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Masturbation feels pointless without porn, but going without orgasm for a while tanks my mood. Anyone stuck in this same loop?
Running into a pattern I can’t quite get past. When I masturbate without any visual stuff it just gets boring fast, the interest fades pretty quick. But if I go too long without orgasming at all, I get this flat, low mood, what people call flatlining around here. Weirdly it doesn’t keep getting worse the longer I hold out, it plateaus after about 10-14 days and just sits at that lower baseline.
So it feels like I’m stuck between two options that both kind of suck: keep masturbating and it feels increasingly empty, or abstain and deal with the mood dip. Has anyone actually worked through this specific combo long term? What helped, beyond just white-knuckling the first week or two?
u/giggity23 — 3 days ago