2022 Semen retention for Lent

Alright here is my ejaculation log which I started in Summer 2020 but some of that info is on my old computer and I just haven't gotten around to importing that over.  I have back to the middle of April which gives you nearly a year's worth of dates, and starts just a few weeks after Easter when I started ejaculating again. 

04/18/21
04/23/21
04/27/21
04/29/21

05/09/21
05/21/21
05/28/21

06/03/21
06/06/21
06/11/21
06/17/21
06/24/21
06/27/21
06/29/21

07/02/21
07/07/21
07/11/21
07/18/21
07/21/21
07/27/21
07/30/21

08/03/21
08/05/21
08/09/21
08/10/21
08/13/21
08/14/21
08/19/21
08/23/21
08/31/21

09/05/21
09/11/21
09/13/21
09/17/21
09/18/21
09/21/21
09/23/21
09/30/21

10/02/21
10/10/21
10/20/21
10/26/21
10/28/21
10/29/21

11/01/21 (ruined)
11/02/21
11/09/21
11/12/21
11/14/21
11/19/21
11/30/21

12/18/21
12/20/21
12/24/21
12/26/21
12/30/21

01/03/21
01/05/21
01/06/21
01/10/21
01/16/21 (ruined)
01/18/21

Now keep in mind, I'm in my mid-30s and honestly I don't know what's necessarily "normal" for my age.  I tried a few times to start practicing longer periods of SR and wasn't too successful honestly, the longest I managed was about 2.5 weeks.  I'd say that 7 times a month was the median number with the most frequent being 9 times in one month and the least frequent 3 times in one month; I would estimate that my average time between ejaculations was perhaps 4 days. 

Why not give up chocolate haha.
You can do it friend. I find your log very interesting. Never thought to do something like that,but I’m down to about 2 per month so it wouldn’t be a very big log lol.

@helghast Excuse me, sir, chocolate is good for you!  I eat a little bit of dark chocolate every day, it's part of the orgasmic diet.  And your wife should definitely put you on my program for Lent. 

I wanted to post my ejaculation log to hopefully show everyone that I'm not some superhuman, I do in fact have the same urges as everyone else.  And you know what, I get frustrated in my sessions and want to keep them going with a little extra manual stimulation and that usually ends with going a bit too far.  That is at least half the ejaculations on that log.  I also think that after I got past about two to three weeks that I reached an equilibrium and it gets a lot easier to maintain.  I truly believe that God is willing to meet any man halfway in this, if you're willing to try!

Alright guys Lent is upon us!  I thought I'd update the ejaculation log one more time:

02/03/22
02/09/22
02/18/22

And that's it.  It's Fat Tuesday, I was considering ejaculating one more time before starting the Semen Retention proper, but honestly, I already feel like I've passed the stage now where I feel the need for it.  If I ejaculate now I'll have to start all over again and I don't know if I want or need to do it. 

I think that there's this idea that the longer you go the harder it is to keep going; I have not found this to be true in my experience. 

After a number of days I find my equilibrium and I'm already there.  Maybe I'll change my mind in the next few hours and start over again but I doubt it, I think it's easier to keep up the streak I already have. 

So that said, I'm in this til Easter and I hope that some of you will join me. 

@helghast I had hopes that my wife would give up vanilla. 

@faith-manages indeed it is my friend! A glass of red along side and you’ll live forever 😉

@regal13

Hahhaha I see what you did there! 😉

Alright guys it's been a bit and this post is much belated.  Unfortunately I didn't make it this year, probably my own hubris got in the way, starting with an 11-day semen retention prior to Lent.  But here's the updated list:

03/24/22
03/29/22
03/31/22

04/11/22

Can't win 'em all I guess!  It's funny because I definitely went into this year with expectations that I would have a supercharged libido and it was frankly frustrating that I didn't, starting out.  I'm kind of getting it back slowly but I wonder if this is another thing with aging...scary to think about.  The last few months have turned out to be one of the most stressful periods of my life as I had a death in my immediate family and there has been a lot of things to take care of; the semen retention challenge couldn't have come at a worse time, honestly. 

I can remember a time about a dozen years ago during something similar when the stress was adding up and I would fly off the handle pretty easily, breaking things around the house, shouting at the top of my lungs when the littlest thing went wrong...the straw that broke the camel's back?  Possibly.  Are my anger management skills lacking or maybe has the semen retention given me more testosterone and made me feel younger again and it is just coming out in different ways?  I don't have an answer, but for the reasons above I decided not to take it as seriously this year. 

I do think however, that I should practice more regular semen retention over a longer period as opposed to last year where I was ejaculating 6-7 times a month (or more).  It's time to really focus on Aneros pleasures now.  The month of April has been good to me.  Things have started moving again and I can feel an increasing amount of progress being made there as the months have gone on. 

So Happy Easter, He is Risen!  And definitely a double entendre right now. 

And again I'm noticing women notice me more in the last month as well; perhaps my own delusions or else increased sexual energy...but I have also started dressing better and have lost a noticeable amount of weight in the last year and a bit.  And I'm sure that all plays a part.  Honestly my self-esteem over the last year or two has improved tremendously. 

I hope that you're all doing well.  I haven't been able to post regularly and I don't see that changing in the next month and a half, if not more.  I could be offline for a while so good luck all, and Happy Easter.