r/Semenretention

Ive been on semen retention for 7 months now and the attention from women has gotten ridiculous. Its not even the obvious stuff from before. Cashiers hold eye contact way longer than they need to when they hand me change. Women on the train keep finding reasons to sit closer or brush against me and then act like it was an accident. Random conversations about nothing turn into them telling me theyre lonely or asking if I want to grab coffee sometime. Even in bookstores or parks people just start talking to me for no clear reason.

I dont want any of it. The temptation is real and it messes with the quiet Ive been trying to build. Every time it happens it pulls me back toward the old habits and dulls whatever spiritual clarity Ive managed to hold onto. It feels like the world is leaning in and trying to fill the space I cleared out.

Im not looking for tips on how to enjoy the magnetism or get more of it. I just want to know how to make it stop or at least dial it way down. Has anyone else after a few months of retention found practical ways to become less noticeable again without going back to the old habits?

Strict semen retention for 6 years.

Still a virgin-35 years old..

I have activated telepathy in my society Thessaloniki

Crazy synchronicities, clairvoyance I sense Blue-golden Aura around me.

Tell me if you want more...

So I work security for a retail store. In summer, the outfits some women come in with are ridiculous. Shorts so short and loose their ass is hanging out, and tops that might as well be bras. I almost get a feeling of anger that I have to resist my base instincts and not stare. I know women aren’t necessarily doing it on purpose but it is kind of insane how some dress but simultaneously demand men to ignore it.

Anyway, how do you guys deal with it? I love women and enjoy their company but I want to detach myself from that lust as much as I can. I have always have a very high libido so it’s a constant struggle, especially when I get over a month into retention.

I was just wondering if retaining in sr for a period of time, can make you more likeable by people you interact with or come close with in public

Hello bros. Another checkpoint reached. One of my observations on this journey so far is dreams are pretty vivid. Even at 8 months of clean SR, i experienced a sex dream earlier today. The phenomena that goes on in the dreams realm still baffles me. Is it spiritual attack? Succubus?

Always be prayerful and observant especially on this journey. After a few months in, Certain things stop making sense in your reality. So far I've experienced luck, animal magnetism (still leaves me in awe) and the dreams. You'll remember all your dreams in detail.

Eat clean avoid alcohol and drugs, be in the sun active and get enough sleep. Thats it.

Godspeed bros! 🫡🌞

am 21 years old and I am practicing semen retention. When I started this practice, I was 20 years old. It has been 1 year and 8 months since I started. Before this, my condition was so bad that my vision became blurry, my hair became completely frizzy and fell out, and my whole body's skin started looking like an old man's. My food wouldn't digest, undigested food was visible in my stool, and my urine color was yellow. I couldn't sleep, and even if I did, there was no peace in my sleep. I felt sleepy all day long and couldn't focus even for a single minute. I failed all my exams. I couldn't even stand properly and started looking very ugly. My eyes looked dirty too. I developed tinnitus, my hands and feet started trembling, and my soles started hurting while walking. My full body bones started making cracking sounds, making me feel like an old car's parts making noise while moving. I had severe back pain and couldn't sit straight even for a minute. I experienced dizziness, sudden darkness before my eyes, panic, and lived in constant fear. My vital energy used to leak on its own throughout the day. Nightfall was a daily story. I was becoming uglier day by day. Even though I was trying to follow semen retention, due to these nightfalls and semen leakage, instead of getting benefits, I kept getting weaker.

I cannot describe how terrible my condition became, I felt completely ruined. Please stay away from this thing. Every day I used to get scary dreams and wet dreams, and the moment I woke up, there was an atmosphere of fear. I felt like dying. Every single moment felt like hell. While sleeping, overthinking kept happening, and it didn't even feel like I slept. If I slept in the day, nightfall happened; if I slept at night, nightfall happened. My condition became so bad that I couldn't even tell anyone. I used to look very handsome, my eyes and overall genetics were excellent. But now, my condition is worse than a dog's. My life has become like a corpse. Every single second I felt like I should just die now. I felt too exhausted and dead inside even to get water for myself.

