/lit/ - Literature

>>14074081
>Quit jacking off
Correct
>have sex more
Very incorrect, reddit nofap-tier retardation said by people who have never had sex. Guess what? It causes the same prolactin increase, fatigue and brain fog.
>"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.

>>13997580
>Pythagoras thought the loss of semen was only justified for procreation
>Plato thought the philosopher-king should be celibate
>Epictetus and his master wrote on how animal passions like anger and lust ruin men and also thought
>Church Fathers all condemned the practice and the Catholic Church embodied the philosopher-king celibate/continent lifestyle among upper echelon for nearly two thousand years
>Kant and other examples led and benefited from such a lifestyle
>DUDE MASTURBATE AND HAVE SEX WTF ALL THESE OLD RETARDS WERE WRONG JUST GO DO IT BRO, LMAO COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM DUDE, ITS HARMLESS BROOOOO DUDE. ITS IMPOSSIBLE REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE