# 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:** 8
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2005, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-do-you-masturbate/311195/141 "2005-07-10T10:42:54Z")
> [@5 time champ](#): > > Just once, in 1960, for 20 minutes. Hardly qualifies you for Champ status, now does it??? :D:D:D The post-to-read count may tell us a lot. While people posting into this thread seem to masturbate for the most part, there are a heck of a lot of folks reading but not posting. I hate to start a separate thread to ask such a similar question- and I wonder if this question should be asked on the heels of the OP’s query. Perhaps it’d elicit more answers on both sides of the…er…bed? " Are you satisfied with the level of sexual satisfaction in your life? " Maybe a lot of Dopers reading the OP don’t post because they don’t masturbate because they’re too busy doing it like rabbits. Just a thought. ---
**Author:** ![Large\_Marge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/50afbb/32.png) [@Large\_Marge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Large_Marge)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2005, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-do-you-masturbate/311195/142 "2005-07-10T11:52:13Z")
> [@Cartooniverse](#): > > \ > " Are you satisfied with the level of sexual satisfaction in your life? " > > \ It depends on what you mean by “sexual satisfaction.” Do you mean quality or quantity? ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/45deac/32.png) [@Evil\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_One)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2005, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-do-you-masturbate/311195/143 "2005-07-10T13:42:45Z")
> [@Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy](#): > > Male. 43 (44 next month). Guilty as charged. I would expect nothing less from someone with your username. By the way, Male, 43 and of course. But not as much as I used to since I married my second wife about five years ago and started to have sex a minimum of four times a week. ---
**Author:** ![whistlepig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/73ab20/32.png) [@whistlepig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whistlepig)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2005, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-do-you-masturbate/311195/144 "2005-07-10T14:55:01Z")
m/43 I’m a great date I’m always around when I need me And when I take me home and take advantage of myself I don’t feel taken advantage of. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2005, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-do-you-masturbate/311195/145 "2005-07-10T14:59:17Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > Yes, since about 12 or 13 and a spot of instruction from a friend who’d learned it at one of England’s great educational institutions… No lube (I’m uncut), without toys or artificial aids, usually without porn. [literotica.com](http://literotica.com) has some stimulating material but I’m never entirely comfortable jerkin’ the gherkin in front of the computer. I do find I’m slowing down these days (45) though. I’d like to say that was because of my wonderful marital sex life, but it isn’t. Uh…I thought you were female, too. ---
**Author:** ![bang\_ouch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@bang\_ouch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bang_ouch)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2005, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-do-you-masturbate/311195/146 "2005-07-10T15:13:17Z")
18/F Damn yes. From when I was about 12 and woke up from my first and surpisingly graphic sex dream. Probably averages out to between 12 and 15 times a week, with or without SO. Compared to most of my friends I seem to be a very orgamsic person, if that makes any sort of sense. I hold the record for most orgasms in a day and all. So yay! ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2005, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-do-you-masturbate/311195/147 "2005-07-10T21:27:16Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Uh…I thought you were female, too. Good lord, doesn’t anyone read anything I write? I’ve made reference to a Mrs M. recently (see the “Are vaginal deliveries now ‘out’?” thread), and while I realize that’s no guarantee of anything, it’s a bit of a pointer… Heavens to betsy. “Malacandra”, the name, comes from the “archangel” in charge of Mars who, among other things, is partly responsible for the “wargod Mars” meme and very definitely male in aspect, although bodiless and physically sexless (neither of those two being true of me). I knew I should’ve chosen a different name, but the first two I tried were already taken. :: mildly exasperated smiley :: ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2005, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-do-you-masturbate/311195/148 "2005-07-10T22:09:07Z")
Sorry I’m so late into this thread . . . I was busy . . . I need to “express myself” only 1-2 times a day now (one thing about getting older: you need to do some things more often, other things less often). If My Guy isn’t around, I take matters into my own hand(s). Male, 59 ---
**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 10, 2005, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-do-you-masturbate/311195/149 "2005-07-10T22:29:16Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > Good lord, doesn’t anyone read anything I write? I’ve made reference to a Mrs M. recently (see the “Are vaginal deliveries now ‘out’?” thread), and while I realize that’s no guarantee of anything, it’s a bit of a pointer… > > Heavens to betsy. “Malacandra”, the name, comes from the “archangel” in charge of Mars who, among other things, is partly responsible for the “wargod Mars” meme and very definitely male in aspect, although bodiless and physically sexless (neither of those two being true of me). I knew I should’ve chosen a different name, but the first two I tried were already taken. :: mildly exasperated smiley :: :o I’m sorry! I shall pick up a copy of _Out of the Silent Planet_ the next time I’m at the library. And if it helps, your posts are _very_ masculine, it’s just the name that threw me. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2005, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-do-you-masturbate/311195/150 "2005-07-10T22:30:07Z")
I do. Male, 27. Usually right before bed. Often it’s the highlight of my day. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2005, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-do-you-masturbate/311195/151 "2005-07-10T22:39:00Z")
