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Possible issues with prone masturbation ("Traumatic masturbatory syndrome")
Lawrence I. Sank (1998) speculated that their habit of masturbating prone (i.e. lying face downward) was responsible for the serious sexual problems, including anorgasmia and erectile dysfunction, suffered by four men he examined, and coined the termtraumatic masturbatory syndrome to describe it. The experience of Sank's patients, and of men in an online support group, is that they were cured of their sexual dysfunction merely by abandoning prone masturbation and learning to masturbate in a supine position, using their hands.

As of 2006 there has been no follow-up research and the idea that prone masturbation causes male sexual dysfunction is not familiar or widely-held within the medical community. Some sources, however, give credence to the idea. One sex therapist (Margolies, 1994) has condemned masturbation by rubbing against a pillow or mattress. Lipsith et al (2003) suggest that masturbation could play in male psychogenic sexual dysfunction (MPSD), citing Sank as their authority. A sex guide (Joannides, 2004) quotes an unidentified urologist as saying, "It seems possible that some men who always masturbate face down have erection problems when trying to have sex with a woman."