Are there any physiological effects of abstinence?

Or, does no nookie/dates with Rosie palm have any upsides? Other than the well know effect of making you a wizard if you go without it until 30, that is.

All I can find is tons of bro-science about it increasing your testosterone levels supposedly making gym gains easier to all sorts of claims about having higher energy levels and less confusion. What’s the SD?

My Doc sez it is good for your prostate to ejaculate.

http://www.harvardprostateknowledge.org/does-frequent-ejaculation-help-ward-off-prostate-cancer

Two relatively large studies of this question, reported in 2003 and 2004, yielded good news for sexually active men: high ejaculation frequency seemed to protect against prostate cancer.

You can’t go without ejaculating. If you don’t due to stimulation, it’ll end up happening in your sleep.

TMI warning!

I’ve had “nocturnal emissions”. I’ve also gone long periods without ejaculating. I’ve not observed a strong correlation.

This. Both my husband and I have always had frequent sex and/or masturbation. And we’ve nevertheless both had nocturnal (or diurnal) emissions.

^Sure, rub it in! (So to speak.)

My doctor told me the same thing, but I let him know in no uncertain terms that I wanted to keep our relationship on a professional level.

So, now he pays you? (rimshot):stuck_out_tongue:

According to a Seinfeld episode, lack of sex makes men smarter and women dumber. Everything I know comes either from Seinfeld or Star Trek.

Well, it tends to correlate with childlessness to a statistically significant degree…

Ah, that explains Spock. …And Sheldon Cooper.

And Sherlock.

the voices inside my head tell me if one does not ejaculate regularly … the calcium deposits which normally coagulate/flow out from the urethra will start coagulating/creating into gall-bladder-stone … or was it kidney-stone?

You need to teach the voices some human physiology then. The kidneys are not involved in ejaculation, neither is the gall bladder or the liver.

So just the kidney, gall bladder and liver, then?

Which one?