Masturbation-acne in males does exist!

its seems that you may be a bit confused as to what is normal and what isn't...Just because everyone is doing something, doesn't make it correct. I personally have never had a problem with acne but consider yourself lucky to have something that actually indicates that your body is not happy due to masturbation. Just because the acne doesn't show up on your friends faces doesn't mean that they are not absorbing the many negative affects of releasing seamen. Seamen is supposed to be released however not everyday!!! and certainly not 2 or 3 times a week! yes, it takes discipline to live a strong, long and healthy life. You will not experience the acne if you cut down to once every two weeks. Taoism, a branch of Buddhism teaches about these matters. Your body is clearly communicating with you by saying, "hey listen, i am getting very sick when you are doing this" and you continue to do it. Putting those random medications in your body is not a smart thing. Depending on western civilization's medical techniques to cure your illness is a very ignorant path. Did you know that 70% of your seamen is Cerebrospinal fluid which is the fluid that protects and serves many purposes for the brain. You cannot just release that fluid for it is sacred to your health. You will notice, if you are an athlete (as i am a very serious tennis player), your level of focus will increase immensely and your performance starts to become incredible if you practice at your sport enough. Next time you have an issue, don't search the materialistic medical world and rather search the natural cures, usually the hardest one is your best pick. Hope that this was helpful

If your hormones are imbalanced and you keep masturbating then this can prevent your hormones from stabilizing. I think stopping masturbation and preventing stress are good ways to end acne.

Excellent advice guest (2 above this post). I have experimented for months on this link and I am finding more and more living proof that this very well may be the reason for the onset of most acne. Think about how much sex sells this day in age and how much it is right there in our face 24/7 in the modern world! As for me, I experimented doing it each night for almost 4months straight at the exact same time as the night before, and sure there were times where I cleared up for a good 4-5days but all in all it was just a cycle of clearing up some then it returning. Not only return but I also began to get some on my upper shoulders. My problem has been with seeing what frequency would work and your post really helped me out tons (as I was just about to quit masturbation completely to try to somehow get my hormones to that of before I even started). My condition is not that bad (just around the chin area mainly), but it has just been very persistent for a couple years. No one in my family suffers from this. I was the only one to have fallen in the trap of getting those harsh chemicals for the face which only made it far worse after I had stopped. I do not recommend them at all to anybody! They are like crack for your skin and as soon as you stop, more than likely the situation will turn to being worse than before since you have stripped the outer layer of the skin, and the skin has already begun to depend on the product to do everything. Just use water to not harm it and set yet another imbalance to the environment of the face. I will now, thanks to you guest, only do it once every 2 weeks until my hormones become one with the body. Bless you for helping us out so much and with such wise logic behind your words. I am a healthy person in general, but it truly is time to transform my life and not turn to a fantasy world when temptations arise.

It also works for me, now I am on day 10 without masturbating and my face is getting better, I go for a month.

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Ok, here is the biggest secret. Now please do what I tell you because it took me 5 years to understand this. I started getting acne at the age of 17 I'm now 22. And ever since I notice how acne became worst when I ejaculated. I don't really know why. I have been following this forum for a while. For some reason it has to do with the intake of fiber. It suck when you hear people telling you to eat allot of fiber cause its good, but that is not true. The key is to stay away from any fiber, that goes specially for rice, beans, any type of bread, tortillas, no grains at all.
Just fruits, chicken, fish and water. No sugar (only from fruits), nothing that has been fried. stay away form any fast food that goes for subway too. Roasted chicken is good. No potatoes. You know how people tell you that nuts are good for acne. Biggest lie ever. No peanuts, make it no nuts at all just in case. Honey is good.
Apples, not to many bananas, grapes, raisins, pears and water. Don't drink any type of soda or energy drink, just water.
Absolutely no fiber, now a lot of things have fiber so find out what has fiber. Absolutely no grain that goes for any type of grain, specially rice, beans and bread, no bread. This is a tough diet but if you what clear skin this is the price. You will get used to not eating sugar. Bread was the hardest thing to stop eating. oh yeah and one more thing, masturbate when you only have the urge, not just for routine.
This is the price for clear skin. Give it at least a month or two for it to work. This is it people. Salvation is here.

