r/pureretention

You are not a good man.

You are a knowing man, but passive by default

You are not a good man

You await handouts to be fed what is rut

You know what is good for you

You know your truth

But you remain weak

A passive man is a man that is too weak to face his desires

A weak man a man scared to face his desires

Face his desires no matter how dark

How honest

How far its reach

Your dark man is your masculine

It is real

Not seeking

Not searching

Not fighting

Just real

Find that dark man

And the gods of the semen retention will bless you fully

That man doesn’t contemplate his fully

He just acts

Doesn’t contemplate his passions

Because he has mastered it

And continues to master it

And resume it daily

Paying heed to it

Listening to it

Walking in it

Blistering the edge of its power as he finely tunes it

That is the power

That is the edge of spirituality

That is the liveness on the inside

That is the eternal libido

He must f**k it

And hold on to it as it’s life

As it is

Cheers.

I’m currently on day 37 of my longest streak. I wanted to go longer but I’ve been having issues sleeping.

I’ve read some posts about others who have the same issue but at long markers.

Has anyone dealt with this issue and found ways to overcome?

Does it get easier or is it temporary?

Any advice would be appreciated!

The anointed among us are often entrusted with a combination of spiritual gifts and talents that are rarely found in one person. These gifts are not bestowed for personal glory, but to serve others in a manner that honors and glorifies the Heavenly Father. Yet with this calling often comes an unusual burden. Those entrusted with much are frequently tested through trials, hardships, and seasons of adversity that most people will never experience.

While these seasons of adversity are often painful, they serve a greater purpose. They shape character, refine faith, impart wisdom, and prepare the anointed for the work they have been called to do. The power entrusted to anointed individuals must be wielded with humility, wisdom, and integrity in service to others, for God will not permit such gifts to be exercised carelessly. For this reason, many anointed people endure prolonged periods of testing. These trials are designed to temper the spirit, refine the character, and transform the individual into a humble servant who can be trusted with influence, responsibility, and authority.

Once this process of refinement has taken place, the anointed servant of God is often held to a higher standard. This does not mean they are expected to be perfect. God extends grace, knowing that even the faithful remain imperfect and vulnerable. However, greater responsibility often brings greater accountability. Those who have been entrusted with much are expected to walk carefully, exercise sound judgment, and remain aligned with the principles established by the Most High God.

Anointed individuals will often encounter resistance, opposition, misunderstanding, and even persecution. Such challenges can create significant friction throughout life if not handled properly. Through experience, I have found that there are certain principles and habits that help an anointed person navigate these challenges with wisdom, humility, and peace. I have summarized these principles in the list below:

• Relationships:
  • Anointed people must be extremely picky and discerning when it comes to choosing their relationships. Many are attracted to the innate shine of an anointed person, but a lion share of those people are in it for personal gain rather than due to genuine interest and love. Luckily, the Heavenly Father gifts his children with immense intuitive abilities so please make sure you use yours to decipher between those who are really in your corner versus those who are just interested in benefiting from your blessings.
  • Regardless of the type of relationship - business partnership, romantic relationship, friendship - anointed people would be best served to take it slow. Allow months to years for each relationship to gradually develop because people's true motives inevitably surface under careful observation over a long enough period of time.
• Sexuality:
  • As a chosen son of God, masturbation and pointless sex should be completely out of the question. And yes, that means no girlfriends. The only sexual activity that you are permitted to engage in without incurring karmic retribution, is sex with your biblically wedded wife. A union in which the birth of wonderful precious children is welcomed and celebrated. A union which provides a solid foundation for nurturing a powerful nuclear family. As an anointed person, you must gain control over your sexual power or it is just a matter of time until it dominates you and ruins your life.
  • Also, please be very very discerning about the woman you commit to if you are called to marriage by God. There are some women (chameleons) that are incredibly skilled at pretending to be the perfect mate even though they're really demons in human form. Take this to God in prayer, and be wary of any woman who is aggressively trying to push you into a hasty commitment.
• Work:
  • As an anointed person, you will probably have an incredibly difficult time in most standard corporate jobs. Your essence shines a bit too bright for those sorts of low vibrational environments. While I understand that you may have to work a job for a while to keep the lights on, please do what you can in your spare time to develop an independent source of income that comes from your God given inborn talents and gifts.
  • If you must work at a company, I would be very careful to select a work environment which is predominantly high vibrational with lots of good natured productive folks that you can learn skills from.
• Nutrition:
  • Your physical body is the temple of the Holy Spirit. You must strive to feed your temple with only natural foods created by God, and seriously limit all junk food. When you fully awaken, you will actually be able to sense your body getting poisoned when you eat too many of the wrong types of food. I usually get very anxious and fussy if I eat too many of the wrong things when I'm on a work trip for instance
• Hygiene:
  • One thing that the Holy Spirit cannot coexist with is filth and the one thing demons love is filth. If you want your space to be predominantly occupied by the Holy Spirit, make sure to clean it often. Make sure you shower often, clean your house often, clean your car often, and regularly declutter your surroundings. Keeping a high level of hygiene has a mysterious way of making life feel lighter and more pleasant.
• Temperament:
  • Anointed people will constantly endure jealousy, envy, and constant provocation throughout their lives. Something about your bright spirit really irritates the darkness in others and causes them to lash out. While I totally understand that your first instinct might be to retaliate, that is the very thing you must NOT do. If you engage in some sort of back and forth argument with these people who are overcome with darkness, it opens an energetic portal which allows them to steal some of your beautiful energy, while replacing it with their filth. If this happens enough times, you will notice that your life starts to fall apart around you, while the perpetrator simply moves on to the next victim.
  • Don't worry... you have immense spiritual protection as an anointed person. God may allow your dissenters to annoy you for a little while to build your patience while simultaneously giving them time to repent. However, if they don't learn the lesson soon enough, they will be dealt serious consequences by God himself.
• Recreation:
  • Most anointed people are creative so please fill your spare time with an art or craft that you love to do. Please DO NOT engage in worldly recreational activities like smoking weed, going out to bars and nightclubs, going to concerts with demonic rap music etc.

