Do sexual activities or even masturbation really affect muscle development in men?
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that is not true. there have been many studies that report that the male body will produce higher levels of testosterone after sexual intercourse and if might even be a good idea to have a quicky before working out and make sure you eat a protine bar so your muscle can build its self back up after you're done tearing it down.
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Hi\n\nI went out with a pro boxer and we was not allowed to have sex 3 nights before the match - releases endorphins which are muscle relaxants etc, he was not allowed to masturbate either.\n\nI don't know whether bodybuilding is different but I don't think it would have that much affect on your performance.\n\nSex is also a form or excercise and increases endurance
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That is a nice story and you know it is untrue. Our bodies are healthy and normal and for the most part we all function about the same. Your testicles simply need time to recoup and produce. So all of us guys know that there is a lot of variety in the number of times, daily, every other day or so, weekly or whatever.\n\nTruth represents things the way they really are. We are not made for sex. Sex is made for us.\n\nNothing as natural as this is harmful in any way whatsoever. Us guys right after this, though, lose interest almost immediately and like to relax. That is not the same as feeling weak. We simply have worked out and then want to take it easy for a bit.\n\nSo this has nothing to do with weight.  The little energy it really takes makes us stronger.
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MASTURBATION MYTHS:\nfrom http://www.jackinworld.com/library/myths.html\n\nChances are, of all the things you've heard about masturbation, most of them were absolutely false. For some reason, misinformation surrounds masturbation like virtually no other topic. How do you spot a masturbation myth? One simple method is to ask yourself if the statement is also true of sexual intercourse. When you're masturbating, your body only knows it's getting sexually stimulated; it doesn't know by what means. So, for instance, if the question is whether or not masturbation causes acne, think of it this way: If it did, intercourse would also cause acne. In fact, neither masturbation nor intercourse cause acne.\n\nMYTH:\nMasturbation causes hair to grow on your palms.\nFACT:\nHow many people with hair on their palms have you seen?  \nMYTH:\nMasturbation causes hair loss, chronic fatigue, and other problems.\nFACT:\nInternet scam artists have tried to invent a concept called "overmasturbation," insisting that you have to buy their expensive herbal pills in order to counteract the effect of masturbating more than a couple of times per week. But the pills have absolutely no effect — and masturbating once or twice a day will not make your hair fall out, or cause anything else they claim.\nMYTH:\nMasturbation is bad for your eyesight. \nFACT:\nMasturbation does not affect eyesight. This myth probably originated because boys often start having to wear glasses at about the same age they start masturbating. \nMYTH:\nMasturbation causes your penis to stop growing (or) to get bigger. \nFACT:\nMasturbation has no effect on penis size whatsoever. \nMYTH:\nMasturbation causes your testicles to shrink.\nFACT:\nAbsolutely false! It is true that if you're highly aroused, your testicles become engorged with blood and may appear slightly larger and heavier, and that masturbating will make them revert to normal. But they will absolutely not be any smaller than after the last time you masturbated. \nMYTH:\nMasturbation causes acne. \nFACT:\nIt doesn't cause acne. Like the eyesight myth, this is a case of two things that happen at the same time, even though one doesn't cause the other. \nMYTH:\nMasturbation causes sexually transmitted diseases. \nFACT:\nHello? "Sexually transmitted" means from one person to another. You can't give yourself a sexually transmitted disease! \nMYTH:\nIf you masturbate too much, you'll run out of semen and become sterile. \nFACT:\nSemen is a fully renewable resource. When you ejaculate semen, your body simply makes more — the same way your body makes more saliva after you spit. \nMYTH:\nPeople can tell whether you masturbate by how your penis looks. \n------------------------------------------------------------------\nMasturbation Frequency:\nhttp://www.jackinworld.com/misc/faqtree1.html#mastfreq\n\nHow often does the average male masturbate?\nIt depends on a lot of factors, the most important being age. For an 18-year-old male, a rough average is once a day or so. This is slightly higher for younger teenagers — maybe 10 or 12 times a week, and slightly lower for older people. You might be surprised by how often adult men masturbate — even happily married men.\n\nI think I'm addicted to masturbation. Is that possible?\nIt is, although many, many people think they're addicted when they're really just doing what comes naturally. For more on this topic, read the article Is Masturbation Addictive?(http://www.jackinworld.com/library/articles/addict.html).\n\nHow can I masturbate less often, or quit altogether?\nIt's tough; it takes a lot of will power. It can be done, especially if you're driven by very strong religious feelings. However, JackinWorld's position is that it's not worth it. We think you should enjoy the harmless pleasures your body can provide.
