 There's a lot of mixed feelings out there about masturbation, whether it's good or bad to do. The big question is, what does it do to our personal energy? Well, sexual energy is powerful, creative life force energy in our bodies, and when we masturbate, we are releasing that energy from our body, but it's not actually going anywhere. If we do it too much, we can diminish our vital energy and energetically weaken ourselves. When we have sex with another person, however, we are sharing that vital life force with them instead, so the energy goes somewhere and builds between the pair. Generally speaking, we shouldn't think that it's wrong to masturbate, like we're not going to some eternal damnation for doing it, but if we can practice self-control and retain the energy within us, then the energy travels up our spine instead and fills our body with more vital energy and we generally feel more alive and strong within as a result.