Why Most Men Cannot Stop Masturbating: The Self-Soothing Habit Underneath the Behaviour.

Most articles on this topic treat the behaviour as a discipline problem or a moral one. Neither works. For most men who cannot stop, compulsive masturbation is a self-soothing behaviour that got wired in during adolescence and has been doing quiet emotional work ever since. This piece looks honestly at what the behaviour is actually doing, the six patterns it shows up in a man's ordinary life, why willpower fails so reliably, and the recovery work that meets it at its root rather than its surface.