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Masturbation is widespread. Reportedly, some 97 percent of males and more than 90 percent of females have masturbated by the age of 21. Furthermore, this practice has been blamed for all manner of ills—from warts and red eyelids to epilepsy and mental illness.\n\nTwentieth-century medical researchers no longer make such alarming claims. Indeed, doctors today believe that no physical illness is caused by masturbation. Researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson add that “there is no established medical evidence that masturbation, regardless of frequency, leads to mental illness.” Nevertheless, there are other ill effects! And many Christian youths are rightly concerned about the practice. “When I gave in to [masturbation], I’d feel as if I were failing Jehovah God,” wrote one youth. “I got seriously depressed sometimes.”\n\nMasturbation is deliberate self-stimulation to produce sexual arousal. During the bloom of youth, sexual desires become strong. Powerful hormones are released that affect the reproductive organs. A youth thus becomes aware that these organs are capable of producing pleasurable sensations. And sometimes a youth may become sexually excited without even thinking about sex.\n\nFor instance, the tensions produced by various worries, fears, or frustrations can affect a boy’s sensitive nervous system and cause sexual arousal. A buildup of semen may in turn cause him to awaken sexually excited. Or it may produce a nocturnal emission, usually accompanied by an erotic dream. Similarly, some young girls may find themselves stimulated unintentionally. Many have a heightened sexual desire just before or after their menstrual period.\n\nSo if you have experienced such arousal, there is nothing wrong with you. This is a normal response of a youthful body. Such sensations, even if very intense, are not the same as masturbation, since they are largely involuntary. And as you grow older, the intensity of these new sensations will subside.\n\nCuriosity and the novelty of these new sensations, though, lead some youths deliberately to manipulate, or play with, their sexual organs.\n\nThe Bible describes a young man who meets a promiscuous woman. She kisses him and says: “Do come, . . . let us enjoy each other with love expressions.” Then what happens? “All of a sudden he is going after her, like a bull that comes even to the slaughter.” (Proverbs 7:7-22) Obviously, this youth’s passions were aroused not simply because his hormones were at work but because of what he saw and heard.\n\nSimilarly, one young man admits: ‘The root of my whole problem with masturbation boiled down to what I put in my mind. I would watch TV programs that included immorality and in some cases watch programs on cable TV that would show nudity. Such scenes are so shocking that they stay with you. They would surface again in my mind, providing the mental fuel needed to engage in masturbation.’\n\nYes, often it is what one reads, watches, or listens to, as well as what one talks about or meditates on, that triggers masturbation. As one 25-year-old woman confessed: “I just couldn’t seem to stop the habit. However, I used to read romance novels, and this contributed to the problem.”\n\nThis young woman’s experience reveals what is undoubtedly the greatest reason why the habit can be so hard to break. She continues: “Usually I masturbated to release pressure, tension, or anxiety. That fleeting pleasure was like the drink the alcoholic takes to calm his nerves.”\n\nResearchers Suzanne and Irving Sarnoff write: “For some people masturbation may become a habit to which they turn for solace whenever they are rebuffed or feel apprehensive about something. Others, however, may withdraw in this way only occasionally, when they are under the most acute emotional stress.” Evidently, others similarly resort to the habit when upset, depressed, lonely, or under much stress; it becomes a “tranquilizer” to blot out th
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no, masturbating will have no effects on the baby in later life. masturbating is a safe and normal process to give oneself sexual pleasures and it has no effect on one's health.
