One of the major changes to my masturbation habits came in high school. I
had been left uncircumcised by my parents, a decision that I disagreed with. I
always wanted to be like everybody else — I thought the circumcised penis l
ooked cleaner, and I knew from my own experience with smegma that
circumcised penises were cleaner. When I was 15, I had the courage to bring
it up to my doctor at a physical. He advised against it, but he wrote me a referral
to a urologist anyway. I was determined to get circumcised, and a few months
later, I went under the knife. It wasn't as bad as people make it out to be — yeah, I
walked a little funny for a few weeks afterward, and at first the head rubbing up
against my boxers all the time bothered me. But through it all, I had a sense of
excitement about my new penis. About 10 days after the operation (probably the
longest time I've gone without masturbating), I lubed up with AquaLube, a water-
based lube I got at a drugstore, and gently masturbated my newly circumcised
penis. It was amazingly intense — one of the best orgasms I'd ever had. Over the
next few weeks, as my penis healed, I quickly learned how to masturbate again,
and things pretty much went back to normal. Whereas before I would masturbate
by pumping the foreskin, to masturbate dry after the circumcision, I pump the
remaining shaft skin (my circumcision is pretty tight, at my request, but there is
still just enough loose skin to work with) while rubbing the head and especially the
corona. Sometimes I lube up and just let my hand glide back and forth over my
penis; while this provides a smooth and continuous source of pleasure building
up, I find the orgasm a bit inadequate. Pulling on the shaft itself always gives
me the most intense pleasure — so for the best sessions, I lube up but still pump
the skin back and forth, giving me a slick and smooth ride up but a strong orgasm
in the end. My sessions are usually either very brief (under 5 minutes) in the
mornings or mid-day when I just need to relieve the tension, or very long and
pleasurable (40 minutes to several hours) when I have the free time to browse
all sorts of erotic material.
I've always been uninhibited about releasing my urge whenever I need to. When
I feel the urge, I find a place as soon as I can to defuse the tension. I remember
masturbating in a department store dressing room when I must have been only
12 or so. I've also masturbated in airplane lavatories, public restrooms of all
sorts (including at church when I used to go), and more recently, in my car while
driving when I just couldn't wait.
As a college student today, I still masturbate daily but with little forethought or
afterthought. It's just part of my daily life and part of who I am. Sometimes I masturbate
under the covers after my roommate has fallen asleep; often, I masturbate in
the bathroom and shower.
I masturbate to all sorts of stimuli: sometimes with porn, often with other erotica, or
sometimes just to the pleasure of masturbation itself. I have many different kinds of
lube — silicone, oil, and water-based, and some sex toys, too — vibrators, an artificial
vagina sleeve, a genital ring, and some anal toys. I have so many options now to make
whatever kind of experience I want. I usually masturbate dry, pulling up and down what
shaft skin I have left while rubbing the corona and penis head. Usually I rub the area
right beneath the scrotum; sometimes, if I'm in the shower, I massage my anus, too.
I always do these because I've learned over the years that they make my orgasms great.
A note on frequency: I've tried to cut down in a swap of quantity for quality.
(Those orgasms are just so much better after not masturbating for a few
days.) "Tried" is the operative word, because I always seem to end up
masturbating anyway. I've pretty much given up; in the end, the orgasms are still great.
Reading what I've written here, it's already difficult to get my hand back to the
keyboard just to finish typing. Masturbation is a beautiful thing — keep on masturbating!