Okay men. We're gunna talk about masturbation. There's been a few threads about it here on the forums. There's been a challenge or two. There's been comments from the yeas and the nays and the religious and the non. There are those who think it's no big deal and there are those who try to limit the number of times they do it to a certain amount. There are those who it seems to effect and those who are unbothered by it.
I'm not here as a religious person and I'm not here to try to tell you made-up facts about masturbation that is supposed to deter you from doing it. I've masturbated my share of times and I'd venture to guess most males with a working penis have as well.
THE REASON YOU SHOULD STOP MASTURBATING IS BECAUSE YOU ARE SHORT-CIRCUITING YOUR BRAINS REWARD SYSTEM AND THUS HANDICAPPING YOUR PERFORMANCE IN MANY AREAS OF YOUR LIFE.
I'll tell you why.
For those of you who don't know what the brains reward system is or how it works I'll simplify it for you.
All humans have basic drives. Drives are what makes us do things. If we didn't have any drives we wouldn't do anything... and the world wouldn't be anything like what we know... the world couldn't function. Even animals have a reward system and drives.
For humans there are drives for food, water, sex, friendships, physical touch, discovery of the unknown and the feeling of importance.
The strongest and most life altering/effecting drives in humans are their sex drive and their desire to feel important. There have been many psychological studies proving this and if you think for a moment about why you do the things you do and say the things you say, you'll most likely realize they are based somewhere in these two drives.
Studies have also shown that huge numbers of mentally insane people have nothing physically wrong with their brain or psysiology, but rather, go insane to achieve the feeling of importance they are deprived of in the real world.
People wear certain clothing because they want to feel, or think, that they are important. People say things and do things to attract attention to themselves. People don't generally truely listen to anybody but themselves. People desire attention and the feeling of importance.
The other main drive humans have is the sex drive. The sex drive in animals makes them procreate and spread their seed to create the next generation. In humans, an un-altered sex drive would cause a man(when combined with the desire to be important) to get a job, get out on his own, be successful, create an environment that he thought would attract females, and select the mates of his choosing. If he wanted to marry his actions would reflect that goal. If he wanted to fvck as many chicks as he could than he would. He would have all his sexual energy and the desire to feel important directed towards his goals.... and he would succeed powerfully in whatever he put his hand to.
If any of you are familiar with drug and alcohol abuse you may also know that drug and alcohol abuse also short-circuits the brains reward center. THIS IS NOT PSEUDO-SCIENCE! This is actual physical chemical changes that take place in the brain. When something naturally takes place that is good, the brain releases a little seratonin to reward the person. When a person gets sex, eats, feels important, wins 20,000 bones etc. the receptors in his brain release this seratonin reward. The person, like any trained animal, naturally wants to keep pressing the reward button. If the reward system of the human has not been altered than the reward system builds a man up and helps him reach his goals.
The problem is that masturbation is a drug. Don't tell me its not because it has the same characteristics of every other drug. Sex is a drug. If used in the way nature intended then it won't harm you.
When you masturbate you are reaching for the pill instead of reaching for life. You are doing the same thing drug addicts and alcoholics do when they reach for the rolled up dollar bill or the bottle. Sure, it feels great at the time. Sure, it releaves the tension and helps you get to sleep. Whatever it may be. THATS NOT THE PROBLEM. The problem is that every time you masturbate you are doing a drug. The more you masturbate the more you are abusing the drug. The more you abuse the drug the more you alter your brains reward system in relation to the sex drive. AND when you alter your sex drive you alter everything that is based on your sex drive.
So, think for a second about all the things that sex would make a normal healthy male do. Think of what sex drives males to be. Then you'll know how much you are effecting yourself by masturbating.
Finally I'd like to say that as with any drug you can quit. Depending on your level of physical and psychological addiction you can probably quit. You will experience withdrawal and all that other drug stuff. If you are hard enough on yourself you might be able to restore your natural reward system, but think of how hard that is when you have the drug you are addicted to so readily available. It's hard. For a second, stop defending masturbation and just compare it to heroin, crank, or cocaine addiction. Do you think you'd have an easier time stopping masturbation or quitting hard drugs? I'd venture to guess, especially by the results of past masturbation challenges and such that many of us are addicted in just as strong of a way.
If you think you can manage your drug habit, by all means keep living that way. Some drug addicts can live with their habits. It's been said before though that any unhelpful habit should be disgarded.
It might be worth thinking about, but we all know how hard it is. When something that hard is to be overcome there must be a very high priority given to that thing in order for there to even be a chance. I guess I'm trying to show you a reason for quitting. Maybe it is great enough for you to want to. Maybe not.
