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These pages of this recent book (The Brain That Changes Itself) by psychiatrist Norman Doidge are very relevant to porn addiction, and also, if you keep reading, to how and why oxytocin (connection with others) can help reset the brain:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2612120/
https://www.quora.com/Neuroscience-Are-dopamine-and-serotonin-inversely-...
They seem to share an inversely proportional relationship.
So semen retention makes your testosterone more, which affects your morals...
https://neurosciencenews.com/testosterone-moral-reasoning-14719/
Are there any quick and safe ways to activate the sympathetic nervous system, which should reduce the influence of the parasympathetic nervous system and therefore reduce sexual desire?
Apologies if what I describe isn’t exactly how the nervous system in the human body actually works, I’m not an expert in this field. Usually, when one thinks of the sympathetic nervous system, one thinks of stress and tension, but I’m sure there is a relaxing way of activating the sympathetic nervous system, in harmony with the body so not to cause stress.
The use of natural anaphrodisiacs have been occasionally mentioned throughout these forums, but usually in regard to men who watch pornography too much. I don’t have that issue, but I am a single man and I have heard the herb vitex agnus castus has been traditionally used to reduce sexual desire.
I’ve already tried all the breathing exercises, meditation, yoga positions mentioned on this forum which suppose to lower sexual desire, but none of them work.
Hello,
My girlfriend and I had been together for a little over a year and a half before recently breaking up about a week ago. From the start of our relationship, karezza had been a sore spot. I've been a student of Gnosis for many years and know that restraining the orgasm is beneficial and healthy in so many ways. She is 21 and I'm 30. We were both each other's first sexual partner and long-term relationship, and lived together.
If somehow anyone doesn’t know what the friendzone is, it’s where a woman thinks of you like a little brother and treats you as such, and seems to have absolutely no attraction for you. I used to really be cautious regarding the friend zone, so when I liked a woman, I used to make it very clear and obvious that I liked her, and I would often compliment her or if we were going somewhere together, I would get them a bar of chocolate or some flowers I picked from the forest nearby.
The common or scientific answer may be that it is just the hypothalamus or pituitary gland producing hormones which tell the testes to produce testosterone. However, I feel perhaps that there is more to it than that. This community has a lot of interesting ideas about psychology and sex, so I wondered if there is a more accurate explanation.
For example, there are many people are are totally ok with going without orgasm for days or weeks, while for others, lust is a lot more noticeable.