Why You Should Give Up Masturbation For Lent

Lent is the Christian holiday period lasting 40 fasting days (45 days) prior to Easter.  It is a period of reflection, particularly of resisting temptation, cleansing, and preparing for the new year.  Many observers practice fasting, while others choose to sacrifice or abstain from a certain vice or pleasure.

Whether one is religious or not, there are benefits to abstaining from something of value, pleasure, and convenience.  All major religions and many cultures have similar observances around this time of the year.  And the most ardent observer of Lent that I know is my agnostic, hard partying, international traveling, bar owning bachelor uncle, who steadfastly gives up alcohol every Lent.

I encourage every man to give up something of convenience, a vice, or habit, during this time.  And to particularly consider giving up masturbation.

First, I believe masturbation is normal, natural and healthy.  This is not an article to shame men from the natural sexual urges we have.  Just as those who fast do not hate food, abstaining from something sexual does not mean one views sexual desires or satisfying them, as bad or wrong.

The point is to force a man to give up something valuable and important, as a tool of self-discipline and reflection.  If you are a very horny man in your teens or early 20s, already choking the chicken at least once a day, perhaps you would benefit more from another activity like fasting, giving up drinking or smoking, or video games.  And indeed the choice should be a personal one for every man.  But here we discuss the benefits of abstinence from masturbation.

Lent

Lent begins on Ash Wednesday (February 14, 2018) and ends on Easter.  While western consumerist culture focuses on Jesus’ birthday, (a day likely not even important to Jesus himself), the most important Christian holiday is Easter, which celebrates the rite and miracle of Resurrection.  Whether one believes in a deity or not, Resurrection can be symbolically seen as rebirth, as it is the time when flowers are blooming, spring is arriving, and short skirts and tank tops come out.

Traditionally, Christian observers prepare for Easter through prayer, self-denial, meditation, penance, and fasting.  Some adherents will break the fast every Sunday.  This is why there are 40 days excluding Sundays between Ash Wednesday and Lent.  This is a personal decision, but completely abstaining from whatever you sacrifice is a more meaningful and difficult challenge.

Why Masturbation?

Particularly for men in the West, the conveniences of modern life make us soft and spoiled.  When a man can wake and within seconds, beckon hardcore sluts of every body type virtually to his bed, performing sexual acts men in the past could not even dream of, masturbation can become a crutch, a vice, gluttony.

Even the richest of kings in the past did not have such easy access to the wide array of visual stimulation available through HD pornography and live degenerate camwhores.

When we become a slave to our desires, we lose autonomy.  Sacrificing self pleasure is about acknowledging and recognizing the power our emotions and sex drive has over us, and choosing how it will affect us.

The traditional sacrifices made during Lent were chosen because they gave pleasure.  Beginning in the Middle Ages, meat, eggs and dairy were prohibited during Lent.  What gives pleasure more than gratifying a sexual urge whenever it appears?  And indeed, Thomas Acquinas acknowledged this by stating that these rich foods…

…afford greater pleasure as food, and greater nourishment to the human body, so that from their consumption there results a greater surplus available for seminal matter, which when abundant becomes a great incentive to lust.

You Will See The Value In Sacrifice

A wealthy man likely sacrificed his idle time saving and investing, forgoing immediate pleasures for long term rewards.  A strong man sacrificed his time and dietary choices putting in hard work building his body.  A powerful man sacrificed personal endeavors for building relationships, businesses, or political connections that he later uses to accomplish great things.  By sacrificing something of value, one sees the value in sacrifice.

Fasting and self-sacrifice during Lent in the past was a requirement for all Christians.  Today, far fewer practice it.  By observing this tradition, you are returning to your roots, your history, your customs.

What To Expect?

First, do not feel bad if you don’t make it the full 40 days.  The point is to forego something easy, satisfying, and convenient.  Not to reach any predetermined calendar date.  One should abstain at least a week.  The first week to 10 days is extremely difficult.  You may begin seeing all females of any age as sexual objects, and may feel horny all the time.  You may become obsessed with sex.  Your eyes will quickly search out any visible flesh.

I have abandoned this idea in the past, because my thoughts became so focused on sex and I had to release so I could return to normal functioning behavior.  If you can make it a couple of weeks, but then it becomes too difficult, one could observe the Sunday free day.  However, there is a “breaking point” after which it becomes much easier to continue to your goal.

Perhaps there is nothing wrong with acting immediately on our sexual urges.  But this is what animals do.  To observe and acknowledge the effects of this desire, and to see the control that the poosy has over us, is to become a truly strong and powerful man.  Also there is a definitely a correlation between the last time your balls were drained, and your motivation to open and pursue women.