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Are you sure this is seminal leakage?\n\nSometimes there can be too much of a good thing. For many young men, masturbating creates more problems than it solves; it doesn’t make them grow hair on their palms, but too-frequent ejaculation can cause youthful impotence and seminal leakage. \n\nUnder most circumstances, masturbation is neither good nor bad—and one recently published study reported that 87% of women and 95% of men have practiced masturbation—but when done to extreme, it causes drastic changes in brain and body chemistry. Masturbating too much can over-stimulate acetylcholine/parasympathetic nervous functions and disrupt the liver’s release of enzymes that synthesize neurotransmitters acetylcholine, dopamine, and serotonin. Additionally, the liver’s ability to release enzymes that aid in hormone production is affected. As a result, the brain and adrenal glands produce too much dopamine, norepinephrine, epinephrine, and other hormones and neural transmitters.\n\nSymptoms that over-masturbation (also called Sexual Exhaustion) is distressing liver and nervous system functions include youthful impotence/erectile dysfunction (including a soft or weak erection) and seminal leakage. While more than 30% of men have experienced impotence at one time or another, impotence in youth is more rare and can often be attributed to the above factors.
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masturbating too often can lead to prostate problems (benign prostate hyperplasia) if your not careful. this can cause sexual dysfunction and may lead to prostate cancer in the long run
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Connection between ejaculation frequency and prostate health \nhttp://www.goaskalice.columbia.edu/4961.html\n\nQUESTION:\nI have been coming across articles on the connection between masturbation, ejaculation, and overall health. I was very surprised about this article from the Cancer Council Victoria in Australia . It was a study that confirmed that ejaculation frequency is important for a healthy prostate. The protective effect was most significant in men in their twenties who ejaculated on average 7 or more times per week. It compared this against same-age men who ejaculated less than 3 times per week. I made a New Year's resolution to pay attention to my body and to ejaculate at least once a day. I feel much better for it and my penis strength and sexual urge has increased immensely. I feel balanced. After a year, I can't imagine going back to my old repressed frequency and probably couldn?t keep from cumming for a whole day if I tried now. Why aren?t people made aware of this need? After getting used to daily +, I often have the urge to do it even more, but hold back. Are there any physical problems with over ejaculating? \n\nANSWER:\nWhat a fabulous New Year’s resolution to pay attention to your body!  Your efforts are worth applauding, as being in tune with yourself and your new masturbation schedule seems to have paid off, as you note that you feel “balanced” and “much better for it.”  Happily, no physical problems are associated with over-ejaculating, so don’t worry about giving in to the natural urge to enjoy and pleasure yourself more often.  You clearly have a strong awareness of the positive effects of masturbation on your body, so go ahead and experiment with masturbation frequency – in this way, you can determine what frequency feels best for you and your regular routine.\n\nYou also ask why people aren’t made aware of the “need” to masturbate often.  Good question – especially in light of the study’s findings that frequent ejaculation helps reduce the risk of prostate cancer.  Unfortunately, self-stimulation – as with most sexual acts – is often viewed as shameful, dirty, immoral, and all sorts of other negative adjectives.  Wouldn’t it be great if masturbation could be seen as the healthy, enjoyable, and beneficial activity it really is, openly talked about and (gasp!) endorsed?  Perhaps one day it will be – with more people like you who are open-minded and bold enough to talk about it in a positive light.  \n\nEnjoy – and pass that article along to friends, family, neighbors, co-workers, and anybody and everybody else! \n\nMASTURBATION MYTHS:\nfrom http://www.jackinworld.com/library/myths.html\n\nChances are, of all the things you've heard about masturbation, most of them were absolutely false. For some reason, misinformation surrounds masturbation like virtually no other topic. How do you spot a masturbation myth? One simple method is to ask yourself if the statement is also true of sexual intercourse. When you're masturbating, your body only knows it's getting sexually stimulated; it doesn't know by what means. So, for instance, if the question is whether or not masturbation causes acne, think of it this way: If it did, intercourse would also cause acne. In fact, neither masturbation nor intercourse cause acne.\n\nMYTH:\nMasturbation causes hair to grow on your palms.\nFACT:\nHow many people with hair on their palms have you seen?  \nMYTH:\nMasturbation causes hair loss, chronic fatigue, and other problems.\nFACT:\nInternet scam artists have tried to invent a concept called "overmasturbation," insisting that you have to buy their expensive herbal pills in order to counteract the effect of masturbating more than a couple of times per week. But the pills have absolutely no effect — and masturbating once or twice a day will not make your hair fall out, or cause anything else they claim.\nMYTH:\nMasturbation is bad for your eyesight. \nFACT:
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Abstinence has no harmful effects on your body, however sexual activity has benefits.\nFrequent ejaculation, regardless of whether it's with another person or not, has been shown to help reduce the risk of prostrate cancer.  Orgasm achieved by mastrubation is also beneficial in relieving stress.\nThe only real benefit in sexual intercourse with another person (as opposed to solo mastrubation) is the exercise gained by the vigor of the act.
