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Masturbation is a fabulously healthy pastime for every sex and sexuality: it's incredibly useful as a tool to help us navigate daily life with all of its stresses and also to deal with sexual frustration for singles or couples with mismatched libidos. There's no need to listen to those old-fashioned voices that steeped masturbation with guilt and shame, as it's one of the best ways to keep your sex organs and reproductive system in peak health and performance.
Before we kick off our list of best masturbation positions for men and penis owners, we'd like to say there is no right or wrong way to masturbate—it's a natural part of human sexuality. Your masturbation sessions can include as many different positions as you like, leaning into your physical and mental fantasies while exploring different sensations, helping you to experience more intense orgasms and maintain your best sexual health.
If you'd like to explore a few new masturbation techniques, this page could provide the inspiration you're looking for. These male masturbation techniques are designed for anyone with a penis to extend the limits of their solo sex play and enhance their own pleasure—however they identify or whatever their sexuality.
1. Lying on your back in bed
Lying on your back is the masturbation equivalent of a Missionary.
Why is it so popular and the first position we try? It's comfortable, natural, easy on your joints and limbs, and allows access to the penis, testicles, perineum, and anus. You don't need any special tools, devices, or toys, just your mind, hands, and imagination.
However, when it comes to sexual activities, humans can tire of the same routines for their solo play or partnered sex life, often requiring new and 'novel' activities to boost stimulation and maintain those original heady levels of excitement.
Fortunately, this position is not as vanilla as it may first appear, as this classic masturbation position is the Swiss Army Knife of any solo session.
Adding toys, lube, stimulating alternative erogenous zones, or even switching to your non-dominant hand brings something new to the experience. There are so many ways to get more from your masturbation session, even while sticking to the same position.
Taking lying back masturbation to the next level
So, how might you upgrade your Missionary masturbation game? We'll talk a lot about the different male masturbation sex toys in this article, but to get things off to a nice easy start, this position allows you to easily explore your perineum (the area between the testicles and the base of the penis), stimulating the prostate without penetrating the anus. Adding even a little light tickling and gentle probing will heighten anal stimulation (with the legs spread so accommodatingly), introducing a whole load of new nerve endings around the anal opening.
From there, if it encourages you to explore anal play and the prostate orgasms it can bring, it's a superb easy-access position to add them into the mix. Whether you use lubed-up fingers, a vibrating butt plug, or a prostate massager to hit the male G-spot, taking you to new heights, we guarantee you'll get something very different from your self-pleasure through this great, tried and tested position.
2. Sitting on a chair
Masturbating while sitting on a chair is probably most popular with those accessing their favorite porn sites on their biggest screens or enjoying mutual masturbation using Zoom or any alternative digital video calling platform.
Taking sitting masturbation to the next level
With legs spread nice and wide, it's a great position for singles to simulate anal sex. When it comes to sex toys, many have a suction base to firmly secure them to a seat, wall, or other surface. This allows the user to imitate riding and grinding a penis as they would during anal.
If you're not ready or uncomfortable with anal penetrative sex, switch out that suction base sex toy with one that vibrates
Sitting on a sex toy (with it appropriately placed to hit the most sensitive nerve endings around the anus or perineum) will deliver added pleasure while you work the penis head and shaft with your hand.
Such toys add an option to ride a lifelike penis just how you like it. It also leaves you hands-free to alternate between whichever masturbation techniques you prefer to partner with your anal stimulation.
3. Standing
We'd bet that most standing masturbation techniques happen in the shower. Naked, soaped up, and relaxed, who wouldn't be tempted to add that slippery up-and-down motion to their penis head as part of their showering regime? All you have to do is close your eyes and see where the moment takes you.
For couples, especially those with young families, it's probably one of the few times they get enough privacy to masturbate, relieving the sexual tension built up throughout the week when finding privacy with a partner seems almost impossible.
Standing masturbation techniques don't only exist in the shower.
