Ejaculation and it's Effect on Performance?

I was wondering how often everyone ejaculates, and if they found any effect from ejaculating more frequently or abstaining from ejaculation. Scientific studies would be welcomed.

I’ve found that if I allow myself only one ejaculation per week I am much more ready to go and harder throughout the week. I still have sex throughout the weak, and masturbate but I do not orgasm. Not only is my performance in bed better, but my performance in the gym is enhanced as well, I have more energy and aggression. I’ve heard some athletes don’t ejaculate for this purpose.

I wasn’t sure exactly where to put this, it’s not really a sexual health issue.

Will be glad to hear everyone’s input on this idea.

I read an article a few weeks back about the olypics. The article stated that most of the athletes abstain from sex until their events are finished, because some studies have found that the extra energy needed, and the release of certain hormones, can decrease your physical energy. Personally, I get at least slightly drowsy whenever I ejaculate, and from everything I’ve heard from friends, I’m not alone. I’m thinking that for best physical performance, you should lay off the ejaculation for a bit, but I’m certainly no doctor. Just my two cents.

The longer I abstain from having sex, the more energized and wired I become. This is sometimes advantageous and sometimes not.

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Yeah, it seems like theres a point where premature ejaculation becomes a bigger problem than usual.

I have been abstaining from ejaculation for about five years now and its one of the best things I have ever done. Way more energy and much better quality sex with my wife. With the amount of sex my wife likes (pretty much every day) I would be a basket case if I ejaculated all the time. At 49 I need to contain and conserve that energy. In fact it was when I started not ejaculate that sex started to increase between us from a couple times a week to every day, and we have been together for over 20 years. She orgasms as much as she wants and I bask in the glow, its great. The other thing I find is when I don’t ejaculate my partner is always attractive and desirable, like I can never get enough of her. She really likes that. It has really changed the overall quality of our relationship.

I also work out regularly and that has improved as well.

Here is a post by hobby referencing a study that showed testosterone levels will increase the longer you abstain from ejaculating. This is probably the reason you have “more energy and aggression.”

I’ve read a study (but cannot find the link at the moment) that showed there was no difference in performance of athletes who abstained from sex vs. those who did.

The more I ejaculate … the more I ejaculate :)

I don’t ejaculate every day, sometimes I go several days without. On average though, probably a few times per day. I don’t notice any ill effects from ejaculating several times per day. I sometimes do it just before working out and my workout is unaffected. Some of my buddies from football say they hold out several days before games but not me. I think they are just superstitious. If you really believe you are weaker from ejaculating I think its self-fulfilling. Personally, I think it’s BS.

There is a disorder, I don’t remember the name of it but many Indian men suffer from it. It translates to “fear of ejaculation.” It goes something like this - a litre of sweat makes a drop of blood, a litre of blood makes a drop of semen. It has something to do with life force and a single ejaculation takes a lot out of you.

I ejaculate often and still have way more then enough energy. I get into a lot more fights then necessary and still workout very hard. I also see nice gains from working out, I take no supplements.

Enough of my ramble. I don’t think there is anything lost from ejaculating; maybe it even improves concentration due to less sexual frustration.

That’s exactly how I am about it, but I don’t know about the agression part.

Ahh Marty…as eloquent as ever :chuckle:

I think it has more to do with the loss of semen, and the energy your body requires to create more. If you want to know how you ejaculate without shooting your load, you just need to push down and hold the “million dollar point”, which is a spot between your scrotum and anus where you can push and feel an indent. There is a tube here that if pushed and held just before ejaculation will block the semen and return it to it’s resevoir. This totally safe to do as these tissues are very elastic, and this techinque has be practiced by Taoist sex masters for thousands of years safely.

I don’t masturbate very often, maybe once every couple of weeks but Mrs 7 and I have sex at least a couple of times a week. I will tell you that if I don’t ejaculate for a few days or more that I get somewhat short tempered, a little more aggressive and definately more focused at work and at the gym.

This is an Eastern philosophy that isn’t grounded in medical facts. The small amount of actual energy required to generate semen would not have any effect on the rest of the body. You’re talking about Chi and not everyone believes in it.

Doing this will not “return it to its reservoir.” It will more than likely cause it to be deposited in the urinary bladder which is not the intended place for it to be. Pushing on the urethra as it passes through the bulbocavernosus muscles (the place you’re talking about) can cause damage to the urethra depending on how strong the contractions are of the seminal vesicles and prostate. More Eastern philosophy that may work for experienced practitioners, but not something that is “totally safe” nor recommended for those without experience.

Waiting for actual ejaculation to begin then trying to stop it mechanically (with finger pressure) is not the best option. You have to learn the signals of your orgasm and stop stimulating yourself at a point where it can subside. Strongly contracting the bulbocavernosus muscle can also help prevent ejaculation without the potential injury of a finger on the “million dollar point.”

That doesn’t work so well for me, even though I do not ejaculate I still lose erection and I still feel like I’ve finished. Maybe I’m not doing it right but that’s been my experience