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Ejaculation: How often for good health? - (Article)

Discussion in 'Off-topic Discussion' started by Marsbar, Sep 13, 2016.

  1. Marsbar

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  2. franco216

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    "Where can men find sound advice? What would a healthy middle ground look like?"

    Based on what I learned here, it seems unlikely to me that there is a "middle ground" for the recommended frequency of orgasms for men. As argued elsewhere, I believe there are men who have a healthy attitude towards sex and masturbation and they might masturbate regularly, following their own, personal bio-rhythm or whatever.

    Obviously, there are other men, like me, where the optimal frequency of orgams is rather close to zero. The whole idea of rebooting, no PMO for a while until the brain has recovered, kind of makes the question absurd.

    A better question would be: are my masturbation habits healthy? Are the symptoms of addiction? Does orgasm correlate with feelings of shame or self-hatred or escapism?

    Probably, like with alcohol, it makes sense for any person to go and try a month or so without, to check for withdrawal symptoms. Even that might be misleading of course. If I manage a month without PMO, I would still very much consider myself a porn addict. So some good measure of intuition and advice is probably required.
     
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  3. Star Lord

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    My personal limit is once a week. I get tremendous ache down below if it's any longer.
     
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  4. Themadfapper

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    Zero! You don't need to ejaculate. If you're really getting sore due to not ejaculating I think it's probably due to something not working properly? I assume it is probably due to excessive ejaculation and possibly something not working properly anymore? I would hope that abstinence would cure this problem? Even wet dreams are likely not due to a need to ejaculate they are due to being obsessed with sex.

    I've done steroids and my testosterone was obviously higher than is humanly possible while on steroids yet I had no need to ejaculate and had no wet dreams because I wasn't thinking about sex. Sex drive was through the roof, erections, and felt like king kong, but no need to ejaculate.

    I know what I posted isn't thoroughly scientific I'm just using myself as data, but I don't see any natural reason for blue balls. The idea that you have to clean the pipes/ejaculate is ridiculous. There is no animal in nature that I can think of that is required to ejaculate.


    P.S

    Apologies for how I worded this post earlier. I came back and looked at it and noticed I worded things poorly and it came across unintentionally as aggressive and possibly demeaning which was not at all what I was trying to say.
     
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  5. Marsbar

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    When I was 18 and M'ing like a machine, I went into the army. Never even thought of sex during my 6 weeks of basic training. Nothing. No wet dreams or anything. So no, I don't think there is any quota as such. Of course popular belief was that they were putting "Blue stone" in our coffee (copper sulphate?) to reduce the urge. I doubt it though :)
     
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  6. TheFutureMe

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    Not to mention the part where there's no two people with the exact same biological needs and response (despite what bottled water vendors and diet coaches would like you to believe). Watch out for normalization-related thoughts, they're a good idea to get some perspective on what we're doing, but can be harmful when we use them as limitations/objectives.

    On the MO subjet itself, I think I read in here many many accounts of people saying that if you're rebooting (like you probably are, were, or will, since you're around the forum), it's said to be tremendously counter-productive and lenghtens the whole process by a considerable amount.
     
  7. Jilloy

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    You don´t need to eaculate by yourself. If you don´t you have wet dreams. The body knows when, what to do.
     
  8. franco216

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    Interesting. That fits my impression that my wet dreams are more about fantasies and my state of mind than an actual physical need. I don't see a reason to reset, even though I ejaculated at night, a day ago - because it wasn't intentional and out of my control. However, the event might still be an indicator of my state-of-mind.
     
  9. Themadfapper

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    I had a wet dream about a week ago while I was close to a 90-day streak. It was no coincidence that I also had been thinking about and even fantasizing about sex quite a bit leading up to it. That being said I agree with you it's not a reason to reset. Another poster told me something that I liked he said " Wet dreams are you brains last resistance before the storm clears. Be happy you have them, it shows your progress". I certainly need to stop thinking about sex and fantasizing about sex as this led to a relapse, but I found his words encouraging as I was a bit dejected after the wet dream, unfortunately they came to late and I had already relapsed.
     
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  10. Lone_Wolf

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    I've never had a "wet dream" in my life. Even when I was 25 and went on that 8 month PMO-free streak.
    I guess I'm a statistical outlier.
     
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  11. idclip

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    Maybe you had, and it dried up by the time you woke up.
     
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  12. - Ω -

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    Whenever your wife desires it. Other than that, never.
     
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  14. I'm not a man, but to me it stands to reason that if your body really needs to ejaculate, it would do it on it's own. i.e., you would have a lot more wet dreams if it were really necessary for your body to ejaculate that often. I could be wrong, but that just seems logical to me. Our bodies are pretty good at taking care of themselves, for the most part
     
  15. u376

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    without reading that reading the article
    a big no from my side
    ejaculation is never healthy
     
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  17. Ra's Al Ghul

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    This isn't anything based on science, but just from my experience having been on 3 long streaks. If you have to wank, do it around every 90-100 days. I think that might be reasonable; I mean if you haven't gotten laid around three months or more you start getting real antsy and may even start pursuing females you wouldn't normally be attracted to if you weren't so horny from not getting laid.
     
  18. u376

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    Doing too much sex is also not good
    There is a saying in Hindi "bhogi is equal to rogi"
    Bhogi means person filled with temptations and lust
    And rogi means patient
     

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