Hey everyone, I would like to know what you guys all think about celibacy and whether you could see yourself willingly being celibate for an indefinite amount of time. By celibacy I don't just mean abstention from sexual intercourse but also abstention from oral sex, anal sex, masturbation, and watching pornographic material.
Three years ago I went totally celibate for two whole months (I beat Josh Hartnett's character in
Forty Days & Forty Nights by a whole 20 days). I didn't have sex, didn't masturbate, and I even abstained from watching porn. Needless to say it was very difficult and painful.
Fast-forward to today and I find myself unable to think of anything other than the fact that graduation is coming up soon and I will probably end up single for the next five to six years.
My girlfriend and I will not be continuing our relationship past graduation because our lives are heading in totally different directions. Add to this the fact that I will be going for a master's degree in either Biology, Biochemistry & Molecular Bio, or Biotechnology so I will be way too busy to date during my graduate studies.
If being single was the only issue it wouldn't bother me so much, but I have a ravenous appetite for sex, and one thing I've learned from experience is that women are turned off by guys who have excessive sexual desires and are desperate for female attention---no matter how you behave they will sense it if you're excessively horny and will run in the opposite direction as soon as you approach. Therefore, it is likely that I will be spending the next decade as a desperate horny celibate guy.
I endured two months of celibacy because I wanted to test myself to see how long I could last without masturbating. But I do not look forward to the next five to six years without sex and I do not want to be limited to masturbation or prostitutes for satisfying my sexual desires.
So tell me... how would you handle it if you were put in a situation where you had to go without sex for an indefinite amount of time? Would you go crazy? Would you masturbate constantly? What would you do?