In my experience, the quicker anointed people learn of their true identity and abide by their prescribed code of conduct, the sooner they get ushered into their true power and purpose. If you are anointed, I urge you to start making these changes today and just watch in awe as your life transforms around you. You have a lot to contribute to a world that desperately needs your light. Let's get after it together... we're all rooting for you.

Till next time brothers, Godspeed and remain blessed.

Brother Cooked.

(Read this to find out if you are anointed)

For every time you try to relapse, ask yourself

“Who am I??”

It will reveal yourself to you. The action you take. The choices you choose. The identity you preside. The excuses you make. Every thing that flashes on to you reveals you.

Then you can get an opportunity to preside over it. Weigh it with your heart, see where it stands fit. Hold it in strongly as person.

Lust is always the Inferior move.

• Animal attraction at its peak - Every stray cat and dog I come across in the park ends up sitting near me. I have a bunch of photos in my gallery where cats randomly came over, rested their heads on my lap, and constantly wanted attention and pets. The same thing happens with dogs.
• I've also noticed more people staring at me in public, although I've learned to keep my gaze lowered and not pay much attention to it.
• Deeper voice.
• Seeing bright white light near my third eye area while meditating.
• Lustful thoughts seem to fade away automatically now. Even if I entertain them for a moment, a feeling of disgust follows almost immediately.
• Noticed changes in my penis color. Around Day 50, it started gradually returning closer to my natural skin tone, beginning from the tip. Used to have a dark and purplish color before which I believe was related to years of excessive PMO. This year I've completed streaks of 75 days, 43 days, and now 73 days, so it feels like the benefits have been compounding and my body is finally recovering. What's interesting is that this never happened before, even during my longest streak of 215 days.
• Around Day 62-65, I peeked a little for some minutes but just after playing the video, thought "what the f is am I even doing?" I immediately closed it and did some push-ups instead. Interestingly, the benefits seemed to increase even more after that incident.

The only negatives I've experienced are:

• Mosquitoes are attacking me like crazy. They barely bother anyone else in my family, but for some reason they seem drawn to me.
• Having financial issues. The thing I am working on will take some time to generate income and currently I am unable to pay bills. The amount needed is only 300$ to get out of this but still the situation is getting bad everyday and that has been putting a lot of stress on me so I am feeling like my energy is stuck and cant move it freely even when I am physically active.

I am not going to say how many months i am on streak, never counts & never track. I had learned a lot from mine & other people’s mistakes on this sub. Thanks for that.

I want to share my experience here, SR gives me a new life, vision and perspective of my purpose. Gym & Exercise is must. I am 30 year old Male, I had already found the cure of my wet dreams due to my prayers ( doing wudu or cleaning before sleep), now never stress abt wet dream. What we do in day or have sexual thoughts, thry are gonna come in your dreams.

So brothers in arms, Protect your Gaze & Private Parts. Do whatever you want to do, Clean food, Pray, Study, or work, but never entertain sexual thoughts until you get married.

If you are single, Be celibate like Men used to be.

As one Sufi said - let not your sight be fixed upon the raiment of women, because looking plants lust in the heart and rarely can one refrain afterwards from repeating gazing at women*.*

First glance can be forgiven but repeated glance with women leads to lust, eventually leads to mental masturbation.

If you are working with opposite gender, treat them as normal women. Never flirt with them.

Attraction is Real.
Confidence & Energy is Real.

Powerful financial backers of these world order’s & governments always want men to be more feminine and slave to their rule.

Resist by Retention. Do it for the sake of your ancestors or upcoming generations. Never ever believe in Google generated scientific facts. Owned by these same lobbyists of Financiers.

I am myself into academia, I am a scientist. These all retards or pseudo- scientific beliefs says that masturbation is healthy are back by these same lobbies in Science which shares the same motto as these satan oligarchs.

Resist it by doing SR.

Be brave and remember me in your prayers.

This fight is gonna be long.
We win or we die, Never surrender again.

