1. I am of the Male variety.
2. About once a day, give or take.
3. Nope.
4. If I am dating somebody, I tend to do it considerably less.
5. It depends. It can help with stamina and whatnot.
6. If I haven't done it for a couple of days, I definitely find myself thinking about sex more often.
7. Tends of thousands of years of human society says that it's relatively healthy, or at least harmless. Of course, everything in moderation.
8. Yes, very much so. I know what I'm doing, and have more control, etc. Also, I used to be super conflicted about whether or not it was a good thing when I was younger; the American sex ed programs are kind of half-assed. Seriously, I never heard a word out of any of my health teachers' mouths regarding masturbation until I was in high school. Of course, by that point, I'd already had an extensive knowledge of the act and didn't need any sort of education on the topic.
Also, as a side note, I find it silly whenever anybody says that they never masturbate. Especially with guys, our bodies practically do it for us if we put it off for an extended period of time. As for women, there have been a whole bunch of studies which clearly show that; to put it bluntly; women are just as horny as men. Maybe in different ways for different reasons, but it doesn't necessarily matter which road you take as long as you reach the same destination.
Obviously there are those who suffer from medical conditions, or the side effects of certain medicines which severely limit one's sex drive, but I can't imagine that these situations are as common as the number of people who claim to never masturbate seems to indicate.
TL;DR, I answer questions and ***** about things.
