# TMI: Do you masturbate? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 5, 2005, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-do-you-masturbate/311195 "2005-07-05T21:47:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-do-you-masturbate/311195/41 "2005-07-06T01:39:09Z")
Male 28. Yes. It’s weird…When I’m single, I tend to wank about once every two days… When I’m involved, but they’re not around, multiple times a day. When they are…well, it’s generally unneccessary at that point. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-do-you-masturbate/311195/42 "2005-07-06T01:41:57Z")
It’s my meat and my soap. I’ll wash as long and as fast as I please, thanks. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-do-you-masturbate/311195/43 "2005-07-06T01:56:07Z")
Male, 23, spankin’ it like I just don’t care. At least I know my hand won’t pull any “Y’know, Matt, I think I like girls more” shit in the middle of it. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-do-you-masturbate/311195/44 "2005-07-06T02:08:11Z")
Single male, 48. Daily, at least. I find shaving enhances sensitivity. ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-do-you-masturbate/311195/45 "2005-07-06T03:19:40Z")
**Harimad-sol** , yep. > [@GorillaMan](#): > > We’re on two topics at once. What did you try? 😛 Lubed finger up the bum, turn the corner, tap the prostate. The way I was positioned my free hand was under my penis. Good thing otherwise I would have had a fun time cleaning the carpet. I had gone awhile (a week maybe), without any release, so tapping the prostate was like squezing a full toothpaste tube with the top off. Pushing on the taint seems like it would produce a similar effect as you’re basiclly doing the same thing only through a layer of skin and tissue. Just a bit of advice for anyone who might try this at home: lots of lube and go slow. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-do-you-masturbate/311195/46 "2005-07-06T03:23:07Z")
My guess is this is not the topic to read while eating. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-do-you-masturbate/311195/47 "2005-07-06T03:24:50Z")
Male, 29 years old. Twice daily. ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-do-you-masturbate/311195/48 "2005-07-06T03:29:35Z")
Doesn’t everyone? I don’t, however, masturbate in front of my husband (or anyone else, for that matter). Perhaps is a throwback from my conservative midwestern values (read: prudish)? I’d like to be more open about it but for some reason, masturbation is Something We Don’t Talk About[sup]TM[/sup]. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-do-you-masturbate/311195/49 "2005-07-06T03:30:22Z")
**Wolfian,** that’s darned interesting. Makes for quite the visual. (I’ve quit trying to picture these things. The image appears in my brain without any prompting, I swear.) Can’t try it out, unfortunately. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-do-you-masturbate/311195/50 "2005-07-06T03:31:41Z")
Make that “trying _not_ to picture”. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-do-you-masturbate/311195/51 "2005-07-06T03:35:13Z")
When I was a kid I beat it like a rented mule. Seriously, I was amusing myself by abusing myself on a multi-daily basis. If I had the time on the weekends - and oh, did I have free time on the weekends - I’d flog the dog three, four, five times a day. At a minimum I’d be shucking the oyster twice daily. What’s funny is that when I started getting the real thing, it didn’t slow me down at all. In fact, I just had more to fantasize about, so next thing you know, out would come Mr. Happy for a date with Thumbelina and the Four Finger Sisters. Now I work so hard and such, I don’t answer my own phone quite as often as once I did, but the chicken does need choking - especially when I’m on the road. There’s no better place than your hotel room for marinating the ol’ tubesteak. Yes, this post was just an excuse to use funny euphemisms for skinning the lizard. ---
**Author:** ![Liz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/liz/32/17737_2.png) [@Liz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liz)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-do-you-masturbate/311195/52 "2005-07-06T03:39:24Z")
That post made me giggle really, **really** hard. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![6\_6\_6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e0b2c6/32.png) [@6\_6\_6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6_6_6)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-do-you-masturbate/311195/53 "2005-07-06T04:12:38Z")
Another one for the **YES! YES! YES!** column. Intercourse can be fine but sometimes you feel like _the real thing_. My personal tip? I’ve posted this before. I’m normally right-handed so I let my left hand join in the fun. It feels somehow, er, more like someone else is involved. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Q.N.Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/3da27b/32.png) [@Q.N.Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.N.Jones)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-do-you-masturbate/311195/54 "2005-07-06T05:31:27Z")
28, female, been doing it at least 3-4 times weekly for about 20 years. > [@chatelaine](#): > > Tips: Ladies, the Hitachi Magic Wand is **your friend**. I still jerk off manually. ---
**Author:** ![Liz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/liz/32/17737_2.png) [@Liz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liz)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-do-you-masturbate/311195/55 "2005-07-06T05:35:53Z")
Hey, ain’t nothin’ wrong with manual. I’m still up for a two-finger tango any day of the week – the Hitachi is just one helluva toy. ---
**Author:** ![kimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f0a364/32.png) [@kimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kimera)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-do-you-masturbate/311195/56 "2005-07-06T06:28:05Z")
Female, 23 and I masturbate more than more guys I know. I like to do it to orgasm at least twice each day. Once I tried to see how many times I could masturbate to orgasm in a session and I got up to 12 times before my hands hurt too much to continue. I don’t use any equipment and my positioning is different than most females. I’ve been masturbating for as long as I can remember. ---
**Author:** ![Liz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/liz/32/17737_2.png) [@Liz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liz)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-do-you-masturbate/311195/57 "2005-07-06T06:30:46Z")
I’ve had 16 in a session with a vibrator, but only about 6 manually. Fucking carpal tunnel. …the carpal tunnel is not from masturbating, so stop it right now. ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-do-you-masturbate/311195/58 "2005-07-06T06:40:42Z")
I started to masturbate once when I was 8 and I haven’t stopped. ---
**Author:** ![Eleusis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Eleusis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleusis)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-do-you-masturbate/311195/59 "2005-07-06T07:01:17Z")
Started way before I was pubescent. I just got all tingly and funny-feeling. Then one day a drop appeared. “Wow! I’m a MAN!” I was 9. Then I got my first hair. Woohoo, better redouble my efforts. Then I reached 14. Don’t EVER EVER EVER masturbate with shampoo if you aren’t in the shower. Think cracked open, bleeding cock, at school in seventh grade. Then I reached 15. The heyday of VHS. Five times in an hour was nothing special. Then I found an accommodating girlfriend. The one session of real sex per week (still 3 times or so), dropped my average down to maybe once per day, in anticipation of the Real Thing. Then we broke up. Back to three times a day. Then I reached 25. I almost always had a nymphomaniac in my bed. Down to maybe twice a week. Then I got married. Back to daily shower excercises. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-do-you-masturbate/311195/60 "2005-07-06T08:38:45Z")
Grrrrrr. The Mormon church condems masterbation, and makes you report it to your bishop. They won’t let you go onto your mission until you stop doing it (or, have never don’t it, but I wonder how many of those people there are). It was a completely guilt ridden practice. :mad: I actually didn’t do it for the 18 months of my mission, although I’m surprised I didn’t explode! I’m making up for it now, though! 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-do-you-masturbate/311195.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-do-you-masturbate/311195.md?page=4)