Moderate masturbation does not cause erectile dysfunction

　　I once saw a netizen asking: I am 23 years old and my sexual desire has always been very strong. Before I had a girlfriend, I often masturbated to relieve my sexual urges, but recently I got a girlfriend and found that I couldn’t get hard anymore. Excuse me, has masturbation in the past affected my sexual function? What should I do?

　　In fact, masturbation refers to stimulating the sensitive parts of the external genitalia with hands or other things to achieve orgasm. In life, both men and women may masturbate. A foreign survey showed that 96.6% of people have masturbated.

　　Masturbation is harmless healthy , one of the normal sexual behaviors, a physiological manifestation of sexual maturity, and a way to relieve the uneasiness and restlessness caused by sexual tension. There is no direct relationship between masturbation and ED (erectile dysfunction). Moderate masturbation will not cause ED; at best, it is just your inner pressure and guilt that cause temporary erection difficulties and other phenomena.

　　However, excessive masturbation may cause side effects, such as causing fatigue and affecting erection hardness. In addition, if a person is always shy, sensitive, and depressed, and regards masturbation as the only source of satisfaction and relief from tension, it means that there is a problem with psychological development and social adaptability, and special psychological treatment is needed.

　　Be careful when masturbating

　　Excessive masturbation can cause some genitourinary disease ,sex nerve Weakness, etc., mainly manifested as:

　　(1) Central nervous system and systemic symptoms such as depression, memory loss, inattention, decreased understanding, insomnia, and more Dream , dizziness, palpitations, etc.

　　(2) Chronic urogenital diseases prostatitis Causes frequent urination, white urine at the end of the urine, discomfort in the lower abdomen and perineum, backache and weakness, loss of sexual desire, Impotence、Premature ejaculation ,No ejaculation wait. As a result, you will feel dizzy after reading books or studying for a short period of time. Frequent masturbation for a long time can often cause serious mental burden. Frequent ejaculation can cause semen quality to decrease and sexual desire to decrease. In some cases, the ejaculation stimulation threshold is increased, so that you cannot ejaculate during normal sexual life, which may affect fertility.

　　Traditional Chinese medicine theory believes that masturbation and excessive sexual exertion are the main causes of kidney qi deficiency, kidney essence deficiency, and kidney fluid depletion, leading to spermatorrhea, spermatorrhea, impotence, premature ejaculation or difficulty in ejaculation, as well as backache, leg weakness, and tinnitus. hair loss Symptoms such as sexual function decline; masturbation in women can cause vulvitis, Vaginitis , cystitis, or even lack of sex appeal or cold sexual desire. In severe cases, it can cause pelvic blood stasis and low back pain, or lead to neurasthenia and mental illness.

　　Due to different genetics and living conditions, personal physiques and sexual functions are different, and the effects of masturbation are also different at different stages: for example, masturbating during adolescence can cause gonadal work disorders, which is detrimental to normal development; a man who masturbates as a habit before marriage and a man who has never masturbated When a woman gets married, the man masturbates too much before marriage, suffers from kidney essence deficiency, kidney water depletion, Yang Qi decline, and premature orgasm, which cannot satisfy the woman's sexual desire, causing the man to be distressed and regretful, and the woman to be dissatisfied and suspicious, thus affecting the relationship between the couple and even causing the breakdown of the family.