my point is the entire system must be in balance.

you can't just say " i don't like this part of the system so i will eliminate it " 

you must understand how the entire system functions and think if you can maybe come up with a better system and even we know historically it never works

communism didn't work and prohibition didn't work because people aren't smart enough to design systems - best we can do is not break the ones that are already working even if they aren't perfect

most of the time the source of imperfection in a system is the users themselves and trying to ban things is the most idiotic of all knee jerk reactions one can have to not being able to understand how the problems are inherent in human nature and have nothing to do with the system itself 

banning things historically almost always makes everything worse whether we are talking about alcohol prohibition of price controls or the war on drugs or anything else
 

 Prohibition is a feminist invention.  

 i can appreciate that take. i view it as dissatisfaction creates drive, the desire to satisfy. however i do believe masculine energy comes from retention. i couldn’t source the proper literature off the top of my head, but it’s a lot to do with your seven chakras and shit like that. speaking more from personal practice than academic knowledge. i have no moral issue with porn (considering it was morally produced) and certainly no issue with masturbation. i very much do not believe distribution of sexual content should be prohibited by the state. 

 yes your brain's chemical state depends on how urgently you need to accomplish something, if anything

so if you have nothing to achieve you will feel bored and go to sleep

if something is very important you will stay up for days unable to sleep

avoiding large, high-carb meals, avoiding social media and entertainment, retaining semen - all this creates a chemical state of mind consistent with urgency, which could possibly be channeled towards some productive work ...

and vice versa binge eating, binge social media browsing and gooning creates a chemical state of mind consistent with complacency, such that nothing can be accomplished ...

social media detox is therefore sometimes called "dopamine fasting" with effect similar to semen retention ... i have experimented with it with some success ...

but i will never experiment with semen retention - i would not risk causing some kind of injury to my balls / prostate from disuse ... 

 i practice dopamine fasting too. we speak grandiosely about ai gaining sentience and becoming evil, and yet big-tech is actively and transparently creating evil ai algorithms designed to enslave the mind and retain your attention. do you have any competent resources on dangers of semen retention? i’ve been largely avoiding raw surfing the broken internet 

 i have no evidence but research show when chimps win a power struggle and become the alpha their balls get larger while the chimps who lose the power struggle and become betas have their balls get smaller

it was suggested this is due to status but logically i would assume alphas get more sex so you may be shrinking your balls by never using them ... 

 i’d venture to make the assumption that there’s more going on there than base chemical reaction in the brain and body induced merely by orgasm alone. 

 well you know also on steroid cycle balls get smaller and then when you do HCG therapy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_chorionic_gonadotropin

they get bigger again ... in fact they get freakishly big 

if you stop using an organ as far as i am concerned you should be willing to accept that it may never work again ... 

 i can't imagine semen retention to be healthy

and that "ecstasy of living" sounds like a mental illness  

 what i do is when i have some task that needs to be completed and i am getting tired and drowsy i will not masturbate until i finish the task - because i know as soon as ejaculate i will fall asleep

that's the extent to which i practice semen retention as a gooner  

 i’m attempting that but with long-term life ambitions. release will be sex 

 “ecstasy of living” is a buddhist concept. the nature of existence being ecstasy. not as a drug but the pure joy of life. french may call it joi de vivre