There may possibly be an incidental relation growing out of the fact that in some cases of masturbation that habit seems to affect the nutrition and that in turn may cause the appearance of pimples on the face of the adolescent.
The act of masturbation causes an orgasm and leads to a complete emptying of all these ducts.
Such frequent reference has been made above to continence in antithesis to illicit intercourse and masturbation that little need be said in addition to that which has preceded.
This psychical change is noticed in immoderate cases of masturbation and takes the form of disinclination to enter into any physical contests, or games; and disinclination to cultivate the society of the opposite sex.
Granting that masturbationis harmful through loss of semen, is there any compensation for this loss of semen in case of intercourse with a woman?
If this is true, it must be evident that excessive sexual indulgence or masturbation can draw away from the system this precious vital substance that is necessary to produce or maintain the virility.
In the light of these facts every normal man would admit that frequent masturbation or excessive sexual intercourse, in wedlock or out, should certainly not be recommended as a method of developing the sexual apparatus.
The vice of masturbation or self-abuse is very likely to be learned in boyhood, perhaps even by boys of six or eight years of age through their associations with obscene playmates.
After examination, it was found that the husband had practiced masturbation about twice a week from the age of puberty to his twenty-fourth year, when he was married.
Not the least important among the results of masturbation is the attitude of the victim to society in general.
I conclude with the dream of a chemist, a young man, who has been trying to give up his habit of masturbation by replacing it with intercourse with women.
It has been supposed to be a result of masturbation and its effects, but is certainly caused otherwise in many cases.
The patient was nearly sixty years of age, and had practiced masturbation from childhood.
A peculiar character of the diseases which have their origin in venereal excesses and masturbation is chronicity.
There is no doubt that many of the affections of the throat in young men and older ones which pass under the name of "clergyman's sore throat" are the direct results of masturbation and emissions.
But, let me say here at the outset, the dangers of masturbation have been greatly exaggerated.
Certain idiots practise masturbation as a physical act, because sensations proceeding from the genital organs impel them to do so, precisely as itching of an area of the skin impels us to scratch.
In girls, also, in numerous instances, masturbation is effected by stimulation of the labia minora, and I am inclined to believe that the importance of the labia minora is in this respect not inferior to that of the clitoris.
I will, in the first place, consider those cases only in which masturbation is practised after the formation of semen has begun, but when the processes by which bodily maturity is attained are not yet fully completed.
To the theoretical assumption that masturbation is especially hurtful in cases in which the organs are not yet adequately developed, we may oppose the consideration that the completer development of organs is favoured by exercise.
And yet reasons may be found for the belief that masturbation may sometimes be a positively moral act; as, for instance, when one who is dominated by a very powerful sexual impulse, avoids injury to another by means of masturbation.
Undoubtedly, the recent practice of masturbationwould have escaped notice, had not the parents been made very anxious by the earlier experiences.
When such a test is employed, the practice ofmasturbation is said to have an unfavourable effect, and to cause mistakes.
On the other hand, Guttceit's assumption that almost all girls who attain the age of eighteen or twenty years without any opportunity for sexual intercourse practise masturbation conflicts with my own experience.
In view of this experience, what right have we to maintain seriously thatmasturbation is, generally speaking, dangerous to health.
Although mutual masturbation is fairly common in schools, it cannot be regarded as the general rule.
It is also caused by an habitual retention of the urine, and sometimes results from masturbation or self-abuse.
Masturbation prevents the excitability of the nervous system and sexual organs and causes debility, which is indicated by the premature discharge of semen during sexual intercourse.
Masturbation perverts and finally destroys the secretory functions of the testicles.
Except in its milder forms, insanity resulting from masturbation and sexual excesses, is rarely curable.
This malady, although less common as a result of masturbation than the complications mentioned in the preceding paragraphs, is of sufficiently frequent occurrence to entitle it to a passing notice here.
Masturbation is a habit which tyrannizes over the mind, perverts the imagination, and forces upon the victim venereal desires, even while he is forming the strongest resolutions to reform.
Stricture of the urethra generally results from some specific disease of the urethra, but may be caused by sexual excesses, exposure, or strain, or by the practice of masturbation or self-abuse.
The injury done to the nerve-centres by the practice of masturbation is manifested in epileptic convulsions, more or less frequent.
