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I'm curious about something... Besides myself, has anyone here on TFP ever gone without sex and masturbation for more than two months? If so what were the circumstances of your dry spell? How did you handle it? Could you endure it again?

been there done that...

did it for 3.5 years because i was hanging out in clubs and bars. I didn't want to wake up in the future with a phone call about having a child or some STD, my goal was for 5 years.

I'm single right now, and I'm also what some might call "lazy" (actually, what some HAVE called lazy) in the getting laid area. I find that I can go for weeks without an urge to even masturbate, although once I do get it, why fight it? No harm, and everything is within arm's reach. If, for some reason, I decided there were a cause great enough to refrain from any sort of sexual gratification indefinitely, I'm quite sure I could do it. I believe I've had a couple of periods where I didn't even think about masturbating for multiple months at a time. The thing that normally brings me back to it is watching porn, or some sort of sexually explicit real life occurance.

*boggle*

None of the above... but frankly I'd never do it on purpose. If I had too much going on, and nobody in bed at night with me, I guess it might HAPPEN... though I still think I'd jack off. Why would you purposefully do this to yourself... :-p

Ladder Theory is mostly a joke. Do not let your mind be bound by such inaccurate models of relationships.

Well besides the fact that women, in general, like a positive guy with confidence, and you appear to lack both, I do not think that all women could be turned off by the horniness, especially ones that are also horny. Any horny wo/men want to comment?

In high school I didn't date much, but those that I did....well.. She was a hardcore Christian. I mean, really hardcore. She always wore her hair down and refused to cut it. Wore long sleeve shirts all the time and ankle length skirts. She was nice enough, was really good looking and wasn't asking me to help her cheat on her tests, so, I asked her out. She agreed, but I knew right off the bat I wasn't going anywhere with her sexually. She was very open about discussing sex, but quite adamant about not having sex. So we could talk about pornography, petting, masturbation and sex. Just couldn't practice any of it.

Anyway, long story short, I stopped jerking off. After the first couple of days, I was stark raving mad and a stiff breeze up the shorts would get me going, but I held on. Then the dirty dreams started (all of which I can still remember quite vividly) and then I started waking up while I was jerking off. It only happened a couple of times and I immediately stopped. I even started wearing more clothes to bed. It's an odd, odd feeling to wake up and realize that you've been masturbating, while for all intents and purposes, you've been unconscious. It's like the left side and the right side of your brain completely disagree and have stopped talking to each other. After three months of this crap, I just decided to deal with it. She broke up with me when I confessed to her about it, but, hell, I didn't care.

Now I've gone fairly long stints without having sex, but that's the longest I've ever been without sex and masturbation.

At least jack off, man, for Christ's sake.