i never enjoyed it really. too tensed or too excited in fact. so i stopped doing it. in fact, it was always rare for me. no partners, i dont go outside etc etc.
but how do you think, does the lack of sex make us crazier? how long did you stay without it?
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Some people just aren’t into sex, and that is totally okay. If you don’t like it, that’s just your personal preference 
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Think it definitely effects my mood and I noticed it in my wife to. I don’t no if I’d say it makes people crazy though.
I think that I like it but with the current circumstances I cant find a partner. I am too afraid of people still
Lack of it can certainly effect ones temper and other personality traits, I know after a week or so I get short tempered.
There can be some stress in relationships, my grandmother always told me it’s a lot easier to take care of one person. Not sure I’m that way though.
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use it or lose it I’d say about that
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I went many years without sex when my son was little and I was focusing on raising him. I didn’t want any connections, and sex is a complicated thing for me.
A lot of spiritual people are celibate. I think it helps to focus.
If discussing whether it’s beneficial or harmful to go without, I think it’s more on the beneficial side.
Get very nervous about actual sex with a partner but love to masterbate. It is part of my daily routine.
There’s always the alternative,. Maybe not the best choice but if it’s beneficial to your mind and well-being, I think it can be OK.
me I need to masterbate. I get mad if I dont do it sometimes. it releases the pressure I guess. I am kinda of libidinal monster sometimes with this illness. hah, I shouldn’t be in the spiritual spectrum though. but its human too yes. I had one schizophrenic partner but he criticized me about everything else so I prefer to be alone now. I am tired of his critics, I dont think he is stable also…
All I know is I don’t want to just abstain from things because I’m scared only to regret it when it’s too late to fix it. I haven’t had sex for over a month and I rarely ever masturbate. I feel like my girlfriend doesn’t want to be with me anymore because of this problem she’s had with anxiety and what not, I’m really unsure if sexually starving ones self is really the right thing to do because when you’re on your deathbed do you really want to be saying, (I wish I had more sex in my life).
I was just pointing out I think masterbation is better than being miserable even though for most of us we would rather have sex.
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If I am not able to regularly release my sexual energy it triggers my psychosis. But actually getting sexual with another person triggers my PTSD, which triggers my psychosis. So I have to masturbate a lot. Sigh.
I think if you’re aroused for a long time it’ll affect you. Definitely. But the meds completely kill my sex drive. I haven’t had sex in at least a year and I’m probably not going to anytime soon.
To reach the deeper levels of meditation…which are comparable to full on tactile hallucinations…I’ve read the practitioner will go without sex…this seems to be an important part of the preparations…so I guess its possible lack of this release may cause some sort of chemical build up that encourages hallucinations in someone predisposed to it already…but that’s probably just me piecing random info together…as I’m prone to do…
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Sounds close to where I am with sex cannot with other people I am too messed up sexually for that.
I was shown a “sexual normal” ( heavy bdsm gorean life style and worse ) that is far form normal still dealing with it does effect sexual relationships a lot and PTSD too.
So leaves me with a hands on option only 
being I am completely sure I be single forever too
I think now that I have read the replies it depend to on how high of sex drive you have, how you think (some do not think about sex muxh) . If your drive is high I would think going without would drive you crazy
I’m scared that I am a sex addict, even though I am technically a virgin. I have struggled with obsessive masturbation, going for hours on end. I often put off things I should be doing during this time or have been late to things because I had to finish. I think about sex CONSTANTLY and it seems I can’t get it out of my head. I can masturbate for hours, have several orgasms and still fall asleep and dream of sex. In addition the majority of my sexual fantasies are very disturbing and/or taboo. I used to hate myself for it but have come to accept myself.
My sex drive feels like it’s driving me insane most of the time. When it flares up at night if I don’t do anything about it I end up remembering when I was raped by the demon/evil spirit and go into flashbacks and anxiety/paranoia attacks. I don’t know what to do and it’s too embarrassing to bring up in therapy.
I feel I was this way ever since I was a kid even before I had a sex drive. I played porn games and looked at porn obsessively and regularly, tried to intitiate sexual games with my friends and played sexual games with my toys as early as 8, it’s just ridiculous. When antipsychotics reduced my libido it was this intense relief. I really do miss that, not feeling the need to compulsively masturbate for hours every day.
A virgin sex addict. What a joke.
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I have always had a high sex drive, thats why I think meds don’t have much effect on me, that said if masturbation is controlling your life than you should talk about it, I used to be the same, but not anymore, I have it down to a couple time a week, when I think about what I was like before it makes me feel ill and sad.
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