THE JOURNEY START

When I started for the first time, nightfalls used to happen multiple times a day. But I didn't give up. The gap between nightfalls slowly started increasing. It went from multiple times a day to once a day, then from 1 day it became 2 days, then 2 to 3 days, and 3 to 4 days. Doing this, it reached 15 days, and then 1 month. When it happened for 1 month for the first time, there was a pinkish glow on my face and my hair was regrowing. Till then, I hadn't experienced those terrible symptoms that I wrote above. Then after 1 month, according to the timeline, nightfall happened and all my benefits vanished. Then 2 months passed, benefits appeared and then vanished. The benefits were good, but after nightfall, my condition used to become even worse. Then when I properly completed 3 months, my benefits were amazing. My face was shining and glowing, my eyes were shining, and people were giving me attention. But brain fog was still there, there was no control over the mind, and no peace in sleep. Then after 3 months, I got nightfalls, but 3 times continuously, because of which my condition became exactly like the symptoms I mentioned above—bone cracking sound, tinnitus, etc. At that time, I felt like dying because I had been working hard for a long time but instead of results, I got the exact opposite. I noticed that this time when nightfall happened, I felt on my face as if someone had suddenly pulled away all my energy. I was very restless.

I gathered courage and started the fight again. But this time, even after 3 months passed, I didn't get any benefits. I felt that I would remain ugly and sick like this for the rest of my life and that I should just die now. I cannot share every single thing here about what I went through. Still, I didn't lose hope. Around 6 months, I noticed that I started getting peace while sleeping and my back pain was 100% gone. The burning sensation in my eyes stopped, and the pain in the soles of my feet while walking completely cured. My focus has increased by 30% because now I am able to study. However, the blurry vision is still there and hasn't fixed yet, just the burning is less. Now when I get nightfalls, the semen that leaks comes out a bit thinner than before. I started getting control over my dreams. My depression, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts ended. My hands and feet, which had cracked skin, got cured. I can now sit with a straight back, I feel slightly less weakness, and my heart rate, which had become fast, has become somewhat normal. But earlier, if I ate too much or ate wrong things, I used to get nightfall and restlessness. But now, even if I slept immediately after eating, no matter how many times I slept in the day, there was no issue.

But last night, I ate onions because of which I got wet dreams. When I woke up in the morning, luckily there was no nightfall. But I slept during the day today as well, due to which I had a wet dream and now I had a nightfall. Now my heart rate feels slightly fast. My depression, anxiety, and low focus feel like they are coming back, and I have become almost bald.

Will anyone please tell me whether I will ever recover permanently or not? Is there anyone whose condition was like mine and they recovered? Please tell me. And if anyone whose condition is worse than mine wants to ask questions, they can ask. But please, long-term retainers, please message me. I need your help, please brothers.

Is it possible to experience a flatline like 10 days into ur sr journey because I think that is currently happening to me right now

I had already told in one of my earlier posts that its a highly competitive dog eat dog world where people are trying constantly to get one ahead of you. If I recall the sheer amount of insults and humiliations I had to suffer just because I was too engrossed in PMO - that would be a reason in itself to quit.

Mid-40's male here. I'm approaching 90 days of no-PM and 70 days of no O (I am married and my last O was partnered sex).

My motivations for doing this are both for personal growth (understanding and changing my relationship with P and sex in general) and for improving my marriage (reducing the pressure of sex on my wife, giving her space to achieve her own growth).

So far, it has been challenging at times, but overall, I feel good and, importantly, I feel proud for being able to do this. It has taken me out of my comfort zone, helped me learn more about myself and how my past affects my present, and that personal growth feels rewarding.

I do plan to return to having sex, but hope to keep P as a part of my past. I have set an overall goal of 100 days, but may go past that, we'll see.

Let me be clear, I think the practice of temporary abstinence or celibacy is a positive one and something that everyone should experience in their lives. I admire people in this community.

