/lit/ - Literature

>>12306278
>You do realize that married men can lust after their wives, and are sexually aroused by them? And wives are, in turn, sexually aroused by their husbands? I guess this is bad, according to you? It's hard for me to even imagine how one would reach such a sorry state of mind.

>>11146308
Pythagoras would certainly disagree and Plato advocated and practiced sexual restraint as did many other great men of antiquity.

Noting Sophocles:
>‘Hush! if you please: to my great delight I have escaped from it, and feel as if I had escaped from a frantic and savage master.’ I thought then, as I do now, that he spoke wisely. For unquestionably old age brings us profound repose and freedom from this and other passions

There was a Chaste/Ascetic Ideal in very ancient Greece. Surely masturbation occurred but surely also, chaste beliefs and practices also were held as we can see from many secondary and primary surviving writings.

Does anyone else find it difficult to learn things if they are routinely engaged in sexual activity?
I feel like I have a lobotomy for 12 hours after fapping or sex. Motivation is particularly affected. Doing anything requiring effort feels like a constant struggle, learning becomes a source of frustration rather than a pleasure.
Throughout my whole life, even before nofap was a thing, I would have to stop totally for a few weeks or months if I wanted to really put my mind to it. Paradoxically, "horniness" goes away if you remove all sexual stimuli and thoughts during this period.
Older literature seems to convey these views. I just want to know if anyone can relate.