Ejaculation: How Often for Good Health?

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Will an orgasm a day really keep the doctor away?






Intercourse is good for us, but the belief that the benefits are coming from ejaculation may also be changing the focus of some men's sex lives away from real partners. After all, today's ever-novel sexual stimuli can certainly produce more intense and frequent, and perhaps more draining, ejaculations than most partnered sex (because partners aren't always cooperative). For example, scientists have learned that masturbating to a novel porn star increases ejaculate volume and motile sperm. Also, the time it takes to ejaculate decreases significantly. In short, sexual novelty (many porn users report constantly seeking novel erotica) translates into expenditure of more fertile semen and faster ejaculation. Research also shows greater reward circuit activity in the brain when exposed to a novel sexual partner, increasing the risk of developing an addiction.








What happens to sperm that aren't ejaculated?

According to Cambridge University's "NakedScientist" forum,



What is the ideal ejaculation frequency?










Is it bad while rebooting then? I remember I use to get really bad headaches after Oing to porn, dam headache wouldn't go away till the next day. Its been a month now and I still masturbate, but not with porn, and I try not to the next day but its so hard. Is M & O responsible for one being antisocial and being awkward and never knowing what to say in social situations? Should I try and stop for 90 days then?

reading rebooting tab above, as it eplains M & O and rebooting.. This site isn't about masturbation and orgasm, it's about porn addiction. However, a lot of guys suggest eliminating masturbation during their reboot.

As for social anxiety, I can't say. Some see lots of benefits, other see none. Here's an FAQ. Is porn making my social anxiety/confidence worse?





Talk to your Doctor about NoFap... I did! 

As part of my annual physical check-up, I spoke with my primary doctor today about the effects of masturbation on my health. I have a great doctor who's been monitoring of my body's well-being for most of my life, including my bouts of depression, so he was well qualified to consider my medical history in his response.

Fist of all, my doctor confirmed that there are no specific health risks determined by whether you masturbate or not. Downplaying the claims some people make masturbating helps prevent prostate problems, my doctor said:

  • "I wish I could say, 'You should ejaculate this often to help prevent prostate cancer,' but I can't. That's just not true."

-Dr. Grayson, D.O., 1/8/13

Additionally, my doctor agreed that not masturbating can help improve other areas of your life since, "you can use that energy to form other habits."

My doctor has been monitoring my testosterone levels with blood tests every so often since it tested low in the past. While it will be interesting to see if a change correlates with me making it half way to 90-day NoFap (woot!), he was strong in his opinion that masturbation use has little to no effect on testosterone levels.

Finally, when I told my doctor that I feel cutting out porn and masturbation has improved my health, he nodded in agreement, stating:

  • "My patients tell me that [avoiding porn and masturbating helps them], and I believe them."


I was surprised and encouraged to find that I'm not the only one who's spoken to my doctor about this issue, and that others who've seen him are experiencing the same results! Be encouraged, my friends; the hard science may still be out on the issue, but doctors are listening to their patients and are reaching the same conclusions as us!

I was hoping my first post ever on this subreddit will be my 1 year post. I've been thinking about it for a while now, how I would tell you the pain I've been through, then the joy I had. How each day was a blessing, how I would encourage all of you... But somehow the story is a bit different.

It starts a few weeks ago. After intense exercise, I felt a huge pain on the left side of my penis. It wasn't the first time I experienced it. I can't tell you how painful it is, maybe the worst I ever felt. I thought that NoFap triggered it at first, after 9 months, but then I remembered how I had the same pain after exercising one week ago. I decided to see a specialist. So I went to the doctor.

Once there, he grabbed my balls with his hands. It felt horrible, but not as unpleasant as the pain, I thought. He was cool about it, well considering it was his job. He told me that I had something on my left testicle and that I must take echo tests. So I did, and another guy grabbed my balls, with machinery this time.

Then came the results. The doctor read through the papers, then told me that I had Varicoceles grade 3 on my left testicle. I was informed that it could affect fertility and that surgery may be considered. I took the papers, thanked him, and saw another doctor. Undoubtedly, he grabbed my balls too, I almost screamed without willing to. I didn't know what the hell was going on, but for sure I was not used to what was happening. After conversing with him, he told me that we needed to know whether it was affecting my sperm or not. When he said this, I immediately guessed what it would be like. I told him about NoFap earlier, asked him whether it may have caused it or not. He replied that it was very normal to not masturbate, and that it doesn't have any repercussion. Now I was to take a Spermogram. I was going to go to some place, and somehow fap, ejaculate in a thing and have it analyzed.

PS: Don't let this scare you. The causes of the thing I have are not related to NoFap at all. Although if I carried on fapping, it could have worsened it. No one really knows.