At what age did you start masturbating?

My memory is somewhat dim, but it was shortly before ten, and I would get very sensitive moving my legs in and out in either hot bathwater, or sitting in the sand on Lake Michigan at water's edge, with the gentle waves (if you can call them that) washing over my lower body as I sat. No hands necessary.

I think I was about 9, 10 or 11. Just felt instinctive, I discovered it all on my own.

I honestly cannot remember a time when i did not masturbate. when very little i would rub myself as i laid on my stomach until i got that tingling sensation with a dry climax. my favorite fantasy was to imagine myself giving an enema to a woman or girl i knew or thinking of the enemas of others.

I was 10 and at boarding school. My roommates showed me how. I was clueless about what they were telling me about masturbating and ejaculating, which they said was the objective but which they couldn't do. I remember them sitting on their beds facing me pumping their hands up and down on their penises. I joined in and stroked for what seemed like a long time, then it started feeling really good and I had an orgasm. I was thinking, oh my God what was that! They didn't tell me that was going to happen! After practicing many times on my own I began to produce a couple of drops of clear liquid when I had an orgasm.

I was 13 years old and played with my penis which felt good, and then I had my first orgasm. I felt elated 😃

Think I was around 9 or 10 ish, pretty sure something like that. Had confused thoughts before that though I think

I was about 12 ... I would hold the head of my penis under the shower until I got all tingling.

I was 13 when I first ejaculated and clear liquid came out.

I was doing it 2x a day but the time I was 14 .... once when I first woke up and then again at night when I was taking a shower.

There were times I would do it so much I couldn’t get hard so I had to wait a few days.

Even to this day I do it 2x or more a day ... I’m a single gwm who is 49.

I started masturbating to orgasm at about 14 years old. I had 'enjoyable' erections from around 6 or 7 years old but it never resulted in anything notable. It was only when I watch a male friend stroking himself did it occur to me there was something else. My first ejaculation was watching a sports TV programme alone while my parents were out. I just stroked myself in my bedroom watching the female gymnasts and I came quite involuntarily. I was shocked and slightly worried about the whole experience but later did it again and again. Within a few months I had masturbated with other male friends while looking through porn magazines and basically showing off.

I also never even imagined that girls did it too. I only realised they did when I started dating girls around 16 years old.

Currently, I still masturbate most days or nights and find it very important in keeping my sanity.

Probably around age 12. Soaped it a little too long while taking a bath. That first orgasm wasn't a strong one. I ejaculated but it only seeped out.

Around age 13. What's weird is I distinctly remember learning about it early in the year, but remember masturbating the year before on Halloween. I went crazy Halloween night, my arm felt like it would fall off at some point. But I thought If I knew about it back then, I would have done it way more often. I was home alone way more the first half of 8th grade than the 2nd half, which is when I thought I learned.

I was also pretty young when I started to masturbate and had dry orgasms with no ejaculation. At some point, I started to get some clear, pre-cum-like fluid dribble or spurt out. My first real, actual ejaculation was something I knew to expect, but it was still a shock when it happened (and a LOT messier than I expected it would be).

Probably about age 6. When I was 8 I would do so in our bathroom playing as if it were part of a medical test by my pediatrician. No ejaculate at that point of course. Circumcised I found a great deal of pleasure in rubbing my frenulum with a folded piece of soft toilet paper (I have no recall how I discovered that felt good). Probably ejaculated somewhere around 13 for the first time.

I would say playing with my penis started around 10. I think my first actual squirting orgasm was right around twelve. It felt aaaamaazzzzzing!

I think I started around 6 and started having orgasms around 10. I was caught once and told "that's not what good girls do" - I just learned to keep everything private from then on.

I was 14 and it was in the bath. I had known about it in theory for a couple of years, but could not believe how good it felt when I finally did it. Funnily enough, I have been an active enthusiast ever since.

I was about 13. I knew I wanted to do it but didn't know how. Eventually figured out by the "wanking" gesture some of the boys did on the playground as an insult.

I had my first orgasm two years before that, in a jacuzzi. I pulled down my trunks and put myself against the vents and came. Was an amazing feeling.

I was quite late. Just a few months before my sixteenth birthday. I was such a late bloomer that I was basically asexual until I was 15, and then basically caught up all at once in barely a year.

Around the time of my first pediatric exam as a hormonal pubescent boy, 12 or 13. I was so confused, embarrassed, excited by the exam that I began exploring my body very intimately.

