HealthTap Online Primary Care Doctors Accepting New Patients
Book a video visit
HealthTap
Telehealth
A member asked:

Can exessive masturbation from a young age lead to any problems when you get older?

A doctor has provided 1 answer
Dr. Joel Gallant answered

Specializes in Infectious Disease

No: "excessive" masturbation at a young age is fairly universal. There are no long-term problems that we know of. In fact it could be a good thing: now that young people spend all their time in front of computers, this may be the only exercise they get!

Answered 7/22/2012

5.7k views

Thank

Related Questions

A member asked:

Can excessive masturbation from age of 10 to 16 lead to brain and body problems? I feel detached all the time and very high?

A doctor has provided 1 answer

A member asked:

Hi, I am 31 year old happily married guy.I am interested in holding/catch men's penis and masturbating it.Man should be of 50 age.Can I get rid of it?

A doctor has provided 1 answer

A member asked:

Masturbation is my problem and I am engaged with the problem of masturbation, when i was 10 or 11 year old.My body is weak.How can I get rid from this?

4 doctors weighed in across 2 answers

A member asked:

I am a 16 year old teenager, and i have been masturbating for about 6 years now, since i was 10 years old, and started edging when i was about 13, because of starting masturbation at such a young age, is there a chance my penis stopped growing?

A doctor has provided 1 answer

A member asked:

Ok I am a 20 year old guy and my problem is the following at masturbations I have no problems my penis gets hard and no problem but when I am with a girl it just don't get hard and I am shaking if that helps for the last 2 years i was wondering if it is a

A doctor has provided 1 answer

Sponsored Content
HealthTap Medical Group does not endorse products or services. Sponsored content revenues support our mission to make health information free and accessible to all.Learn more

People also searched for:

Do masturbating 4-5 times a day daily in teenage and young age for several years can cause problems like premature ejaculation in than or later life?
Is it bad to start masturbating at a early age would that ruin their sex drive when they get older?
Can you get permanent problems or age your prostate/penis/sexual organs by masturbating/too much sex?
Can a 20 yr old girl masturbate daily ? will i get any health problems in future bcz of daily masturbation ?
If you masturbate or have sex a lot at an early age will it afect you sex drive when you get older?

Telemedicine

Primary Care
Manage Your Conditions
Women's Health
Children's Health
Men's Health
Senior Health
Wellness, Prevention & Lifestyle
Sexual Health
Mental & Behavioral Health
Travel Medicine
Urgent Care
Ask your question
Didn't find what you're looking for?

90,000 U.S. doctors in 147 specialties are here to answer your questions or offer you advice, prescriptions, and more.

Ask your question

More of what we treat

Allergies
Antibiotics
Asthma
High Blood Pressure
Prescriptions
Type 2 Diabetes
Content on HealthTap (including answers) should not be used for medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment, and interactions on HealthTap do not create a doctor-patient relationship. Never disregard or delay professional medical advice in person because of anything on HealthTap. Call your doctor or 911 if you think you may have a medical emergency.
HealthTap
HIPAA logo
HIPAASecure
Soc 2 Type 2 logo
SOC 2 Type 2Certified
JCAHO Accredited
JCAHOAccredited
Member App

Download HealthTap

Video visit and message your doctor

Member App QR Code
Play Store Member LinkApp Store Member Link

Questions?

+1 (888) 828-0841support@healthtap.com
LinkedInTwitter
HomeTermsPrivacyCookiesDMCAHealth TopicsDoctors DirectoryDoctor Q&A by Specialty
Copyright 2026 HealthTap, Inc.