No fap movements and 'semen retention' strategies are total and utter bullshit.

I am fucking fed up of these self-help people preaching to either do one of the following:

If you are addicted to porn, erotic fiction, sexting as well as the masturbation attached to them, your addiction is the problem and not the fact you're masturbating in itself.

I have personally tried to avoid masturbating in the past and hit the lowest point in my life. I had almost no sex drive, I felt like nothing had a point, not even sex and I was empty as fuck.

When I either have sex (won't specify when I have done or how often, it is irrelevant, I am focusing on ejaculation here) and masturbated, I have personally experienced a surge in masculinity and feeling more focused and energetic in daily life. When I masturbate/fuck either super too often or super too little, I experience sex consuming my mind and a feeling of being emasculated, less energetic, less 'oomph' and 'fire' to me, I would not even say it is feminine, it is just emasculating towards and emptiness.

I really wish people did solid scientific research before thinking your sperm doesn't die anyway and even force-releases by wet dreams if you refuse to masturbate (unless you're depressed with barely any libido and sperm production).

As for females and the no-fap movement, I'm not sure how it works and feels for them as I was born assigned and cisgender male.

The main hoax is that your body 'absorbs the dead sperm as pure testosterone'. This is nonsense.

If you really are all about recycling and digesting wasted sperm, lick it off your fingers for all I care.

I don't have the slightest clue what people mean by this. It doesn't get digested or ingested as testosterone or 'life force' your body actually releases more tesosterone during orgasm, as a man, than at almost any other point other than severe exercise or confrontation.

In 2008 Ernest Borgnine told Fox & Friends that the secret to his longevity was masturbating -- a lot. He died when he was 95 years old.

You can literally die from ejaculating. It is very irresponsible to suggest no fap is a bad ideal. It wasn't a bad ideal for the people who would have ejaculated and died. https://scroll.in/article/1015880/even-the-young-can-die-during-sex-finds-a-new-study

LOL.

Ah yes, indefinite fasting was not a bad idea to the people who would have died through food poisoning! So, even that, it is a bad idea for people who would have died by starvation.

This is how far-reaching they go.

It's a serious problem in India actually and probably why ilikepie is a virgin. He is playing it safe

Where they are underfed?

Running can kill an underfed person, as can weightlifting. Are these things healthy to totally abstain from?

I think it is just a rare genetic heart defect found in a lot of Indian men. It usually occurs when they are young and have sex for the first time and it happens a handful of times each year. It's been studied a lot, but I have just barely dug into it and only out of morbid curiosity

As far as weightlifting, I would say ideally if your interest is in increased longevity than keep it to 2 days a week. More muscle mass is hard on the heart. The heart doesn't know the difference between muscle and fat. 20 lbs of muscle is the same as 20 lbs of fat to the heart. 

Running has been proven to extend human longevity, but to reduce the likelihood of dying running which happens to a lot of runners, I would keep it to 45 minutes a day. It might be a good ideal to keep that at 3 days a week just to be safe. That is just guidelines for people who care more about life expectancy than physical fitness though. 

So the purpose of weightlifting in the above example would be to prevent muscle and bone loss as you age, not build muscle. Technically you would still build muscle lifting 2 days a week, but once you go to 1 day a week, you might as well not even lift. 

A warehouse worker lifts weights as part of their regular job.

I am not sure why we are going down rabbit holes on a topic that has a lot of specifics to rule out analogies.

Love it.

Is that similar to going down fox holes on a mars bar that has nothing specific to rule in a metaphor.

Apologies on a wet Sunday morning.