Masturbation abstinence is popular online. Doctors and therapists are worried::undefined

  • thantik@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    if we weren’t meant to jerk off why does it feel good

    Because it’s an analog to the thing that it is meant to feel like - sex.

    Sex being the method of reproduction, if we didn’t enjoy it as a species, we wouldn’t be here today.

    • protist@mander.xyzEnglish
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      9 months ago

      There are so many more layers though…exploring your own sexuality on your own can make you more comfortable and confident in your sexuality and in turn make you more likely to successfully reproduce, for one

      • thantik@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 months ago

        Yeah, it’s not as complicated as that. You can make some cozy psychology excuse such as that to try and make yourself feel better about it - but it’s really just as simple as it feels like sex, and we have sex drives for reproduction.

        Just look at apes, other primates that do it too – they aren’t doing it to be “confident in their sexuality” etc etc. It’s literally just that it feels good.

        There’s only 1 instance of masturbation that I know about, that scientists think is an evolutionary advantage – and that’s of rats that masturbate, and they tend to do it after mating; scientists believe that this came about in order to reduce the instance of sexually transmitted diseases by clearing the male rats of foreign material.

        • protist@mander.xyzEnglish
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          9 months ago

          You seem super confident in a simplistic view of an obviously complex topic. Cite some sources please

    • richieadler@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Sex being the method of reproduction, if we didn’t enjoy it as a species, we wouldn’t be here today.

      There are species with painful sex mechanisms, so that bit at least is dubious.