I answered this question in post #11 and been following this thread to see if any mention was made if others upon the discovery also found they needed to look at something while doing it. I found that I needed to look at pictures of women in swimsuits while masturbating - as it increased my pleasure and led to orgasm. Strange thing, I had no ideal about what sex was at the time; it was simply the V shape of a woman's crotch was exciting to see and naughty to look at. My need to look at pictures of women while I masturbated became a life-long need. I thought once I married, that having real sex would suffice, but it never did - always that need to look at women while masturbating. For me there are two kinds of sex; the looking while masturbating (one kind); while the other is of course real sex with a woman.

ETA - rewrote this to correct errors..

I was about 8years old. I discovered how it felt good when i touched my penis.

I must have been about 13 or 14. My pubic hair was just starting to sprout at the base of my penis which bothered me so I shaved it. I didn't know how to masturbate although I had already had numerous nights of "wet-dreams" which were a mess - like wetting the bed. When playing with an older friend he made an obscene gesture when talking about a classmate which was the obvious clue on how to wank. So, next time I took a bath I tried it and holy crap! Out shot just loads of Jergen's lotion, or so it looked. From that point on I have masturbated as often as possible because it feels so damned good, unless I am in an intimate relationship - I would MUCH rather share my pleasure with someone else, make pleasure for them, too! But masturbation is and always has been, my main orgasmic release. Now, with age, i use several aids, mostly a prep enema, a prostate toy and a little nipple pain, to blow it out all over again!! Life can be good!

At age 10 or 11 I remember the first orgasm it was in the shower I washed too vigorously and suddenly white stuff squirted out. after that moment I never stopped both sexually and solo

I started rubbing and playing with myself when I was 10. I also played with other kids early on. I think I didn't have my first orgasm until 12.

Before puberty. Perhaps 9? I remember being quite young when mom caught me when she entered without knocking.

I probably started quite young, more as a self soothing sort of thing, especially at night but to orgasm as asked in original post around 11.

The first time rubbing one out for me was with my school friend Phoebe we were around 11 years old, she had caught her sister and her friend rubbing each other out and so we tried it on each other so then the day after I did it to myself for the first time solo, and we had a secret word for when we wanted to rub each other out we would say, what to come over after school for a Shake.

Not sure of my age, but i know i was loving it,and the warm glow that went over me as i came.

I was probably under five when I discovered my clitoris and soon became addicted to the pleasure and comfort rubbing it brought me. My parents constantly scolded me for playing with myself but nevertheless it became my favourite way of getting to sleep at night. With the start of puberty the sensation when rubbing myself became much more intense and although I had very little sexual knowledge at the time I had my first orgasm when I was 11.

I was about 12. I remember being 12 and taking a bath. I had started to develop and was amazed at how large and hard my penis became when I developed an erection. I did not, however, know what to do with it. For several weeks I would just think how cool it was that my penis would get so big and hard while I was taking a bath (or thinking about girls I knew).

One day when I was in the bathroom and naked, and my penis had been hard for a while, I noticed a large drop of clear liquid on the end. Having read some books on human reproduction, but not having any practical experience, you might not be too surprised when I looked at the drop of pre-cum that had formed and exclaimed to myself, "Look! I'm ejaculating!"

I don't actually remember my first orgasm - but it probably wasn't too long after that.

One time my wife and I were parent helpers in a children's group. The children were all in a group for a program, and we were in the part of the program where they all sang songs. This one cute little 5 year-old girl climbed up into my lap. I like kids, and I didn't see anything wrong with this, so I smiled at her, and we both went back to the focusing on the performer and singing. It wasn't too long before I realized that she had straddled my right leg and, as she was singing to the music, she was rocking right and left on my leg, which, of course, resulted in her leg rubbing against her private parts. Once I realized this, I picked her off of my lap, and put her back on the seat next to me. She clearly didn't see her actions as wrong - she didn't even think to hide what she was doing from her teacher and classmates. To her, rubbing herself against my leg was just something that felt good.

I started at about age 12. I had begun to have wet dreams every month or so and they almost always happened right before I got up in the morning. The first one was a surprise but it felt sooo good! I actually couldn't wait until it would happen again. A little later that same year, we had a boy's sex-ed class at school. The instructor explained to us, not in any great detail, what masturbation was and that was my AHA! moment. I sat down before taking a shower one evening and started rubbing. It felt good but really no finish but I knew I was on to something. A few days later, it happened, I had an orgasm like the wet dream ones and I was hooked. No more night time surprises and sticky pajamas! I could do it myself, when I wanted and have been doing ever since when I feel the urge...