Do you still masturbate even if you're in a relationship?

[JustANormalGirlInAnAbnormalWorld]

Do you still masturbate even if you're in a relationship? More or less so?

I think it is different for everyone, masturbation and sex have their own respective places in a relationship. Personally I don’t masterbate and never really have done, and it has nothing to do with being in a relationship or not. I wouldn’t dream of telling my partner that he can or can’t masterbate, that’s entirely up to him.

Every morning lol

Unfortunately, being in a relationship doesn’t mean you have regular sex. Some of us need to sort ourselves out 😆

I have always masturbated when in a relationship or not.

Old habits die hard 😆

Yes, and for me it's nothing to do with how satisfied I am from sex with my DH. I just enjoy the sensation and orgasm I get from a vibrator or my own touch, to my own fantasies as a separate thing.

I'm like @GigiAnnna , although I am single now it is a separate act to sex. It is not a consolation for being alone. Different reasons, different times of day. For instance, almost asleep in the dark with a fantasy in my head enjoying my own gentle touch.

I masturbate thinking about other people masturbating. Often wonder if we all masturbated at the same time and all had an orgasm simultaneously, would the earth actually move :)

According to AI millions of litres of ejaculate are produced worldwide every day

Of course !

sometimes together

OP, what about you, since you started the conversation?

More so! I wondered if that was normal! Just get used to having more I suppose!

I've been married almost 10 years and still masturbate. I had a couple of relationships before this when I was younger and I still masturbated then also and it didn't change anything.

For me, I am not looking for a certain number of orgasms per week where I don't need any more, so even if I had sex every day, I may still want to masturbate on my own. I see partner sex and masturbation as separate and I just enjoy masturbating on my own, in my own time, using my toys as needed.

I do and have done ever since I started, it isn't more or less whether I have been in a relationship or not.

My husband has done too and says he has masturbated and watched porn since his teens. More recently he has really tried to stop, as he is much hornier and harder if he doesn't, and once he gets to 5 or so days without he really enjoys the feeling of being constantly aroused.

Once or twice a week for me, found out recently my wife has started playing with herself more frequently in the shower and of a weekend in bed if I’m out early with the kids. She’s always said that she’s never played with herself but it’s just a sudden urge. Finding this out has certainly improved our sex 😂

Of course. Once or twice a day. It’s a totally different situation to 1:1 sex with someone. One is about sharing bodies, the other is 100% me and that is a good thing.

No, we've taken steps that mean I can’t.

yes - we don’t live together and might not see each other each week due to work, kids etc etc

Absolutely I still masturbate and there is no way I would want to go without it. We have wonderful sex together but I also just wants orgasms on my own, and my vibrator. After 2 days without, I need my vibrator!

I am with my partner 9 years- married 4.5 years of that. And we have a very very healthy sex life- but I still self pleasure. I have literally just purchased a hello Nancy lemon 🍋

Back in the seventies Cosmo reported a survey on female masturbation. The result was apparently paradoxical in that frequency of masturbation was higher in those in a relationship & having regular sex than those who were single.

Possibly because those women having regular sex are in a different mindset. Most who want it regularly can find it.

But, as l always say with any of these surveys, nobody came up to me in the street with a clipboard and asked me.

I said it was apparently paradoxical as you would think that singletons would masturbate more as they aren't getting regular sex. However it may well be that if single you think less about sex & when in a relationship you have a permanent state of mild arousal. A caveat is that this survey was 50 years ago so attitudes & actions may have changed. Maybe 50 years ago singletons didn't like to admit to masturbating. It's an interesting finding whatever the reason.

And when he’s locked?

It's more often in heat though right? 🤣