Aussie said:
For me those feelings of being different occurred long before I realized it was an addiction.
When I was 15 I used to spend at least 2 or 3 days at home alone masturbating all day which eventually resulted in me getting kicked out of school for non-attendance, but the only thing that bothered me about that was my parents insisting if I wasn’t going to school then I had to get a job. Damn it, that was the end for a while of my all day sessions that I enjoyed so much.
In my early 20s I shared a house with a couple of friends and each weekend my housemates and workmates would be out clubbing and doing other things while I chose to stay at home in my room and masturbate for hours. If I did go out it was usually to buy more wanking material. That was when it became undeniable to me that I was different from at least most others, but being young with no responsibilities what did it matter if I spent so much time on something I enjoyed so much. So there wasn’t a reason to think of it as an addiction.
A number of years later, after my marriage, I was living alone with the unlimited stimulus of the internet available to me. Suddenly all my spare time was totally devoted to masturbation – talking about it, reading about it and doing it. There would be times I would take the day off work because I was too tired from being up all night masturbating or because I couldn’t resist the urge to stay home and do it instead of going to work. Now I was thinking of it as an obsession, but what the heck, I was having the most fantastically intense sessions and mind blowing orgasms I had ever experienced so I was totally happy with being an obsessive masturbator.
In the last few years I’ve gained responsibilites that have brought home the fact that I’m addicted to self-pleasuring. Also as I’ve gotten older I’ve become more and more aware of the things I have failed to and probably never will acheive because of the large amount of my life I have spent pleasuring my cock. For a while I thought it was something I could change about myself, but I’ve finally realized that it’s part of who I am. Doesn’t matter if I’m wanking myself stupid every night or just having a quick wank when the horniness becomes too much of a distraction, I am a masturbation addict and always will be. Rather than something that can be changed, it’s a a matter of finding a balance. Greatly restricting the amount of time I indulge in my favorite past-time makes me unhappy but doing it to the exclusion of anything else eventually has the same affect. So nowadays I’m working on integrating it into a fuller life but right at the moment I’m enjoying being naked, fondling and stroking my cock while enjoying the thought that being a masturbation addict group, most of the members will also be pleasuring their cock while reading this.
Balance is important, but the balance point is a personal decision. Many would say we are over the line, and feel pity or judge us. And frankly, there are extremely compulsive masturbators that do need professional help, if it causes major life problems. But the “normal” world will never feel the ecstatic gratifications we enjoy.
Nice statement, so much of what you say applies to me also.
I don’t worry much about whether I am addicted, I just know that I like masturbating more than just about anything else in my life. So why not indulge myself, so far as circumstances permit?
Balance is important, and at some points in my life I was probably sacrificing other good things to my burning desire to pleasure myself. But in retrospect, I sure have had a lot of extremely happy times playing with myself. It is hard to evaluate, for comparison purposes, conventional measures such as educational attainment, career success, relationships, marriage, travel, wealth, and artistic creation, versus the continuous reward of a fulfilling sex life. But quite honestly I have valued the time I have devoted to masturbation as much as any of those other things.
When I started masturbating at age twelve I was truly compulsive, doing myself several times a day, three-minute quickies that were all about orgasm. For years I was thinking about sex and masturbation 99% of the time. Now, more than half a century later, I have got myself under control, relatively at least, and only masturbate once or twice a day, though each session lasts an hour or more. And I only think about sex part of the time, or more accurately half of the time I am thinking 99% about sex. This allows me enjoy some of the other things in life.
Not everybody is like us, many simply do not understand the importance we attach to self-pleasure. But so what? I know what I like, it works for me and doesn’t hurt anyone else. I think of myself as a dedicated recreational masturbator, I do it because I really, really like it.
masturbation has becum such a relavant part of ur life, so accept it, it is a gift from god and many ofthers never accomplish the level of maststurbation in their life like u or me, so just be greatful that we have the love of the bate, cuz what else matterss?
masturbations is so awesome, it is the love of self. so what? enjoy and endlbe,god gave it to us so bring urselfto the ultimate level of self love, masturbation rules, i lov tie so much