No, masturbation isn't bad, and has been shown to have some health benefits. It also helps you get rid of sexual tension safely and easily.

But, if you masturbate too much it might become a problem. Anything you get obsessed with isn't good. If you spend too much time masturbating, especially if you're looking at pornography, you might try to cut back a bit.

It's fairly normal for teenage guys to masturbate anywhere from once a week to four or five times per day. You have a problem when you're masturbating for hours a day looking at pornography, especially when you stop doing other things that you would normally enjoy doing, like going out with your friends. Or, if you ever fail a homework assignment because you spent the whole day masturbating, that's another sign that you need to cut back.

At worst, if you do masturbate too much and that is preventing you from doing things you want to do, put yourself on the clock. Set an amount of time to masturbate each day and stick to it. Keep a small journal (just with dates and times; you never want to risk any more information than that) to make sure you maintain the standard you set.