What is the truth from the scientific community in regards to Traumatic Masturbatory Syndrome? Is it true that TMS causes sexual dysfunctions?
Thanks for your help. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traumatic_masturbatory_syndrome#Male_2
Hopefully that at least gives you somewhere to start.
Lying face downward, huh?
Sounds like the same posture as the good old-fashioned method by which I’m betting half the Dopers on here were created.
A man made an assertion eight years ago. No consistent follow-up in 8 years, despite thousands of dissertations and theses being done in the field by people operating with a substantial shortage of new ideas to work on.
I’m skeptical.
A little anecdotal evidence: Beds and pillows were my very first partners, and remained my choice for quite a while before I met Rosie Palm. As of right now, age 28, that early experience has not led to any dysfunction I’m aware of, and I still occasionally visit the old flames. 
Please note that “psychogenic” means that there’s no physical cause, only psychological. As a psychologist, I note that this is not in DSM, I’ve never heard of it, and an N of 4 means nothing.
And they said it couldn’t be done:
“Lawrence I. Sank (1998) speculated that men masturbating prone (i.e. lying face downward)”
I have no idea what this is referring to. Well, I sort of do in the abstract way because others have hinted what it is but I still don’t get it and I didn’t realize people did things like that.
I imagine humping a pillow (if that’s what they mean) is not quite the same, in terms of stresses on your body parts.
I can see this causing sexual problems, though not anorgasmia or erectile dysfunction. I was thinking more along the lines of severe chaffing.
This is probably seriously TMI. On the other <ahem> hand, why would anyone be in this thread if they were fearful of TMI?
Between the ages of, I dunno, 7 maybe? and 14 or 15, my style of masturbation was face down, penis not erect but rubbed along the inside surface of my thigh by the opposite hand. Penis in that position politely refrains from getting stiff, sensations are generally identical to what I later discovered was the more typical mode for doing this thing, ejaculation occurs once one is old enough to have ejaculate, etc
Another reason why I love these boards. I’d never heard of this before, and if I’d had to guess what it is exactly, I would’ve gone with “a lingering neurosis concerning masturbation triggered by a traumatic interruption of the act by a family member, etc. in one’s youth.” Kind of like that “Seinfeld” episode in which George C. is inspired by a women’s magazine [Redbook?] at his parents’ home, and proceeds to entertain himself thusly in the living room, when his mother returns home unexpectedly. Except George was no callow youth at that age and AFAIK developed no lingering problems with masturbation as a result of this incident… although he’s plenty screwed-up in most other ways.
Another thing – this thread has an extremely high reading-to-post ratio. Might even be a Doper record…
Ummm, i doubt it. Having a woman in between kinda changes the posture quite a bit i think.
I really didn’t want to respond to this on a TMI basis but as others have shared…
Chaffing, yes. Other problems, no.
Oh, and i forgot to say…
**AHunter3 ** - WTF???
Well, it’s hard not to wonder what the hell is going on in a thread with this name. It’s not often one sees the words “traumatic” and “masturbatory” in the same sentence.
I’m confused, though. How can humping a pillow be bad? Unless you did something REALLY klutzy…like falling on it at a weird angle. Ouch. :eek: But that can happen during normal sex too, depending on the position.
I knew someone who couldn’t get off most of the time unless he humped a pillow. (Why did I learn this? He was WAY too uninhibited.) That’s how he started masturbating, that’s what he got used to, and that’s what did it for him. A buddy of mine told me that his best friend had his first orgasm from climbing a pole in his back yard. He said that kid had the most developed upper body you could imagine.
When you read Savage Love or other sex advice, you sometimes run across correspondents who have some kind of problem orgasming. These letters are almost always from men, and they usually include the detail that they can orgasm from masturbation but not through intercourse. It seems that stimulation that’s too intense will desensitize you. The advice is usually to gradually get used to other, more subtle sensations than your usual masturbation technique and eventually the problem will solve itself.
If traumatic masturbatory syndrome exists, I doubt it’s solely a problem from face-down positions and has more to do with being used to a pretty rough technique.
I had a mild case of being unable to orgasm from intercourse when I first started having sex. Between condoms (+10 to fortitude, -8 to sensation, +10 vs STDs), fear of getting something or getting the girl pregnant despite our best efforts, and being a little too used to jerking off, I very rarely finished in less than a couple of hours – if I came at all. Sometimes, that was a very good thing, other times it was most definitely not.