My question is exactly what the title reads

Is masturbating without ejaculation, still count as masturbation. In other words stroking my penis, getting it up, but not having an orgasm or ejaculating count as masturbation.

Some here feel that orgasm and ejaculation are different in that the former is in the brain and the latter just physical. How else can one differentiate the two? Are there telltale signs of the dopamine release and do those indicate orgasm or are some merely indicative of ejaculation?

Can ejaculation impact (cause feeling in) the body without the orgasmic brain? Or if the body is impacted does that imply orgasm because the brain needed to impact the body and can only do so via the orgasm induced pathways? Can the brain experience ejaculation without dopamine?

Hi, long time no see.

Ive been practicing continence, and in one my latest (i will not call them attempts) journeys, more than three weeks without orgasm, I went too far into a soft masturbation and suddenly I realized I had passed the point of no return.

Before the ejaculation I realized that it was about to happen so I contracted my body and negated the orgasm "no please, i dont need this now, not now please".

Hi, ive been abstaining myself from orgasm, still have been reaching a close point to it, where sometimes I ejaculate, not fully, but a little, there is no pleasure related with this ejaculation. Do you know if such a practice nullificates the effects of temporal celibacy?