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Abstinence from Masturbation and Hypersexuality
Despite the lack of evidence for negative health effects of masturbation, abstinence from masturbation is frequently recommended as a strategy to improve one’s sexual self-regulation. We adopted a framework of perceived problems with pornography to collect first hints about whether abstinence from m...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7145784/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32130561 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10508-019-01623-8 |
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description | Despite the lack of evidence for negative health effects of masturbation, abstinence from masturbation is frequently recommended as a strategy to improve one’s sexual self-regulation. We adopted a framework of perceived problems with pornography to collect first hints about whether abstinence from masturbation stems from a psychological and behavioral “addiction” or conflicting attitudes. In an online questionnaire survey recruited via a non-thematic Reddit thread (n = 1063), most participants reported that they had tried to be abstinent from masturbation. As visible from zero-order correlations and multiple linear regression, motivation for abstinence was mostly associated with attitudinal correlates, specifically the perception of masturbation as unhealthy. While there were associations with hypersexuality, no significant correlation with behavioral markers such as maximum number of orgasms was found. Higher abstinence motivation was related to a higher perceived impact of masturbation, conservatism, and religiosity and to lower trust in science. We argue that research on abstinence from masturbation can enrich the understanding of whether and how average frequencies of healthy behavior are pathologized. |
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spelling | pubmed-71457842020-04-15 Abstinence from Masturbation and Hypersexuality Zimmer, Felix Imhoff, Roland Arch Sex Behav Original Paper Despite the lack of evidence for negative health effects of masturbation, abstinence from masturbation is frequently recommended as a strategy to improve one’s sexual self-regulation. We adopted a framework of perceived problems with pornography to collect first hints about whether abstinence from masturbation stems from a psychological and behavioral “addiction” or conflicting attitudes. In an online questionnaire survey recruited via a non-thematic Reddit thread (n = 1063), most participants reported that they had tried to be abstinent from masturbation. As visible from zero-order correlations and multiple linear regression, motivation for abstinence was mostly associated with attitudinal correlates, specifically the perception of masturbation as unhealthy. While there were associations with hypersexuality, no significant correlation with behavioral markers such as maximum number of orgasms was found. Higher abstinence motivation was related to a higher perceived impact of masturbation, conservatism, and religiosity and to lower trust in science. We argue that research on abstinence from masturbation can enrich the understanding of whether and how average frequencies of healthy behavior are pathologized. Springer US 2020-03-04 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7145784/ /pubmed/32130561 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10508-019-01623-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Original Paper Zimmer, Felix Imhoff, Roland Abstinence from Masturbation and Hypersexuality |
title | Abstinence from Masturbation and Hypersexuality |
title_full | Abstinence from Masturbation and Hypersexuality |
title_fullStr | Abstinence from Masturbation and Hypersexuality |
title_full_unstemmed | Abstinence from Masturbation and Hypersexuality |
title_short | Abstinence from Masturbation and Hypersexuality |
title_sort | abstinence from masturbation and hypersexuality |
topic | Original Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7145784/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32130561 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10508-019-01623-8 |
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