h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I saw some discussion here about male masturbation where everyone is just saying I'm happily doing it.
anybody knows about its harmful effects ? there must be some as its much or less a taboo in every society
why they want it to stop ?

Hmm .. negative effects. Some possibles:

If you think a particular person when you masturbate, your object of desire goes from being regarded as a person by you to a mere 'w**k object'.

Excessive use can cause you to become addicted, resulting in similar patterns of behaviour to any drug addiction.

Frequent tiredness, as when orgasming, hormones are released which make you rather lethargic.

If you masturbate too much, you may end up having to think of increasingly outlandish fantasties in other to get that orgasm, so masturbation becomes a method of feeding a fetish.

And of course there are the problems involved in cleaning your liquids up should you squirt.

That's all for now!

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I should imagine some of those - if not all - also apply to female masturbation.

What about Repetative Strain Injury

And the amount of computer keyboards you short out did I just post that?

Hmmmm-mmm, harmless slang gets censored out with little stars...

Mmm-mmm. Harmless to you maybe, but if your seven year old son or daughter was reading this BBC sponsored site?

Just a thought.

I'd seen that word by the time I was seven. Anyway, children shouldn't be allowed on the Internet.

Kids should learn how to masturbate at a young age. Saves embarrassment later on in life


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I don't want to get into a p***ing match about this, but suffice to say i know at least one eight year old of my aquaintance that hasn't.

As to point two, you are, of course, having a

Seriously, I think kids should be taught about masturbation at the same time they're taught about sex. Whether that is from their parents or their school, this important part of the sexual experience should become known to them.

(I'm not joking about this one btw.)

I agree children shouldn't be allowed on the internet..... no that's a little to harsh. I'll change it to they shouldn't be allowed on the net without adult supervision. I don't think that's too much to expect.


There's nothing harmful about masturbation.

And there's nothing wrong with a good healthy perversion either!

What's the difference between a healthy and an unhealthy perversion?

I don't know. It was a joke.

An unhealthy one is one that other people have got.

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Whilst this thread is in danger of going down the drain

Maybe it should stick strictly on topic - and keep off the topic of children for obvious reasons.

Most threads go down the drain when I arrive. Funny, that...

Masturbation tends to be more of an essential than a luxury first thing in the mornings. It's the quickest way to - ah - remove an embarrassing appendage problem.

B

you have an embarrassing appendage?

I do first thing in the morning, when I'm trying to walk noncahlantly to the shower in just a towel.

B

Well, then you have somewhere handy to put your towel whilst you walk there!

I knew I'd lined myself up for that... It still happens to be quite embarrassing, though.

B