Early on I was taught by authoritative adults that the masturbating habit should always be punished. My boys school headmaster introduced my buttocks to the discipline of the cane. He told me that I would always need punishment for masturbation. The arrival of girlie magazines, VHS videotape, and then the Internet meant that I masturbated to increasingly erotic images of lovely women. I masturbated more and more. As a mature adult I was advised to voluntarily seek puishment therapy for my masturbating. I was taken in hand by an understanding older master who told me that there were quite a few persistent masturbators who sought appointments with him. Perhaps you were similar?