The sad thing is, I realized one more similarity between hard drug abusers and all of us who masturbate.... telling them that they are fvcking up their reward center is the last thing they want to hear. Drug abusers are in denial. Drug abusers don't really give a sh!t if what they are doing is bad for them... so maybe it's all futile after all.
I'm not here as a religious person and I'm not here to try to tell you made-up facts about masturbation that is supposed to deter you from doing it. I've masturbated my share of times and I'd venture to guess most males with a working penis have as well.
THE REASON YOU SHOULD STOP MASTURBATING IS BECAUSE YOU ARE SHORT-CIRCUITING YOUR BRAINS REWARD SYSTEM AND THUS HANDICAPPING YOUR PERFORMANCE IN MANY AREAS OF YOUR LIFE.
I'll tell you why.
For those of you who don't know what the brains reward system is or how it works I'll simplify it for you.
All humans have basic drives. Drives are what makes us do things. If we didn't have any drives we wouldn't do anything... and the world wouldn't be anything like what we know... the world couldn't function. Even animals have a reward system and drives.
For humans there are drives for food, water, sex, friendships, physical touch, discovery of the unknown and the feeling of importance.
The strongest and most life altering/effecting drives in humans are their sex drive and their desire to feel important. There have been many psychological studies proving this and if you think for a moment about why you do the things you do and say the things you say, you'll most likely realize they are based somewhere in these two drives.
Studies have also shown that huge numbers of mentally insane people have nothing physically wrong with their brain or psysiology, but rather, go insane to achieve the feeling of importance they are deprived of in the real world.
People wear certain clothing because they want to feel, or think, that they are important. People say things and do things to attract attention to themselves. People don't generally truely listen to anybody but themselves. People desire attention and the feeling of importance.
The other main drive humans have is the sex drive. The sex drive in animals makes them procreate and spread their seed to create the next generation. In humans, an un-altered sex drive would cause a man(when combined with the desire to be important) to get a job, get out on his own, be successful, create an environment that he thought would attract females, and select the mates of his choosing. If he wanted to marry his actions would reflect that goal. If he wanted to fvck as many chicks as he could than he would. He would have all his sexual energy and the desire to feel important directed towards his goals.... and he would succeed powerfully in whatever he put his hand to.
If any of you are familiar with drug and alcohol abuse you may also know that drug and alcohol abuse also short-circuits the brains reward center. THIS IS NOT PSEUDO-SCIENCE! This is actual physical chemical changes that take place in the brain. When something naturally takes place that is good, the brain releases a little seratonin to reward the person. When a person gets sex, eats, feels important, wins 20,000 bones etc. the receptors in his brain release this seratonin reward. The person, like any trained animal, naturally wants to keep pressing the reward button. If the reward system of the human has not been altered than the reward system builds a man up and helps him reach his goals.
The problem is that masturbation is a drug. Don't tell me its not because it has the same characteristics of every other drug. Sex is a drug. If used in the way nature intended then it won't harm you.
When you masturbate you are reaching for the pill instead of reaching for life. You are doing the same thing drug addicts and alcoholics do when they reach for the rolled up dollar bill or the bottle. Sure, it feels great at the time. Sure, it releaves the tension and helps you get to sleep. Whatever it may be. THATS NOT THE PROBLEM. The problem is that every time you masturbate you are doing a drug. The more you masturbate the more you are abusing the drug. The more you abuse the drug the more you alter your brains reward system in relation to the sex drive. AND when you alter your sex drive you alter everything that is based on your sex drive.
So, think for a second about all the things that sex would make a normal healthy male do. Think of what sex drives males to be. Then you'll know how much you are effecting yourself by masturbating.
Finally I'd like to say that as with any drug you can quit. Depending on your level of physical and psychological addiction you can probably quit. You will experience withdrawal and all that other drug stuff. If you are hard enough on yourself you might be able to restore your natural reward system, but think of how hard that is when you have the drug you are addicted to so readily available. It's hard. For a second, stop defending masturbation and just compare it to heroin, crank, or cocaine addiction. Do you think you'd have an easier time stopping masturbation or quitting hard drugs? I'd venture to guess, especially by the results of past masturbation challenges and such that many of us are addicted in just as strong of a way.
If you think you can manage your drug habit, by all means keep living that way. Some drug addicts can live with their habits. It's been said before though that any unhelpful habit should be disgarded.
It might be worth thinking about, but we all know how hard it is. When something that hard is to be overcome there must be a very high priority given to that thing in order for there to even be a chance. I guess I'm trying to show you a reason for quitting. Maybe it is great enough for you to want to. Maybe not.
The sad thing is, I realized one more similarity between hard drug abusers and all of us who masturbate.... telling them that they are fvcking up their reward center is the last thing they want to hear. Drug abusers are in denial. Drug abusers don't really give a sh!t if what they are doing is bad for them... so maybe it's all futile after all.
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