I had an interesting experience this weekend. I’m on day 45 since my last orgasm. I was traveling this weekend and everywhere I went, men were deferring to me. Moving out of my way, letting me go in line in front of them. It’s like there was a sign above me saying I was the alpha. I have to say, I enjoyed it! Makes giving up the O worth it.
I know this feeling. I've recognize this at my work place. After a long streak the male co-worker start to respect me. During a meeting no one is going to interrupt me and everybody is listen to my words. SR is cheat code for a EasyLife.
SR is not a cheat code but bandaid. You should be working on your male co-worker respecting you all the time. Yesterday I was returning from very good fuck, rough, hair pulling, all that shit. On the way there and also on the way back (then my SR was about 30 minutes) people were doing same thing as you describe. However I do think SR can also (among others) benefit from strong placebo effect, because that is real and proven many times by research.