I'm on my 10th day of abstinence and my skin feels smoother, without pimples (I only have like 2 zits right now). The rest are blackheads, mainly on my nose and the redness located in my cheeks that hopefully will fade after more weeks of abstinence.
DON'T LET THIS THREAD DIE! IT'S BEEN OVER A MONTH SINCE THE LAST POST. COMMON GUYS, GIVE THIS A TRY. Its worth the effort. AT LEAST ABSTAIN FOR A MONTH AND YOU'LL SEE GREAT IMPROVEMENTS IN YOUR SKIN.
ALSO, THIS THREAD IS ONLY FOR THE PEOPLE WHO SUFFERS FROM THIS CONDITION, SO THE ONES WHO COME HERE JUST TO SAY THAT THERE IS NO SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE: **** (Shut the f**k Up) and leave this thread right now!

Yeah! guys i too strongly believe masturbation cause acne. When I masturbate my face gets kind oily and aroused. Earlier when I had severe acne condition I was masturbating anytime without any control and it really showed up through my skin. It was really the most ugliest moment of my life. People who are taking medicines to prevent it, one suggestion throw them away it will never ever help. Stop masturbating, eat healthy and fell good, this three things will surely help you. If you can't quit masturbating then do it in controlled manner like once every two weeks. Through my own bitter experience I know, medicines or any other product will never cure acne.

Strangely enough, I have noticed the exact reverse of your situation. Although I am 24 (i'm assuming you're a teenager?). If I don't masturbate I notice that my face breaks out a bit....it is weird, so i've made it a habit to have sex and masturbate at least 3 times/wk to keep it clear. 

I agree masturbating does cause acne. I'm 36 years old and have been suffering from this since I was 19. I didn't take notice that the cause of my acne was masterbating until I was around 24. At that point I decreased the amount of masterbation to virtually nothing and my acne went away, that simple. However, masterbation alone isn't the only cause, in my case. I believe its due a hormonal imbalance. When I ejaculate, during sex or masterbation, the testosterone levels in my body "spike" causing my acne. Due to this whenever I exercise my testosterone level increase causing acne. Now combining the two, exercise and ejaculation, is in my case I terrible combo. Shortly after I discovered masterbation was the cause of my acne I had clear skin. A few months of clear skin and I thought I was "cured" but I was wrong. I started lifting weights and started dating a girl. So naturally I began having sex with her. At this point I thought that only masterbation was my problem and that sex would be ok. Again I was wrong, rhe combo of sex and weight lifting put my testosterone levels they the roof. I started breaking out wildly. No part of my face was acne free. I felt sick all the time, headaches, diarrea, nausea. When i noticed what was the cause I stopped having sex, the girl wouldn't dare me cause oft acne, and stopped weight lifting. It took about 8 horrible months for my testosterone levels to normalize. After about a year I felt better bur knew my life had to change so for about 6 years of no masterbating, sex or exercise my skin was flawless. Then I began exercising again without mayor breakouts. Then the story repeated itself. Had constant sex and exercise but my testosterone levels over the top and bang I was in he'll again. I was breaking out wildly. That was 3 years ago and I still feel sick after ejaculating, no breakouts but the harm has been done. My hope is that in a year my testosterone levels will normalize. Just saying that of your suffering from something similar it might take 3 or 4 years to get better. Don't give up it's worth the fight. In my case, I'm never going to be completely healed but it can be controlled. Im willing to talk about my experience with anyone who thinks theyre in a similar situation and my experience might help.

HI im 16 years old and a 1st year college student,, i agree to all of your opinions actually its a fact masterbating can ruined your face make your life worst and there are so many times i cant go outside because of acne and i so much suffer since iam 13,if we noticed there are some person who masterbate but have a pimple free face i think those are te person which not masturbate earlier and has strong hormone production we have 5 parts inside our body which contribute to build the fully chemical hormone which is responsible to our whole body system and in that 5 parts one of that is sex hormone or the sex hormone which if we masturbate we released testerone and it result hormonal imbalance and hormonal imbalance is the primary cause of acne so guys stop masturbation okay if you want a good life....

I agree, masturbation causes more acne !