I was not aware of the idea of SR when I started this. It came up on my feed, presumably due to searches I was doing earlier in this journey when I had all sorts of questions and doubts. Some of the discussions do resonate with me: mainly a generally positive feeling about being in control of my urges, being able to ride out and deal with emotions and feelings that I would previously have used PMO to avoid, and simply going into previously uncharted territory by accomplishing something I have never done before.

However, more often, the discussions include concepts that, to me, feel like something I'd hear in a religious context (things that can't be proved, but require faith/belief) and even a bit like a cult (since this is a small population). And maybe that's the point? The word "spiritual" is used a lot.

Specifically, I mean things like: transmutation, the idea that we are or feel more attractive, the idea that we are more fortunate/lucky. I'll be honest, I don't believe in those things.

When I was in my regular PMO-phase (most of my life) I can honestly say that I had a lot of good fortune and a good life. None of that has really changed in these 70-ish days. Things were good, and things are still good. Again, I do feel a bit better about myself from a personal growth perspective, but I don't believe my luck has changed or that people find me more (or less) attractive now.

What I do believe is that in a healthy period of abstinence, you can generally feel better about yourself, have a higher self-esteem than you might have had when dealing with a P-addiction, for example. When you are down on yourself (maybe due to excessive PMO), you don't find yourself attractive, so how could you think that others would? When you've made the switch, you feel better about yourself and are open to the idea that others might find you attractive. I don't think there's anything magic or spiritual about it, but that's just me.

At times, I feel like some of the benefits espoused by the community are very tempting to younger (late teens and 20s) men who are single, lonely, and are dealing with P-addiction. I know I would have fallen into that category for part of my 20s and that the ideas here would then have perhaps been more tempting to believe. If it helps men in those situations, then no harm done, but at the same time, I wonder if we can't simply achieve the same without making grandiose claims?

Anyway, if the point of this community is the spiritual, "magic" aspect of SR, then I can respect that and just say it's not for me. I'm mainly curious if there are others here, like me, who see mainly the tangible, provable benefits of this practice and don't turn it into something supernatural?

What’s happening fellas. Late night urges, can’t sleep lol. Thought I’d share a small milestone from my journey.

From 19 to 24, I used to go on the longer streaks, sometimes 6+ months , and the discipline and wisdom from those periods definitely stuck with me

Then I got into a relationship, and that completely changed things. There was constant release, and after being out of that relationship for 1.5 years, I’ve finally managed to get back into it. I’m now 3 weeks in.

I can genuinely feel the difference. The synchronicities, the unexpected opportunities, and the sense of reward that seems to come with overcoming each challenge.

It’s not always easy, especially on nights like this. But the journey itself is 100% worth it.

Let’s get it!

Hi!

I have been on this journey 240 days or so. Before I started on this journey, I use to be okay with sitting around and not doing anything. However that has now changed. I feel restless on my days off. I feel like I need to be up and moving. I keep moving back and forth in my chair. I feel like I’m tweaking out. I also deal with this problem at work when it’s slow. So it’s not just a at home problem.

Is this normal? I’ve been having all the normal reported benefits and have no trouble sleeping. I have also started to feel this “energy” show up in me. It feels foreign but powerful. I feel unstoppable and feel as if I can achieve anything. I feel like a man.

Im guessing I need to take this restlessness and turn it into drive? I’m assuming this is what men in the past used to achieve great things?

So i have found a way to orgasm but to hold the cum inside. Does it count as retention? No single drop released. Sometimes though i might be edging for like 5 hours a day or more. And might have multiple intense orgasms but without ejaculating.

Curious what you guys think?

-edit: so because some dont believe me the way i do is this: i lay down and i very strongly suck my stomach muscles like a vacuum. I have also found shaking my head and feet or keeping my feet stiff help.

Among all the effects of successful long-term semen retention, there is one that is less discussed:

the return of childhood joy.

You have probably read about all the supposed effects of retention: mental clarity, intelligence, attraction, luck, beauty, and so on.

These results are real, but they are difficult to understand for someone who is only beginning this path.

To me, the easiest effect to understand is the return of the joy you experienced as a child.

