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 @Dissident Sound found your page off your reply to my comment. can’t tell if you’re speaking satirically most of the time. look into semen retention. i workout every morning, and yeah with that amount of testosterone it’s definitely challenging, but when you retain, that energy gets directed towards all other avenues of your life. the pure ecstasy of living. 
 why not just take meth then ? 
 jokes aside i myself teach that energy comes from dissatisfaction and vice versa - extreme satisfaction causes stupor - whether it is from gooning or over-eating or fentanyl etc.

i sometimes use dissatisfaction strategically to motivate myself.

but to try to make satisfaction illegal 

SHOULD BE PUNISHED BY BURNING A THE STAKE

NOT BEING SATIRICAL OR IRONIC  
 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 have no qualms with drugs 
 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 
 Semen retention is bullshit pushed by redpill scammers. You shouldn't jerk to porn but masturbate using your own thoughts once in a while.  
 jerk till your cock falls off i don’t have issue with that. however if you’re in pursuit of your highest life i’d gently recommend trying it instead of parroting someone else’s pretty words you heard on the internet.