Masturbation and hair loss

lonely1 · 03-31-2005, 02:45 PM

Hi,
First, I'll start off with a little background information about myself. I'm 30 years old, 6 ft 1 and 165 pounds and in excellent physical health. I have a serious problem with shyness though, so severe I am unable to connect with women. I'm still a virgin and have never even come close to having a sexual experience with a woman. Needless to say, at my age this leads to ALOT of sexual frustration and fantasies so I need to releive myself quite often. I normally do it at least once a day and on rare occasions twice a day. This leads up to my question:
I have read about how frequent masturbation can lead to hair loss in males. Supposedly the level of testosterone increases in your body and a side product of testosterone called DHT builds to high levels. DHT is supposed to belinked to hair loss. I have noticed my hair is thinning slightly in the center of my head, but I'm not sure how long its been that way or if I'm just so paranoid I think I'm going bald. Is there any truth to this hair loss theory, or is it just a scam cooked up to try and sell snake oil products for hair loss?

wood650 · 03-31-2005, 03:25 PM

What you say is correct about the DHT, but I don't believe masturbation has anything to do with the level. I think that it is just a normal product of aging. You should get counseling to determine why you are so shy with women. You are missing so much of life to not allow a woman to be part of your life. Good luck.

german30 · 03-31-2005, 06:09 PM

Good Grief, no wonder I'm bald!!! LOL, seriously not true.

ripod · 03-31-2005, 09:03 PM

Over masturbation MAY have side effects. Why don't you go enter over masturbation in serach bar and go from there?

Lance2 · 04-01-2005, 06:32 AM

So that's what happened to my hair! Hey man, don't give that another thought, you're not losing your hair because of masturbation and I think what you're describing (in terms of masturbation) is quite healthy. I found the love of my life and married at 35 and I was still a virgin...partly by choice and alot because of some of your same insecurities. Please don't deny yourself the greatest pleasure in life over this....find a way to increase your self confidence and get to work...you'll be so glad you did!