Masturbating before puberty vs after

A former girlfriend once told me that she’d masturbated since she was five years old. And what I wish I’d asked her was how her drive to self-pleasure changed with puberty? Up to that time, she would have touched herself to recreate those pleasurable feelings she knew by memory. But once puberty arrived, her body must have started reminding her by itself, with tingling, swelling, wetness, even without her thinking about it.

So my questions, to those of you who have been masturbating from a young age, did puberty make your orgasms stronger, longer, better, more frequent?

And…when did you begin thinking of masturbation as sexual, and naughtily so? 👀

I started masturbating when I was twelve, early in puberty (bigger cock, some pubic hair I think, but no ejaculation). So I can’t answer the question myself, and hoping some of you will! Thank you!

The short answer is yes - - in my case there was a big change when I went through puberty.

Here's the whole story: I began to masturbate at the age of 11 ¾ when I discovered the good feeling of rubbing the head of my penis with a wash cloth one day while taking a bath (I had overheard guys at school talking about jacking off, but I really had no idea what they were talking about). As I continued to rub it, I was soon overwhelmed by my first orgasm, dry, as all my muscles tightened up and I felt like I was going to jump right out of my skin!

I almost immediately discovered that I could achieve the same feeling using my hand and soon I was masturbating nearly every day, almost always at night and in bed. I soon found out that by trial and error, I could have multiple orgasms during any one session. Now it usually took about four minutes of stroking to achieve the first orgasm which was always very intense. All my body muscles would tighten up as I climaxed and my stroking arm would actually lock up; I couldn't have continued stroking if I had wanted

to.

The first couple of times I jacked off it felt so good that I tried to start stroking again as soon as my muscles relaxed enough to allow that - maybe five or six seconds after the orgasm hit. I found that to start stroking again so soon actually hurt - my body and especially my cock head was still way too sensitive. After some trial and error, I soon realized that if I waited about twelve to fifteen seconds for the intensity to diminish and my muscles to relax and the sensitivity to wane, I could start stroking again and bring on additional orgasms with only about fifteen to twenty strokes on my penis.

Boy was that great! I was essentially going from one orgasmic high to another without having to start all over again from scratch, a process similar to that which some women experience. What I had discovered was what I called my "window of opportunity." As noted above, I had to wait for the sensitivity to decrease until the right moment to begin stroking again. However, if I waited too long I would "lose it" and have to start all over again from scratch. Anyway, I almost always had four or five orgasms and sometimes as many as six or seven during one session. I was always exhausted at the end of each session and quickly fell asleep.

About a month before my 13th birthday I was having a session as usual and noticed when I orgasmed I had a drop of clear oily substance on the head of my penis. I had had my first ejaculation!

During the next several weeks I noticed many significant changes in the way my body was functioning sexually. First, I noticed the time necessary to achieve the first orgasm dropped rapidly. As noted above, the first orgasm used to take almost four minutes with approximately 400 strokes needed. This fell to where I was consistently able to reach that first orgasm in a little less than two minutes with only about 200 strokes needed. That was the good news.

The bad news was that I rapidly lost the ability to achieve additional orgasms per session and soon had to "start all over again" if I wanted additional orgasms. At age thirteen that really wasn't a problem as I could achieve a second orgasm and ejaculation (with less cum) with an additional 200 strokes. The waiting period was generally only a couple of minutes and sometimes I even maintained an erection during the "recovery period." The

additional work needed to have multiple orgasms and ejaculations meant that I soon, by age fourteen or fifteen, was content to have only one orgasm and ejaculation per session.

The other bad news is that the intensity of the orgasms diminished considerably. As noted above, I had been consistently having very intense orgasms, even after having several in rapid succession. Then the nature of the orgasms changed; I was now having multiple muscle contractions needed to shoot several spurts of cum out of my penis when ejaculating. I found that from the day that I noticed the first drop of clear cum on my penis, it took about four to six months before I was ejaculating the usual amount of creamy white cum. This usually took place in two spurts (ropes), each approximately two inches long, which shot six to nine inches (occasionally to twelve inches) up on my chest and an additional muscle spasm which resulted in additional cum oozing out of my penis.

I masturbated at a very early age with absolutely no idea while it felt good doing so. I was probably around 6 when I first remember enemas starting, that led to me rubbing private parts of my body after the enema and release had been completed. Spanking seemed to trigger the same reaction. Denise

@Denise - did you often climax?

