Masturbation can ruin you Physically too. (20 year old with Peyroines, Hard Flacid, CPPS)

Intro : the concept of nofap/semen retention/ no PMO is great and I wish I had discovered these benefits when I was 14 rather than 20, maybe I would have had a sexual encounter earlier so I could have discovered these physical/mental dysfunctions i was developing earlier.

That being said, Masturbating especially when done wrong can ruin your sexual life in a physical way as well.

History: I did what is called "Prone Masturbation", (humping the bed) which applies an unnatural amount of pressure and was so stupid looking back but I was so addicted to it and convinced by this western literature that masturbation is perfectly normal. This method also meant that I never really looked at my dick, and so any changes in Erection Quality or bend wasn't noticed and I just assumed all was well.

When I was 16 i read about the issues with it, but I was never motivated enough to stop, i was so addicted. I did it multiple times a day.

When I arrived to college I was confident with girls and made out with plenty of girls at parties and stuff. But when I had my first sexual encounter It was a complete failure. I attributed it to my prone method not masturbation in general after doing some research, but my addiction was so strong that even with that knowledge quitting prone and switching to my hand was so hard it just didn't feel as good.

Getting over that method of PMO was hard but the summer after my first year I dedicated myself to doing it. However, after being able to do it by hand my problems were far from over....

Peyroines and CPPS/Prostatis:

Now I don't know when all of these things started to affect me, they could have been there earlier, caused by the process of masturbation by hand with weak erections since I wasn't used to that method, or caused by some sexual encounters that caused damage.

Many men are able to get over the damage from prone in a short period of time. But my Erection quality stayed bad for months. Turns out I have a predisposition to peyroines disease (my family has Dupuytren's contracture which is bassically peyroines of the hand), peyroines causes curving, ed, thining, wasteing and shortening of erectile tissue. (I know this is a nightmare). My peyroines isn't that severe, but there is definitely inflammation building up, i am getting an ultrasound to see if I have full blown calcified scar tissue.

But that's not all;

More research made me discover something I didn't even think was a problem and may have been with me for a while: Hard Flaccid and Chronic pelvic pain syndrome. These symptoms may have been accelerated by my anxiety around the situation/ having weak glutes and tight hamstrings/ being tall and not having the best posture.

All this caused my pelvic floor muscles to be extremely tight and week which also causes major sexual issues. and could be the reason that just switching to masturbation by hand didn't do much for EQ. Also I think in the process of switching I clenched my pelvic muscles to maintain an erection.

Currently:

Unfortunately western doctors don't have great answers for any of this and I have had to fight all of these different problems on my own.Luckily the internet is very helpful.

I don't know how much of my current problems are peyroines, pelvic floor issues or mental but sex is really a gamble for me. Recently I was able to get and maintain an erection but I came pretty quickly.

I am taking several supplements for the peyroines. I am on a ketogenic diet which is good for peyroines and inflammation, but super hard to stick with. I am trying to do stretches to loosen pelvic floor muscles and I am trying to do nofap but every time i get to longer than a week my inner id convinces me that masturbation by hand is fine and its the diet and stretching that matters.

Plus I even started to develop a fetish for a fantasy that actually INVOLVED MY INABILITY TO HAVE SEX. That's how fucked up my mental is from porn.

Conclusion

I think that for me doing nofap might not cure all these physical issues but it might allow me to appreciate the non-sexual aspects of life and help me get over these fantasy/fetishes . Currently I am on around day 5 and want to do a serious streak because I have never made it longer than two weeks. I have done over a dozen short week long streaks but never able to do a serious one. I decided to post this just to keep myself accountable and it is very cathartic. Sexual education shouldn't just be about stds, it should include the physical and mental harm of porn and masturbation.

I would appreciate if anyone had any more advice or insight into what I should do. Its tough to not go insane doing all these things that you don't know will be effective. To top it off, my hair is beginning to thin and recede and as much as I want to treat that its just too much to handle.

TLDR;

I fall into the category of guys here that need to get over porn addiction. But on top of that I fell into an unlucky combination of factors that caused damage; a genetic predisposition to scar tissue and inflammation and damaging masturbation method. Giving me, a healthy 20 year old the sexual health of 70 year old.

Porn is very harmful psychologically. But you can also physically harm your dick with incorrect methods, sexual injury or if you clench your pelvic floor during masturbation/ have tight muscles you can develop a weak and tight pelvic floor causing weaker erections and hard flacid.

Kids should really learn that masturbation can cause life changing issues and it isn't just something "normal and safe" for a multitude of reasons.