Does Masturbation Depletes Vitamines and Minerals? - Dr David Ley
One participant in the chat put forward a theory that masturbation depletes important vitamins and minerals. This is an old theory that has gained new currency with anti-porn groups, but it’s not any truer now than it was then. — Stripchat Sexuality Resource Center
Oh boy. So in the 1700’s a guy named, actually 1600’s, 1673 I believe. Samuel Tissot was a Swiss physician who published a monograph where he said that masturbation depletes men — not women, just men — of essential minerals and vitamins… Now it’s not true. Samuel Tissot was concerned that masturbating makes men less manly, and basically he was arguing and concerned that, if you masturbate, that when you squirt out that ejaculate, that you are losing some of your masculinity. I’m going to put this in today’s language. There’s a whole lot of folks that are out there saying that if you masturbate too much, it reduces your testosterone, it makes you less manly.
Testosterone is the hormone and the neurochemical that affects masculinity the most. But you know what the research actually shows? The research actually shows, in multiple cases, that people who have sex more and people who masturbate more have higher levels of testosterone.That stopping masturbation is actually — stopping orgasms and sex and masturbation is included in that are more likely to decrease your testosterone. What I found really, really interesting. I’m looking at you right now, people who feel more guilty about masturbation have lower levels of testosterone.
So if you’re worried about your essential vitamins and minerals, like testosterone, when you’re masturbating … Go ahead and masturbate baby! Because that actually is going to increase your levels of testosterone and make you more of a man. If you feel guilty about masturbation, those are real issues and those are real significant issues that we need to talk about more. But that’s more connected with morality and religion and your idea of what a man is. Guess what? Real men masturbate and real men maybe don’t feel awful about it.
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