I’m not aware of any research on this exact question so what literature there is is mostly religious or pseudo-scientific. What I do think is fairly well-established is that lack of sexual release makes men restless. Why ‘restless’ in my case translates to “active and happy” rather than, say, “aggressive and abusive” I don’t exactly know. Some factors that may be relevant (but I had not thought of before now): a) My baseline personality is quite docile and submissive, b) Like many people here, I enjoy toying with self-hacking, c) I have lots of projects to pour extra energy into, projects that are satisfying intellectually and status-wise.
Presumably sublimation. At least, Freud’s sublimation reminds me a heck of a lot of the Tantric Buddhism and Taoist ideas of collecting ch’i from sexual activities (or lack thereof) and using it for other purposes.
Uh, what’s the mechanism there?
I’m not aware of any research on this exact question so what literature there is is mostly religious or pseudo-scientific. What I do think is fairly well-established is that lack of sexual release makes men restless. Why ‘restless’ in my case translates to “active and happy” rather than, say, “aggressive and abusive” I don’t exactly know. Some factors that may be relevant (but I had not thought of before now): a) My baseline personality is quite docile and submissive, b) Like many people here, I enjoy toying with self-hacking, c) I have lots of projects to pour extra energy into, projects that are satisfying intellectually and status-wise.
Presumably sublimation. At least, Freud’s sublimation reminds me a heck of a lot of the Tantric Buddhism and Taoist ideas of collecting ch’i from sexual activities (or lack thereof) and using it for other purposes.