The drug of sexual degeneracy is given to the youth with zero warnings. In fact, it’s labeled as good and normal. One is considered strange for not partaking.

By young adulthood, most realize they have an “addiction”, but many do not consider it an actual addiction. They consider it a natural necessity, like eating or going to the bathroom.  

This false mindset becomes painful to some, who do not want to continue in their ways necessarily, but feel trapped by their biology.  

All the while there is a surplus of people who proudly promote and normalize degeneracy. 

There is freedom from this, but most will always be “in recovery”. 

I was a pothead for 8 years of my life. I stopped smoking around the time I started retaining. Despite being a stoner for all those years, I do not struggle with sobriety.  Granted, I no longer am close with other stoners or regularly listen to stoner music. Still, I simply have no desire to get high.  I look back at who I was as a stoner, and it’s natural to keep that in the past. 

There’s a decent chance that if I got high again, I’d enjoy it in the moment. But I’m aware of the negative effects, particularly the spiritual ones. I know that mind-altering drugs are an invitation for evil spirits to converse with the mind, among other things. It’s easy to be sober with wisdom and understanding. 

There are parallels between my former weed addiction and PMO addiction. One is that the main defense to relapsing is having wisdom and understanding. When one is presently aware of the very negative side effects of doing the thing, one is able to stay away. When one has the maturity to weigh the pros and cons of an action in the present moment, one is able to make the right decision.

Lust is in a different league than most other drugs though. I can observe and smell the aroma of a group of people passing a blunt, and have zero urge to join them. On the other hand, taking one look at a woman in revealing attire can cause a dangerous chain of events. Biology is going to biology if self-control is not present. 

Kids are at least taught that smoking is bad, although studies have shown that awareness of this has little to no effect on preventing smoking. Imagine if kids were taught to control their eyes and shift their minds away from lustful thoughts. Imagine if kids were taught about spiritual wickedness.

In this wicked and backward society, one would be viewed as insane, or even criminal, for teaching kids that porn, masturbation and fornication are cancers. The truth is that there is little scientific evidence to support semen retention. One needs spiritual eyes to understand and apply retention, and true spirituality is viewed as foolish to the world. 

The biology factor makes sense. Boy likes girl. Why did God make sexual desire for us to have to control it? 

Well why not? What is the other option? The other option is being a slave. 

God gave us wisdom to have self-control and thrive and prosper. 

I’m not going to pretend I have a perfect understanding of God’s plan, not even close. But in the end it’s pretty simple. Protect and nurture your spirit. Truly seek righteousness before all things daily. Truly desire to amend and improve your ways daily, becoming a more humble, kind and chaste servant and warrior of the Most High God. 

When we strive to do these things daily, no weapon formed against us prospers, our lives tend to get better and better, and the coveted “benefits” start to manifest.

I've been on a 14 month streak, and it's crazy how people treat you.

A week ago I went to the store and the cashier was so mean. I was kind to her and thanked her. Yesterday I went to the store again, the same cashier and she was the sweetest.

Then I tagged along with a friend to a cafe to meet up with his friends. His friends all arrived and just completely ignored me in a way like I didn't exist. Like they got nervous and did not know how to behave so I reached out to and shook their hands introducing myself. However one of them kept ignoring me the whole time and kept throwing condescending jabs at me. I just deflected it and was super nice to him.

Also women have been incredibly friendly and approachable. However a girl I was talking to went completely cold on me. Like she wanted me to chase, and when I didn't she just went cold even though I was never mean to her but only nice.

I've had so so many of these experiences it's wild.

I'm always positive and share love and light everywhere I go. And I notice many times guys and girls that I fully trust just try to back stab me, almost every time. I am getting used to it now. However it makes me sad because I would never treat anyone like that. And it seems that these people behave in the manner out of impulsion, like they are unconscious of their behaviors.

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How do you deal with the feeling of wanting to fight in a long streak? does it did happen to everyone here?

Something i have noticed about retention is that these men who practice it come with a certain glow. glowing eyes, glowing skin, permanent tan even in winter, it’s obvious once you understand this.

Those that are impure/ don’t practise retention look like they are decaying. I have a friend who practices and one who doesn’t. The one who does has glowy shiny skin. Thick luscious hair and bright eyes. The one who doesn’t has pale face, rotting teeth, almost completely bald and dark lifeless eyes. It’s like his body is literally decaying.

This also applies to women but not as pronounced as they don’t lose vital nutrients and vitamins when they indulge. However it’s still obvious when you look for it. Women who indulge look depressed, moody, always arguing or nagging, they tend to hate men, they also are more likely to push harmful narratives like pmo being healthy onto men. They also suffer with the pale face and lifeless eyes tho and their energy just stinks once you become a retainer. I hate having to be around these people now as their energy is just vampiric and disgusting.

My best advice once you become a long term retainer is to avoid negative people as much as you can and only take advice from people who you respect and are successful.

Retention will show you who is good for you and who isn’t just make sure you listen to it.

Hi, I just wanted to vent about my journey since starting in may of 2025.

