Girls do it. Boys do it. I encourage my patients to do it. When did so many people lose touch with themselves or their own sexual desires? Know thyself is the axiom here. After ten years in my field, I can honestly say that if more people simply masturbated as a matter of routine - at least weekly, perhaps daily, and what the hell why not several times daily? - the world would be a happier more adjusted better hormonally balanced place.

 A young man of 22 asks me in confidance if he is masturbating too much. He says he jerks off twice a day and feels better when he does it and gets too horny if he doesn't. I asked him if it is interfering with his job, his relation ships, or his ability to make personal progress in his life... he admitted that *NOT* masturbating seemed to interfere with those things more. I told him to call me if he found himself masturbating more than 7 or 8 times a day, and that I would prescribe some 'industrial strength' lube.