Not sure, but i think it was before puberty, at least fondling myself. Scared me the first time I ejaculated. But didn’t stop me. 😈

@Doug1210 I did similar things when I was about 12 ,I would masturbate sitting in the toilet, I would feel myself close to cumming, then stop masturbating, but sperm would ooze out without a full blown orgasm, my penis was till erect, so I would masturbate again, and repeat, stop, and let more sperm dribble out.,I remember clearly just how thick and lumpy my sperm was at that age. My penis would now be solid throbbing, so I would masturbate again to a full orgasm, this time I remember the sperm squirting out, thin jets of watery sperm.

Those days, I would masturbate in bed for hours. I can recall my penis never lost its erection, it became quite painful almost like priapism, it was rock solid, about four inches long, the shaft was not that thick, quite slender, but the shaft skin was very taut, shiny, covered in a fine web of veins, along with the strong dorsal vein that branched off into two just below the bulging glans under the tight foreskin.

@Doug1210 I did similar things when I was about 12 ,I would masturbate sitting in the toilet, I would feel myself close to cumming, then stop masturbating, but sperm would ooze out without a full blown orgasm, my penis was till erect, so I would masturbate again, and repeat, stop, and let more sperm dribble out. I remember clearly just how thick and lumpy my sperm was at that age. My penis would now be solid throbbing, so I would masturbate again to a full orgasm, this time I remember the sperm squirting out, thin jets of watery sperm. Those days, I would masturbate in bed for hours. I can recall my penis never lost its erection, it became quite painful almost like priapism, it was rock solid, about four inches long.

Wow! Seems that you mastered the art of edging at a very young age and were able to stop masturbating at the exact right moment to achieve a small ejaculation without having an orgasm - - or full blown ejaculation. Quite amazing. Unfortunately, it always took quite a bit of speed and friction for me to achieve an orgasm so I always just let myself go over the edge when I got there - - rather than trying to stop and prolong the whole process. And quite frankly, I really didn't know about the concept of edging back then either.

Before puberty, I had dry orgasms which can be VERY intense. I remember feeling it in my whole body and shuddering. With those, you have this very big physical response, but nothing comes out - or, sometimes, a little bit of thin, clear fluid similar to precum will come out.

I started masturbating way young. Literally as far back as I can remember. It felt 'good'. I don't know if it was sexual or not (of course it was but in those days I had no context) I just knew I liked it, it made me feel better and it was a good way to sooth anxiety. It changed as I got older, in my pre-teens, and I could feel it start to 'build' to something. Like the build up to a sneeze is how I felt about it at the time. It would scare me so I'd stop. One time I didn't, it was late at night, I was in my bed and it just felt so good I didn't want to stop and then I 'sneezed'. No I didn't sneeze, I orgasmed. Felt great and immediately after it scared the shit out of me - I thought I broke something. Ran to the bathroom to see if I was bleeding or anything. Nope. Later told my cousin about it and after she got finished laughing at me she explained what it was.

@Doug1210

It all happened by accident, I just seem to masturbate and without warning, sperm would ooze out of my peeslit, I remained erect, so I carried on. I must have thought it quite normal that this happened. I would continue masturbating and again, more sperm would well up and flow out. Yes, my sperm at that age was at times quite thick and lumpy. I would take some of the clots of sperm and squish it between my fingers. I would carry on, and what I really liked if I remember rightly, was how my sperm was like thin watery milk, that would squirt out like a jet.

I was fascinated how different my sperm was each time.

I never masturbated before puberty (not for any particular reason--I just never discovered it). During the early stages of puberty, I started humping my pillows and bedclothes. It felt really good, but I never achieved orgasm. After some time, I accidentally hit upon the conventional penis in fist method and had an orgasm with full-blown ejaculation. Later that day, I tried again and it happened again -- and I was off!

I definitely started before puberty. I recall getting caught by my mother. I also recall my first ejaculation, later.

I discovered at age 5 that if I rubbed my penis on certain fabrics it felt really good and I would get hard. Several years later I discovered I could use my hand as well. That technique was always more 'handy' and would rub the top of my penis back and forth across my abdomen (like a windshield-wiper). I eventually figured out the right grasp for fist-pumping (more like finger-tip-pumping until my penis grew longer). I never reached orgasm, I would get a 'tingling feeling' and stop. I was 10 when a buddy who told me to continue rubbing past the 'tingles' for a even better feeling. Boy was he right! I was off to the races.

The first signs of puberty began at age 12, thing started growing 'down there' and the orgasms became better and better. Several months after turning 13 was when I had my first ejaculation.

All those early masturbation sessions were enhanced by thoughts of spankings and enemas. Mostly my own or a imagining a male friend or other non-specific boy getting spanked or an enema. About the time I started ejaculating was when images of females getting spanked or an enema began, as well as imaging masturbating a girl (I wasn't sure how, but figured it involved rubbing). That soon gave way to imaging having sex with female classmates I found attractive. Those masturbation sessions had the most intense orgasmic result, almost passing out.

