I think I always masturbated, I just only did it occasionally until I was 10 or 11, and started ejaculating. Then I did it all the time. I was going 2-3 times a day minimum in high school-- almost pulled the damn thing off before I graduated. Still love to do it, although over the past fifteen years, I've managed to get it down to once every other day or so when I'm not in a relationship, maybe once a week when I am in a relationship.
I was shy about talking about it (never shy about doing it) until I was around 13 or so, and a friend of my dad (kind of an adopted uncle) bought me some porn mags, and told me not to feel guilty or worry, and said words that I continue to live by, to this day:
"If God really didn't want you to touch yourself, your hands would grow right out of your shoulders."
Yes, indeed....
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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.
(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)
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