This deplorable malady is not a very uncommon result of masturbation and its various resultant morbid conditions, as the records of the many institutions for the unfortunate class of sufferers from this disease bear abundant witness.
Masturbation not only occasions loss of semen, but frequently the testicles and other generative organs waste and become reduced in size as a result of the abuse.
Paralysis, when occurring as a consequence of masturbation or sexual excesses, is usually difficult of cure; yet, now and then, cases are cured at our Institutions even after this grave malady has appeared as a complication.
Such women, he adds, have kept themselves free from masturbation "at the expense of a perpetual and almost fierce activity of mind and muscle.
Masturbation, and the fear that by an occasional and perhaps outgrown practice of masturbation they have sometimes done themselves irreparable injury, is a common source of anxiety to boys.
It seems undesirable that any warnings about masturbation should form part of school instruction, unless under very special circumstances.
Blumenau said that in adult age abstinence is neither normal nor beneficial, and generally leads to masturbation, though not generally to nervous disorders; but that even masturbation is better than syphilis.
Masturbation was unknown, and no irregular relations took place with persons outside the community.
Essay IV) he sets forth the absurdity of the conventional requirement that "discretion and ignorance should lodge in the same bosom," and deals at length with the question of masturbation and the need of sexual education.
She writes: "There are girls who, even as children, have prostituted themselves by masturbation and lascivious thoughts.
Even in such a school, some good is, I know, done by tactful public references to the existence of masturbationand to its deplorable consequences.
On the other hand, within an hour of penning these lines I have been talking to a little boy of eleven who commenced masturbation two years ago while he was under excellent home influence.
Greater significance attaches, I think, to a comparison in individual cases of a boy's condition during a period of indulgence in masturbation and his condition after its total, or almost total, relinquishment.
Purity not impurity should be your text, and you should only refer to masturbationas a harmful habit, which should not be contracted.
The most serious results of masturbation are moral not physical.
Dirt and masturbation are wont to be closely associated psychically.
With masturbation one has in his hands the great magic.
That the masturbatory symbol precedes the subsequent garden episode, can be understood if we realize that the masturbation phantasy (which has an enormous psychic importance) animates or predetermines the immediately following incest.
Jung applies to masturbation the motive of the dearly won prize and that of the stealing of fire.
Few persons are aware of the extent to which masturbation or self-pollution is practiced by the young of both sexes in civilized society.
Masturbation or prostitution soon blight the brightest prospects a young man may have.
Men who inherit strong passions easily argue themselves into the belief, either to practice {138} masturbation or visit places of prostitution, on the ground that their health demands it.
By many this is confused with Masturbation or Self-Abuse.
The statistics of any of our large insane asylums will illustrate the influence of masturbation in the production of insanity.
It is a very common disorder of children and young persons, and in some cases no cause can be found; but in many instances it is due to masturbation (p.
The presence of worms may lead to irritation in the bowel, which excites masturbation in children.
He succeeded, but then began erotic dreams accompanied by images of animals, and these led to masturbation associated with ideas of a similar kind.
At an early age I was left much alone in the nursery and there contracted the habit of masturbation long before the age of puberty.
The presence of masturbation in this case renders it untypical as a case of exhibitionism.
Bestiality thus resembles masturbation and other abnormal manifestations of the sexual impulse which may be practiced merely faute de mieux and not as, in the strict sense, perversions of the impulse.
Hitherto I had practiced masturbation always under protest, as it were--as the only available form of sexual satisfaction; while now I resigned myself to it as all that there was to hope for in that field.
During these periods of excessive masturbation very little liquid was ejaculated and the pleasurable sensations were slight or entirely lacking.
Thus the meatus of the urethra is a highly erogenous zone, as is sufficiently shown by the frequency with which hair-pins and other articles used in masturbation find their way into the bladder.
Once we spoke of masturbation (I could recite the information of my good physician with a marvelous show of virtue), and C.
I kept up masturbationalmost daily, sometimes twice a day, both in the water closet and in bed.
They are always interrupted by the intrusion of other matters, usually of more practical interest; and the long-continued habit of satisfying myself by masturbation has made erotic dreams rather tantalizing than pleasurable.
I think that over 75 per cent, of my acts of masturbation are provoked by these fits of restlessness and are unaccompanied by fancy images, erotic thoughts, lustful desires, or marked pleasure.
