There is nothing about masturbation that influences or regulates the hormones that your body needs to develop and ovulate an egg, and then to prepare your uterus for a pregnancy. These are related to something very different that your sexual pleasure response, which masturbation taps into.

You wrote that it was when you started masturbating that your periods started skipping. That is entirely coincidental since it is common for periods to begin changing as your body grows and develops. At the same time your sexual feelings would be intensifying so the desire to masturbate would be even higher.

It is only through examination by doctors and the testing that they can do for you that you will be able to determine what might be interfering with your ability to get pregnant. I urge you to contact a qualified gynecologist or other specialist in fertility and get to the real possible cause. Masturbation, though connected in your mind, is not really related to potential pregnancy in any way.

Thank you for writing and please feel free to write again if you have more questions.

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