Semen Retention

@amaz, that's great! I am now in day nine of my SR challenge!

Can anyone tell me what I can expect to feel after 21 days and what I have to do then?

You don't "have" to do anything and I can't tell you what to expect, remember expectations are just fuel for frustration. I can only relate what I and others have experienced. Obviously your general life conditions have a great influence over how you will feel but if your life is generally going well, you will probably feel continuously energized, feelings of confidence and a 'can do' attitude will permeate your day. Getting off the hormonal roller coaster ride of ejaculations/refractory periods allows your body to reach a homeostatic condition which can allow your mental functioning to become clearer and more precise. You may find your everyday level of sensual arousal elevated over your prior 'normal' level. You may find yourself more easily triggered into even higher arousal states, this in turn can make it easier to get into the orgasmic zone for your Anerosessions.

Should I just ejaculate or should I continue my Aneros sessions to get near the Super O. Any suggestions?

You're the Captain of your ship, it is totally up to you to plot your own course. Since you will have made it to three weeks, you might want to just continue to see how long you can go without ejaculating, this is a journey of discovery about yourself after all. I would definitely recommend you continue doing your Anerosessions. You might also consider beginning a practice regime of occasional prostate milking in lieu of ejaculatory activity.
Good Vibes to You !

@amaz I only made it to Day 17 (including a wet dream) and hoped for another one. However, my old nemesis, "blue-balls" stopped me in my tracks! I started over and back to Day 2!

@goldenboy! 😀 I am sorry that you had a case of "blue-balls" that you had to relieve. I am in day nine of my SR challenge. So far I have not yet gotten "blue-balls" but my BIKE CUP does certainly feel real good as I type this! 😉

I made it to Day 35. Didn't really notice anything extra.

It took me 5 tries to get past day 21. I think they trying and paying extra attention to my body during that journey is what I got most out of it. It really helped me understand a bit what was triggering the ejaculation and how to relax a bit more or move away from it when it felt like I might have just gone just past the point of no return (PONR). Now when I am at that place, where before I would probably just cum, now I have a bit more room to get out of it successfully. That's been great for some orgasms. Instead of stopping when the fun is just starting because I'm afraid I'll be too close (BTW - important to mention I usually am stimulating my cock while I'm in a session and having multiple orgasms), I can let the orgasm go for a bit and not feel like im getting too close. It's really made things a lot more intense. So thanks 21 day challenge for that at least 🙂

I can do hands free aneros orgasms. A bit of a different orgasm is stimulating your cock and letting that orgasm last minutes at a time, feels more penis based. It sorta feels more like ejaculating than the orgasms I get from aneros only / hands free. But it took me 2 or 3 years after having multiple orgasms hands free to learn that.

Can anyone tell me what I can expect to feel after 21 days and what I have to do then? Should I just ejaculate or should I continue my Aneros sessions to get near the Super O. Never had a Super O. Any suggestions?

Sorry, @amaz, but indeed nobody can tell you what YOU can expect or what YOU should or should not do. I fully agree with all of @rumel's wisdom in a nutshell, he posted above. You will have to find YOUR way, but nevertheless to read about other's experiences might help you to distinguish certain signs to discover the whisperings of your prostate and to let it take over command while you really let go. If you like to read about my thoughts after 40 days, here you find my blog posts, but please keep yourself openminded, sensible and receptive to your own personal experiences, that might be quite different.

Since then I myself already gave up counting days. Being in about third week or so of SR now I only focus on having fun with edging and increasing horniness where I can. This morning I added a milking challenge to my SR way of life. Just getting hard while thinking about my next turn. To the end of my morning routine I take out some waterbased lube to lotion my wetted penis. Then I only apply strokes from the root towards the glans beginning with my flaccid member and going faster and faster in turns with both hands until I'm rock hard and can't bear it anymore. To me it's quite hard to cum that way imho because of the missing strokes towards the root. But the upcoming horniness feels like from another world. :p Then I will wash my member and get dressed stowing him away every bit as reluctantly as aroused.

Good vibes, have fun and keep us posted! 🙂

Thank you guys for your feedback. Day 18 - ohh it’s so difficult NOT to ejaculate. I’am so horny right now...

@amaz, congrats so far, now savour your horniness and stick to it!
Ejaculation only gives you a quick orgasm and a long refractory period you don't want.
Further SR instead gives you even more horniness. Fuck, it's mean :p, but I love it!!! 😀 CHAIRGASM! Rock hard 😎 and throbbing only from writing this short answer while somewhere around the end of my third week, I think, not counting days anymore, only giving in to and enjoying this endless horniness. Good luck and good vibes to you!

@amaz Well done in lasting out, it’s tough. I completed 21 days a week ago and ended it on the 21st day. There were a couple of times when I felt the horniness would get the better of me but I resisted and enjoyed very much the constant arousal and energy. After ending it my levels took a nose dive as expected, but it took me a good few days to pick up again and have any interest. Back at day 7 now and I am feeling good!

I am now on day 12 of my SR challenge. I begin day 13 at midnight tonight. I am feeling increasing power in my body with each passing day.

Day 21 and has already ejaculated today - could not help it. I had a great Aneros session just before where I got many great orgasms that shook my body. Never had such a good session before - yeah. My wife disturb me with caresses and a blowjob and could not help ejaculate. It has been a fantastic 21 days challenge and will do it again soon.

@amaz Sounds like a wonderful finale to your challenge, who could blame you! Although it’s hard to get through I found it very worthwhile and certainly proved the point to me that long term SR takes horniness to another level.

