How many times do you do it?

I get asked that same question for countless of times already at truth or dare games during drinking sessions with classmates and friends.

And most of the time, I lie about it.

I would usually say twice or thrice a week. Then I return the question to the one who asked me, they would also answer similar to what I said, three times, two times or some even answer, none at all. I hardly buy their shit.

As for myself, I would consider not doing the deed for even once in a week timeframe to be almost impossible. I’m too active and imaginative to contain. “Abstinence is the key to success” was not one motto I choose to live by.

If I were the DOH secretary, I would largely advocate this since it is a 100% effective birth control method - absolutely no risk of getting a girl pregnant, another is that it is a lot safer that popping your private part onto someone’s mouth or crevice thus sparing you from sexually transmitted infections, and the best part, as some of you might not be aware of is that, it can be a preventive measure for prostate cancer.

The Catholic Church may take an opposing stand on doing the deed. They say that it deprives the human person of dignity thus disrespecting the body made in the image and likeness of God. But science and our high school teacher (the one who taught sex education to students by merely memorizing the parts of the reproductive system), would always tell us that that deed is normal and an important physiologic function in response to the rising level of testosterone in my body. How now can the Church say that masturbation deprives the human person of dignity by performing its natural function?