The ending of Lent, when you are ready to unleash your pent up energies, coincides with the beginning of Spring when women shed clothing and hit the beach!  You will be more motivated to approach and meet women just when they are emerging from their winter hibernation.

In closing, I encourage all men to make some sacrifice during Lent, for personal enrichment, and to consider foregoing masturbation. For more on this subject, check out the writings of Aurelius Moner.

Read Next: Why Non-Christians Should Observe Lent

62 thoughts on “Why You Should Give Up Masturbation For Lent”

  1. Back in the day, my granny hollered at me, “quit beatin yer pecker or you’ll go blind!” And I never.. did it.. again..

    1. How would you say you benefitted from this? I’ve managed to not watch porn for 34 days now but sheer masturbation is more challenging, do you have any tips?

  2. No thanks…got a solid current GF and sex life, but still need to spank the monkey some days. I see no drawbacks in output, endurance, strength or mental fortitude. Keeps my shit on an even keel. My drive is way too high, actually problematic. If I don’t dispense at least 1-2 nuts daily, I’m getting way too distracted by it. I won’t even be able to sleep through the early-morning hours. I’ll go out on a limb and promote the modern “maintenance fap” — in the shower, call up the mental Rolodex of past conquests or current pursuits, quick-like, because there’s business to take care of in the real world. It’s just a focus thing…need to keep urge-y distractions to a minimum. Being horny makes me chase stupid whores more than I’d like to admit. I like to play hangdog, calm and collected around the high-grade women…I never let them see me feeling too much oats b/c it tips their advantage and they already hold enough cards these days, haha…/vented

      1. @Quetzl61
        LOl, yeah…but I did already try the “no fap” challenge long before I discovered ROK, just see where my baseline tolerance was. One time I went more than 2 months w/o it, another time 2-3 weeks. They produced nothing of value in my life and didn’t move the needle on any of my vital signs. All I got was tender blue balls and powerful urges to bang low-than-average quality women. Mostly I saw the humor in it all, and how most of us can become slaves to our male libidos (guilty right here).

  3. I once went three weeks without bashing the Bishop that’s enough for me. I only wank twice a week that’s pretty respectable.

  4. Pursuing women if you’re 35+ and have already had your fill of cunny is only worth it if you’re rich and you throw money at them to shut up, serve you and leave. Otherwise pursing women in the modern dating ritual is a huge emasculating time sink.
    I’d strongly recommend quitting porn. Masturbate only to your memories/imagination for 40 days, especially in the morning when you’ve got raging wood. I can bust a nut to my imagination in 30 seconds in the morning.
    But if you haven’t got beautiful memories to masturbate to — or worse yet, you find yourself masturbating to memories of porn — then you have no choice but to get out there, pursue women, and one way or another acquire enough healthy memories to last you a lifetime on a deserted island.

    1. Men over 35 still get erections and bitches want them. Hoes that age are much a much sadder sight.

    2. Even using imagination during masturbation will trigger the same dopamine and resulting opioid response. Yes on memories and more importantly – actual physical sensation. But fantasies = porn. That’s what messes up your brain reward response system. Which leads to dependency and pied.

  5. Gotta buff the old lighthouse sometimes.
    98% of you here do it. And the other 2% are liars. 😉

  6. worth doing if you have the right constitution. That’s not to say you should try because you might not manage. Far from it. It’s just that such thing can sometimes achieve the opposite effect. If you go on a sudden starvation diet, your body and mind may seek to compensate, which doesn’t matter if you have a will of iron and can the flesh, or whichever hunger drives you to your will. Such heroic virtue though is more common in saints than your average ‘sinner’. The point of self-abnegation should in the first instance be basic and reasonable self-control, as a stoic might aim for. If you ‘fast’ for lent and then gorge on food or in this case sex / masturbation on easter sunday that would surely be counter-productive. If on the other hand you can work it into a system of self-control, of self-mastery, then that might be well worth it, particularly if you are religiously minded.

  7. I am 28. I masturbate at least thrice daily. I am still strong as fuck, athletic and fairly successful. This no-fap bullshit is just another fad for millenial soyboys.

    1. CUCKSLAYER
      Soy Boys know where the “glory holes” are in the park’s men’s room, no need to masturbate.
      They will try to brush this off as bisexual chic but in reality it translates to any old mouth or anus will do.
      Or maybe most of them are gay. In any event, try to imagine a hetero situation where you could go into a women’s toilet and just stick your penis through a stall and some unidentified woman would suck it. Or for that matter, walk through a park and fuck women for free in the bushes.
      Of course if everyone were gay nothing would get done and orphans would be everywhere but as I said this has no application to soy boys.

