I don't want to relapse

Thanks for coming to our site, bro. We're glad to have you here.

 

You should become busy with other offline hobbies, like study, exercise, reading and so on. You can also make friends by joining a group activity, like martial arts, sports or attend an event.

 

During the pandemic, you really shouldn't be going out anyway. Sucks, but it's the way it is right now.

Wanted to point out though, the idea of saving your semen doesn't make sense, eventually your sperm die and you have nocturnal emissions. I am highly skeptical of any claims that not masturbating is healthy, considering damn near every mammal does it (a lot of which at an increased frequency from humans). I do believe no porn is a good goal, considering all it does is multiply the action and take up a bunch of your time with no well understood positive effects.

 

Ideally, men will be orgasming from sexual encounters alone and not from self-stimulation. During the healing phase, it will probably go quicker to do a no-MO path. And after the healing phase, it is much healthier to be with a partner than jerking off. Even physically there are differences in the body's reponse to sex and to MO. I think an argument could be made that MO is psychologically/emotionally better than primiscuous sex. But I would argue that sex overall beats MO. It isn't bad to MO but it isn't ideal for a grown adult, especially recovering PMO addicts.

 

Sure, but that isn't a point against MO. There is no clear reason not to MO, in fact it appears to be quite healthy. In other words from worst to best for you, No PMO, No P, Sex.

 

I have some objections to that:
1) You are still wasting your sperm. That is energy that you could retain in your body as old sperm is reabsorbed in your body.
2) The consept of pleasuring yourself to the tought of a woman is unmasculine. It is a impotent act as the woman is not avaliblale for sex, it has no purpouse other than self stimulation and may hinder you in persuing the woman in question or another one that is avalibale.
3) Most importantly: For a porn addict MO might trigger the same behavioral pathways that PMO does since the act is so similar. It is a slippery slope from MO to PMO where it starts with just one bikini picture and ends in the depraveties of fetish categories on tubesites.

 

Semen retention is pseudo science. Very little if any actually gets reabsorbed and there is no clear evidence of that absorption actually having any significant impact.
Un-masculine? You act as if masculinity is defined. Atop this, it is biologically incentivized, again, look at thousands of other mammal species.
Slippery slope arguments always fall flat. Arguing that we should live in fear of potentially doing some behavior is nonsense, you *choose* to do a behavior, you can't fear your own decision making process will make a mistake. There aren't ghosts floating around that are going to take over your body and make you do something you don't want, possession doesn't exist.

 

1. Get involved with work. Studies. Work hard.
2. Workout.
3. Spend time with family or friends, go socialise.
4. Get educated about your addiction. Think about it deeply.
5. Have an emergency distraction ready.

Stay aware.
You got this.

 

Really. You do realize that this is a support forum for people that are addicted to mastrubating to porn. Historically almost all of us here have been unable to choose the behavior of not masturbating to porn. Because of that we should fear that our decition making process will be mistaken. That is only reasonable based on past events, just as it is reasonable for an alocholic to avoid bars. The slippery slope is very real.

Yes, but perhaps feminine would be a better term. It is defined and we inherently know what it means, look it up in any dictionary. We are not monkeys or dogs we are humans and therefore we have the ability to move past our base biological impulses unlike other mammals.

I'll concede that I have not read studies about how much actually gets reabsorbed in the genitalia. However your body is still needing to produce all that sperm that is wasted away into tissues. That takes nutrients and energy that your body could use elsewere. If you are weightlifting to build muscle for example, it stands to reason that you will gain less muscle if you are cumming on a regular basis.

 

That doesn't even make sense. We are biological creatures, all behaviors of ours *are* biological impulses.
There isn't anything I've read supporting a slow down in production of sperm/semen, meaning your nutritional usage is the same.
We are all on the same forum, there is no boogy man that is going to come and posses you.

 

If there is not any slowdown as you say, then where does it go? I have been abstinent for 12 days now. No ejaculations or wet dreams. I'm truly curious here, because it makes no sense to me where the stored up sperm disappears. It has to go somewhere, right?

 

Your testicles can hold an *enormous* amount of sperm, and you will have a wet dream. It took over two weeks for my first one when I did no pmo, some take longer. I think you'll be surprised at the quantity you will excrete from the wet dream.