/lit/ - Literature

bumping to actually keep a decent thread alive

this is the part where i realize don't have any good xmas react images

>It’s queer how out of touch with truth women are. They live in a world of their own, and there has never been anything like it, and never can be. It is too beautiful altogether, and if they were to set it up it would go to pieces before the first sunset. Some confounded fact we men have been living contentedly with ever since the day of creation would start up and knock the whole thing over.

Avert your eyes or leave. This is your own fault. Read Kellogg.

>>12175782
You admit the cost, and yet still deny that abstaining would potentially be beneficial. Just as it is inopportune to exercise before a meeting in a suit, or wear yourself out from doing it too much, the same could be said for the ad libitum indulgence in masturbation or sex. You ignore logical conclusion that if it did incur a cost, then by extension abstinence would be valuable.

Sexual activity affects the body in more ways than practically any other action. The sex act (masturbation included), from arousal to ejaculation to habituation has chilling physiological repercussions. Endocrinology and neuroscience show that shy of drugs, no other action affects the body so much, so suddenly--- hormones, neurotransmitters, are all profoundly affected. Upon arousal, dopamine is released, not only in the capacity of motivating you, as would be the impetus for wanting to grab that needle of heroin, but you are biologically rewarded just for the mere image of arousal!
Then sexual stimulation occurs, and opioid facilitated reward begins, as even more dopamine is released.
Finally, it culminates in orgasm. The final reward is there. Endogenous opioid peptides suddenly flood the brain, the love hormone oxytocin for bonding is released which also signals the conversion of T to DHT, 5-HT increases, and the anti-dopamine hormone prolactin rises sharply, gonadotropin inhibitory hormone is released, and that is just scratching the surface.
Prolactin has antagonistic effects on dopamine transmission which leaves you feeling lazy and spent, and while the refractory period lasts a mere 5 or 10 minutes, the elevated prolactin continues to exert adverse effects elsewhere in the brain.

>>12086366
>>12086366
The comedown from sexual activity is worse than stimulants. You're just low IQ. Of course you wouldn't note any difference. In fact, you probably wouldn't even benefit from abstaining. Ignorance is bliss. Now carry on like a good pleasure-slave.

>>12080026
CRINGE.
Be opposed to pornography for how it affects the individual consuming it, not the willing participants profiting from it. Porn actresses deserve contempt, not lament. Pornographers are worse than drug dealers. Humanizing them legitimizes the profession, and only motivates people to push for weak measures like mandating safer conditions for "sex workers", instead of totally rejecting the cultural permissiveness of this filth.

>overlooked upon

When did /lit/ become more about writing than reading?