I'm a 24 years old man. I totally agree with everyone who say that masturbation leads to acne. Few months ago I was so depressed thinking am I the only one. Thank god I found this thread.

I'm in the same boat guys, it all started when I was 13-14 when I started mastrubating, since then acne started on face and spreaded to neck, shoulders and back. Now everytime I masturbate/have sex I get acne in few hours. I'm 22 now and I have tried almost everything from changing diet, to chinese herbal tablets to antibiotics, benzoyl peroxide etc. The only thing I didn't wanna go for is Roaccutane as there are too many serious side effects and I've read people said once you stop taking that c**p acne comes back so it's not worth it. We need to get the problem fixed from the inside and not antibiotics or Roacutane.

Now about abstaining from sex/masturbation, it's really tough, I mean we're not 50 year olds, it's a natural thing for young men to have sex, and to skip this lovely thing is something really bad, plus abstaining is not good for your prostate, so don't do it for too long guys, you don't wanna get prostate cancer. I suggest just do it but do it less often, let's say once every 2 weeks maybe.

Personally, I have severe inflammed acne if I masturbate or have sex lets say 2/4 times in a row, so in one night if I have 2 or 4 times the next day I will look like pizza pepperoni. So what I'm gonna do now is abstain from sex/masturbation for 2 weeks and then do it once and after that. I just want to check if that route will make it better, I think from doing it so many times in a row makes your hormones crazy.

So today is 1st of June, 1st day of Summer, a nice day to start this experiment. I will abstain till 14th of June then do it once and in 1 week just do it every week. Hopefully that will make it better. I will keep you updated guys.


During this experiment I won't eat junk food or sodas, my diet is pretty healthy, lean meats, lots of water, fruit & vegg.

And remember you are not alone with this problem, there are alot of people in this situation, so don't give up experimenting with yourself because everyone is different, something might work for me and won't work for you or it can be otherway round.

I'll keep you updated with the results guys, for now wish me luck to come with the urges :D:D:D

Hey Guys, it'sme again with my experiment. Just doing a quick update, so it's day 3 now and my face is getting better no new breakouts, just the old stuff is slowly dissapearing, I still got pimples all over my back, shoulders, chest, face but I can tell that they are going away slowly. Btw I got inflammatory acne so you can tell if new ones are there or not cuz they take few days to actually be fully seen and they are painful, and at the moment no new ones just the old stuff that is slowly healing.

Now the urge is starting to kick in really bad, but I'm keeping strong guys to finish this experiment to check the results. One advice, how to fight the urge, don't think about sex or girls, just don't do it, if your thought are creeping on you then just start thinking about something else, AND PLEASE DON'T even think about going to porn websites thinking you will be strong enought to watch some porn and not jack off, just DON'T do it cuz you won't win on that one. :)

Btw I've noticed when I wake up I have energy and I'm ready for my day, when I was jacking off the next day I woke up exhausted.

Yesterday I rang my GP (Doc) and I asked her to do a blood test for hormones and she said that it won't make any difference, I told her that I get this sh*t after sex and she said that it will eventually go away in few years it's hormonal but I don't believe it will go away. So she said that the only route for is is the antibiotics which I have been taking before Limocycline (they did help by 30%) but once I stopped taking then everything came back so I stopped taking those antibiotics I just didn't wanna damage my liver. So she offered me to go to Dermatologist and do a blood test there and he will prescribe me Roaccutane, so I agreed to that but I'm still thinking whether to go or not as it's a really serious drug and it won't help permanetly. The problem is inside and Roacutane is just shrinking sebaceous glands and stops the oil production in our glands so it's not curing the actual root cause but just creates a temporary barrier for acne.

Anyway I will keep coming back here and updating my results, stay strong guys we can find a way to overcome this crazy problem.

Stay positive, and remember you're not alone.

Hi guys,
It's me again with the experiment, everything is healing, thank god, slowly but surely. Nothing is breaking out, just the old stuff that needs to time to heal completely. For me it works, my skin gets clearer and I feel so great by looking in the mirror already but at the same time I feel as if I'm missing out on something really pleasurable in life, you know what I'm talking about :D. Anyway i'll keep you updated, and remember don't do it too often !!! It's a law for us with this problem, If you want clear skin do it once every 2 weeks or something.