  8. And what about after Lent? Why not give it up entirely?
    This is the problem basing stuff off religion.

  9. Sacrificing is a good message here. We don’t do enough of it especially in the food and exercise categories However for gents over 40, I would not advise harsh sacrifice on releasing. Remember that much of semen is – yes – cholesterol. Heart disease in older men are likely because they’re not getting it or are not interested in their whalish wives or GFs… beware, get your release for your heart’s sake.

  10. I get blue balls on my 4th /5th days of not jacking. Then I start flirting with trolls, hoes and fatties desperately needing to get out the demon semen. Add a splash of alcohol… Bad bad bad

  11. Possibly this is why porn starts are idolized in the United States. Prostitution is illegal.

  12. MASTER-NATION
    A Stormy Daniels or Jenna Jameson who appears in Bukkake Videos is idolized as an empowerment to Feminism and the Mandingos like Lex Steele and over-hung He-Blews like Deen or Jeremy are regarded as cult icons.
    The poor sad sack who tries to get his cock sucked is placed under arrest by police, has his car impounded and his face on a Billboard.
    Of course the producers of porn profit immensely. The current Stormy Daniels issue was probably engineered by her Democrat-voting management to create a Weiner-like scandal (Failing because nobody cares if a white trash slut with a gaping asshole was used by Trump; his voters know Stormy Daniel’s type in high school).

    1. Hey Gen Db! How are ya? 🙂
      Don’t forget that the majority of recent HD porn actresses are now TRANS manipulators driving a really distorted hardcore agenda. -EXAMPLE-
      Gregory Clifford aka Stormy Daniels is another pre-structured TG psy-op specialist who will soon reveal the POTUS in a MeToo scandal. Expect things to deteriorate very quickly in this final “Lent”. All the Best.

  13. Porn and Masturbation
    As late as the 1990’s, porn and masturbation were the taxonomy of derelicts and nerdy teenagers. A man in his reproductive prime GOT LAID.
    Performers in porn reflected Capitalism dark cellar-lower middle class high school dropouts like Dirk Diggler with large appendages or women from even worse (Far worse) backgrounds.
    Today porn stars are deified.
    The reason is a confluence of economics and technology. As Gen Y on this board have complained, males who are 25 today have to live in their parents basement.
    Middle American mores have clamped down on street prostitution. It is illegal for a woman to give a blowjob in a hotel room for money but if she goes to California she can engage in far more extreme acts AS LONG AS THERE IS A CAMERA PRESENT.
    Gen Y males are so strapped they can no longer afford the seedy efficiency apartment and bring girls back from a club. They must live at home and pump their cocks in their rooms like 14 year old adolescents in 1987 did.
    It is no surprise that many more Gen Y males are becoming gay. A mouth or anus is a mouth or anus, especially if the man DRESSES like a woman. She-males are probably in more demand because usually they fuck for free. If a male does not feel like jerking off his only other option is to hit seedy rest rooms where gays congregate.

    1. I honestly think Gen-X will be the last generation where healthy LTRs are the norm. Western women have become so fat, medicated, and self-entitled that maintaining any kind of relationship is impossible. And yet the swipe-right online culture (which let’s face it, is the female answer to porn) ensures that some flabby 50-year old unemployed divorcee with one tit can laid more — a LOT more — than a good looking 30-yo with a decent job. Guys are waking up to this fact, which is why so many are jumping off the relationship bandwagon altogether.
      And why wouldn’t they? Even if you put in the supreme effort to game some buttery 4/10 into bed, chances are she’s a petrie dish or a bunny boiler (or both). So you wake up with a horrible disease, a false rape accusation, your dick superglued to your thigh, or all of the above. Where’s the risk/reward trade-off in that? Even a men’s resource like RoK spends just as much ink warning guys off toxic Western women as it does advising how to alpha their panties off. What’s a young guy to think? At the end of the day it’s a shitload easier just turning on redtube and spanking it in your parents basement, or buying a rubber woman before long… and let the harpies on the View bitch on about how there are “no good men left”.
      Of course the really keen will go out and get a nice Asian, East European, Indian, or (God forbid) Muslim girl, and hope to hell she doesn’t get the Feminist Cancer. Either that or, as you say, settling for trannies, assuming one doesn’t mind the taste of cock.. bearing in mind those “ladies” require a dumptruck of pills and injections daily, or bits start shifting around.

    2. Population control. Put women in the workplace, drive down wages while increasing cost of living. Make older man/younger women relationships against societal norm, encourage the women to engage in sterile sex with “men their own age”, make it so men don’t even want younger women and prefer “women their own age”. When you see someone like Prince Harry with a woman 3 years older, it’s not because he couldn’t get a woman in her late teens, early or mid 20s. It’s because western folks have been socialized to “date your own age”.
      Then, for the men who have trouble getting women of any age, sex dolls, porn and other forms of VR sex. And if you actually want physical contact with an actual person, with society being so open and accepting of homosexuality and trannies being held up as the equivalent to women, then a socially awkward 38 year old virgin can lose his virginity with another man or with a feminine looking tranny and be accepted socially.

