I'm addicted to masturbation.

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I don't know if I'm addicted, but I do it.

To the OP: it may be true that you may work it a *lot*, just try not to let it get in your way. It's a practical "addiction" in the common usage once it causes you any more grief other than potentially wasting some time. So as long as you aren't doing it in front of others non-consensually (or meta-non-consensually; there are practical legal consequences for exposing yourself to minors),

Hell, video-record yourself while watching a belly dancer or something if it makes you happy. ( ...but try to keep the videos stashed away out of reach of others as it probably makes great blackmail material)

On a serious note: if masturbating causes you some sort of shame, well... that's going to be harder to deal with, but worth dealing with while keeping in mind that the mindset that causes you the shame may be the thing that has to give.

What exactly is the issue?

Sounds like your parents are a throw back to the 1800's.

Putting them aside for a moment- what is the issue that YOU have with masturbation?

Is it (a) masturbation as opposed to not masturbating- that is that you think its a sin ( a rare concern even among the religous nowadays). Masturbation is perfectly healthy.

Or is it (b) masturbation as opposed to real sex. That is you wish you were getting the real thing and the fact you have to resort to wnaking makes you feel like a loser? Thats a more common obsession nowadays among college age guys.

If thats the issue- buy a babe magnent sports car- and dont believe all the boasting your guy friends do about getting it. Half of it its bs.

Or is it (c) you do it so much that it seems like an addiction?

No amount of cigarette smoking is healthful. Masturbation is more like food- healthy- but too much of anything is too much.

But if its this then the behavior is a sympton not a cause. Its a way of escaping whatever is bugging you- school work, career decsions, failure to find a girl friend, -something like that. So its this other thing that your avoiding that you need to focus on- not the masturbation per se.

I masturbate daily, I find it relaxes me and helps me get to sleep.

The remaining 10% lie...LOL But seriously, OP, masturbation is normal.

~Kate

That's OK unless you do it in public and that's not your case. Your parents will not do anything like that you say because they (I hope) did it also

Masturbation may be healthy, but there is a law within the universe we live in, that law is called the law of moderation. Too much of anything is bad for you, including masturbation. I used to be addicted to masturbation a few years ago and I remember I had a terrible time concentrating and my thought process was pretty jarbled, after I stopped for about a month I felt really good and those symptoms went away.