Masturbation once/twice a month After 90 days reboot? Thoughts ?

I don't think this goes under success stories, but in any case i'll give my two cents. Not only do I see that as a difficult thing to pull off because most men are used to the stimulation of porn, but even if you could hypothetically get off without porn I just don't see the point. You're still getting that dopamine spike. Ideally, you would just keep it to a few times a month but if you're on this site you're just messing with falling down that slippery slope again by doing that. I'd say implement that after going at least 3 months without any kind of self stimulation but that's just me.

 

By doing that you will only get half of benefits of rebooting; you will not experience it at all since you will still somehow addicted to it

 

Haha, I'm the only one that voted for masturbation once a month is okay. Hmmm.
I don't think that it is realistic to stop masturbation completely for most of us. And why.
Reduction to my personal minimum is ambitious enough.

 

I think the answer will be different for everyone. I get a big mood drop after I MO and experience sluggishness, laziness, irritibility, etc. for days afterwards, so I am hoping to cut it out entirely. My partner (also a guy) doesn't get that at all (he's never had a problem with PMO, he just doesn't do it naturally without trying). If you make it through a reboot and then want to try to slowly reintroduce MO, I'd say go for it, but be honest with yourself about how it's making you feel, and be aware that you'll have the tendency to get sucked back in to an unhealthy spiral. Just my two cents.

 

I can absolutely connect to this. Thought I was alone with these feelings but this year I've learned that there are some people with this kind of mood shift after an orgasm.
Cutting it out entirely at once has in my experience the tendency to lead to failure, so I decided for me now to try out to slowly reduce masturbation. I wonder if this will work or if there are any traps on this way.

 

Good for you and good luck! I'm very lucky to have a partner who is supportive, he doesn't want me to MO or even to O during sex which takes getting used to but is so much better for me. I used to PMO 3-5 times per day for years, and when I finally stopped it was like the clouds parted. It's hard to deal with the horniness that builds up after months without O but for me it's so much better that way

 

This is a semen retention forum can this post be in relapse report or in pornography or sexual addiction

 

Could you be friendly and supportive, please?

 

Yeah I support semen retention not cooming and jerking it. If you don't want that type go to other forum. I like your name and I want people to be free forever from masterbation and pornography. This post is poison to the mind to go back and relapse, and after a jerking session then comes the chaser effect, after chaser effect few people will come back again to their so called "scheduled ejaculation". This is good if you have a wife or girlfriend but if not, jerking with self always top in arising same old addiction because the control is not from others but from the self whose brain's is decades soaked of sexual stimulation.

 

Honestly, I say Yea, it’s fine.

That being said:

1. I was never one to masturbate just with fantasy, so it was
/is rarely done on its own if ever. If you have a masturbation addiction then don’t tempt that addiction by doing it. I’m defining addiction as: Using it to escape/procrastinate from your problems and everyday life.

2. Now 150 days in this, I realize that I can find vices other than masturbating which I practice once or twice a month with measure - drinking / smoking weed. I’ve concluded that for me, it’s better to do these things than jerk off. I also find that to prevent any vice from taking a hold of your every day life and escapist ritual - Don’t do it. I mean this to say that it may indeed be possible for you, I or anyone to become addicted to masturbation only. So why entertain it?

3. There will come a time where you are completely with no mental peace and you’ll have no energy for Anything. Except Ofcourse, masturbating. If used in this extreme scenario you’ll be able to use the ancient remedy your used to and it’ll do the trick. Example - I Had a insane migraine that wouldn’t go away with meditating, sleep, shows, doing nothing, going outside, Nada. I masturbated one time and that knocked me out to sleep. As expected, nothing new about it. Like I said ancient remedy.

4. At the end of the day it’s your life. Just be aware of either doing it or not doing it, and you yourself come up with your own conclusions for/against it as I did.

 

Probably not too bad, if you have no other outlet for your libido.

 

It's a good milestone, but eventually you may want to go beyond it, I guess take your pace?