| My take on all this - most of it is the placebo effect. You think stopping masturbating will improve your life in x ways, then it probably will. Personally, I'm more sceptical about such stuff until I see scientific proof. There is no scientific and confirmed proof that stopping masturbation is going to get me laid more. There are some reports of people feeling more sociable, some reports of people feeling more alert and energetic etc. But they're just individual reports and, like I said, are probably the 'placebo' effect - certainly I have never seen any scientific proof that these things are affected by masturbation.
The only bits of science I have been able to find are this - after ejaculation (not masturbation alone, but any ejaculation, so sex as well) your testosterone levels are slightly low. They get to their highest peak after 6/7 days. After this time, they peak, flatten out and even begin to decrease slightly as excess levels find other ways out of your body (sweat, urine etc.). However, even when they are at their peak after 7 days, this level is a minute difference from your 'normal' level. It is certainly nowhere near enough to (scientifically speaking) affect your behaviour.
The other bit of science that has been experimented on is that people who very rarely ejaculate are more likely to develop prostate cancer. Again, this is not just masturbation, but any sort of ejaculation.
The only issue I think there may be is again a mental one rather than physiological - and is to do with porn. If you watch porn a lot, then there is perhaps the chance that you will develop a picture of women that, in reality, is very rarely true. It sort of makes the 'normal' good looking girls look average because you've got this idea of a pornstar in your head. But other than that, I don't even think there is an issue with porn to be honest.
I think, like pretty much everything, as long as it's all in moderation, you'll be fine. As long as you're not masturbating so much that you blow the rest of your life off to sit at home and masturbate then it isn't really going to affect you that much. I mean even in terms of "feeling more horny", yeah it can do that, but I think even this is an individual thing. Some people find that when they're more horny their game gets worse as they come across desperate, some better etc.
I also think that if you're not feeling horny then whilst lowering your masturbation frequency may help, there are also probably other underlying reasons that are more important which you would be better addressing - lifestyle, diet, exercise, stress, that sort of thing. All of those will affect your general frame of mind far more than masturbation will.
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