I would say that yes sensual pleasures

release >positive endorphin< in a male youth's body, in moderation and in a loving, jovial setting... yes, absolutely intimacy can be beneficial... Am I a Medical Doctor that can prove this, absolutely not but logic, and common sense tells me that if erotic passion wasn't so vilified, made absolutely hysteric, we could as a society have a different and perhaps more honest approach to subjects like this.. We could then be honest, more scientific, and homeopathic in correcting a boy's behavior. In all that I've ever wrote my primary objective was and is too insist that present day "intervention" be it deemed criminal, mentally sick, and socially disgusting etc... is OVERBOARD! This is only one of many many ideas I put forward that could ease the craziness that rules the day when it comes to male youth and sexuality... But important to note is although the orgasm may be physically great in many ways... as important is the loving touch of another, the trust, and "honor" another may send to the boy... in other words the "package deal" of being loved, and sexually stimulated, the problem is the society is so demented, and paranoid to let these kinds of ideas flow in fear of losing so many jobs, should truth and humanity find their way... So in our humanity we've found somehow a pleasure and a sense of power in making rules and shaming practices of physical nurturing, that if it's not done by a platonic woman, it must be of evil and hurtful intent... This assumption is so so wrong on so many levels, women do not hold all the intrinsic and "now how" when it comes to male youth, nor should they be the ones to dictate sexual policy and law, when they make the subject a weapon of manipulative conduct/control. Above all we never want to hurt or harm a youth, and it's for that very reason i stand so steadfast in my believe that passion and erotic play is fundamental to the overall being of many male youth. (noticed I did not say all male youth) The Law and Mental Health need to recognize this, and start change immediately.