How old were you when you discovered masturbation?

Ah, awkward questions. Myyyy favorite.

Anyway, I've been curious about this for a little while. It started when I got introduced to the idea that people find it odd when others begin masturbating before a certain age. Like a few weeks ago, some friends and I happened to be watching a TV special on weird sexual disorders, and one woman was hyper-sexual or something like that. When she said that she began masturbating at age eight, my friends were all like, "Oh, wow!"

"Yeah, wow....Crazy shit....Whew....Weeeeeeiiiiiird...." was my response. Eight is really young? As in, sexual disorder young? In that case, I must be pretty fucked up..........but naturally I said nothing about this. I figured it was best not to bring it up.

This isn't the first time I've heard people react like this to this sort of thing. Some years ago, a friend of mine told me, "Did you know most boys discover masturbation before age twelve? Dang!"

...um...?

So, pervs of PC, when did you discover the wonders of self-pleasuring? And what are your thoughts on the matter?

I suppose I'm curious because...well...I discovered it when I was five. No joke. Well, five at the latest, that is, because I don't quite remember, but I know it must have been in that time frame. There's nothing wrong with me (except a bit of pervy-ness, of course), but am I really that abnormal?

I've never discussed this with anyone, so I feel a bit odd about it, but I figure there's no better place. *shrug*

5 or 6 years old.
LOL.

Yeah I was discussing the difficulties *ahem* of being around people all the time with no privacy for a whole month when I went on a trip summer before last. My friend was like "Oh wow, you were doing it back then?" I was surprised at that reaction, to say the least.

Hmm, I always thought I discovered it at a fairly young age. I must have been ten or so since it was definitely before my family moved to our current house, which was when I was eleven.

Any question regarding a natural biological function I don't find awkward. I also started masturbating when I was five. Dry orgasms, oh yeah!

13 or 14..............

Well, I was thirteen the first time I ejaculated. I freaked out, because I didn't know what the hell it was (rofl), and I had been doing what I was doing, at the time, since I was about three or four.

The first time I remember doing it was when I was about four, but I probably discovered it earlier than that. As a child, I did it frequently, several times a day, and publicly since I didn't know it was anything to be ashamed of. In fact, until about the second grade, I assumed I was the only person capable of doing it, since it felt so good that if other people could do it, I was sure they'd be doing it all the time too. I had all of these weird theories about how it worked, when i first discovered it. I thought that I had special bones inside that were rubbing against each other a certain way, before I knew what an orgasm was. I also think I might have believed that my vagina went all the way through and came out as a mouth on the other end, and that I peed out of it. I also believed that I once had a penis like my brother's and that I lost it somehow because I did something bad. So, yeah, I was pretty confused. I certainly didn't sexualize it until much later. My very earliest fantasies were about violent things that I had heard about other parents doing to their children when they misbehaved, and I used it as a way to release my feelings of being deeply disturbed by the idea of those things, which I later found out were actually more common than non-abusive methods of discipline. I would imagine them happening to me, and that horrible sinking dark feeling in the pit of my stomach as I knew that I would be completely terrified and overwhelmed, and then I imagined somehow taking away those things from other people by having them happen to me in my head instead.

can't remember exactly when but it was before puberty

I was about 14.

I bet everyone here started the first time they touched themselves as an infant, but had parents tell you to stop it while you were a toddler because they were freaked out. Then you re-discovered it at some point.
I remember being 5 or 6 and really getting into it. Still am!