Dry orgasms were quite intense at times. When puberty was in full swing, there was the realization as to the actual sexual aspect!

This is a difficult comparison to make. Before puberty, the examinations I had for my tight foreskin, although not pleasant, did show me that area could give me nice feelings and I spent many nights in bed exploring this. These were offset by the pain my foreskin gave me during erections though, so I never got close to an orgasm and I didn't really know what i was doing. Puberty started not long after I had my circumcision and I had also discovered the jackinworld website (which I have just found still exists! It looks the same as it did all those years ago lol) which told me everything I needed to know about how to use my new favourite toy

I recall in 6th grade, age 11, my best friend told me about the tingly feeling he’d get by holding his underwear away from his body and rubbing the fabric across the tip of his erect penis. I knew the feeling from using a washcloth that way in the bathtub.

I didn’t start masturbating till the next year, unexpectedly climaxing after rubbing my erect penis against my inner thigh. It was a dry orgasm, and I hadn’t known such a feeling existed. It felt so good!! I did it almost every night after that. But it took me weeks, according to the diary I kept that year, before I could “admit” to myself that what I was doing was masturbating.

But I think I must’ve already entered puberty: my penis had grown bigger — it wasn’t a little boy’s little pecker I was rubbing! — and I might’ve had a bit of pubic hair already. So my own experience didn’t answer my original question: could my girlfriend have been masturbating to orgasm all through grade school?!

So it’s interesting to learn from previous posts that some of you were climaxing well before puberty. @Nurse_Phillips’ and @Doug1210’s answers (Doug’s arm going stiff and spastic as orgasm approached, Nurse Phillips’s first orgasm coming as such a surprise she didn’t know what had happened) in particular exactly address the question I was asking!!

So it’s interesting to learn from previous posts that some of you were climaxing well before puberty. @Nurse_Phillips’ and @Doug1210’s answers (Doug’s arm going stiff and spastic as orgasm approached, Nurse Phillips’s first orgasm coming as such a surprise she didn’t know what had happened) in particular exactly address the question I was asking!!

In the interest of complete accuracy I need to note that the above quote is not quite accurate. When I initially experienced dry orgasms, not only were those dry orgasms very intense but there was only one full body contraction that caused all of my body muscles to contract and my whole body to go stiff as a board! That included my stroking arm which "locked up". There were no spasms whatsoever - - only that one full body contraction.

That's why the changes, which happened as I entered puberty, were so significant. Instead of having that one intense full body contraction (which felt like I was going to jump right out of my skin) , my body started to have multiple muscle contractions (spasms), which were confined to my pelvic area (rather than full body) & caused the newly produced semen to initially ooze out and then eventually shoot out of my penis.

I don’t know if that was ‘well’ before. Probably at the start of it. I wasn’t showing visible signs of it but I did not too long after.

I didn’t masturbate before puberty, but I discovered some very nice feelings whilst pulling myself up a vertical rope, and the rope was between my legs. It was the same feeling I had when I started masturbating a few years later.

I don't recall masturbating before puberty. I knew how babies were made but was taught that at a very high level so I didn't understand exactly what had to happen (erection followed by ejaculation) but I digress. Prior to puberty, I thought the penis' reason for existence was for urination. I recall getting erections prior to puberty but didn't think much about them or wonder why they happened.

Fast forward to the start of puberty and what I remember were the itchy testicles. I had to scratch down there and one thing led to another. I didn't "jerk off" for a long time. The early masturbations was me rubbing the head of the penis and then later, the entire penis. And as some have already mentioned here, those dry orgasms were incredible - scared the hell out of me at first but they did feel amazing.

Wet dreams were my first seminal emissions and I've posted here in other threads about what the early ones were like (clear fluid I naively thought was urine).

For those of you that have read my life's sexual history will already be aware of what I will write here.

From about the 8 of eight I remember getting nice feelings when I touched down there and knew that it must be wrong as that was a rude place. I never went though to orgasm at this age as I would always make myself stop and just try to get to sleep. However, I did notice that sometimes my panties became a little damp which worried me even more as I thought I might have something wrong with my peepee. There was noboy I could talke to about this.

However, when I was 11 I started playing with 3 girls and this often turned into playing rude doctors. It was in once game that one of my "friends" was playing with my clitoris and even when I asked her to stop she just grinned and continued. Of course eventually I had my first orgasm. At that time it felt quite violent with the other girls asking me if I was OK (probably caused by the years I had spent touching without cumming) Of course it did not feel sexual in anyway just rude and very naughty.

