It is traditionally called "solitary pleasure", but for some it turns into addiction and becomes a source of anxiety. This is particularly the case of Marjorie who masturbates up to three times a day and begins to find it heavy. In "Without appointment", the sexologist Catherine Blanc answers him the importance of finding a happy medium to be able to find his freedom in this practice.
The question of Marjorie, 19
I got into the habit of masturbating regularly, up to three times a day, it has become a need to relieve some anxiety but it is starting to worry me. What do you think ?
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Catherine Blanc's response
We must distinguish masturbation to discover his body or to see his autonomy to do good, which is soothing, and masturbation as a way to calm his anxieties. here, Marjorie builds up pressure, then there is a discharge, which is pleasure, and allows her to calm down. As she spotted, the more anxious she is, the more she uses masturbation to have this "shoot" of the after. This poses less the question of sexuality, than its relationship to itself, to its anxieties and perhaps even to its anxieties linked to sexuality. As if his impulse was bubbling and that it was necessary to silence it by means of a repetitive masturbation.
She uses masturbation to calm her anxieties and, ultimately, it becomes a source of concern. Masturbation, which it intervenes regularly in our life, in our understanding of ourselves, in the appropriation of our body, is completely normal. But from the moment it becomes an obsession, it is related to a particular sexuality, like bulimia.
Also, if she is worried, Marjorie must go to consult so that we help her to understand what is going on, that we reassure her to have either the freedom of her masturbations three times a day, or the freedom not to masturbate.