Standing is one of the best masturbation positions for simulating sex. Leaning against a wall or holding a masturbator or masturbation sleeve on the back of a sofa or a table lets the user simulate standing sex.
And when it comes to self-care and self-appreciation, there's absolutely nothing wrong with standing in front of a mirror for those who'd like to appreciate all the extra effort they've been putting in at the gym.
Taking standing masturbation to the next level
Going back to suction-based sex toys, the smooth tiles on a shower wall provide another ideal opportunity for a little additional partnerless anal sex.
And while we're on the topic of sex toys, as men age and blood flow becomes a little more problematic, maintaining an erection may become trickier in standing sex positions. With that in mind, a cock ring (also called a penis ring or restriction ring) can help to keep the necessary blood in the penis where it's needed.
To fully explore pro-level masturbation techniques, the standing masturbation position allows perfect access to those free-swinging testicles. There's a self-control method many men have found to be useful to extend sex involving pulling gently on the testicles when approaching climax. Where better a place to explore and practice a technique that could lead to longer sex and bigger, more explosive, intense orgasms?
4. Kneeling on the bed
To add those 'novel' practices that add a little excitement and imagination to your usual masturbation routine, kneeling replicates the feelings you may enjoy during oral or any rear entry positions. Again, if you add a masturbator to your masturbation sessions, you can experience even more lifelike sensations and orgasms.
Kneeling encourages you to thrust as you would during sex, engaging your core and pelvic floor muscles. The pelvic floor is responsible for much of our sexual performance, so adding a little thrusting to your favorite masturbation techniques is a great way of giving it an extra workout.
Taking masturbating while kneeling to the next level
For couples who are open enough to include mutual masturbation as part of their sex lives, kneeling in front of each other is one of the most intimate and open sex acts you could ever revel in without touching each other.
With a completely unrestricted view of what your partner is doing and their naked body, you'll undoubtedly be incredibly turned on.
However, it's also the ideal position to learn exactly what they enjoy, where and how they love to be touched, and how they make themselves orgasm. The icing on the cake, though, is by kneeling in front of your partner, you have the most control over where you climax; just make sure you have their consent to aim it where it turns you on the most.
5. On your side
If laying on your back is the Missionary of masturbation positions, then laying on your side is its laziest Sunday morning cousin.
With vibrating and realistic motion toys, why shouldn't you just lay back and enjoy the ride?
Taking lying on your side masturbation to the next level
If you want to go to the next level on lazy masturbation techniques, many male masturbation toys operate by remote control. What better way to ease into the day or get ready for a good night's sleep than with some hands-free self-pleasure?
There are even long-distance sex toys that sync with your partner's toy—perfect for those moments you're apart and would like to fill the void with some digitally driven joint masturbation disguised as partnered sex.
6. On the edge of the bed, with a masturbator
A masturbator is a sex toy designed to create pleasurable friction that feels just like the real thing, whether that's a mouth, vagina, or butthole. To simulate more sex acts, trap your masturbator between the bed base and the mattress before you slowly slide your penis head and shaft in and start thrusting.
Going next level with a masturbator
Some of the best masturbation techniques only get better when partnered with a male masturbator or masturbation sleeve. Looking back over our selection of sex positions, most can be enhanced by adding such a toy that feels like a real vagina or mouth.
Kneeling at the side of the bed simulates doggy-style sex and blow jobs.
Yet, with a quick change of positions, you can be lying face down on top of the bed with your masturbator under a spare pillow, working to a steady rhythm simulating Missionary.
We discussed using a suction base anal dildo in our standing section, but what about swapping it for a masturbator that you can gently pump away at with your erect penis, leaning over the back of the sofa or a work surface? Just make sure you clean up thoroughly after yourself.
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Our 7 Best Tips to Improve Your Masturbation Game
To step up your solo sex life, we've added a few masturbation tips that you may not have tried or considered yet.
Before we get to our male masturbation tips, here's why you should be keeping it fresh and fun. Masturbation can encourage the production of hormones that:
- Reduce stress
- Release tension
- Boost concentration
- Elevate mood
- Alleviate pain
- Improve sex
As far as medical benefits go, it can also lower the risk of prostate cancer and improve sleep quality.