When coitus was not possible the enjoyment of the fetich was accompanied by masturbation (as in the analogous case of urolagnia in a woman summarized on p.
His masturbation was also so slight as not to attract any particular attention.
Royes Bell states that, owing to the induration of the glans through the means of circumcision, masturbation and syphilis are less rife amongst the circumcised than amongst the uncircumcised.
Masturbation among the feeble-minded, which is so common, must, of necessity, have for its determining cause a foundation of morbid irritability of the sexual organs.
For the making of a mujerado one of the most virile men is selected, and the act of masturbation is performed upon him many times every day; at the same time he is made to ride almost continuously on horseback.
Do such sexual reaction-types as homosexual intercourse, efforts to copulate with non-primate animals and masturbation normally occur among any of the primates, and if so, what is their biological significance?
Masturbation does not seem to occur under normal conditions.
Cases that have been addicted to excessive masturbation are very apt to develop not only frigidity, but complete aversion to the sexual act, and inability to experience any pleasure or orgasm.
But, a few remarks on how to prevent children from acquiring the habit of masturbation will not be out of place.
As I have said in another place: "In my opinion, stigmatizing even the most moderate indulgence in masturbation as a vice has a deleterious effect upon the people who so indulge and makes it harder for them to break off the habit.
Masturbation or self-abuse is a term applied to a bad habit which consists in handling and rubbing the genitals.
To deal with the subject of the treatment of masturbationbelongs to a medical treatise.
The evil results of exaggerating the influence of masturbation have been so great in the past that, if now the pendulum were to swing to the other extreme, I am sure it would not be a bad thing at all.
If this is done from childhood on, it is very easy to get used to this way of sleeping, and many a case of masturbationwill thus be obviated.
The results of this mode of procedure are disastrous--much more so than is the masturbation itself.
There is recent mention made of a method of preventing masturbation by a cage fastened over the genitals by straps and locks.
De la Fontaine has mentioned this fact, and there is a case in this country in which acute dementia from masturbation was cured by infibulation.
It was afterward elicited that the patient had practiced urethral masturbation with the tail of this animal.
In conclusion, I should say that masturbation has proved itself to be to me one of the blind turnings of my life's history, from which I have gained much valuable experience.
On the whole, there can be little doubt that neurasthenia is liable to be associated with masturbation carried to an excessive extent.
Masturbation in women thus becomes, as Raymond and Janet point out (Les Obsessions, vol.
I do not consider that we can decide the precise degree in which masturbation may fairly be called normal so long as we take masturbation by itself.
Berkhan, in his investigation of the psychoses of childhood, found that in no single case was masturbation a cause.
Hall mentions, also, thatmasturbation is specially common among the blind.
It must, however, always be remembered that we have no equally careful statistics of masturbation in perfectly healthy persons.
From a medical point of view it is often convenient to regard masturbation as an isolated fact; but in order to understand it we must bear in mind its relationships.
Both masturbation and sexual intercourse should be classed as typical sedatives.
At my school, manual masturbation was both solitary and mutual; and sometimes younger boys, who had not acquired the habit, were induced to manipulate bigger boys.
Men who inherit strong passions easily argue themselves into the belief either to practicemasturbation or visit places of prostitution, on the ground that their health demands it.
She went on finally to say that the delinquent girl had taught her long ago about masturbation and that she thinks of it every night in bed.
Of course we are not speaking here of masturbation per se, but only of the fact of its ascertained relationship to the pathological lying.
Masturbation we have regarded more as a causative factor, and have spoken of it in a previous section.
Masturbation is, as a rule, a moral condition, but it can, like alcoholism, come to have a large physical element.
Masturbation is very frequently an expression not of mental or moral deficiency, but of purely local (first in at least most cases) physical conditions.
At the outset masturbation and sexual explosions are often a physical expression of school strain destitute of moral significance.
From this are produced "masturbation storms," which the subject loathes but cannot control.
Dwelling upon these thoughts the boy is led to play with his sex organs in secret and masturbation results.
If, as a result of the sensations experienced, masturbation results, yours is the sin.
The act may be repeated until inveteratemasturbation results, even at an early age.
The sexual organs are apt to become excited from the irritation and the habit of masturbation be thus formed.
Relationships of this nature were not acts of adultery any more than masturbation in the shower was adultery with water.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "masturbation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: abuse; bestiality; manipulation
