Retaining Semen or The End Of An Era?

For a long time I haven’t had sex or masturbated to prove myself that I don’t need it. Anyway, I fear to get used to it and want to quit this phase. I got more into reading about buddhist monks and their way of living. I’m not sure if it’s just imagination since it’s difficult to gauge, but I feel a lot stronger when not ejaculating*. I read that the monks (including celebrity the Dalai Lama) stimulate themselves kind of like those who do the “edging” here on the board, to get the body ready to shoot out the semen but then pull it back into their body to give them strength. I haven’t quite understood how they pull it back but it seems to be different from just the usual kegel. I also read that they (again including the Dalai Lama) are able to suck water out of a glass with their penis, that’s how strong they are. If anybody knows something about it, or at least a link please share your wisdom. Thank you very much.

*It’s also common for fighters ie Muhammad Ali not to have sex for some time before a big fight.

I’m sure you have considered the possible problems with not ejaculating but if you haven’t:

The harm in not ejaculating

There’s loads more here if you search for it, but probably not much about how to suck water from a glass using your penis. :)

Having an orgasm has never sapped my energy for more than a few hours. There have been many times I have actually felt I had more energy after cumming—especially when I was very horny and just needed to get my rocks off.

So go figure.

By the way, Arnold Schwarzenegger claims that he often had sex just before competitions because it made him feel good—like “King Kong.”

I give a flying fuck about that “baschdard”. Thanks anyway.

Well, lot’s (and I mean a lot lot lot more than PEers) lived that way and are very healthy, in China they say that you shouldn’t ear meat if you don’t have sex and shouldn’t have sex without eating meat. Might be an old Chinese urban legend though.

The evidence is piling up that more frequent ejaculations, especially experienced by younger men who make a life-long pattern of that, result in lower numbers of prostate cancer and various reproductive tract failures as they age - blocked ducts, etc.

Of course there are exceptions, as there are to nearly any scientific study.

sinichi-

While I admire your discipline and think only good can come from gaining control of your sexual impulses is there anything more to this than just a curiosity to see if you can do it?

Sinichi, there are some really good books about this stuff by Mantak Chia. ‘The Tao of sexual kung fu’ is one and ‘The Multi-Orgasmic man’ also. The holding back of semen before you come is called the ‘big draw’, it’s a hard kegel. I never got into the meditation parts, but it seems very interesting.

I bet those Monks that you reading about, play form a circle , then lift their robes up as they all get into line behind one another. Then they probably go and have a good old wank. So please don’t stop beating your meat, or you may not have any meat to beat.

? Nice rhyme.

Nah not really. I mean since I was a little kid I was always interested in shaolin monks, the sexual aspects have just come to my mind lately. But I always was into discipline as long as I’m not forced to it. I don’t drink alcohol or coffee or take pills either.
Eventhough I never had much self confidence I also never wanted to be like everybody else in the western world, the whole lifestyle, all about “fun” doesn’t really appeal to me. I mean I’m not a very serious person and for a long time I smoked extreme amounts of weed, but no matter where I am or what I do, at least once or twice a day I imagine what it would be like to just train all day and not eat fast food, watch tv or use a car (I don’t want to be a fuckin hippie either). I also look up to people who don’t accept money. Imagine someone who doesn’t even look at you if you offer him a million dollars, he doesn’t even touch money. This kind of independence is what I’m trying to reach and not being ruled by being horny is part of it to me. Eventhough I love sex (especially eating pussy) I just don’t want to be depending on it. I now know that I’m not so I’m ready for something new and the whole keeping your semen to become stronger just got me interested. I’ll try to get those books, thank you very much!