It won't come as much of a surprise to most that men tend to masturbate more than women, as detailed in this recent 2023 study carried out during the COVID pandemic.
Significantly more men than women reported lifetime masturbation, past month masturbation, and greater masturbation frequency.
The reasons why seemed fairly straightforward, too:
The most frequently endorsed reasons for masturbating related to pleasure, feeling “horny,” stress relief, and relaxation. Yet, it seems societal pressures, outdated beliefs, and judgments are still an issue, with key reasons not to participate showing:
The most frequently endorsed reasons for not masturbating were lack of interest, being in a committed relationship, conflict with morals or values, or being against one’s religion.
The good news is, according to another recent 2020 report on self-pleasure, that most Americans consider masturbation an almost universal behavior, a great stress reliever, and that it helps to improve their sexual experiences.
With that in mind, here are our suggestions for how to make it even better.
1. Incorporate lube
It sounds so simple, but a lubed-up hand can be the difference between good and great masturbation techniques. Give it a go, and see just how different it feels when you start stroking with all those slippery sensations in the mix.
2. Play with your balls
The testicles are another erogenous zone you can stimulate for added pleasure. Not only that, there is a technique that involves gently tugging on them while nearing climax that helps to prevent orgasm. Switching from playing with your penis to your testicles can also give you the break you need for the extended periods of masturbation when 'edging.' And with that...
3. Exploring edging
Edging is one of the best masturbation techniques to train yourself to last longer in bed and improve sexual performance. It involves slowing down or stopping as you approach climax, allowing your reproductive system to reset before picking up the pace again. Over time, you'll find you should be able to go much longer without an orgasm during masturbation or partnered sex.
4. Enjoy masturbation for masturbation's sake—not purely as a gateway to orgasm
Admittedly, every solo session will likely build towards orgasm—it is called the climax, after all. However, there's so much pleasure to be enjoyed as you build to your grand finale—which only lasts a few short seconds—why not make more of that long, slow build to maximize your pleasure? The more you mix things up—by changing positions, techniques, toys, and more—the longer you can extend your experience.
For more in-depth information about the benefits of masturbation and a deeper dive into some great tips, why not read our page on Male Masturbation?
5. Stimulate your perineum
The perineum is the area between the base of the penis and the anus. You can apply pressure or start rubbing it in linear or circular motions to stimulate the prostate outside of your body. For those not yet ready for anal penetration, it's a less invasive alternative to explore some of the sensations the prostate delivers.
6. Incorporate anal/prostate play
For those who are ready to add anal and prostate play to their masturbation techniques, this is a game-changer. The prostate delivers a whole new range of sensations and is highly likely to boost the intensity of your penile orgasms. As well as that, you could experience standalone prostate orgasms, an excellent alternative for those with ED issues, and, for some men (and anyone with a penis), multiple orgasms at that.
7. Adding masturbators and sex toys
We've already mentioned masturbators and masturbation sleeves (why not check out a few examples of our Male Masturbators?), anal dildos, prostate massagers, butt plugs, and cock rings in the main content of this article, but we'd like to add them to this section too. We can't stress how much fun they bring to masturbation. You can utilize different movements with them by using them in different positions. Not only will they help you enjoy masturbation more, but they can also help you gain a better understanding of what could work better during partnered sex.
Summary
When considering the best masturbation positions for men and those with a penis, it's all relative to the person. Getting to grips with the best masturbation techniques for individual preferences creates a broad playing field. Only with practice—switching positions, changing hands, adding toys, using different stimuli (such as porn and audio erotica, and not forgetting your imagination), all things that can only add extra pleasure to your play—will you find out what works best for you.
Masturbation is a healthy practice and a great way to feel pleasure and improve your well-being.
To keep the boredom out of your bedroom and your masturbation interesting, fun, and exciting, we suggest you keep practicing, exploring, and enjoying every minute of it.
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