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No, in fact, increased ejaculation (through masturbating or sex) decreases the risk of prostate cancer.  Read about it here: http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn4861
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Nope! I speak from experience! (I am 65). Actually guys reach their peak in their late teens...for gals it's usually about the mid 30's. This can vary with the individual of course...but for most of us it's true. There is a VERY slow decline after these peaks but most people can remain sexually active throughout their lives (yeah Viagra helps for many of us older guys!). Of course people can become more sexually active in later years just because the opportunity presents itself. An older dude can find a younger woman is attracted to him for instance (maybe because of his money, maybe something else!) and he could find himself do more f--ing than he did in his twenties. For myself, I needed sex release through intercourse, oral sex or (lots of!) masturbation  at least once a day in my teens and twenties, 4 or 5 times a week in my thirties and forties and still 2 or 3 times a week in my 60's. I still think about sex every day even if I don't jack off every day as I did as a teenager. What I am getting at is it is a VERY SLOW decrease in sexual desire over the years. Nothing to worry about at all!
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Be very careful here...Yes, tremendous growth if you work out like a banshee. No muscle will develop without being forced to. Steroids (testosterone) will enhance the effects of working out, but there are some nasty side effects: Shrink your nuts up like made, and destroy sex drive. Take the wrong kind long enough and you may develop breast tissue. You have to know what you are doing to play with this stuff...I do not advise touching it if you do not have a good coach on the subject. AND, this stuff is now classed as a nasty substance that can land you in jail if you are caught. Trust NO one when buying it...they may be narcs! And, there is one heck of a lot of counterfeit stuff out there. Almost no way to get it any more.
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I am a HUGE fan of improving fitness for improving ANYTHING related to the body. I would say if you want to improve yourself sexually, then get in better shape. Run, swim, lift, bike, box, yoga, etc. The better shape your body is in, the more it will reward you in EVERYTHING you do with it. You will have more energy when you are awake and you will sleep better when tired. Cut down on stuff like booze, and TOTALLY cut out smoking. It affects blood vessels which affect alot of things INCLUDING erections. Eat well, exercise, etc etc and you'll see big differences.
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For energy?  Coenzyme Q10 and Carnitine.  Both of these are directly responsible for muscle activity (including your heart muscle).  A side note about carnitine, it helps erectile function (source: Journal of Urology).
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MJ has absolutely no effect whatsoever on muscle growth.  And no it doesn't necessarily make you lazy and unwilling to work out.   Those are MJ stereotypes.  If nothing else, MJ is far easier on your bodily systems than alcohol or tobacco.
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Masturbation will NOT make your penis any longer! Puberty is the only thing that will increase it's size and after that it's not going to get any longer no matter how little or how much you masturbate. When I was a teenager (a long, long time ago!) I was sure all that jacking off was at least partially causing mine to get so much bigger too. This was back in the 1950's and there was no porn. I never saw any other guys with erections so I thought for sure I had a real whopper from all that jacking off and it's not something I really wanted! In reality I was just average sized and my beliefs were total nonsense. Interesting that people still think that way today. Keep on jackin' dude, it won't make your dick any bigger or any smaller but it sure is fun huh? (No side effects at all...so enjoy!)