I started in may after working for this older gorgeous wealthy lady whom I worked for in home services who just somehow just made me feel like I can get more out of life and need to better myself. I was always shy and socially awkward due to pmoing since I was 11 up until 23 almost everyday and most of the time multiple times as day. I have had severe male pattern baldness since I was about 16 but it is mostly due to genetics because my uncles on my moms side are bald and my sister also has thin hair along with my younger brother balding aswell. I was always a little weird in school but still had some solid friends up until senior year where we had a fallout. I didn’t go to college just went straight to work with my father and brother as I had been working since I was 14 and never really went out to parties or college campuses as to not having many friends. Always working in peoples homes so not much social interaction with people my age. I had also smoked weed every single day for 10 years from 14-24yo, I quit about 4 months ago cold turkey and haven’t touched it since.

So I started my first streak after meeting that lady in may of 2025 and went on a 119 day streak. Was working everyday and it kept me busy, didn’t watch porn or edge not once and would instantly swipe past instagram videos when I would see lustful videos. Also had a very positive mindset as I was activity trying to manifest a better life while working towards it. I had experienced all the benefits and everything that people talk about women attraction although I don’t really talk to women or have any female friends and am still a virgin, I could sense the attraction and how they would act differently from when I was pmoing around me, getting closer without being scared or weirded out. Especially that women who had me motivated to get on this journey, the year prior I was working at her house in 2024 when I was pmoing and when I would step close to show her something she would take a literal step back like it was subconscious. I did lock eyes with her one day while talking in 2024 when I was pmoing and feel like I had made a connection because the eye contact was very long and intense between the both of us and neither would look away until I did even though I have never held eye contact with anyone like that. Fast forward to 2025 on my third week on the streak, she would get closer to me and want to talk way more, was sweating while working in the main area and she would walk in circle randomly near where I was working like she could sense or smell something that I believe was due to pheromones.

I had experienced the strong and relentless energy and would never be tired even though I would work 12 hour days. Could just also sense people’s energy and intentions and would fast almost every day up until 3-6 o’clock while working and still wouldn’t be tired and feel amazing. I had never felt closer to God, it was like Gods presence was around me all the time and I was walking the right path and it was opening up. Have many more stories about random women just getting close and being weird/curious around me, have also felt some guys get intimidated for no reason even though I was still very nice and made no intentions of being aggressive. Family life was just better and everyone was overall happier. Was way more confident and a little less socially awkward also and felt more like a man, like even just the way I walked felt like it had changed same with my posture, lost some fat due to the fasting and was in the best shape of my life 6’2 170 pounds. At a family event 2 months in all my older cousins were very surprised at how different I was and respected me more as I was always weird around them too and complemented me saying I look good. On a weird note my older cousin came to our table and my leg was sticking a little out in the isle and she had her literal p***y on my knee while she was standing and talking to our table in a dress, but I’m sure it wasn’t intentional. Weird stuff. Stuff just felt like it was falling into place and coming my way.

Almost landed a 70k basement job. But around that time after 119 days I had started edging and pmoed. This was the day before I had to go back with a proposal after I already went to the estimate and the husband liked me and my brother, went with the proposal for the basement to this guy and his wife who was a ceo of a company. You can imagine how that went , handing papers to the ceo of some pictures my hand was nervously shaking for some reason, my brother had noticed that as well and afterward told me that was crazy for your hand to be shaking. I told him I relapsed as he knew but he doesn’t do it. Didn’t get the job and fell back into pmo for 2-3 weeks and another 2 week streak then pmo again on and off up until December when I started my current streak, the first 3 weeks I was edging but then I stopped completely and didn’t edge or watch porn for 5 months and was eating the healthiest I had in my life and meditating every day with a positive mental attitude.

I haven’t had benefits that are as noticeable or strong compared to my last streak of 119 days, they’re there for sure but not as powerful or strong due to I believe and have read in this sub Reddit that every streak is different. I was in a flatline for the first 3-4 months and eased out of it.

Last month I started edging to porn again and started going out with basically my only friend since middle school to the casino and drinking every weekend as I feel like I’m trying to make up for lost time as to not going out when I was younger. My friend knows about my journey and i have wanted him to try as he has seen how I’ve changed over time, always complements my clear skin and genuinely thinks I look way more handsome, but he has a girlfriend and likes sex so he had just started having it a little less. He had also bought some cocaine and so did I for when we would go out as I had tried it a few times about 2 years ago. When I started doing this degenerate stuff last month I have noticed a change in my mindset and energy, would stay out til 4-5am come home not be able to sleep and got to work the next day on Saturday and do the same and be up for more than 24 hours. One night when we were leaving in the elevator ther was this one group of 5 people 3 girls and 2 guys, I assume this was the single girl in the group and was staring at me very lustfully in the elevator as she was drunk, I was very drunk and was just leaning on the wall, my friend had told about it and how she looked like she was ready to get down right then and there. Her male friend has whispered in her ear to chill out my friend had told me afterwards. I have fallen back even though I haven’t ejaculated I have still been edging to porn and can sense the damage it’s doing to me even though I still feel magnetic and have a lot of energy, for some reason it feels as people like me a little more since I started edging. I have hit 185 days today and I feel like I’ve lost a lot of progress doing this. I know what I need to do and have to stop.

