Short answer is: ejaculate (cum) as often as your desire makes you want or need to.
Sometimes I don’t totally feel horny, but I feel like it would be fun to jerk off in all my various ways of self play, and when I start playing with myself, I get turned on and horny and hard and play and cum.
I don’t use porn anymore, almost 10 months now. I didn’t start watching porn until I was maybe 18 I think, I just had a VHS tape with 5 short scenes on it, filmed maybe early 1990s. That’s what I had for about 4 years before I got real high speed internet, and then I only watched porn once or twice a week maybe. So my drive to ejaculate as a youth was 100% not porn induced, I just did it alone with only myself, not even much imagination. I’ve always just been turned on by my own pleasure and I tunnel into it and really live within it.
I can cum every single day for months on end and never feel like “I need to take a break”. I do take breaks though to build up my semen and explode after a few days off, or 7 days, which is the #1 amount of time to wait to cum. 7 days and you’re a fucking fire hydrant (at least I am!). Strength of my orgasmic ejaculations never really is less because I cum every day. Some days I cum 3-5 times spaced over about 10 hours or so, and my Os get stronger as the day goes on and the level of my cum strength (distance of cum shot and volume) doesn’t totally decrease, depends on how hydrated I am I think.
I wouldn’t say, though, that the “greatest of the great” of men are the ones that can cum or feel like cumming every day. When I watched porn I had the drive to tease my cock and get hard off and on all day in short bursts: 5 minutes of watching here and there. Then many hours later I’d edge for an hour to more porn and explode at the end. Now with no porn I spend less time playing and more time focusing on the sensations and feelings, the pleasure I feel. I really get into it more now. It was mindless fapping before, now its conscious and present self pleasure.
Since you don’t watch porn anymore you should start getting into your body and your penis. Focus as much attention on them as possible. Touch more than your penis, try to make your whole body an erogenous zone. Men are so completely penis-oriented in life that they only use it for pleasure. This makes us miss out on so many pleasurable sensations and kinds of orgasms (length and strength both short and small to long and huge).
You’ve used your mind to drive your erotic feelings, which is good, but with porn. As you’ve said, quitting porn has not brought an increase in libido. Its probably because you haven’t been off it long enough to notice. I notice now, big time. I get hard faster for my wife now than maybe in the whole 23 years I’ve been with her, and I’ve always had excellent EQ and the like. But now, I get hard so fast I don’t even realize I’m fully hard until I look or touch it. And I know 110% its because I don’t watch porn at all anymore. I just know it.
I don’t know what your living situation is, but try breathing more heavily as you pleasure yourself. Breath and sound can augment your pleasure and orgasm, make them stronger and longer lasting. For instance, porn is a complete distraction that allows you to just focus on your boner. When its off, what happens? Does your mind wander? Do you think of work or things that aren’t related to sexy/erotic things? Do you think of chores? Baseball stats? I don’t know, just thinking here. Anyway, what you need to do is be mindful (like meditation but not as intense) of you, your body, and your pleasure stimulation and sensations. Make yourself think about how good it feels. Then start breathing in and out slightly audibly, like make sound but not like “oooohhhhhh” or anything like that if you live with other people and they can hear you. But breathing audibly is not that loud and you can get this going that way. The sound you make and focus on breath distracts your upper brain from making you think; sound makes “the movies in your head” stop playing, you don’t watch them, you start to not pay attention to your upper brain yelling at you. Sound connects you to your bottom brain, which is where primal sexual urges live and orgasm comes from. You want to get into your bottom brain and stay in there and let the sex within your body take over and be the thing talking to you. But you talk to it to, you coax it and let it know you’re there for it and you want it to come out and get stronger and be bigger. Your pleasure grows, the feelings increase, your body reacts, you start breathing more forcefully, and you can increase your breathing and heart rate as you near orgasm and it should be bigger than normal for you. But this takes practice and maybe weeks of work.
But its all about cumming, right? So its worth the work!
A cock ring might help you with getting aroused because it turns you on. But I don’t know if a ring in and of itself can increase the strength and duration of your orgasm. I’ve cum with a ring on (one a little too small and one the right size) a few times and I personally feel like it delays my orgasm and effects my ejaculation, like I have to work harder manually on my cock to get it to finish cumming and get all the cum out. Its a slightly unsettling feeling for me because of the restriction from the ring. The only way to answer your question about a cock ring is to just try it yourself and see!
Another way to increase your orgasm quality is to take sexual supplements like herbals and roots. Maca, catuaba bark, muira puama, mucuna pruriens all help. I’m maybe naturally hornier than some guys out there, my libido is through the roof 24/7, but when I take these supplements its even stronger. Sometimes my orgasms last 45 seconds long or even longer depending on how turned on I am; usually my orgasm is about 30 seconds long on average. Sexual supplements can help raise libido, erection levels, and semen output. All of those can ramp up libido and get you going.
This went long but you brought up a few things that I felt needed some time spent. Hope this helps in any way shape or form!