How Many Times To Masturbate A Week

[Josh]

Hey guys, as ya know ive posted about some manhood issues..

Wondering whats the max one should masturbate a week? I just go once a week..

i was thinking about that saying 'if you dont use it, you lose it' .. Ive been doing it minimally like this for at least 3 years now.. Could that have caused me issues with shrinkage? Can one regain if some size has been lost through not as much use?

Would twice a week be an issue?


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[Jib]

I have been using porn a LOT, and I don't think it's good.

I find that my natural urge to masturbate is around once a week if I completely avoid porn. Sometimes a little more, sometimes less. But with porn I can very easily go overboard, 1 to 3 times a day, that goes way beyond my natural urges.

My opinion is avoiding porn and masturbating as much as you're naturally inclined to without porn is the way to go. I would imagine this would average about 1 to 3 times a week for most people, just as a guess.

 

[Aaron]

There is definitely a noticeable drain on my energy and in fact less glow to my skin when I do it as often as every other day. Do it as infrequently as will benefit you. For me it's about every other week tops, but I'm good at avoiding becoming "lecherous" and really find I treat people much better.

 

[ecstatichamster]

my question is, why aren't you dating and having partner sex?

I think masturbation isn't a good idea because I think it helps kill our sex drive as men and keeps us from generating that pent up sexual drive that causes us to get out there.

Just a thought.

 

[Hugh Johnson]

As often as you want, just don't watch porn or ejaculate .

 

[Broken man]

I am masturbating Once or 2 times per week trying to do it without ejaculation so better term is edging. If I ejaculate, I take some zinc. Good factor is morning boner. If you will have IT, Its fine I think.

 

[Broken man]

my question is, why aren't you dating and having partner sex?

I think masturbation isn't a good idea because I think it helps kill our sex drive as men and keeps us from generating that pent up sexual drive that causes us to get out there.

Just a thought.

Yeah, I would like but its hard to get some good material today. Maybe I am fcked from porn or something other but I am feeling nauseous from fatty girls.

 

[Cirion]

Zero if possible. From personal experience partaking at ALL is highly detrimental, at least if you're hypo. The problem is it promotes estrogen/prolactin, which is the LAST thing you need when you're hypo. Don't worry about 'needing' to release. if your body truly needs to, it'll happen naturally in your sleep every now and then. The mineral losses are small, it's the hormonal changes in your body you need to worry about.

In my personal experience, this even applies to relationships. Argue if you want, but my experience showed this to be true. So, next relationship I have, I plan to practice karezza.

I'm not debating "how it should be" etc. My post purely applies to someone in ill health. If you're in good health, you may be able to ignore this issue.

Is this easy to do? No. Is it worth it? Yes. It's been one of the most powerful health promoting practices I've found, easily on par with proper diet, sleep, sunlight. It also helps you start to realize that sex is honestly overrated, and there's a whole lot more things to do in life than that. *edit* for clarity, I mean ejaculation-sex. Karezza allows you to still have sex/bond with a partner, so it's not like you become a monk or something lol.

& again, if you're a very healthy male with high androgens, maybe this isn't a concern, but I've been unhealthy most of my life, so I don't forsee it being something acceptable any time soon for me at least.

There is no such thing as "use it or lose it" or blood flow concerns. If anything you'll get more blood flow by NOT messing with it, because you'll note more frequent / powerful random boners on nofap than ever before.

 

[Motif]

What's wrong with masturbation and porn?

 

[LiveWire]

I do it almost every day, except on days when I have sex.
It keeps me focused, horny and energized the next day.

The less I masturbate, the less interested in sex I am and the lower sex drive I have. I hate that.

Sex is life, masturbation is an imitation of sex. Not a 100%, but good enough. Prolactin is overrated, I’ve been tested hours after, with low range numbers.

Use it or lose it? Absofuckinlutely. No ejaculation is a prelude to death. Remember that.

Porn? Yeah not that good, it overstimulates you. If you must, stick with a single video scene, don’t fast forward. Compilations? The worst!

If you can jack off with your eyes closed running on pure imagination, you have it made!

 

[Cirion]

@LiveWire you're probably healthy and fine then. Again, my post applies to sick people mostly. I haven't personally tested before and after but I don't need to - I feel strong lethargic, laziness, lack of motivation, tell-tale signs of estrogen/serotonin/prolactin - afterwards. More power to you if you don't though.

Again, it's clear that there are two camps to nofap - those who benefit and those who don't. Those who don't are healthy and it doesn't apply to.

Only you know which camp you belong to. I disagree about the use it or lose it part though. My drive is higher when I abstain. More accurately, a "proper" drive. There is an estrogen dominating "compulsion" that is indeed higher when I relapse, but that's different from an androgen fueled desire. I've always had significantly better luck with dating when I'm on nofap and have a strong androgen fueled desire. Ray peat has talked about the estrogen dominant "compulsion" before in some of his articles. This is also known as the "chaser effect" that you feel after PMO or sex that is well known and talked about in nofap circles. Lowering estrogen can give you the illusion of reduced drive. However I can tell you in the past when I HAVE been healthy, that my libido becomes INSANE on nofap - to the point in the past I've had 1-2 hr long boners lol. I will admit that my libido is mediocre on nofap - when I'm unhealthy - and that's because of suppression of both estrogen AND testosterone. The "Compulsion" is more of an addiction and I call it that because you feel "compelled" to PMO and can't seem to have self control and is driven by high estrogens and low androgens. Even tho my libido is far higher when estrogen is low and androgens high, I have much more self control when it comes to PMO. PMO is such a massive waste anyway, I rather save that energy for a real person.

