Q. Does masturbation increase, decrease or have no effect on sex drive? What about frequent masturbation?
A. Masturbation is not something that has an effect on a person’s sex drive so much as it is caused by the sex drive. Those who have a well-developed libido, the fancy term for sex drive, will feel a lot of sexual tension, and if they don’t have a partner with as high a sex drive or if they have no partner at all, they can turn to masturbation for relief. If you don’t have a partner and you use up all of your sexual tension on masturbation, it might not leave you enough desire to go out and find a partner. But that is different from saying how much you masturbate will regulate your sex drive. It won’t.