safe for my son to masterbate ?

Hello and thank you for posting your medical question on E health Forum.

As a boy grows, he explores and experiences the changes in the genitals, and the pleasure he can derive by stimulating them. As most kids, he enjoys the pleasure provided by his own body.

It is completely physiological reaction and completely safe for him to masturbate.

Contrary to belief, masturbation has no effects either on maturation, penis size or future fertility.

I hope this helps.

You might want to talk to him about "privacy" and appropriate times to explore his body and its new feelings and sensations. His room. The bathroom, like when having a shower or a bath, are places where it is ok to explore. The classroom or at school is not. If he gets an uncontrolled erection. What should he do ?