I’d like to encourage you to masturbate. What? Yeah I said it. Masturbate. Spank your monkey. Choke your chicken. Season your meatloaf. Butter your muffin. Give yourself a hand.
Why? Because it’s healthy. Masturbation is great for your body and your mind. It can lower blood pressure, improve sleep, and reduce stress.
Especially now when doing the deed with your partner may be a tad risky especially if you don’t live together, the safer way to get off is to DIY. Self love will not expose yourself to Covid-infected microscopic droplets. You can’t contract coronavirus from tooting your own horn.
Most of us have a lot of free time these days. Instead of twiddling our thumbs and binge watching yet another show, we are masturbating more. There has been been a surge in sex toy sales. Porn stars are raking in the dough.
Popular pornography site Porn Hub has seen an uptick of 11.6% in the US since mid-March. The porn emporium offered free premium services to all of Italy last month, and its traffic jumped 57%.
And it’s only natural for the bored brain to drift toward sexual fantasy. People are posting nude or sexually suggestive photos on Instagram.
Related: In celebration of masturbation, I created a new Spotify playlist: Coronavirus Kryptonite vol. 2 — Songs About Sex. FYI: This mix is definitely NSFW. Don’t play it if young kids are present. It’s definitely XXX-rated.. Follow it, share it, and enjoy it!
Masturbation increases hormones of happiness like dopamine and oxytocin, which is known as the “love hormone” or “cuddle hormone” because it is released when people snuggle together.
“Sex can be like exercise, which is great for your heart, your lungs, and your immune system,” Britney Blair, a psychologist and founder of The Clinic, a sex therapy clinic in Southern California told Insider. “Sex is also great for improving sleep and allowing you to fall into deeper sleep more quickly, so overall, masturbation is great for health.”
Hypersexuality often happens when a person is manic, as I document in my memoir The Bipolar Addict.
For men ages 20-29, according to Harvard Health Publishing, if you ejaculate four to seven times a week, you have a lower risk of developing prostate cancer.
While there isn’t similar data for women, psychologist Blair recommends that women have daily orgasms.
Orgasm also increases the production of endocannabinoids, which can have an effect on appetite, pain, memory and mood. Endocannabinoids are cannabis-like substances that occur naturally inside our brains. The endocannabinoid system in our bodies can also regulate mood, sleep, pain, fertility, inflammation, immune function, appetite, digestion, memory, and pleasure/reward.
In 2004, a study of 11 men published in the journal Neuroimmunomodulation found that components of the immune system are activated by sexual activity and orgasm.
So why not give it a whirl if you haven’t been doing it. Tap into your potential. Menage à moi. Visit the batcave. Enjoy a girl’s night in. Beat the beaver. Beat your meat. Wank off. There ain’t no harm in practicing a little self love. It could do your immune system a solid. So why not?
