Male chastity - the longest period without relief
My wife is calling it a sexual reset and she’s very on board and supportive.
I’m a very blessed guy. 
Angelina I’m on week four as of tomorrow and I’m about 1/2 way through.
I have noticed I’m not focusing of getting sex from her at all. Which I did focus on frequently before.
I think in marriages where one person has a high sex drive and the other not it can almost become a barter system of if I do this then maybe he/she will have sex.
It’s not a healthy position and probably just serves to turn the other person (with the lower sex drive) off.
This has ended the barter system and “reset” things.
I read something like 3% of the population has a super high sex drive. That’s probably me.
So i don’t know if it’s so much a need as just unusual amount of desire
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Cb85 from what I've read, 10-15 days or something is where your urges peak, so if you can get past that, it supposidly only gets easier from there because your hormones settle.
Not sure if I mentioned it here before, but there was some research paper back in the early 2000s or something that had supporting evidence data for performance with balanced abstinence and stimulus. I ironically only discovered this was a thing when I stumbled upon a sports manga where an athelete finds a new trainer and is required to abstain from self gratification to enhance his performance, and coincidentally the second ever mention I heard was on a podcast talking about michael reeve's intense boxing training program where he found out the hard way how much of a difference it made (or rather, the detriment in performance from letting it out early was).
zbovka I ironically only discovered this was a thing when I stumbled upon a sports manga where an athelete finds a new trainer and is required to abstain from self gratification
Interesting. This is the subject of a scene in the movie Raging Bull which was made in 1980, except it involves sex with the fighter's wife, not self-gratification.
I peaked at 3 weeks.
Avery Interesting. This is the subject of a scene in the movie Raging Bull which was made in 1980, except it involves sex with the fighter's wife, not self-gratification.
I mean, the basic theme (orgasm less frequently to train more effectively) can be found pretty much everywhere as anecdotes, but you rarely see the results of serious research on that matter.
youdontknowme can be found pretty much everywhere as anecdotes
True. For example I have found my running times have improved greatly since I stopped getting myself laid.
I'm not an athlete, so I can only guess, but I guess it depends on how the orgasm-free time has a psychological effect. If it has a positive effect, it increases performance, if it has a negative effect, it reduces performance. a friend of mine once said sport is 10% talent, 10% training and 80% mental health, that could explain it
Angelina The main claim for males is usually around hormone levels. Testosterone tends to take a dip after orgasm and testosterone levels are usually at least somewhat correlated with sexual arousal, so it is easy to assume that unfulfilled desire will lead to elevated testosterone.
and how exactly does this affect performance in sport? do men perform better with high or low testosterone levels
Angelina do men perform better with high or low testosterone levels
High - at least in most sports.
Testosterone is the dominant male sex hormone and higher levels make for greater muscle mass, more agressiveness (while not necessarily desirable in everyday environment it certainly helps to get the edge in competitive sports), etc.