I am not going to thumbs up your post because I am rather radical on this.
I am against most Western approaches, they demonise porn and wanking/fingering and glorify safe sex. I support celibacy and masturbation to pornography or erotica as a healthy way to handle the urges as a teenager but if I say further it is illegal as I am encouraging something for underage people.
Worked for me. All else aside in my teenage years if I didn't have that way to release, I'd have never been able to focus at school considering I had a couple of mental disorders and I also had other issues like being underweight due to a lot of issues coping with both the disorders and food intolerances I didn't realise yet.
Others struggle too, I'm not making it about me. If I had not been able to 'release' that urge (and fuck me is it strong at the teenage years, you can go on forever some days) I would be stuck with a hardon wanting to imagine doing severe sexual things to those around me or if surrounded by ugly and/or not-my-type people, I'd just be constantly imagining things unable to focus.
Do you know what that's like? It's actual hell that people you vent to laugh at you about if you seek help. I began to masturbate regularly to porn earlier than I ever should have (according to an extremely arbitrary law that things a birthday suddenly grants you 0-100 consent and maturity) and suddenly was at the very least able to focus better at school than ever before. Instantly.
So you tell me if that's corrupted or bad, I really don't give a shit and neither should others it works for.
I know what the law says, I know it's illegal to advocate for, but I know the only alternative is encouraging underage safe sex (where both are underage) so... okay do that (not sure why that's more legal to advocate for than a healthy outlet that has 100% no STI and no emotional baggage guarantee)
In many progressive nations you can only legally watch porn and/or engage with sex toys 1-3 years after you can legally have sex. They think that's healthier and fairer. I just lol at the whole thing. Someone is much safer exploring their fantasies in their own brains and private surfing, being educated at school what's way too far and not okay to entertain, than they are acting it out way too young with other peers that are just as shit at it but you do you, I'll do me.