> [@interface2x](#): > > That was me on Effexor. Strangely enough, that was during the only time in my life when I _did_ have someone to share it with … Yeah, I had that, too…I couldn’t do a thing wrong 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2005, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-do-you-masturbate/311195/152 "2005-07-10T22:39:02Z")
> [@Harimad-sol](#): > > I thought the prostate was the usual analogue to the g-spot? I’m a guy, and I found my g-spot. Turns out it’s my penis. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2005, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-do-you-masturbate/311195/153 "2005-07-10T23:25:13Z")
If you can read this, you aren’t masterbating enough. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2005, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-do-you-masturbate/311195/154 "2005-07-11T11:14:19Z")
> [@Large Marge](#): > > It depends on what you mean by “sexual satisfaction.” Do you mean quality or quantity? Good question, **Marge**. I meant quality. In my limited experience, copious amounts of dreadful sex is one of the most depressing things an adult can endure. By comparison, blindingly short spurts…er…bouts of truly spectacular sex can stay with a person for years. ---
**Author:** ![Indygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2005, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-do-you-masturbate/311195/155 "2005-07-11T15:02:32Z")
> [@Hyperelastic](#): > > Ladies, we know you do it. But what I’ve always wondered is the percentage of women who actually look at pictures of nekkid men while doing the Joycelyn Elders Boogie, versus the percentage who just think about naked men while dancing the two-finger taco tango, versus the percentage who think about nothing in particular but their own selfish pleasure while groping the gristle. I really don’t fantasize about anything while I’m masturbating. I usually do it when I’m bored or when I just get out of the shower and am already naked. I guess the sight of my own flesh gets me going. 😃 Actually, reading this thread is getting me going…but I’m at work. Too bad I can’t do it standing up or I’d totally do it in the bathroom. However, the usage of Jocelyn Elders Boogie and “taco” are both quelling the urge. Gross terminology is a turn-off. So yeah, I do it about 4-5 times a week and I have sex about 3-4 times a week. I’m a horny horny girl. And it’s totally about my selfish pleasure, though I do give him some too. hee hee. ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2005, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-do-you-masturbate/311195/156 "2005-07-11T22:51:19Z")
I masturbate, even when I had a fairly regular sex life. I don’t at the minute and may not for a while, so I still jerk off (the girlfriend’s a bit sensitive down there at the moment being preggers) ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-do-you-masturbate/311195/157 "2005-07-12T03:51:47Z")
m/27 yep, once right before bed - I can’t sleep without it. I only do it in my own room - I figure it’s rude to do it in someone elses house so when I get home from a long vacation, leave me alone (exceptions to that rule of course). ---
**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:** [September 12, 2005, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-do-you-masturbate/311195/158 "2005-09-12T05:23:37Z")
Okay, I’m sorry for bumping this up after a long time being dead…but I don’t usually read any topics (including my own) when they are going on. What I do is I print them out at a later date and read them at home (this is because reading online hurts my eyes. It also explains why I don’t reply to very many other topics but make a lot of them myself; I figure by making topics I’m at least keeping my account active and doing something for the SDMB members rather than just lurk. However, like I said, I do read a LOT of topics in all the forums here. I print out at least 15 large ones a day). And so, I recently printed this one out, and noticed this: > [@mojave66](#): > > Yes, NOW I can. Stupid Wellbutrin. What? You mean to tell me that Wellbutrin makes masturbating harder? Because my doctor perscribed it for me, yet when I asked her if it had any “sexual side effects” she said no. So what does it do exactly in this area? Lower the sperm count? Decrease sexual activity and/or longing? Before I start taking this, I’d like to know, because, mannn, beating my meat is something I do daily. So does anyone know why this person would say something like this in the quote (or if they were joking)? Again, sorry for bumping. ---
**Author:** ![Buckler\_of\_Swashing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Buckler\_of\_Swashing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buckler_of_Swashing)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-do-you-masturbate/311195/159 "2005-09-12T05:38:04Z")
Female. 21. All. The. Freaking. Time. excuse me for a while… ---
**Author:** ![Penchan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/74df32/32.png) [@Penchan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penchan)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-do-you-masturbate/311195/160 "2005-09-12T06:34:44Z")
Female. 1. In a 5 year relationship. Oh my Og yes. So much that my SO thinks I prefer masturbating more than sex. It’s a different experience, it’s not that I don’t like sex. But come on, when you masturbate, at least if you fall asleep on yourself, you won’t wake up with anyone mad, right? I’ve done it to the point where my hand goes numb sometimes. Those orgasms tend to make my limbs tingle for a bit. And the nap afterward is positively blissful. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-do-you-masturbate/311195.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-do-you-masturbate/311195.md?page=9)