@amaz, congrats! And be sure, the arousal will be with you and growing and growing and growing. 🙂

A question for you Semen Retention afficionados:

Having now lived for seven decades, I seldom seldom masturbate to ejaculation. However, I am involved in shaft edging which along with nipple play, arouses my prostate and sends wonderful orgasmic P waves into my whole body. I always stop the shaft movement before the PONR and ejaculation inevitability. However, with some regularity, I will emit some small amount of semen simply because my prostate and arousal is that high.

This small emission of semen does not invoke the refractory period and I can go on having dry Os with good erectile quality.

Question. Is this small emission of semen violating the build up of semen retention as you guys know it to be? At my age, my T levels are low and I do not experience the wonderful horniness you guys experience with semen retention. Any horniness I experience is the arousal and deep desire to keep the wonderful orgasmic feelings of the dry O experiences going while I am involved in shaft edging/prostate arousal. ( I guess those teenage feeling are why I love this penal/prostate exercise so much.)

Any thoughts here on my question? Thanks for your input.

@Turnrow IMHO, I would categorize this as a "mini-ruined orgasm" common for men in bondage/chastity. Since you stop the edging before the PONR, this generally would constitute the ruined orgasm with which I am familiar. As such, even though you may not experience a significant flow of semen (like I do) nor a full refractory period (I don't either), IMHO I would believe that this would generally not be in consonance within the practice of semen retention (SR). On the contrary, I would consider a nocturnal emission (wet dream) "release" permissible and I would just continue with the SR day "count".

If you continue with your practice of SR without edging (like I do because I am prone to "blue-balls") you should feel the increase in testosterone and horniness about Day 7 and may eventually experience a wet dream (like I did at Day 12 recently) if you also refrain from edging near the PONR. How far you go in SR is up to your tolerance for extreme arousal and/or tendency to develop vasocongestion ("blue-balls").

Good luck!

I’m on day 14 of semen retention and started to feel some ‘blue-balls’. Does anyone know how to ease the symptoms without ejaculating?

I am now in day 16 of my SR challenge!

Question. Is this small emission of semen violating the build up of semen retention as you guys know it to be?

Not at all.

Sorry, @Turnrow, for now that's the only feedback I could give you, because I didn't yet get the clue, how you distinguish and value your different experiences of arousal.

The only idea coming to my mind was, you might perhaps got used to already stop edging far before your real PONR.

Would you like to describe the differences you mean between your "arousal' and our "horniness"? To me this horniness means I feel a bit like wanting to mount any creature that can't escape fast enough. This feeling comes with bodywide energetic vibes but must not go along with erections all the time.

Greetings
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I’m on day 14 of semen retention and started to feel some ‘blue-balls’. Does anyone know how to ease the symptoms without ejaculating?

I don't ease these symptoms but love them as feedback from my testicles, that they are pretty filled up. As I experienced the aching mostly subsides after one or two days.

Others ease themselves by milking their prostate. Loving to edge often during my SR perhaps already means that I, too, do some prostate milking "en passant"(passed-by).

Cheers!

@howhow If you find relief without EJ, please let me know! I have tried just about everything without much success.

@SOwithoutAneros I don't usually go 1-2 days after experiencing the ache. Once you get past that, do they return again while still practicing SR? I find that edging only intensifies the ache, making me EJ sooner!

@goldenboy, can you describe the feeling of "wet dreams". I haven't tried it but would like to. Fortunately I have not had blue balls.
@BigGlansDC; well done - keep going. I was so horny after day 16 and I'am not a teenager - more a "sen-ager" 😉

@amaz It took me a while of "practicing" semen retention before I experienced my first wet dream. That was at Day 12 of a recent SR run. I was wearing one of my "chastity cups" overnight in bed. I didn't actually remember a dream but I knew that I discharged into the cup (it was soaked and sticky and stained in the middle). I'm hoping for another one any night now. I am in Day 10 and getting extreme horniness and erections in the cup at night that wake me up---just like before I had the wet dream. I'll let everyone know if another WD comes knocking!

@SOwithoutAneros I don't usually go 1-2 days after experiencing the ache. Once you get past that, do they return again while still practicing SR? I find that edging only intensifies the ache, making me EJ sooner!

@goldenboy, it's hard to remember, but I believe, it at least never returned as heftily as before. This might be caused by my quite intense edging. When I've stopped edging I sometimes already can press out some semen where otherwise precum would appear. During SR even when squeezing after urinating I already could recognize one or two last drops occurring mixed with semen. That's why I would call it a mixture of edging and milking.

@goldenboy im on day 22 of SR and still having blue-balls occasionally. All I do is distracting myself to focus on the unpleasant feeling. For now, so far so good, I’m just gonna test how far can I go after 21 days.

@howhow Congrats to you for achieving 22 Days! I am now in Day 17 and have had no blue-balls for this entire run. I have been regularly "milking" my prostate and hope that is helping. I seem to produce no precum now during sessions. Hope that is a good sign! I should probably ejaculate soon but don't feel the need just yet.

I am on Day 10 and started edging. It gives me a lots of precum - very exciting. I have only little precum in my Anerossessions. I hope not to get blue balls. If I do, I start milking with my Njoy Wand - alternativ ejaculate.

@goldenboy Congrats for achieving day 17 (and still counting I guess?). How's your progress mate? I am still trying my best to perform SR (on Day 31) and everything seems work quite well. I can turn myself on whenever I want and produce plenty of precum during aneros session.

@howhow I made it to Day 18 that time around. No particular reason to end it; I just wanted to cum. My "blue-balls" days (hopefully?) ended when I had my first wet dream! Today I'm in a new Day 9 and hoping for another WD! My Aneros sessions are still going strong and I just had an incredible Aless session! (see my blog). Thanks for checking-in with me and please keep posting; We all learn from one another that way!