/lit/ - Literature

>>11680037
>leads to imbecility and death
It said
>in extreme cases
Not all cases. If taken to the logical extreme, for some people, it's a plausible hypothesis.
We see that hypersexuality is associated with hypofrontality, so the claim that it leads to imbecility should be addressed seriously.
Pornography consumption leas to measurable decreases in gray matter
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24871202

Many people have died in the arms of prostitutes because the toll of sexual activity was immense. Death could ensue, especially if one is physically weak.

>>11588880
>>11588918
Virginity and abstinence are two separate concepts.
>>11588940
>How then do you explain the thousands of authors who had tons of sex and/or masturbated?
Celibacy helps confer a productive state of mind unburdened by the physiological consequences of sexual thought and indulgence, that is conducive to success.
Indeed, there are thousands of authors who have indulged but you make an argument of quantity, not quality. They are not counted among the greats in their field. People frequently mention authors and show literary examples such as Proust as a counter; however, this is almost a joke. It does not require much to just write at length. He doesn't compare to the likes of Tesla, Pythagoras, Newton, Kant, etc. And lastly, just because someone led a licentious life, does not mean that their incontinence didn't impair them. There are examples of successful drug addicts. In both cases, most would be better off unburdened by the consequences that arise from their reckless abandon in the pursuit of hedonistic pleasure.

>>11555949
Continue in your ignorance.
The greater the intellectual accomplishment, the more chaste the life.

>"The greatest intellectual geniuses in both ancient and modern times led continent lives, and there is yet to be recorded one individual who freely expended seminal fluid who ever amounted to anything. In most cases, individuals who have achieved have been forced by necessity to abstain from sexual indulgence, as Cervantes, who wrote Don Quixote while in prison, or Dante who wrote his Divine Comedy while in exile. Milton wrote "Paradise Lost" when blind and when he did not indulge in sex. Sir Isaac Newton, active in intellect until the age of 80, led a continent life from birth, and so did Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, both of whom retained their creative genius [until] an advanced age.

This age old advice has been neglected in a our sedentary lives and hypersexualized environments. Modern neuroscience vindicates the wisdom of sages, priests, great scientists and philosophers of old.

I offered a reason to re-read books from your youth. You are taken aback because the premise that sexual activity is harmful is uncomfortable. You want to have your cake and eat it too.