Want to add have also worked that the lady’s house again in February this year and again last month right before I started edging again, she said she will call again mid summer to get more work done. I feel as though she can really sense my energy and likes it even though I am still a little weird around her and don’t start too much conversation even though it’s obvious she wants to talk. I can tell she wants me to succeed in life, maybe because I am around the same age as her children and she sees how hard me and my brother work, her kids have jobs at their family corporation.

This journey has changed me for the better, I feel as though it has actually changed my face and made me a little more attractive even though my hairline is pushed back a decent amount, I feel the hair is what messes it up for me. I am still a little nervous around girls but conversations go smoother and the right words just flow right out of my mouth without me trying as if my body is doing it for me. My business has been pretty slow for the past 1 and a half years but just recently it feels like it’s starting to pick up, my brother is very motivated to get workers so we don’t have to do all the labor anymore and is actively trying too push me and himself to get bigger jobs, it’s just that I am not a extrovert like he is, he is a very slick talker and can talk with almost any type of person. But as I am older he pushes me to go out there, he’s 22. I have just recently got the real motivation to go hard at what I do even though I’ve had it during both streaks, I just now know what I need to do.

I’m 24 btw and just wanted to share my journey.

Hey everyone, I will try and keep this as short as possible, as I like to go on 1000 words rants, but in short as title says June 25th will be the 1 year mark of this journey for me. For context I started watching porn in 2021, and in 2024 found retention doing 30 days in late 2024, and then 55 days in early 2025 before things finally clicked this time around, and I've got a few thoughts I've been meaning to share as it's baffled me a lot.

So I had a very traumatic childhood, and I won't go into crazy details (like I was homeless, in poverty when my father took everything and left after almost committing suicide), but I moved around a lot internationally through multiple countries, continents, languages, This meant I was never connected to not only the people around me in my family (after my father left, I'm left with almost none and I'm very far away geographically and life wise to the few I have left) and friends (barely had any as I had moved schools and houses every 1-3 years on average), but also greater society. It's definitely left a big hole in my relationship with reality, the world, and how everything works and I think on top of my already horrific childhood, God sent me on this path to further isolate me away from this modern world. So the last few months I've really separated these 2 things, and along with it I've not seen the "benefits" of retention in the way everyone hypes them up. I've definitely gone through a radical transformation/s the last 12-24 months, but it's left me thinking why I still am pushing for more and more, if I have already gotten this far into my journey at such a young age. I eventually over the last few months have slowly figured out that it's my childhood patterns of overcontrol, hypervigilance, etc so which is why I think I may have CPTSD and DPDR, if not something else. I'm doing fine in my daily life, but it's become ultra repetitive in what I do, and it feels like there's no more problems to solve within my life and more effort will only make me drag myself back into burnout (and frankly I think I have been burnt out for way longer than simply this last year - I don't even know or have thought patterns for when I am injured/sick or just dealing with the ongoing burnout). So my question really is, what do I do now? I've mentally overexerted myself into constant overthinking a lot of the time, yet on paper my future is great and my life is stable and I'm building the foundations required for a brilliant life. I've had thoughts of doing TRE, or breathing exercises or some kind of yoga/body grounding, but I've just not had the energy to research it and delve into it yet. In general, it's very confusing to me and ultimately I'd just like to hear some thoughts on what I'm going through, as we all here are very alone within society purely by choosing this path. So thanks in advance, and have a great day 😄

If you want more context about me then just dm me

As you grow older or even men who are older, remember that you do not want to become that perverted old loser.

Yeah that's MY biggest fear. Succumbing to porn and lust to the point that I'm just a loser when I'm much older. Looking back knowing I could have married that girl if I did not goon the previous afternoon thus missing the opportunity to attract her.

Let's face it, people can tell you just binged bro. Your energy reeks of weakness afterwards.

Of course that man is still stuck in the past obsessing over women who chose other men! He's physically older but mentally a teen!

He's still using porn and lusting and his brain is stuck to when he was a teenager! IT MAKES SENSE.

Of course he's bitter and angry and murderous because HE'S attracting that energy into his life by being a CUCK from watching porn! IT MAKES SENSE!

Sure you can still hit the gym or be "healthy" outwardly but porn puts such a dark energy over you that it just makes you stink and repulsive even if you smell good/look good physically.

Of course women/men do not want to interact with you or your business is failing, you just watched filthy porn and your energy reeks!

You have absorbed a ton of evil/sinister energy. It's gross. Fuck all the mumbo jumbo about gaming women and all that, once you use porn your posture/vibe is off. Everything is out of the window.

Not point in going out and being social after a gooning session.

Of course you are not being promoted your energy is shitty.

Of course that retainer man is making your girl interested in him, he deserves it he's disciplined (not that he would do anything if he's serious).

Of course that retainer who faced pain instead of coping with porn and lust deserves the woman of his dreams! HE DESERVES HER SO GOD WILL GIVE IT TO HIM WHEN THE TIME IS RIGHT!

Of course that retaining man is financially stable HE DESERVES IT because he showed God he can handle the blessing and did not go fumble it away to lust and vices.

This is an energetic world I mean we even have electricity, microwaves, radio, solar panels...the SUN. I'm typing this BECAUSE of energy literally. WAKE UP

As a man you can turn your life around at any point. Never let anyone or anything tell you otherwise.

There have been some baaaad cases turned EXCELLENT because the man decided to give up lusting.

So we can to.

Whether you relapse or not just get up. Fuck anyone who calls you weak for relapsing they are scum.

You WILL RISE UP DO NOT BE DISCOURAGED. This is NOT for the weak.

The fact that you even attempt to practice gives you an edge over MOST men. Lust can not only financially destroy you but it can also get you killed physically! It also can put you in the most unnecessary fucked up delusional scenarios. The rabbit hole is infinite because lust never stops.

FLEE from lust. We tried fighting it and it just does not work.

Keep going whether you are on day 0 or day 30.

"You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. And if your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell."

Matthew 5:27-30

Jesus warned you about lust and infidelity. Do you think you are being loyal if you watch porn or other women? Would you like it if your partner also indulged in other men, masturbated while watching other men or had lustful thoughts and did the same thing as you?

No? Then don't do it.

Are you single and want to find a partner? You will not be loyal from the start if you don't break the chains of lust and addiction. Do you have a partner or are you married or a father? You are already cheating on her. You just need to realize it, admit it, and stop doing it.

It is your free will.

Remember Jesus and his biblical masculinity - faithfulness, kindness, humility, generosity, forgiveness, love, purity, faith.

I can also recommend the very inspiring series The Chosen, where he is portrayed excellently and his being is a true inspiration for real life practice.

God bless you.

Has anyone else on retention noticed they suddenly attract women who are into spiritual or religious stuff?

I’m talking astrology girls, tarot readers, “energy” people, crystal girls, manifestation types, but also very devout Christian and Muslim women too. Ever since I started taking retention seriously, those are consistently the types of women that seem drawn to me the most. Not even necessarily in a romantic way at first either. Sometimes they just stare more, become oddly curious, try to start deeper conversations, or act like they can sense something different about you.

Before retention I mostly blended into the background socially. But on longer streaks I notice I become calmer, more grounded, less validation-seeking, more focused, and weirdly more emotionally present without trying. My eye contact becomes stronger, I speak less but more directly, and I stop giving off that restless “dopamine chasing” vibe. People in general react differently, but spiritually-minded and religious women especially seem to pick up on it fast.

Part of me wonders if retention changes your overall presence, body language, nervous system, confidence, discipline, or even just your level of self-control, and people who are already highly tuned into morality, spirituality, intuition, or “energy” subconsciously notice it more than average people do.

What’s interesting is that even though mystical women and religious women often believe in completely different things, they both seem very sensitive to masculine presence, intention, discipline, restraint, calmness, and authenticity. Those traits seem to become stronger on retention.

It honestly makes me wonder if a man on retention would naturally be more compatible with spiritual or religious women than a non-spiritual or overly lust-driven guy. A lot of these women value self-control, purity, emotional presence, purpose, protecting your energy, discipline, and not being ruled by impulses. Retention overlaps with a lot of that.

Curious if anyone else noticed this phenomenon or had similar experiences.

i feel that ive transformed enough to be unrecognizable, at least to myself, compared to how i was before i decided to start this practice. even compared to me when i last posted, 1 month celibate. i have found god, fully and firmly, and do my best to live through their grace, forgiveness, and love. unto myself and others. this is how my soul wants to live, and thus i shall. mental celibacy is still a work in progress, but i have made significant progress through prayer and my own effort.

i feel as though celibacy is like a sort of medicine, in a way. a path to healing, and eventual true holy purity. at least to me. even my physical pain feels lessened and more tolerable. ive realized my spiritual strength, but also how much god helps me along the way. i guess i can just say, i am far more in touch with what hurts my soul and what doesn't. this is all only the beginning of my spiritual journey to true purity and divine grace.

physical benefits are irrelevant.

thank you for reading. may god, whatever you call them, help you all on your ambitions and journeys in life. have a good day

I just thought i would share my experiences and see if it resonates.

I have been doing sr for a while now. various streak lengths but usually long periods between relapses.

I will be completely honest about what i have experienced. These are as follows:

- De-aging or looking younger. This is pretty big but it’s true and works. i look old when i relapse a lot but now i look about 17/18 and im 23 so pretty decent.

- Basically no anxiety. Lots of aggression but no anxiety. I believe anxiety comes from lack or shame in some way.

