Most people believe that masturbation is just a way to release sexual energy when you are young, and you no longer need it after you get married. But this is not the case. In our data, before our investigation

Among those men and women who were married (or lived together for a long time) and were not separated, 21.9% of husbands and 4.8% of wives still masturbated.

If you exclude those who have never masturbated and only examine those who have ever masturbated, then after these people get married or live together for a long time (except for those who just got married or cohabited this year), 70.9% of the husbands still Have masturbated, but 70% of them only masturbated a few times in a year.

Since there are relatively few wives who still masturbate, let’s analyze the situation of those husbands who still masturbate. Please note that what we are analyzing here is not the situation of all married men, but why those men who have masturbated still masturbate after marriage or after they have lived with women for a long time.

1. Among married men who have masturbated, the youngest husbands and middle-aged husbands continue to masturbate the most after marriage. Among husbands aged 20-24 and 25-29, the majority continue to masturbate. to 100% and 94%. Among husbands aged 45-49 and 50-54, the figures were 73.4% and 72.0%.

The youngest husbands continue to masturbate, which may be easier to understand, because they themselves are energetic, but their wives are still in the sexual adaptation period, so they have to continue to rely on masturbation to solve the problem.

But in the case of middle-aged husbands, it is likely to be a phenomenon of "accumulation of sexual fatigue within marriage." This may be because the wife stopped having sex prematurely, so the husband had to masturbate. But it may also be because after a long-term sexual life as a couple, the husbands themselves must use masturbation, a method that best suits their needs, in order to obtain more psychological and physical satisfaction.

So we are not surprised to see: among husbands aged 25-29 who continue to masturbate, only 17.4% masturbate at least once a month (up to several times a week); the rest is masturbating only a few times a year). However, among husbands aged 45-49 who continue to masturbate, 47.5% masturbate more than once a month. It can be seen how prominent the so-called "middle-aged escape" phenomenon is.

Also, the situation is the same from another perspective. It is precisely between 10 and 25 years after marriage that the proportion of husbands who continue to masturbate frequently (more than once a month) is highest, reaching between 41% and 50%, which is 40 percentage points higher than that of older husbands. Around 15 percentage points higher than husbands who have been married for 5-9 years, and 28 percentage points higher than husbands who have been married for 1-5 years. This is proof of “marriage fatigue.”

However, the words are not finished yet. The above situation is actually very false. Because after controlling for the influence of age factors, we will find that what really plays the most significant role is not the husbands' own age, but the age difference between them and their wives.

The husbands who are most likely to continue masturbating and masturbate the most frequently are the two extreme husbands: those who are more than 2 years younger than their wives, and those who are more than 6 years older than their wives. Among the former, 73% masturbated more than once a month; among the latter, this proportion was as high as 79%. But among husbands who are only 1-2 years older than their wives, only 19% can achieve such a high frequency. (This is all about people who continue to masturbate.)

This shows that husbands' continued masturbation and its frequency are largely determined by their wives. The situation of young married women is easy to understand, because the wife often quits sex life early; the husband has to masturbate. But what happened to the old husband and the young wife? Generally speaking, since young men may use masturbation as a "supplement", then old men should use masturbation as a means of "escape".