If your doomscrolling habit has coincided with your masturbation sessions, you may be doomsturbating.
Here’s what experts want you to know about it.
Without even noticing, my doomscrolling habit had blended into my self-pleasure time, oras Ive since coined itdoomsturbating.
What makes us want to doomsturbate, anyway?
Consider how, pre-pandemic, the sight of your bedroom likely conjured sleep and sex, and thats it.
Thats because the brain had learned thats what happens there.
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Cue me: reading emails and scrolling IG while masturbating.
That is, porn and erotica platforms exist on the same devices people use for work.
Self-pleasuring can actually be a stress response, says Wright.
Well, adults can do it, too.
In these instances, masturbation isnt about pleasureits about quelling our bodys stress response, says Dr. Hall.
The doomsturbating verdict: healthy or hardly ideal?
A negative concern of doomsturbating is that it combines unsavory psychological effects of doomscrolling and applies them to masturbating.
The abundance and availability of bad news can induce numbness and apathy.
We can become so used to the negativity to the point where we become desensitized.
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This, she says, can spill over into offline lives also.
We can begin to show disinterest in daily activities and social interactions.
Yeah, not great.
Now, for the downside to masturbatingwhiledoomscrolling?
It can cause us to associate masturbation with stress, says Dr. Hall.
What is The Missionary Sex Position?
Schedule masturbation into your calendar
Youve probably heard ofscheduled partnered sex, but scheduled solo sex?
That has benefits, too.
If watching porn or reading erotica on your phone is part of your masturbation practice, no problem.
So, why not use that reality to your advantage?
Is it to get informed?
Great, after 20 minutes of reading news, log off.
Is it to respond to messages from your friends?
Read, respond, then get off, she says.
The key is to stick to your intended desire.
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