- People feel safer around you and trust you without thinking about it. Sounds weird but when i relapsed a lot women wouldn’t be near me and always give me weird looks. Now they feel safer around me and act different. For example many times the woman i live with leaves her phone or other valuable items just lying around when before this she never would do that and often treated me as tho i was untrustworthy. It’s not exactly a benefit for you but it’s a benefit for other people i guess.

- Energy is consistent. You reach a point where your energy is just level. not extreme but also always there. you will know what i mean if you have done like 3 weeks retention.

- More fame and notoriety. it just comes with sr. people look at you, like i said want to be around you and i haven’t experienced this but i guess this can lead to people touching you.

- Anger at injustices. You feel a deep sense of right and wrong and so you will project that out onto other people. If someone is being a bad person it’s much harder to just ignore it and let them get away with it.

- Sometimes a deep feeling of loneliness. This one isn’t fun and can last a while. i don’t think there is a cure to this tbh.

- better money/ job security. at the end of the day your value increases so your less likely to be seen as expendable unless your manager just hates you and is dumb.

- women sense it more than men but both sense it obviously. men just sometimes get competitive or act annoying about it.

- you get to a point where life seem boring honestly. this one is a difficult one tbh. life can just get very boring in retention as you basically achieved your life’s goal at a certain point. i have money, house, job, friends and food what do i even need that doesn’t involve releasing? that’s what im struggling with my survival needs are met so i feel empty inside most days. this pushes me further into loneliness i think as well. i become too desperate for a relationship just to not feel alone.

i basically covered everything about retention. Sure there is some other minor stuff like having increased initiation sometimes or coincidences happening but i’ve also had negative stuff happen so i don’t really focus on that stuff too much.

I genuinely think semen retention helped me become more creative and focused while working on my indie game.

Not in a “superpowers” way. More in a “my brain stopped being fogged by constant overstimulation” way.

A lot of people underestimate how destructive endless dopamine loops can be for creativity. Constant scrolling, porn, thirst traps, doomscrolling, short-form content… after a while your brain gets addicted to consumption instead of creation.

When I started retaining and cutting down on hypersexual content, a few things happened:

• My attention span improved
• I started thinking deeper about my worldbuilding
• Music started hitting harder emotionally
• I became more obsessed with atmosphere and detail
• I had more patience for difficult creative tasks
• I stopped looking for instant gratification every 5 minutes
• I started feeling mentally lighter and more free

That feeling of freedom surprised me the most.

I stopped feeling chained to constantly chasing validation, romance, lust, or the emotional rollercoasters that modern dating culture seems built around. A lot of relationships today honestly look exhausting to me. Constant drama, mixed signals, emotional games, social media performance, unrealistic expectations, people treating each other like disposable content.

Meanwhile, I started appreciating friendships more.

Real friendships feel calmer, more genuine, less performative. Just laughing with people, building ideas together, talking about life, creating things, helping each other grow. That started feeling more valuable to me than obsessing over relationships.

And honestly? Making a great indie game requires almost monastic levels of obsession.

You have to sit there designing mechanics nobody sees yet. Reworking animations. Fixing bugs for hours. Redrawing concepts. Building lore. Studying architecture, color theory, sound design, psychology, UI, pacing, symbolism, marketing.

Most people quit because modern dopamine culture destroys long-term focus.

Retention for me became less about “female attraction” and more about reclaiming mental energy. Instead of constantly leaking attention into fantasies and distractions, I started redirecting it into art direction, storytelling, gameplay ideas, and creative discipline.

Some of the greatest creatives in history isolated themselves for periods of intense creation. Writers. Painters. Musicians. Monks. Philosophers. A lot of them understood that uncontrolled desire scatters the mind.

And personally, I realized I’d rather be remembered as someone who made a legendary game or created a world that inspired people… than just being remembered as somebody’s husband or somebody’s dad.

Not disrespecting family life. I respect people who genuinely want that.

But I think some people are meant to build. To create. To leave behind worlds, stories, music, art, ideas. That path feels more authentic to me.

I’m not saying retention magically makes you a genius.

But I do think reducing compulsive lust, overstimulation, and dopamine addiction can create the mental conditions needed to make something meaningful.

Especially if you’re trying to build an indie game with soul instead of another corporate slop product.

Curious if any other artists/devs experienced this.

The Bible offers several examples of anointed individuals such as Joseph, David, Moses, and Elijah, who were each chosen by the Most High God for a specific purpose. More often than not, these anointed biblical characters were chosen to lead groups of people towards a favorable outcome that remained sustainable and beneficial for many years. David led Israel to victory over the Philistines; Joseph guided Egypt through famine into prosperity; and Moses delivered the Israelites from Egypt into the Promised Land.

Although most prominent examples of anointed people emanate from ancient times, anointed people still walk the face of the earth today (2026 A.D.). Much like their counterparts from antiquity, these modern day anointed souls have been fashioned by God for a specific purpose which will benefit masses of people. Anointed children of the Most High God are held to incredibly high standards and must follow a strict code of conduct if they are to thrive and fulfill their potential. However, I find that most anointed people DO NOT abide by the guidelines required of their specific life path. As a result, many anointed people find themselves leading an existence akin to hell on earth even if they aren't doing anything egregious compared to their contemporaries. The chief reason why most anointed folks don't abide by their required strict code of conduct is simply due to ignorance. After all, nobody pulls any of us aside in childhood to tell us wether we are anointed or not now do they?

