Abstaining from masturbation... How important is it?

How important is "semen conservation" to maintain one's overall horniness for a session with dame Aneros and spike the senses of sensual detection?

Every man has to find his own path on this one. The issue is not unlike those faced by married guys who have perceived or real ejaculatory obligations to their spouses. -- http://www.aneros.com/forum/f5/aneros-sex-sessions-question-15235/ --

It's a balancing act all the way along the path. You'll do better if you don't think of this as a race with a finite finish line.

Some guys are able to take the smallest of blessings from each session and craft those into the larger picture of their journey. It isn't all about a bigger and better reward from each session.

Hello Aksel, 🙂

While I didn't have the problems achieving ejaculatory orgasm you have, I did almost a year ago masturbate almost daily, sometimes more than once. And this went on for many years prior to that. For myself, ejaculatory abstinence was extremely helpful for me to progress forward with my Aneros journey. And it was not until I did this that I started to realize pleasurable prostate sensations. Will this approach work for you? I don't know. Every guy's Aneros journey is different. And experimentation is vital to find what works for you.

I can tell you that that “clinbing the wall” feeling from not having ejaculated does go away. Particularly when you can learn to focus those energies into your prostate. I'm quite honestly a changed man and for the better for having practiced ejaculatory abstinence. It's made me realize the difference between what I call true arousal when my prostate is sensitive and aroused, versus just my penis being erect, say like first thing in the morning upon waking up. And I don't feel any where near as much chained and controlled to the power of my erect penis anymore. LOL

Put all that sexual frustration and arousal into your Aneros sessions. You just might find something really wonderful that comes from it in mores ways than you can imagine. This is a new way of finding pleasure that is foreign to most men, so it doesn't necessarily come easily or quickly to re-train your body and brain for a new path of pleasure. Be patient, most men don't get immediate results from starting their Aneros journey. It can take a number of months or years to get there. But once you start to experience pleasurable anal and prostrate results, you'll be hooked! 😀 I know I was!

Love_is

Aksel,

Question being, just how vital IS abstinence to the rewiring process?
Assuming my fears are correct and it's completely essential,...

I concur with 'rook' & 'Love_Is' regarding the value of increasing sensual arousal through limiting ejaculations. I am not a believer, however, in total abstinence either. IMHO, you need to find the balance point where your arousal level is peaking without it creating the infamous 'blue balls' condition and it's attendant urgency for physical release. The urgency for physical release may create a distractive level of anxiety which will actually be counter productive to achieving a Super-O.

As you become more experienced with Aneros use, you will probably find yourself naturally decreasing the frequency of ejaculatory masturbation sessions. I think this occurs as a consequence of our rewiring and our body telling our mind what the optimal level of arousal is to produce the optimal level of pleasure. As we learn to push the arousal level higher via longer periods of ejaculatory abstinence, we are also pushing the pleasure levels higher.

Member 'plantation' brought to our attention a treatise about masturbation, which, while not about prostate massage, is about acceptance of self-pleasuring behavior, which we should all read. What the author speaks about is equally applicable to prostate massage practice if one wishes to identify Aneros use as a form of 'masturbation'. See - Bringing Good News to the Body: Masturbation and Male Identity

Ooookay. So, I've been experimenting a bit, playing a little loose with the advice given here. I've been back to my old habits for about a week, still using the Helix. Oddly, I haven't felt any difference between this week's sessions and those where I had abstained. However, since I'm still not feeling anything, I don't have much to compare. That's going to make this abstinence/masturbation balancing act very difficult.