Because you can picture it and measure it clearly

If you can remember exactly how you felt during childhood, I can assure you that it is possible to recover that same state and even something better through the disciplined practice of retention.

The difference is that you now possess an adult’s consciousness, which makes the experience even more profound.

Beyond the short-term effects which are often simply placebo because you have read about them.

You eventually confront the true reality and difficulty of the practice once the hype and placebo effects have disappeared.

The results people describe are real, but your current perception gives you a distorted image of them.

You fixate on these effects and wait impatiently for them to appear.

At first, you may experience a certain degree of success because, at your current level of perception, you interpret those effects as already being present.

But often, they are only projections of your current mind creating a placebo effect.

This is why critics accuse semen retention of being nothing more than placebo.

They are not entirely wrong.

Most people never discover its true effects because they do not commit to it over the long term.

They think only in terms of “streaks.”

That is already better than releasing frequently, but by constantly interrupting the process, they never experience the real long-term effects and prevent themselves from reaching their full potential.

Make no mistake:

a release that is not intended to create a child serves no real purpose and provides no benefit.

It remains an enormous loss, regardless of what anyone says.

It is physiological.

Now, let us return to childhood joy.

If you commit seriously to retention and genuinely believe in this path, if you overcome social pressure as well as your own internal pressure, and if you refuse to surrender during the hardest moments, then you may recover the state you experienced as a child.

The simple fact of being alive and healthy will create an inexplicable joy within you.

But reaching that state requires doing what 90% of people are unwilling to do.

They prefer conformity.

They do not want to lose their relationships, even when those relationships are superficial.

They choose external validation because it is quicker and easier to obtain, even though it is never truly genuine.

Do not be like them.

Do not choose the easy path.

Be a man.

Say no.

Find your inner peace, because internal validation is the only validation that is real.

Eventually, the people around you will no longer be able to deny your inner strength, because it will naturally express itself outwardly.

Until then, you will have to withstand every attempt to pull you back into conformity.

I assure you:

when you begin to feel exactly what you felt when you were eight years old

when you recognize the same scents,

experience the same innate joy,

and feel happy for no explainable reason that is when you will know that this path is real and that all the others were traps.

I'm on my fifth day . Five days ago I read easypeasymethod and all my pmo "desire" vanished into thin air. I can already feel its effect, my energy is through the roof but this energy that I don't see as a problem / something disturbing is showing itself in the form of anger.

Childhood traumas come to my mind, all I want is to take revenge but I want to take this revenge not from a person but from life, I don't have anger specifically against any human, I have anger against life and inside me there is the feeling of taking revenge from life, I don't know how to explain it but I want to conquer everything that comes in front of me, I don't want to stop, I don't want to sleep or rest, even if I burn out I know I will continue because I've experienced it before.

this anger i'm talking about isn't in the form of stress causing anger, it shows itself in a way that gives energy (I'm not even sure if it's exactly "only" physical energy) i'm not sure if it can even be called anger but this is probably the closest word to describe it.

my childhood and youth were so bad that I can't even tell here and I want to take revenge for this from life, i want to tear my atonement out from the heart of life, I want to make up for the damage I did to myself and I'm progressing on this path. I can't fully put the feeling inside me into words but those who know, know.

girls, sxuality or other nonsense truly don't matter to me, what Im experiencing isn't momentary either, I know myself and I've experienced it before (relapsed and numbed myself later). I just haven't been able to figure out how to use this situation in the most optimal way, the energy inside me pokes me while sitting at the desk working, I want to do sports and move 24 7, punch the walls and scream war cries, go outside and run at full speed without slowing for kilometers.

While doing exeercise I push myself to the "runner's high" point because I don't want to stop myself in any way, I want to push to the limit. My only "problem" is this. I'm thinking of solving this by taking the work i do at the desk to extreme intensity levels, I'd like the opinions of those who have experience on this. Meaning I want to direct this energy correctly to my work as well, I'm already directing it but I don't want to sit. like there's a worm in my a, i want to "hunt" like a primitive caveman.

