The Benefits of Masturbation & Self-Love

Does masturbation have benefits? Absolutely! We're big proponents of masturbation and self-love. Fortunately, a lot has changed in the way we think about masturbation. Masturbation is no longer an absolute taboo, and that's a good thing! This is evident from the ever-growing popularity of Sex toys . Read below about the benefits of masturbation.

Our workshop Masturbation & Self-Love for the Yoni is the foundation of all our workshops. Because love and sexual pleasure start with yourself. Self-knowledge, self-love, self-confidence, and self-touch!

Six Benefits of Masturbation:

1. Self-knowledge : you get to know your own body better and what you like.
2. Sexual confidence : Your sexual awareness also increases your self-confidence. You know what you like, where, and how to stimulate it!
3. Better partnered sex : not only solo sex improves, but also with a partner. This is partly because you'll know and be able to communicate better what you like.
4. Healthy! Physically, you give your entire body, immune system and circulation a boost. boost!
5. Mental health & better mood: Pleasure and orgasms release all sorts of wonderful hormones and chemicals. This is the cocktail for a better mood and an excellent antidote to stress.
6. Sleep soundly: The release of endorphins, among other things, helps you fall asleep. Your blood pressure drops, and masturbation has a calming effect.

Masturbation Benefits: Know Your Body and Increase Your Sexual Confidence

By exploring your own body, you learn how it works, and that's essential for the best sex. Knowing your erotic triggers increases your sexual confidence, allowing you to relax more easily and surrender to pleasure.

In addition, sex with a partner also becomes more profound. One of the benefits of masturbation is that all sex improves, including partner sex. Because you know yourself better and what you like, you can also communicate and explain this better to others.

Masturbation = Healthy: An orgasm a day keeps the doctor away

Besides being incredibly pleasurable and enjoyable, masturbation is also incredibly healthy, both mentally and physically! This has been proven time and again: it has a positive effect on your heart and circulation, boosts your immune system, and releases all sorts of hormones and happiness hormones that make you feel happier and stronger.

How does that work exactly? When your body experiences an orgasm or pleasure, your brain produces hormones and neurochemicals, including serotonin and dopamine. This makes you feel pleasure and satisfaction. Oxytocin gives you a sense of safety, affection, and warmth, which is incredibly helpful for stress-related symptoms. An orgasm also helps you sleep better due to the release of vasopressin and endorphins.

Masturbation for PMS

Did you know that masturbation also drastically reduces premenstrual symptoms? Besides the hormones that provide pain relief, it also increases blood flow to your pelvic area. This helps alleviate the pain. After an orgasm, your uterus and entire pelvic floor relax, reducing the severity of cramps.

Self-love & Body acceptance

Besides the physical benefits of masturbation, it also works wonders mentally. When you touch, caress, and bring pleasure to your body, it is a direct act of self-love .

Masturbation positively influences your relationship with your body. Body acceptance and love will increase! How can you not love something that gives you so much pleasure?

Sex drive

Sex makes you want more sex. That's why masturbation has a positive effect on your libido. But what actually makes you want more sex? When we talk about sex drive, we often talk about what you excites. But what slows you down also affects your sexual desire. That's why we often talk about both the "gas pedal" (what turns you on) and the "brake" (what turns you off and slows down your sexual desire).

Both are important when it comes to your sexual desire. Sometimes it's important to let go of the brakes a bit instead of hitting the gas pedal. Common "brakes" include stress, feeling uncomfortable in your own skin, feeling uncomfortable in a situation or with a partner, and unsatisfying sex in a relationship.

What someone's "brakes" and "gas pedals" are, like everything else, is personal. And it can change over the course of different phases in life. Generally speaking, people can be divided into two categories. Namely, " redliners": people who are sexually aroused by adrenaline and stress and want to release their energy. Flatliners There are people who, under stress, have no desire for sex and whose libido decreases. These effects are caused by hormones in our brain that influence our behavior. Both are common and completely normal!

If you want to know more about the functioning of the brain and sexuality, we recommend the book 'Come As You Are ' by Emily Nagoski.

Play, practice & experiment

In our workshop Masturbation & Self-Love for the Yoni We'll show you 15 techniques. You'll also learn the external and internal components to bring yourself to ecstasy, discover your own eroticism, and expand your pleasure. The following technique is a good example, and you can start using it right away!

Edging

A simple exercise can turn having orgasms into a long lasting state of Being orgasmic . You do this by suppressing the urge to climax. So, stop before the excitement becomes too intense and you reach orgasm. Holding that tension intensifies your sexual feelings, leading to more control over and a deeper experience of your orgasms.

Every time you're close to orgasm, stop and take a deep breath. Breathe the sexual energy throughout your entire body. Once the tension subsides, continue and repeat the stopping and continuing sequence for as long as you like. The longer you do this, the more intense the final orgasm will be.

People with a penis learn this way to maintain their erections longer and achieve much more intense orgasms. Women and vagina owners learn to integrate sexual arousal more quickly and completely into their systems. In other words, they become more Sexual beings. This is also a method for achieving multiple orgasms and deeper, wave-like orgasms. Try it out!

Check your breathing

Breathing plays a crucial role in increasing your sexual energy. When you're playing with yourself, try to feel your breath reaching your groin and then exhaling from there. It's an easy exercise that will benefit you immensely! You'll notice your sexual feelings spread more throughout your body. Your heart and genitals connect, allowing the orgasm to literally flow through your entire body. This can trigger a wealth of emotions. You're touching the very essence of sex: the connection with your inner (divine) self.

Active role & Milking

Another way to work individually on the intensity of your orgasms is by exercising the PC muscle. A must-have for everyone and every gender! The PC muscle (pubococcal cygeus muscle) lies between the genitals and the anus. You can feel it around the anus and when you try to hold your urine. It's the main muscle of the pelvic floor, controlling the opening and closing of the uterus, seminal duct, vagina, and anus.

You can train these muscles through simple contraction and relaxation exercises. In the penis, exercise stimulates blood flow. This increases erectile function and intensifies pleasure. Read more about this in [article incomplete]. this blog .

Women and people with vaginas experience more sensation in their vaginas and deeper, more intense orgasms. It also gives you more control over the muscles in your vagina, allowing you to learn to make sucking and milking movements with your vaginal muscles. This not only increases the intensity of your pleasure but also literally gives you a more active role in penetration.

Every time you masturbate and climax, you train your pelvic floor muscles. There are also all kinds of special training attributes for training this muscle. Read this blog to learn more about training your pelvic floor muscles.

Masturbation: Love and Pampering Yourself

Bringing yourself to climax can be much more than "regular" masturbation. Caring for your own body is all about self-love and transforming sexual energy into love energy. Love is the starting point, even for sex with yourself. Enjoy your naked body or wrap yourself in beautiful lingerie. Create a warm, erotic environment with scents, oils and candles. Surround yourself with challenging literature , exciting films, your favorite Vibrator , dildo, or other toys. Treat yourself to the best and most beautiful, embark on a journey of self-discovery!

Want to discover more self-love, pleasure, and techniques? We've designed a workshop specifically for this: Masturbation & Self-Love for the Yoni. This workshop focuses on your feelings and the subtle processes of your body, your vagina, and your unique eroticism. The "Original Masturbation & Self-Love Workshop" is led by our sexpert, Froukje.