Masturbation + who does it more, males or females?

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Ahhhh, that wonderful tickly feeling we love to feel when we masturbate, and ouch that tingly feeling that gives us the urge to do it. It is most often stated in websites and books about masturbation that males masturbate more often and at earlier ages. Yet, I find my research to be different. If you go to any parenting website, more parents are concerned about their young daughter's masturbation getting carried away and being done in public. And it seems like stories people write about their own personal experiences masturbating, a higher percentage of girls start at an earlier age. They can rock, rub, and finger there genitals so much easier and in almost any position, while men like to lie down and have an erection and perhaps that is more inconvenient and very limitting. It also seems like a lot more girls discover masturbation on their own than do males. They discover on their own when they are 2 or 3 often, whereas males more or less are shown how to masturbate, and their first time masturbating is when they are 11 or 12. I am wondering has anyone else discovered these observations I made to be valid? Please do tell me, who does it more males or females? And who does it the most at the earliest ages.

O.O Two or three? I dont think thats very possible...

Anyway, i think that males and females do it the same.

every single statistic i have ever seen points out that males do it considerably more than femaleswhile yes, females may discover masturbation at a younger age as some can "rock" etc, -in the long run, it is males who masturbate more than females

males more than females.

Males definitely do it more, in my experience.

Jackinworld.com has done some very scientific polls on this sort of thing. I forget the statistics off-hand, but they broke it down by age group and race and all of that. The percentages were a lot closer than you may think.

"two or three, i don't think this is possible"it had better have to be as i can remember masturbating when i was even as little as one and a half, too be honest, i can't remember my first time masturbating, nor how i may have discovered it, i just remembered how i would "play" with my penis as that is what i would call it in my head not knowing what it actually was. If anyone remembers themselves masturbating at an early age and were self-taught, i would love to hear your story as well as since i don't remember the first time i ever masturbated, i can only speculate on how i discovered it, and perhaps hearing other people with similar experiences, will help shed some light on a 'possible' way in which i learned to masturbate.

You actually remember what you did when you were 1 1/2???? I really doubt that.

pfft to the research. masturbation = the act of touching one's genitalia in a pleasurable way. then all children start it at about the age of one and a half. maybe 2 in some cases. but saying boys dont masturbate at all till they are 11 or 12 is false. they may not start wanking till then. i define wanking as the physical, "jerkin' it" action, that one normally associated with the idea of masturbation. but masturbation can be any action that stimulates the genitalia

yes, i do remember what i did when i was a year and a half. at nighttime or during afternoon naps, i lied on my stomach and a fist with my lefthand rocked over my penis over and over for five minutes or so, after of which I felt like I had to go to the bathroom. I still masturbate lieing on my stomach. I do masturbate a differently than most boys as I don't have an erection while masturbating, I have always masturbated with a soft penis since I was young.

In reply to: yes, i do remember what i did when i was a year and a half. at nighttime or during afternoon naps, i lied on my stomach and a fist with my lefthand rocked over my penis over and over for five minutes or so, after of which I felt like I had to go to the bathroom. I agree. It is common and normal in young children, and young children of both sexes engage in it. It is more or less a security thing... a self-comforting technique, similar to thumb-sucking. That is why young children, including toddlers, often masturbate to relax or to fall asleep. I am a preschool teacher with a degree in early child development, so you can take my word on this one. Some kids are habitual about it, other kids only do it occasionally, but I'd venture to say that all... or nearly all.... young children do this. It is absolutely normal and not deviant or pathological in any way... nor is it, by itself, an indicator that there is a problem.

whoa, i did not start actually playing with myself, when i actually knew what i was doing, when I was 10-12 years old.

Yeah. I'm not saying lil ones do it because they're, like, horny... they just do it as a comfort thing a lot of times. They don't know it's supposed to be dirty and evil. They are very innocent, until society and religion get at them and lay a bunch of guilt and shame and stigmas on them about it.

yeah well i remember being young and just touching myself alot, but it was never for the same intention, it just felt good, but it was the same reason, it fells good.

95% masturbate the other 5% lie about not doing it.

Ya, I 'm not saying when I was 2 years old, I masturbated knowing what I was doing was sexual and all, I just did it because I had innocently discovered it somehow on my own, and it felt good. Whenever I was alone, if I thought about doing it, I did it. I know other children haven't always did it when they were alone though, or they had to be taught not to do it in front of others. But back to my original point at the start of the thread, it seems to me that more preschool females masturbate than do preschool males. Even though all statistical research says that that isn't the case. At any rate, I'm wondering if more preschool boys masturbate than do preschool girls, how come when you look at websites about parenting, and a parent writes in concerned about their preschooler masturbating in public, how come 75% or more of these letters are about there preschool daughter masturbating in public, and it isn't a 50/50 split? Could it be that more preschool females masturbate than do males? And how come if you go to solotouch.com and read the stories there, how come most of the stories in it say that the person's first time masturbating was around 11 or 12? Don't people remember doing it when they were younger? Sooooooooo, let me know what you all think, how old were you when you can first remember playing with yourself? Now I can't remember the first time I masturbated since I was so young, but I can remember doing it when I was young enough to sleep in a crib. I remember playing with my penis when I was in a crib. Since I couldn't remember how old I was, I asked my mom recently how old I was when I stopped sleeping in my crib, she says I was a year and a half when I stopped sleeping in one. Therefore, on my own, I must have discovered masturbation b4 I was even a year and a half old. Not sure how I discovered it, just i know i was doing it, and continue to this day. Anyways, please contribute to forum and give us the age you were when you remember first playing with yourself, and if you think it is more common for preschool males or preschool females to masturbate.

I think both females and males do it about the same amount, but for some reason in our society it is expected of males to be more sexual and masterbate more and therefor males have a more friendly environment with less embarrassment to talk about it.

I think that yes it appears girls masturbate more based on what you have said. However i think it really is more even just doesn't appear that way. You mention going to parenting websites and reading more letters about parents being concerned about their daughters masturbation than their sons. I think that it is just expected and normal for boys to masturbate so when they are seen doing that many parents probably don't get too concerned. But when they see their little daughter masturbate they get worried and curious too since it isn't always viewed as normal. That might explain why there are more parents of girls asking for advice on how to get their child to stop masturbating in public, than their are parents of boys writing in. As far as the stories on solotouch that you were referring too, I think that the writers aren't saying that the first time they ever played with themselves was when they were 11, 12, or 13, i'm sure they did when they were little too, what they are probably meaning is that the first time they had an actual orgasm and ejaculation was around that age.

to be honest with you, girls find that sensation in the bathtub when there younge when the water simply moves in the right spot on there clit. I mean i remember it happending when i was like 5. but then i only touched myself to see what it was and it felt good. then i didnt do it again. till .. well this year. and i do it atleast twise a day. in the morning when i get a shower and and night when i get a shower. and occasionaly, when no one is home and im sitting there watching tv.