When it comes to making yourself feel good, there are many ways to go about it. One way is to eat your favorite comfort meal. Another way is to go on vacation or have a self-care day of doing anything that you want or nothing at all. Then there’s the other way to make yourself feel good and that’s through pleasure. Sex is a great way to make yourself feel good through pleasure, especially when it’s with yourself. Masturbating can be extremely beneficial in more ways than one. Not only does it help you release but it can also prevent many future health issues. Yes, you read that correctly, masturbating can do more for your body than just making you feel good.
How Masturbation Is Natural And Healthy
Humans were programmed to enjoy pleasure. Unlike some animals who only use sex to mate and make offspring, humans get the opportunity to experience pleasure when they mate with another human.
Humans also get the opportunity to experience pleasure when they “mate” with themselves. This is called masturbating. When people masturbate, it’s basically them having sex with themselves or “getting themselves off”. Masturbating is completely normal and healthy to do and here’s why.
Masturbating can prevent unwanted pregnancies since, you aren’t having sex with a partner that can get pregnant or ejaculate to where you get pregnant.
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It can also help prevent STDs and STIs from being spread because again, you’re having sex with yourself so you don’t have the worries of passing on an unknown or known STD/STI or having it passed on to you.
Masturbating also helps you explore yourself and find what you like and don’t like when it comes to having sex. Being intimate with someone else means that they’re trying to please you and if you don’t know what you actually like, how can they accomplish the goal? Masturbating helps you figure out what actually gets you off and what you’re comfortable or not comfortable with.
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What Getting Yourself Off Could Actually Prevent
So you already know that masturbating and getting yourself off brings pleasure and new discoveries but did you know that masturbating could actually prevent health issues?
Yes, it can prevent unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases and infections but masturbating can also help prevent future health issues such as anxiety and depression. This is because an orgasm releases endorphins and endorphins are the feel-good chemicals in your brain.
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If done properly and safe, masturbating can help prevent 
an anxiety attack because of how it relaxes you afterward. It can also help prevent the risk of developing cancer, specifically in men.
How Men And Women Benefit From Masturbating
When it comes to the benefits of getting yourself off, men and women can both benefit from it in many ways. As previously stated, masturbating can help with getting yourself to relax and make you feel good as well as lowering your stress levels because of the chemicals that are being released when you have an orgasm.
Yes, you can experience an orgasm with a partner, but let’s focus on the safest way to have sex and its benefits. So not only does masturbating help with relaxing you and uplifting your mood, but for women, masturbating can help relieve period cramps and pains. It can also help women stay STD-free (if they are masturbating alone) since women are more susceptible to developing an STD when having sex.
For men, masturbating can help prevent prostate cancer. According to Hopkinsmedicine.org, studies show that men who ejaculate more are less likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer by two-thirds. This is because ejaculation supposedly rids the body of toxins and other elements that can cause inflammation.
Remember, Too Much Of Anything Can Lead To Complications
As good and beneficial as masturbating can be, too much of it can cause complications, one example is addiction. You can develop an unhealthy obsession with masturbating, which can lead to many downfalls in your life such as loss of friends, family, partners, and even job opportunities, yes it can be that drastic.
Masturbating too much, too often can also lead to irritation or infections (not the same as an STD) if your body reacts a certain way to how you are masturbating or what you are using to masturbate with.
All in all, as long as you are doing it in a healthy way and of course, being mindful of how and how often you are pleasing yourself, masturbating is great and totally normal and healthy to do. Not only can it take you to new heights but it can also prevent you from future risks.
