The below post from X user @hood_grimes has been shared almost ten million times since it appeared on August 25 (I saw it on Snopes):
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.The specific claims made on the X post are false. There is no scientific research to support the idea that masturbation causes back pain, lowers testosterone, or has any of the negative effects listed in the meme (beyond number 11, which is subjective). Instead, research indicates masturbation is (marginally) good for you. In men, high ejaculation frequency (whether from masturbation or sex) correlates to decreased risk of total prostate cancer. For women, research suggests potential benefits of masturbation for dealing with "psychological distress and for enhancing general well-being." And masturbation seems to help everyone sleep better.
Weighing the evidence (while giving all possible benefit of the doubt to the "masturbation can hurt you crowd") makes it very clear that masturbation is way more likely to be physically beneficial than physically harmful.
What is "frequent" masturbation, anyway?
If you feel masturbation is negatively affecting your life, it’s worth paying attention to, but the definition of "harmful" is subjective, and it's possible that what feels like “harm” is actually inherited guilt from what your great-great-great-grandparents thought about sex.
You could take find a similar passage in Victorian anti-masturbation literature for almost all of the meme's 11 points. "I have violent pains in my stomach, arms, and legs; and sometimes in the kidneys," reports a chronic masturbator in Treatise. "I feel great pains from my kidneys downwards, and particularly in the small of my back," agrees another onanist from the earlier work. A doctor describes a self-polluter thusly: "The individual becomes feeble, is unable to labor with accustomed vigor, or to apply his mind to study; his step is tardy and weak, he is dull, irresolute, engages in his sports with less energy than usual, and avoids social intercourse; when at rest he instinctively assumes a lolling or recumbent posture."
Not all Victorians, however
There's no point without a counterpoint. Even in the Victorian age, people like pioneer sexologist Havelock Ellis took a scientific look at sex and devoted an entire volume of his Studies in the Psychology of Sex to masturbation, concluding it was normal and healthy. So did Richard von Krafft-Ebing, whose 1886 book Psychopathia Sexualis still defines how we think about sex. Even occultist Aleister Crowley made self-pleasure part of his magical practice. So the next time someone shares a viral meme, remember that you're picking sides in a 300-year-old culture war, and all the cool Victorians were pro-masturbation. Be team Ellis, not team Onanism: the evidence and history are on your side.
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