Although the lack of self knowledge common to many anointed people is not their fault, they still suffer the dire repercussions of living outside of their prescribed code of conduct until wisdom transforms them. This suffering will continue indefinitely and actually escalate with time until the anointed gain the wisdom required to align their lifestyle with their archetype. The harrowing experiences that many anointed people endure in youth is actually part of the master plan. God uses this period of youthful ignorance to college the anointed individual and temper his or her character through the gauntlet of adversity and the furnace of affliction. This necessary process refines the anointed—cultivating humility, patience, empathy, strength, resilience, kindness, and determination—while freeing them from the need for human approval, shaping them into a vessel for God’s glory.

Now although the above is the typical path experienced by most anointed people, it can be made much easier through knowledge of self. I find that the sooner the anointed person accepts his/her archetype and adapts their lifestyle to fit it, the quicker they are ushered into a position of prominence without as much suffering. The key is to submit to God and abide by the laws required of your archetype. The sooner anointed people do this, the sooner they will be able to start thriving and making sense of life. The other option is to fight the path, but I urge you not to waste your time doing that... God is still undefeated and you probably don't want all that smoke from the creator of the known universe LOL.

At this point, you might be wondering how on earth one would know if they are anointed. Well, there are very distinct signs that occur in the life of almost all anointed people I have met. If ~85% or more of the signs below apply to you, you can bet your bottom dollar that you are one of God's anointed people.

• You have a serious problem with lust
  • I'm not sure why God did this to us, but anointed people have a seriously high libido. Maybe God wanted us to use this sexual potency to reproduce with other good people and thus dominate the earth with the seed of his spirit. However, this sexual gift runs amuck in many anointed people due to a lack of wisdom. This is one of the major reasons why many anointed people end up in lustful ill fated relationships with physically attractive but inwardly rotten narcissistic individuals somewhere along their journey
  • The good news is that when the anointed person eventually masters their sexual energy, they will rise to immense heights of power and prominence that seemed unattainable to their old life.
• Folks either hate you for no reason or really love you
  • If you are anointed, you will find that no matter where you go or how loud or quiet you are, some people will just hate you for no good reason. Some of these people will actually make up delusional stories in their head to convince themselves (and attempt to gaslight you) into thinking that you are a horrible person when nothing could be farther from the truth.
  • On the other hand, there will be another group of people who absolutely adore you and fight for you. These types will sit in the pocket with you even when times get tough and defend your name when others try to sully it behind your back. These gems are few and far in between so please cherish them when you meet them along your journey.
• You are very creative in some way
  • Pretty much all anointed people have at least one creative talent. Some of us actually have several creative talents at the same time. Anointed people are usually musicians, artists, writers, carpenters, architects, sculptors, singers, etc. Like our Father in heaven, but on a much much much smaller scale, anointed people are able to create something from nothing because we are made in his image.
• All your sexual relationships outside the confines of biblical marriage fail
  • As an anointed person, you are held to a high standard. You are designed to be a living example to others of how God intends for humans to live and conduct their lives. As a result, any sexual relationship you engage in with the wrong woman or man without following biblical marriage laws and customs will end painfully. This is meant to force you to adopt the righteous way of finding a righteous woman to love, protect, provide for, and cherish as she submits to and respects you in a partnership designed to glorify the Heavenly Father. If you are anointed and you try anything outside of this immaculate design, it will end in disaster... period.
• You are naturally kind and empathetic
  • You have a really good heart and have no problem putting yourself in the shoes of others. You're the type of person who will happily buy some food for the homeless person outside the grocery store if you have a bit of extra money to spare. You are probably the "go-to" person in your family or friendship circle that gets the call when someone is in trouble because people know you are capable and always willing to help.
• You attract an unusual amount of jealousy
  • This is perhaps the most universal sign of anointed people. No matter where they go or how little they have in the material world, they attract an unusual amount of jealousy. Sometimes, the jealousy aimed at anointed people comes from folks who have 10X more material possessions and status! This used to confuse the heck out of me until I realized that the jealousy experienced by anointed people is due to their inner glow and powerful spiritual abilities rather than material possessions.
• Your intuition is ridiculously accurate
  • Anointed people have crazy accurate intuitive abilities. They are able to sense things before they happen, and decipher the true character of a person regardless of what mask said person wears. It usually takes a while and a lot of experience before the anointed learn to trust their intuition. The anointed person eventually realizes that ignoring that subtle voice within often leads to very unfavorable circumstances. Somehow, that still quiet voice within the anointed always knows what the correct course of action is for long term success and sustainability.

If this resonates with you, you are likely anointed and will never fit in with the world. Not to worry though, because God (and this brotherhood) always has your back.

Till next time brothers, Godspeed and remain blessed.

Brother Cooked.