Obviously after that first time I had no problems with bringing myself to orgasm most nights but didnt feel anything sexual - I suppose I didnt know what that meant back then.

When I started to go through puberty and all the horours that brought with it I still masturbated on a regular basis. I guess depening on the time of the month they were stronger on some days than other. Also, at this time, we had had basic sex education in school so I guess I must have felt that what I was doing was sexual as well as naughty !

I did it already way before I got puberty and It already felt so nice even without an orgasm or later with a 'dry' one. The feeling and my horniness increased with puberty and to see it cum finally made me feeling even more satisfied and lucky. Since then, I masturbated my whole life and still keep on, also always while I had my ladies by my side, gf's, my wife and partners later on. Masturbation was and still is always hot and sexy to me, without anyone as I recall sexy experiences/memories and together with my partner when we enjoy mutual masturbation or while she's giving me a hot hand/blow job.

I was given enemas as a young boy and had a few doctors examination where one doctor stuck his finger in my bottom. These were all traumatic for me as I remember. I also do remember a slight tickle sensation inside my butt as I was being given my enemas. I was not understanding much of this at this young age. I remember for some reason wanted to see if I could reproduce that same tickle feeling... So I tried when I was put down for a nap to play like I was having an enema. I stuck a crayon in my bottom and wiggled it around some... Oh my I was rewarded after a few minutes to a wonderful tickle feeling that seemed to spread all over me. It was intese I remember. It felt like I could tickle myself and it was incredible. I think I got addicted to this very early on. I had then no idea what was going on but I did know it sure felt great....

I would not call it masturbation but I realized at around age 6 or 7 that by moving my foreskin back and forth a little that it felt good on the glans and I would get an erection and then feel the whole thing even though it didn't fully retract at that age. I was raised in a strict Catholic household so there was supposed to be no "touching yourself", but I ignored that because I thought if no one knows I am doing it then how can there be consequences? I had no idea that I was simulating sex or that would be the precursor to actual masturbation since no one talked to me about it and I was surprised when the wet dreams started at 12 which led to actual completion of masturbation.

I first masturbated in the summer of 1997 at the age of 6 and a half although I didn't know that's what I was doing at the time. My parents had just got an above ground swimming pool that summer and I accidentally discovered that when my crotch was in front of the water jet it felt real good on my boy parts(and told my mom about it which made her giggle) although I dont remember getting an erection and didn't have an orgasm. As I did this my peehole started to sting(I guess because I got water in it) and I yelped. I told my mom about my stinging peephole which made my parents and older sister( who was about 10) giggle.

My mom then giggled and told me I should drink some cranberry juice to help stop it stinging so I told her to get me some but she just giggled and never did. I didn't know at the time she was just joking at the time because girls on their periods drink cranberry juice for menstrual cramps. I also didn't realize the sexual nature of what I was doing at the time but did know it was kinda naughty because my mother and sister would tease me about it.

I continued occasionally using the water jet that way for the next 4 years in front of my parents and sister but when I started puberty in the spring of 2002 I realized the sexual nature of what I had been doing and didn't do it anymore(unless I was home alone) after that.

I remember masturbating at 11. It wasn’t intentional, and I didn’t understand what was happening. By 12, I was doing it weekly. Reaching puberty can come without warning. My friends and I would talk about it amongst ourselves. Psychologists like to make it more of a big deal than it is.

I was aware that 'down there' was somehow special as a child but I was too immature to do anything about it so no I don't think I actually masturbated.

During puberty, beginning after a particularly embarrassing & arousing annual physical exam, that's when it really began in earnest. Like, every day, and usually in front of my mirror.

Thank you, @Nurse_Phillips, @Doug1210, and @GraceT, and others who’ve answered my query. The data are starting to suggest that, while masturbating to get tingles and good feelings might start quite early — age 5 in my gf’s case - it seems it usually takes being on the cusp of puberty for different feelings, of incipient sexual desire, to propel us toward the bliss of orgasm.

Does anyone [edit: beyond @Doug1210, lucky guy!] have a counterexample of being thunderstruck by a real orgasm well before puberty?

Earlier I said I wasn’t sure but thought I did it before puberty. Looked up when puberty normally occurs for boys and it’s usually between ages 9 and 14. My voice started to change around 4th or 5th grade (age 9) and I’m sure I never masturbated to ejaculation before that. More likely didn’t do it until grades 7-9. Curious about erections and exploring my body prior to that.

Does anyone have a counterexample of being thunderstruck by a real orgasm well before puberty?

Perhaps you can define what you mean by "a real orgasm well before puberty". I always though that the dry orgasms which I experienced before puberty were "real" orgasms - - especially since they were so much more intense than the later wet ones were.