masturbation without porn

I never mentioned anything about dopamine. I said if you associate a negative/positive feeling to masturbation, then you would feel the feeling that you associated to masturbation after you masturbate. I never said anything about wanting to masturbate more or masturbate less, don't know where the topic of dopamine or wanting to masturbate more or less came out of me talking about associating a happy or a sad feeling after masturbating.

I don't believe in semen retention and never have. I believe that eating a healthy diet, exercising and taking care of your mental health does a metric shit-tonne more for an individual than semen retention ever would. I mean if a person masturbates or has sex every 2 days that's fine, but semen retention does not come anywhere near close to what a good diet and exercise can do for your body and mental health.

 

If you are heavily addicted to pmo, just doing mo isn't the answer. You will continue to relapse to p often and make no progress at all.

If, however, you can do it once every 10/14 days without p then I don't believe it is harmful. But having that much control over it is rare these days unless you have a gf or wife.