Shocking: These are the side effects of masturbation

As health benefits, there are also side effects of masturbation.

Among the health benefits achieved by this intimate process include the prevention of heart disease as well as the removal of stress and anxiety.

Therapist Dee Wagner told the Medical Daily) that masturbation can “serve as a chronic way to avoid intimacy with others, which could cause anxiety”.

Masturbation also stimulates a reward response to the brain, which means that it is possible to become addicted to an orgasm.

The addiction to orgasm is not only bad for your mental health but can be harmful because it requires more and more stimuli.

Masturbation can also foster the development of prostate cancer. At least that's what a study conducted in 2003.

This study showed that males who disfellowshipped more often than five times a week along the 20s were more likely to develop aggressive prostate cancer than those who did.