Always horny

Hello everyone.. I am a 16 y old girl
I have a big problem that I can't talk about to my friends. Very often I feel horny and I masturbate often, 5/7 days, sometimes when I'm home alone I do it several times. Am I sick?

Hello, and welcome!

I'm not sure how horny teenage girls are, generally. If you were a boy, well, you would be unremarkable. But I am a boy, and not a girl, so I can't say.

And of course, with everyone it's different, and your mileage may vary. One person's hypersexuality is anothers' normal.

Which is why I think the general litmus test that I've always read and assumed, is that if sexual drive and masturbation start to affect your life negatively, it's too much. So maybe some examples would be if you're excessively masturbating when you should be doing other things. If you prefer doing that over being with other people (I don't mean sexually, I mean just normal social life). If you think constantly of it and place it over doing things or being with people that you would normally want to do or people you'd want to be with, if it weren't for wanting to go masturbate.

That sort of thing. Also if you do it to excess and hurt yourself in the process. Which is a very teenager thing to do, but that doesn't mean it's a good idea.

Hopefully you'll grow out of some of this. Teenagers can be pretty sex-obsessed for a while, and while you shouldn't expect desire to go away as you get older, still after a while I think many people learn to handle their hormones and desires. It just takes time to grow into how your body and brain work.