Is it healthy to masturbate? Yep, we can promise you it is! Let's just list: Masturbation is stress-relieving, it boosts your mood, you sleep better after you've masturbated, you get to know your body and it can have a pain-relieving effect.
Just to name a few good reasons to masturbate. Let's elaborate on some of them below - and if you're missing inspiration for solo sex, we've actually also put together a whole masturbation guide for you.
1. Masturbation can relieve pain
Masturbation is nature's own painkiller against menstrual pain. A large study on menstruabation (that's a fancy word for masturbating while you're on your period) found that as many as 7 out of 10 people who took part in the study found that masturbating helped with their period pain. And more than one in three people (31%) thought it relieved the pain a lot. Isn't that perhaps the best argument in the world that it is healthy to masturbate?
2. You sleep better
You relax so nicely when you have masturbated. And if you have difficulty sleeping, alone time under the covers with your vibrator will certainly take your mind off worries, thoughts of the day that passed and your mental to-do list for tomorrow. Afterwards, it is no problem to find the way to dreamland. In fact, it will probably be quite difficult not to fall asleep.
3. Masturbating puts you in a better mood
Happy hormones are released in your brain when you have an orgasm. Masturbation is therefore a kind of happy pill that makes you happy and comfortable without any side effects.
What if I do it every day?
But is it healthy to masturbate every day? Can you masturbate too much? You can be completely calm. You can easily masturbate every day. It's healthy no matter how often you do it. Masturbation can become an addiction. And it can be a challenge, but masturbation itself is dangerous.
Too much masturbation is only a problem if it goes beyond other, important things in your life: If you can no longer look after your school, your job and your friends. If you drop appointments or call in sick to stay at home and masturbate, that is of course a problem. If you are concerned about whether you have become addicted to masturbation, or whether you are masturbating too much, you can talk to your doctor.
So yes, masturbating is super healthy and in no way harmful. Take it away!
