Self-Pleasuring Might Benefit Your Career Clearly, self-pleasuring is a popular activity among both men and women (although more popular among men in general). Many articles have been written about the benefits to be had from regular and/or frequent selfpleasuring, including the effects that self-pleasuring rates may have on male organ health outcomes. But because of the stigma still associated with selfpleasuring, few would have thought that it might have a positive benefit for their careers. Indeed, if anything, more people probably would have associated frequent self-pleasuring with being less involved in and therefore less successful in their career. Yet a recent survey indicates that more frequent self-pleasuring may actually benefit a person’s career. About this study First, it should be noted that there are some drawbacks to this study. For example, it was conducted by a skin care company rather than by an independent scientific body, and so it may not have been as rigorous in its design. (Their interest may have come about from a survey that found that self-pleasuring was designated as the second most important method of selfcare, just after listening to music.) Second, the sample size – 1,012 individuals – while not bad, is also small when compared with the billions of people who self-stimulate. It also is unclear how the number breaks down along such lines as gender distribution, gender orientation, age, background, etc. And third, the 1,012 people are all individuals who have self-stimulated before, so that people who say they have never self-gratified (and may therefore skew answers) are not considered. Career aspects That said, the survey does present some interesting findings. For example, it found that 96% of people who admitted they had ever self-pleasured, selfstimulated at least monthly. Also, backing up similar findings in other studies, on average men self-gratified more than women – 13 times a month, www.man1health.com