What I’m trying to say is, i do desk work, but the energy forces me to stand up and go hunt like a caveman. how can I channel this into my work not by suppressing the energy, but by directing as much of it as possible into the work itself?

Don't do any heavy workout or push ups out of frustration & anger, (after ejaculation body needs rest) only light work & daily chores

Long Breathe slowly & Sit with your thoughts-Meditate; why you failed to divert your focus when the urges hit

Diary journaling : Write few lines about how & when you relapsed at what condition (sitting alone in room, scrolling through social media or midnight sleep urge) this helps a lot !!

Key things to remember : don't talk much, don't get angry & beat on yourself, don't get stuck in relapse loop convincing yourself I am failed after so many attempts so I should relapse for this week, don't do it.

No spicy binge fast food eating as sexual activity & fapping increases unusual appetite & cravings to salty, spicy & sweet foods

Uplifting Affirmations while breathing & meditation : I will never relpase again , I know what I suffered due to this habit so I will not continue this habits, I know porn & fapping has severely affected my life so I will not fall in the trap of urges & fake dopamine hits etc .

[ Make your own as short as possible, quick to remember lines in your mother tongue ]

Hope this helps you can add on your own things from past experiences.

Hey brothers,

I recently crossed a major personal milestone: 92 clean days of strict semen retention (pure Brahmacharya no PMO, no edging, zero intentional digital stimulation).

Up until this point, my experience with wet dreams had been minimal,mostly just a few clear, odorless drops of Cowper’s fluid once in a while during deep sleep, which never bothered me.

However, early this morning on Day 92, something completely different happened, and I wanted to get your honest thoughts and experiences on it.

What happened:

I was asleep and found myself in that strange, half-awake / hypnagogic twilight state( can't be sure whether it's dream or not iam in doubt still). I wasn't having an explicit dream, nor was I actively moving, touching myself, or thrusting. I was just lying there, but my sleeping position had slight physical contact/pressure against the sheets.

Suddenly, I felt intense vibrations/energy surges in my pelvic area and full body followed by the physical sensation of ejaculation(which gives pleasure and i can't stop in dream or whether it's real , previous nightfalls i apply mulaband to stop but this time I didn't that's why feeling self doubt). Because my consciousness was halfway booted up(i guess or it can be dream also can't know for sure), part of my brain felt like I was observing it happen in real-time, but before I could even fully register or stop the autonomic reflex, the release occurred.

When I fully woke up and checked, it wasn’t just a drop or two of clear pre-ejaculate,it was a full-volume not that much but yes, whitish nocturnal discharge. Immediately afterward, I had that familiar heavy pelvic feeling from the sudden physical contraction.

My dilemma:

The "Conscious vs. Involuntary" boundary: In that split second between sleep and waking up, it felt like my senses were on, but my executive control was completely paralyzed by sleep inertia. Consciously, I never wanted to release. Have any of you experienced this exact "twilight state" release where you felt semi-lucid, and how do you classify it?

Benefit retention & Energy recovery: Since this was pure fluid buildup rather than a dopamine-fueled relapse to artificial stimuli, how quickly does the body bounce back? Do you view a full biological nocturnal emission after 3+ months as a natural valve reset, or does it set back subtle energetic cultivation?

Would appreciate insights from long-term practitioners who have navigated full-volume emissions after long flatlines or clean 90+ day streaks.

Stay strong.

It’s been at least a month since I’ve looked at any picture of a woman even remotely sexual. Also been practicing SR. Last night, laying on the couch with my wife she decided to put on a sexual show. First scene, a topless woman making out with a man. As soon as I saw it I have a rush of dopamine hit me like I’ve never experienced in my life. It was like I was in another world. I almost lost consciousness.

Then I thought to myself, “wow, so this is how addicted and desensitized I became to lust”

The purging process is working and is confirmation to me I’m on the right track. All day today I’ve been insanely horny but I’ve been channeling it back up to the mind. I made it through one of the greatest tests ever for me.

Is this how it becomes when you go months and even years? Since I’m only a month into this I suppose greater tests will come. Was that the end or just the beginning?