 

[ecstatichamster]

I disagree.

The less you masturbate the better. Everyone knows you flatline if you don't. But then it comes roaring back. It's totally worth it.

 

[rei]

Weird abstinence attitude. We know if a man does not empty the load it will eventually come out on itself, often while sleeping. Exception is only if sex hormones are low or not working. We also know tying the ducts will make 50% chance for testicular cancer since this natural process is prevented.

There should be quite strong evidence to argue against these facts while promoting abstinence.

 

[Stramonium]

I think is ok to do it as long as you are replenishing zinc with a can of oysters

 

[Motif]

It will deplete that much zinc ?

 

[Cirion]

Weird abstinence attitude. We know if a man does not empty the load it will eventually come out on itself, often while sleeping. Exception is only if sex hormones are low or not working. We also know tying the ducts will make 50% chance for testicular cancer since this natural process is prevented.

There should be quite strong evidence to argue against these facts and promoting abstinence.

Already made my points in previous post. Sure it's anecdotal, but I prefer anecdotal over pubmed articles anyway. Especially when said anecdote is personal experience. Fair enough if no one believes because they haven't experienced it for themselves, but at this pointno research can sway my opinion on this matter now because my personal experience trumps it any day and I have years of said experience. Not many health practices I follow I can say I have years of positive experience on but this is one I stand behind in 100% confidence.

That said, you're not wrong, every once in a while naturally you will get release if its truly necessary and yeah - I'd never recommend someone get a vasectomy or something. I don't think that's healthy.

At the end of the day, anyone can do whatever they want, but I'm vocal about this subject because of how beneficial it has been for my life. I can say with 100% confidence that if it wasn't for nofap, I'd still be a virgin today so it truly has been instrumental in my life. It's a powerful, powerful tool. Being super, super aroused during a date alleviates virtually all shyness when it comes to the opposite gender, an effect I never saw until I was on nofap. I have a history of being absolutely terrible at dating, so this transformation personally was almost a miracle. I am sure that some people are naturally good at dating, and for them I could see how they might not get as much benefit as I did. I think the people who see the most benefit are hypo-metabolic, shy people. And that is, I believe, why there is a divide on people who believe in it and those who don't. However even when I get well, I plan to continue doing it, as its part of my strategy for truly optimal health.

I never saw any effects from supplementing minerals. I don't think they matter that much or have that much impact.

Nofap is also not about abstinence. It's just abstaining from messing with yourself. Most nofap followers freely engage in sex so it is NOT all about going "monk mode". I will opt to avoid ejaculation in the future, but that's a personal decision, that I choose to make given the positive effects I've seen from doing so and the negative effects of partaking, even within a relationship. My desire to do this actually has virtually no moral reasons and it is purely because of the physical and emotional benefits I have obtained. But even at that, that still is permissive of intimate activities such as karezza and I still wouldn't call that " monk mode ".

 

[Runenight201]

If you feel overwhelming horniness, rub one out, and then congratulate yourself on the fact that your hormones are in full swing. In fact, depending on significant other status, masturbation can prevent some bad decisions from being made in a sex-crazed state. Masturbation is bad when you don’t feel horny yet you rub one out because of boredom, and the same applies to ejaculation during sex.

 

[LiveWire]

If you feel overwhelming horniness, rub one out, and then congratulate yourself on the fact that your hormones are in full swing. In fact, depending on significant other status, masturbation can prevent some bad decisions from being made in a sex-crazed state. Masturbation is bad when you don’t feel horny yet you rub one out because of boredom, and the same applies to ejaculation during sex.

I do it even when I’m not horny. I become horny once I set my mind to it (because that’s how well conditioned I am) and the overall experience is always great.

Like I said, I treat it as conditioning, like a gym. It’s certainly not out of boredom. In fact I often have to find time or interrupt doing something.

There is nothing wrong with a sex-crazed state. Exceptional things can be achieved and the energy that goes along with it is great. Interactions with women have juice.

For better context: I’m in my mid 40s, happily married. I’m hit on and offered sex surprisingly frequently (not a self delusion, i promise).

I don’t want to get argumentative, but I don’t subscribe to no fap or partial fap with no ejaculation. These are fads to me. We’re here to eat and copulate as our primary evolutionary purpose. One might say we eat to be able to copulate.

Take that from a man and what do you have left?

(It’s understood copulation is not masturbation, but it’s close enough. Masturbation is a usuful bio hack.)

 

[Jib]

I don’t want to get argumentative, but I don’t subscribe to no fap or partial fap with no ejaculation. These are fads to me. We’re here to eat and copulate as our primary evolutionary purpose. One might say we eat to be able to copulate.

Take that from a man and what do you have left?

(It’s understood copulation is not masturbation, but it’s close enough. Masturbation is a usuful bio hack.)

Agreed.

 

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