# POLL: How long since you buffed the flag-pole? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 10, 2002, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-long-since-you-buffed-the-flag-pole/141781 "2002-12-10T16:50:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Soup\_Nazi\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/db5fbb/32.png) [@Soup\_Nazi\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soup_Nazi_1)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-long-since-you-buffed-the-flag-pole/141781/1 "2002-12-10T16:50:15Z")
Poll for men, since (from the surveys I have seen) men masterbate more… What is the longest time you have gone without jerking off? (after your first time) Me: the longest I remember was 33 days— I was at a training camp, misery killed every desire i had ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-long-since-you-buffed-the-flag-pole/141781/2 "2002-12-10T18:39:01Z")
Board tone: raised. ---
**Author:** ![Surreal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@Surreal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surreal)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-long-since-you-buffed-the-flag-pole/141781/3 "2002-12-10T18:56:47Z")
33 days! I could never go anywhere near that long without whacking off. I once went without for about 3 days, due to a minor hand injury. ---
**Author:** ![merge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9f8e36/32.png) [@merge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/merge)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-long-since-you-buffed-the-flag-pole/141781/4 "2002-12-10T18:59:48Z")
well aftert he first time… I had no idea what the hell it was at the time so it was another year or so… but after the 2nd time… probably about a month… i didn’t count the days… ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-long-since-you-buffed-the-flag-pole/141781/5 "2002-12-10T19:47:59Z")
I’m single and without a girlfriend, so it usually isn’t for more than 2-3 days at a time, usually if I am too tired to want to do it. The longest I recall going without was about a week. During my junior year in high school I was on a trip to Mexico City with some other students from my Spanish class and we had to share hotel rooms, so this obviously kept me from having the necessary privacy. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-long-since-you-buffed-the-flag-pole/141781/6 "2002-12-10T20:38:43Z")
If you mast **e** rbate, you’re doing it wrong. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-long-since-you-buffed-the-flag-pole/141781/7 "2002-12-10T20:40:07Z")
In other words… _Put the U back in masturbation_. ---
**Author:** ![Witch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Witch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Witch)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-long-since-you-buffed-the-flag-pole/141781/8 "2002-12-10T20:55:28Z")
_Surreal_…do you have two hands? ---
**Author:** ![Surreal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@Surreal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surreal)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-long-since-you-buffed-the-flag-pole/141781/9 "2002-12-10T21:15:05Z")
Yep. I tried using the left, but it just didn’t feel the same. ---
**Author:** ![Alereon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Alereon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alereon)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-long-since-you-buffed-the-flag-pole/141781/10 "2002-12-10T21:26:19Z")
The longest I’ve gone since puberty was 5 days, on a class trip to Washington DC during which I was NEVER alone. More recently, 3 days in which I was SO sick with the flu that I was having fever dreams about being killed by dogs from the Mafia. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-long-since-you-buffed-the-flag-pole/141781/11 "2002-12-10T22:16:27Z")
I was on Paxil for a while, which deadened my sex drive. I probably went over a month or two. Now I’m off the stuff, and on top of that unemployed. My kleenex/lotion budget is approaching the GNP of Bolivia. ---
**Author:** ![Blackeyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@Blackeyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackeyes)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-long-since-you-buffed-the-flag-pole/141781/12 "2002-12-10T22:25:46Z")
WITHOUT, you say? I’m doing it right… no, nevermind. ---
**Author:** ![Surreal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@Surreal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surreal)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-long-since-you-buffed-the-flag-pole/141781/13 "2002-12-10T22:35:34Z")
There was a thread here a few months ago about women masturbating, and some of them said that they had absolutely no interest in masturbating. I wonder if there are any men whose penises (and hands) function properly, but they don’t masturbate. ---
**Author:** ![SCSimmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@SCSimmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCSimmons)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-long-since-you-buffed-the-flag-pole/141781/14 "2002-12-10T22:39:13Z")
How long! Um … [checks watch] … Crap! I’m late!! ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-long-since-you-buffed-the-flag-pole/141781/15 "2002-12-10T22:43:29Z")
zero secons (sorry - tping wit one hand) ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-long-since-you-buffed-the-flag-pole/141781/16 "2002-12-10T22:59:27Z")
Most recently, it was about eight days, but then I’d just gotten Civilization III. ---
**Author:** ![kirk280980](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c77e96/32.png) [@kirk280980](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kirk280980)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-long-since-you-buffed-the-flag-pole/141781/17 "2002-12-10T23:10:03Z")
Probably 2 days is the longest I’ve ever gone; my friend tried to commit suicide, and I was too busy mopping up the blood and vomit in his flat while he was in hospital to even _think_ about setting aside some time for a hand-shandy. Those kinds of situations aside, I’m normally pretty regular… usually three or four times a day. Yep, you guessed it, I have a very high sex drive and I’m single as well. Life can be so cruel at times :(. ---
**Author:** ![Daoloth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/82dd89/32.png) [@Daoloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daoloth)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-long-since-you-buffed-the-flag-pole/141781/18 "2002-12-11T00:26:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Revtim \* > \*\*I was on Paxil for a while, which deadened my sex drive. I probably went over a month or two. > \*\* That stuff murders the sex drive. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-long-since-you-buffed-the-flag-pole/141781/19 "2002-12-11T00:54:15Z")
I think I’ll close this little exercise in mental masturbation. BTW, I typed this using _both_ hands.