Masturbation

Crime and Punishment.

Why everyone thinks this is a guy is beyond me

>castrated himself with a pair of scissors. He then ate a meal and went to a prayer meeting before seeking medical treatment.

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Ask God in the name of Jesus Christ to relieve you of your urges and to overcome your addiction. All things are made possible through Jesus Christ; additionally, get someone to hold you accountable and read the Bible alongside. We’re all gonna make it.

I mean, obviously, if you have the means, try finding a good therapist or specialist to talk about this with. Much higher success rate in dealing with these issues than a book.

But, if you want to read more about how our views of masturbation divert from various discourses throughout history, The Use of Pleasure: History of Sexuality vol. 2 by Foucault is great. Foucault gets memed on here a lot, but the book has a lot of great tidbits about different Greeks just riffing on jacking off and how it relates to morality. Diogenes masturbated and fucked in public just to prove his points about pleasure. Might get you to consider why we've tied sexual acts like masturbation so closely to personal morality

Lol, I didn't know he ended up in MN. I live a couple hours away and have been to that museum. That town has an awesome donut place too

Therapy has a pretty shit success rate though.

Source? Pretty blanket claim to make

Either way, guessing talking to a professional would be more beneficial to figuring out root causes of a masturbation addiction than reading a book or posting on /it/

people really need to read a whole to convince them to stop touching their penis...OP is brainlet fleshpilled.

Seriously what the fuck do you expect a book or any of us here to tell you what you dont already know.
>masturbation is bad
>stop
>find a hobby
>stop watching porn
>nofap
like what the fuck do you really expect me to tell you other than to stop masturbating? just fucking castrate yourself them jump of a bridge already
fucking brainlet

The good news is that masturbation and sexuality in general become a lot easier to control the older one gets.

I would say my adolescent-like libido peaked around 24 or so. That doesnt mean I dont get erections or sexual lust. It just means I dont pop a boner after driving over a speedbump, and I dont rudely stare at every jogging girls ass.

>Don't beat yourself

mine stopped around 17-20, just dident really have time/cared to do so like I did every other day when I was younger.

What are they gonna say?
"Just accept yourself" the general zeitgeist is that sexuality can never be harmful as long as there's consent.

Very simplistic assessment of what therapy can do for people. Any decent therapist will probe to see where a patient's unwanted habits, in this case, excessive masturbation stem from. While the general view you bring up may be that sexuality can't be harmful (which is way too broad of an statement), if a patient is obviously experiencing negative effects from personal sexual practices, those are gonna get explored. If a person feels shitty every time they have sex, the therapist wouldn't just shrug their shoulders and say 'well, sexuality is good and you got consent, nothing I can do here.' They'd explore where they developed their attitudes towards sex, whether they've been victimized, victimized others sexually etc. I'd expect with the issue of masturbation addiction, they'd do Cognitive Behavioral Therapy where the practice of masturbation is slowly substituted with another action, maybe reading a book. Mindfulness is mostly a meme, but some people on this shitty site are so impulsive and don't know how to assess and disengage with troublesome thoughts/urges, even the most entry-level meditative practices would probably be helpful.

Because it‘s rare for females to become addicted to masturbation or porn. Female sexuality just doesn‘t work like that. For males, it is a common issue.

There are many books that explain how sexuality, the brain and addiction works and how to get out of destructive habits linked to it. Ofc OP isn‘t looking for a fiction rec. maybe some philosophical works could help him change his mindset about some things and thus lighten his need for escapism.
However, it‘s almost impossible to rec books like that to someone you know nothing about, since what insights he needs are highly individual. All we can do is try giving him a gentle push into the right direction. The rest is up to him.

do you watch porn? are you exposed to continious stream of arousing imagery?
if so, it's easier than you think.
first, quit porn. just stop watching it at all. masturbate exclusively to images generated in your head. then try to scroll past any unwanted porn you accidentally see.