Thread: 365 days w/o Jerking Off: A self control challenge

Originally Posted by 101Volts

Is anyone else still doing this?

I do this from time to time as a way to enhance my performance when training. 21 days so far. I normally stop after about a month then go back at it again after a week or two.

When feeling sexual i don't suppress. I allow it to be expressed without "releasing." It takes a certain level of awareness.

Well, that lasted 22 months and 11 days and not a full 2 years. Hindsight might say "You COULD have waited until January 3rd" but I'm not going to hate myself over it though I may not do it again. Now what? I do wonder why I felt so suicidal over it before; was I just acting how I thought I should act? I'm not defending or attacking it at this point.

Originally Posted by 101Volts

Well, that lasted 22 months and 11 days and not a full 2 years. Hindsight might say "You COULD have waited until January 3rd" but I'm not going to hate myself over it though I may not do it again. Now what? I do wonder why I felt so suicidal over it before; was I just acting how I thought I should act? I'm not defending or attacking it at this point.

Stay strong

Well, it's been at least 2 days since the last time and maybe my current depression wasn't caused by it alone (keep reading,) but holy garbage cans. I started playing Team Fortress 2 again a few weeks ago and a day or two before my last reply I started listening to a stupid Pixies song "Bone Machine" about someone being attracted to an unfaithful lover ("You're so pretty when you're unfaithful to me...") and between all 3 things may lay the explanation of why I felt down.

I uninstalled TF2 yesterday; the more I played it the more antagonistic I got and earlier today I felt like telling my Father, who's trying to encourage me to actually live, to fuck off (which was partly due to playing TF2.) "The wage of sin is death." Rather, let's put that in modern words: "The wages of doing things not worthwhile is a sore perspective of the world, the ghetto, depression and all sorts of unpleasant things."

there nothing wrong with self humiliation its jus if you abuse it or not everyone wants that porn star girlfriend or porn star boyfriend and you have it jus humiliate other people while you do this self humiliation is master form beyond the precursor of life if you feel ashamed about playing with your prick then cut it off you don't deserve to have one is the case

I've been doing this as a way of enhancing training performance. Playing around with it. Seeing if it works. You do feel more energized, focused, and even aggressive. So i do notice a few changes but am still examining whether it all in my mind or not. When you do release it does feel energy draining.

As Alyzarin said above, masturbation causes a high increase in prolactin, which occurs immediately in males, and slower over time in females at and after orgasm. Just some interesting stuff regarding dopamine/prolactin:


"There is a well-documented relationship between dopamine and prolactin; when one is unusually high the other is low, and vice versa. For example, schizophrenia is associated with high levels of dopamine. Some anti-psychotic drugs (designed to lower dopamine in schizophrenics) also raise prolactin levels. Schizophrenia patients treated with these drugs often complain of the same symptoms as others with high prolactin, such as low libido."

"Increased serum PRL (prolactin) levels correlated significantly with high scores on the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS)."

"Prolactin also appears to be part of the mammalian repertoire of stress responses. It is more associated with anxiety and despair rather than fight or flight, as is cortisol."


This explains why I feel so calm (in a stable sense) since abstinence. By not masturbating, I'm not critically raising prolactin levels, and so am not receiving the negative effects of said chemical.


Symptoms of excess prolactin (over-masturbation) [Strange that testosterone increases in females from excessive masturbation].


And symptoms of varying levels of dopamine (usually high prolactin = low dopamine, and vice versa).


I definitely fit into the deficient category more than any other one. But I can say already after 9 days that the antisocial aspect has been reduced considerably.

These charts really do underline that I was receiving the negative effects of high prolactin and low dopamine.

Furthermore, with regards to dopamine. After orgasm, dopamine is depleted as it is converted into adrenaline and noradrenaline, ergo the excessive dopamine-norepinephrine-epinephrine conversion. So not only is dopamine post-synaptic sensitivity reduced from many bouts of hyper-arousal before orgasm, but the neurotransmitter itself is reduced in its availability after orgasm. Crazy reduction overall. So, as Spyguy said:

Originally Posted by Spyguy

To put this simply: don't touch

Originally Posted by littlezoe

Okay i decided. I'll take the challenge for a week now.

If i succeed, then i'll continue with a second week

This is my second day.

So basically you're saying that you're are going to do a two week-challenge In this challenge, there is no trying, only doing (or rather not doing (; )

Originally Posted by ThePreserver

I took weekdays off last week, and I think I'll do that this week, too. Who knows, that may be my new routine. Gives a whole new meaning to "looking forward to the weekend."

I approve of this idea. Weekends would be the best. thing. ever.