23T03:22:00Z")
Maybe the 10% that aren’t doing it are actually having sex. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 1999, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/masterbation/5597/7 "1999-12-23T03:49:00Z")
I’d respond to this thread, but I have to go masturbate. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 1999, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/masterbation/5597/8 "1999-12-23T03:51:00Z")
**tracer** : u hve 2 lrn to type wth 1 hnd. ---
**Author:** ![LongHrn99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a88e4f/32.png) [@LongHrn99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LongHrn99)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 1999, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/masterbation/5597/9 "1999-12-23T04:17:00Z")
Thank you DrF. That explains all of those stupid-ass abbreviations. 🙂 * * * “I hear the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.” -T.S. Eliot ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 1999, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/masterbation/5597/10 "1999-12-23T16:31:00Z")
Okay, jokes aside, lets try to set this guy DaneH straight. First of all, 100% of men do NOT masturbate. Why not? Easy. Some don’t know how to [how old were you when you learned to? Some don’t learn to until they are much older], some don’t need to [asexual], some don’t want to [religious, etc], some can’t [handicapped], some can’t do it [no time alone], some don’t need to do it anymore [married, too old, etc]… There, now you figure what the percentages are for those, DaneH, and then subtract it from 100% andyoull be all set. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 1999, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/masterbation/5597/11 "1999-12-24T09:05:00Z")
Studies have shown that males AND females who have active sex lives actually masturbate more often. Married people either masturbate as much as they did before, or even more. ---
**Author:** ![aha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@aha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aha)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 1999, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/masterbation/5597/12 "1999-12-24T15:00:00Z")
dhanson: Married people either masturbate as much as they did before, or even more. Thats true! errrrr I meannn well I have heard that’s true… 🙂 * * * Of course that’s just my opinion I could be wrong. Dennis Miller ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 1999, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/masterbation/5597/13 "1999-12-24T16:00:00Z")
dhanson, what study do you refer to? All published material I have seen say thats not the case. ---
**Author:** ![Moonshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Moonshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonshine)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 1999, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/masterbation/5597/14 "1999-12-27T14:39:00Z")
Are you sure that the pages of your particular “research report” weren’t just stuck together handy? ---
**Author:** ![theuglytruth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@theuglytruth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/theuglytruth)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 1999, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/masterbation/5597/15 "1999-12-27T14:47:00Z")
They did a recent survey in a magazine. 90% of the men replied that they masturbate on a regular basis. The other 10% were pathological liars. [http://pwbts.com](http://pwbts.com) * * * [http://www.geocities.com/capitolhill/parliament/1685/](http://www.geocities.com/capitolhill/parliament/1685/) ---
**Author:** ![NanoByte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecc23a/32.png) [@NanoByte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NanoByte)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 1999, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/masterbation/5597/16 "1999-12-28T08:49:00Z")
> [@](#): > > . . ., 100% of men do NOT masturbate Then what is everyone here talking about? That’s sort of different from 'Not all of 100% of men masturbate," isn’t it? Ray (Some men are all wrong; all men are some wrong. Therefore, there’s so’me wrong with all logic.)