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

Such as?

Originally Posted by Jakro

Such as?

Studies show that men in their 20s who ejaculate 5+ times a week reduced their risk of prostate cancer by a third, and older men reporting 21+ ejaculations per month lowered their risk as well.
Research shows that men who have sex 2+ times per week have a lower risk of heart disease than those who have sex less than once a month.
Several studies show that men who have frequent sex have higher volumes of semen, a higher sperm count and a higher percentage of healthy sperm compared to men who have infrequent sex.

Takenfromhere

Meh, I'll take the risk. I'm on day 31 and have noticed a significant mental shift. It might be coincidental, but I'll keep going.

Besides, I doubt one year in one's youth is going to make much difference in the long run. Besides, you can jerk off never and still manage to rack up that 5 ejaculations per week.

Come next January you will cum FOR DAYS.... I wonder if their are diminishing returns on how awesome it feels after waiting a certain amount of time. I know if I go on vacation or something and don't fap for a week the next time it feels AWESOME. I wonder how much more awesome it will feel after an entire year.

Oh, and I'm also curious if you start having any wet dreams as a result.

I'm not going to be on this for year, just two months. Weakamon though... He still has long way to go.

And still no wet dreams by the way.

Thanks Lonely Turtle. Saved me having to look all that up again

MONTH 1(01/01-31/12): SUCCESS

Round 1 of 12 is Over
It's official, i've survived the first month. The first few weeks were indeed a challenge. Everywhere i look, i can see visions about boobs, asses, bars and other related stuff. But as the days goes on, the tension seems to lessen. My body and my mind probably got used to it by now. But, there still lies a problem, pron. I take a small look, and BOOM, the tension starts to rise again. Everytime I take a small glimpse of pron, it hurts me. The more i look, the more i'm being hard with myself. Anyway, the challenge is till far from over. I still got 11 months. This February, i'm gonna attempt to stop looking at pron once and for all to make this challenge easier and to ease my pain. Weakamon out...

Originally Posted by weakamon

Everywhere i look, i can see visions about boobs, asses, bars and other related stuff.

One of those doesn't fit with the others.

Originally Posted by Omnis Dei

One of those doesn't fit with the others.

well, you get the main idea

Bars do not relate to boobs and asses?

They don't make me horny but whatever floats your boat

It's official, i've survived the first month. The first few weeks were indeed a challenge. Everywhere i look, i can see visions about boobs, asses, bars and other related stuff. But as the days goes on, the tension seems to lessen. My body and my mind probably got used to it by now. But, there still lies a problem, pron. I take a small look, and BOOM, the tension starts to rise again. Everytime I take a small glimpse of pron, it hurts me. The more i look, the more i'm being hard with myself. Anyway, the challenge is till far from over. I still got 11 months. This February, i'm gonna attempt to stop looking at pron once and for all to make this challenge easier and to ease my pain. Weakamon out...

That's so my experience as well. Though I haven't watched porn, but if you spend your times on risque sites like I do you're going to see something arousing every now and then.

I also thought that all of my fantasizing would be detrimental to the challenge, but despite that I've noticed that it has gotten significantly easier this past week.

Originally Posted by weakamon

Round 1 of 12 is Over
It's official, i've survived the first month. The first few weeks were indeed a challenge. Everywhere i look, i can see visions about boobs, asses, bars and other related stuff. But as the days goes on, the tension seems to lessen. My body and my mind probably got used to it by now. But, there still lies a problem, pron. I take a small look, and BOOM, the tension starts to rise again. Everytime I take a small glimpse of pron, it hurts me. The more i look, the more i'm being hard with myself. Anyway, the challenge is till far from over. I still got 11 months. This February, i'm gonna attempt to stop looking at pron once and for all to make this challenge easier and to ease my pain. Weakamon out...[/CENTER]

Wait... what? You watch porn and don't jerk off? That has to be unhealthy...

Yeah.. why are you watching it in the first place, that's stupid. And by bars I assume you mean the pub kind that have women in them? Not like, metal bars. Unless they remind you of strippers or something.

Originally Posted by weakamon

It's official, i've survived the first month. The first few weeks were indeed a challenge. Everywhere i look, i can see visions about boobs, asses, bars and other related stuff.

Originally Posted by Dianeva

Yeah.. why are you watching it in the first place, that's stupid. And by bars I assume you mean the pub kind that have women in them? Not like, metal bars. Unless they remind you of strippers or something.

Or he's gay.

I also don't get the watching porn just to watch porn thing.

Originally Posted by tommo

Or he's gay.

I also don't get the watching porn just to watch porn thing.

I try this sometimes (I don't have a 'set' date, I just try not to fappity fapfap), and I understand his need for porn. I did this as well >_>

Originally Posted by Omnis Dei

One of those doesn't fit with the others.

Here at my place, we often refer bars as the For-adults-only clubs rather than dance clubs or the one where you mingle with others, etc.

Originally Posted by LonelyTurtle

Wait... what? You watch porn and don't jerk off? That has to be unhealthy...

Yeah i know, it's kinda weird. Watching porn knowing that in the end, i would just restrict myself.

Originally Posted by Solarflare

haha

Originally Posted by tommo

Or he's gay.

I also don't get the watching porn just to watch porn thing.

nah, i'm not gay. The watching porn thing is kinda complicated. You know what they say, stopping yourself from masturbating is much easier than stopping yourself from watching porn.

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DAY 32(02/01/12): SUCCESS

Weakamon's just so tough. "This not jerking off challenge is too easy, I gotta crank up the difficulty!" *puts on porn*

Originally Posted by weakamon

nah, i'm not gay. The watching porn thing is kinda complicated. You know what they say, stopping yourself from masturbating is much easier than stopping yourself from watching porn.

Yeah no I've literally never heard anyone say that lol

I did feel some emotional distress 10 or so days ago, and what I mean by that was that I missed porn. Sounds whack but try going without it for some time and telling yourself you're never going to watch that shit again. Now I'm all good though, I have urges to jack off at times but no urges to watch porn.

Originally Posted by Jakro

I did feel some emotional distress 10 or so days ago, and what I mean by that was that I missed porn. Sounds whack but try going without it for some time and telling yourself you're never going to watch that shit again. Now I'm all good though, I have urges to jack off at times but no urges to watch porn.

Yeah one time I forgot about porn (i still jacked but it wasnt to porn). And like 6 days later a porn I watched replayed in my mind and my urge to watch it was so great I felt queasy :/

I find the porn thing strange. Are you saying it's like a separate desire to that for sexual release? I guess I don't watch porn at all so, yeah. Maybe it's just males (who experience what you're talking about, not who watch porn, I know females watch porn), it seems incomprehensible to me.

Me too... Even if you're used to watching porn frequently why would you knowingly make it more difficult for yourself?