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Hello,
I am wondering what people’s opinions are surrounding masturbation during a night awakening? Martin seems to say “do whatever makes you happy”, soooooooooooooo it would seem permissible. The kind of struggle I have with this activity in particular though, is that it would seem like you are kind of “rewarding” your body at the physiological level for waking up in the night, thereby possibly promoting such awakenings again? At some level, is our ancient reptilian brain internalizing <reptile voice> “This is a good time to wake up, if I wake up now I will feel sensations of reproduction, natural selection win”.
The same kind of situation would seem to apply to food also. If you snack during your night awakenings, are you training your body that <reptile voice again> “now is a good time to wake up, we get much easy calories now, natural selection win”.
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