/lit/ - Literature

>>13770690
Im not going to waste the opportunity. I am very fortunate to have this revealed to me at my age.

> what the FUCK does this have to do with literature?

>>13327279
I think the only way to make sure that there is a zero percent chance of returning to an addiction is to hit rock bottom, to become so hopeless that your coping mechanisms are worthless. I don't know how I could relate a specific method to you, but I thought I would tell you the premise - since I had tried quitting several times and found myself returning even after long stretches of abstinence. I guess maybe, before you quit, or while youre quitting, find out what made you do the behavior, and then solve that problem, simply curing symptoms doesn't fix anything, you needn't look further than a physician prescribing anti-depression medication and expecting the depression to go away, and not having the person kill themselves. Sure they no longer feel the effects of the illness, due to being dulled by the antidepressants, but they still have an illness working its way through their system, eating at them, that the medication doesn't stop. There is a false affection with the idea that porn addictions are self-perpetuating, that they were brought on by themselves, and are simply a parasite that must be starved out. Identify all your coping mechanisms, and find their roots. If you remove all your copes before you find the roots, you find yourself up shit creek without a paddle
Also this image is useful for debunking those scientific materialist fags who claim that it is harmless, without understanding that mental addictions are as harmful than physical (such as a marijuana addicts existence proves, since the substance is not addictive by objectivity), and without understanding any of the fundamental tenets of self-control. You should have been told (if you have a loved one, or anyone close, with an addiction) not to rely on them, for they will always yield to their addiction. Well you find yourself unable to rely upon yourself, because you will always yield to your self inflicted, lack of self-control induced, addiction of fapping.

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>>12673809

Taken from "Science Discovers the Physiological Value of Continence"

>>12148962
At least you see the problem rather than rationalize it as most people do.
The physicians of old were entirely right. I'm going to write a good post tomorrow to try to help you.

>>12126776
Immanuel Kant
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Science Discovers the Physiological Value of Continence

>>12101677
seminal retention.

>>12097370
>reddit spacing and ADHD tier reading comprehensions
>says by the blood (internal process, your own semen); not the mucosal membranes lining the mouth

>>12075972
Celibacy confers extreme productivity and makes flow states nearly a daily occurrence. Sexual distraction with "hoes" induces a hypofrontality, driving one to do what the body thinks is procreate, rather than seek intellect pursuits, which usually leads to sexual release and going to sleep rather than being productive.

>>12041132
Science Discovers the Physiological Value of Continence.

>>12033919
Semen retention yields cognitive benefits. It aids with memory and clarity of mind. Faulkner wasn't going to see random pornographic images as you do even if you casually browse this site.
If you want to be successful at sexual abstinence, you need to take measures to remove all sex stimuli from your enviroment, I would advise going as far as blocking all thumbnails on (filter 4chan.org/*). Even better than aiding mental retention, this practice helps with motivation.

>>12031386
Science Discovers the Physiological Value of Continence.
Your motivational pathways are wasted on sexual pursuits and the prolactin increase that follows renders you unable to do anything else. I'm unable to read from motivation alone unless I abstain sexually. Otherwise, it is just an unpleasant task that requires discipline rather than motivation.

>>12024949
Sex positivity is a meme which semantically makes it seem favorable to the reverse of "sex negativity".
Sexual activity has dire consequences and reduces people to beasts. It surrenders a man's reason and subjugates him to the whims of pleasure.

>>11966259
Yes.

OP, This >>11965077
Kant himself led a chaste lifestyle, and thought to have said that masturbation is worse than murder as it causes man to serve pleasure rather than reason.

>>11897509
You're suffering from the consequences that result from sexual excess. You have no motivation and cannot focus because your limited dopaminergic resources are squandered on the pursuit and attainment of sex. Dopaminergic neurotransmission is further impaired for 16+ hours after the deed is done due to the profound and sudden release of prolactin upon orgasm. While the refractory period is only 30 minutes, serum prolactin is still elevated significantly where it adversely affects other CNS systems such as the prefrontal cortex. This is why you want to fall asleep after masturbation or sex.
It is not a biological free lunch. You and most people are suffering from the consequences of it. Most will not admit it because they value their biological high more than anything else.

>>11887380
Not something to read but something you can do.
Being chaste helps immensely with digesting Kant's works. Try to practice seminal conservation.

>>11879494
>DUDE CHRISTIANS DUDE
I'm an agnostic and largely a materialist and I don't want my life to be controlled by a base instinct that I, in my late youth, perverted and reinforce through my own doing.
The fact that my sexual frequency has only increased with age, is proof that there are behavioral drivers to this.

Your opposition to Christianity is because it gets in the way of your fun time. That's literally it. It's almost laughable. I appreciate the asceticism and self-denial of it, and find it, if anything admirable.

You claim to be superior to them, but you aren't. You're just a bugman controlled by this instinct. Go ahead and watch your 1080p pornography videos and beat it 3+ times a day. In the end, it detracts from life and makes you more miserable. It is a constant source of distraction and drain that undermines one's potential in life. Great men throughout history, long predating Christianity, have sought to overcome this, not be be held captive to it. The Ancient Greek physicians held semen retention to be the ideal state of health and that losses of it were injurious. The Roman Stoics were even more "prudish" than the Christians, with Gaius Musonius Rufus going as far as saying that sex should not be had for recreation, only procreation.

You are insane to think that pornography accessible at a mere mouse click with limitless novel video stimuli is the same as some painting found in the home of the wealth which would have grown old quick as a source for sexual stimulation.

>>11836799
It's not a mutually exclusive choice of either [live like a degenerate confined by your sexual whims your entire life and have children] OR [celibate and productive; die childless]. Pythagoras advocated, and indeed practiced, that chastity should only be broken for the sake of procreation. In fact, technology today enables the drawing of viable sperm via biopsy of the testes. A man may live out the rest of his days in total continence if he so needed to. Without the power of abstinence, there would have been no Isaac Newton, no Nikola Tesla. Abstinence unlocks the advanced faculties of our minds. Oppositely, activation of the sexual processes inhibits neurotransmission in the cortex of the frontal lobes so as to further procreation, so that they are diametrically opposed. This is why all priests and philosophers of ancient times demonized sex; they knew it drew us toward mediocrity, and hence likened it to animal behavior.

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I hold the old hypotheses regarding the detriments of the sex act to be true but their proposed mechanisms to be crude. They again deserve to be taken seriously with modern medical insights on neuro-endocrinal processes which reveal satisfactory explanations for why sex incurs a penalty.

Thoughts?

>>11745004
As did Newton, as did Tesla.
Your point?
They chose this lifestyle voluntarily as they knew that sexual losses impeded their intellectual wherewithal.