      1. harold
        “population control” that is going to control the population of Whites and Asians and Jews.
        Other races will continue have children at 15. The problem is that with less white and Asians and Jews (Who earn high but have no objection to taxes) the society has a bunch of feral kids who grew up poor, never cracked a book in their life, have an IQ of 80 or 90.

  14. This article is probably more realistic for us older guys, who slap the salami more out of habit than to relieve any real horniness. I mean, I think of it like the A/C in my car, and give it a blast at least once a week even in winter to keep the pipes clear. (Not to hang shit on the younger guys.. I know your pain).
    But it’s a fair point that “self indulgence” can reach the point of gluttony, in exactly the same way as scoffing 24,000 calories daily. I mean, you don’t wanna end up the masturbatory equivalent of those revolting 600lb monsters on TLC.

  15. I actually am doing this for lent (as well as alcohol, sweets and confectionary things). It’s a great test to see just how much you “need” this kind of activity. It’s a great thing to do, and after Easter there is nothing stopping you from going longer without jerking it.

  16. Absurd.
    And Foolish.
    EXCESS onanism is negative, but living without sexual release is UNHEALTHFUL.
    Notice how everything in 2018 is about YOUR SACRIFICE,,
    Give up your freedoms. Give up your job. Give up your culture. Give up your wealth. Give up talking with women. Give up your masculinity. Give up your safe neighborhood. Give up your dissenting voice. And now give up your sex in any form…
    My response to this Author and those who think like him?
    F U C K – Y OU !!!!!!!!!!!!

    1. I read a book about Love Shy men written in the 1980’s and one of the things pointed out between love shy men and more confident men was that love shy men tended to have more ‘releases’ than the confident men. The confident men ejaculated less, but more often with actual partners. The love shy men did so primarily through masturbation. The confident men who did masturbate did so infrequently and much less so than the love shy men. Many of the confident men didn’t masturbate at all.

  17. You should quit masturbating permanently, not just for Lent. Although I do recommend a fast of some sort for Lent & I’m not Catholic or even Christian really – fasts are good and in the West, Lent offers an easy explanation to the normies that want you to ruin your self-mastery.

  18. Did one of those “Fap Free 40” contests a few years ago that I think Gavin was pushing. Never really looked back. Missed it for about 7 days then became something akin to “don’t eat chocolate for 7 days” when you really don’t really care for chocolate.
    The overall effect has been mild on my life but noticeable. I will pursue women more aggressively when I choose to do so. Might have also gave a small boost to my free floating T in that weight bearing exercise has got a tad easier. Overall quality of life effect – mild at best.

  19. I’ll admit, it’s a very hard practice to give up, especially when you do as much cardio (and box) as much as I do. See, all of that works out the lower body and after a particularlu strenuous workout, I can’t help but feel a little rambunctious. Also, it helps me sleep and given that I have been diagnosed with PTSD due to my time in the marine corps, it was that or marijuana. I chose that, thinking it to be more healthy.
    Still, I will try. Any tips? Would meditation help? I would try using oils (coconut, peppermint, eucalyptus etc.) to help me focus while I meditate but it just seems to make me more horny than ever.

    1. Jeese Brown- I hadn’t thought of that. Meditation makes me horny too, even without exercise.

  20. I’ve got a better idea how about you mind your own junk in your pants and I will worry about my own junk in my own. I’m not telling you what to do with yours don’t fucking tell me what to do with mine. there’s my Lenten sacrifice.

    1. after 50 years of being a proud owner of my own package it is still disease-free still fully functional and is giving me two kids so I must be doing something right. my own counsel will I keep concerning the use of my prized penis

  21. I haven’t observed Lent since childhood. So what the hell. No fapping. And no pizza too. Because I associate Lent with giving up food, like chocolate. Without that it won’t feel like Lent. And because Easter falls on April 1st this year; all fools day.
    Just one thing. I’ll have to extend it to Tues, the 3rd. I missed the start.

  22. I think internet porn is a tool of population control, among many.
    With internet porn, you have guys doing it multiple times a day everyday. And it’s very easy to get addicted to internet porn, even among those who aren’t prone to addictions. Not only does internet porn cause you to have ED when with a real partner it also causes you to lose interest at all in flesh and blood women. You could have your favorite porn star naked and spread eagle in the bed wanting you to take her and you wouldn’t be able to perform, but you would be able to wack off to videos of her with someone else. Because the primitive part of your brain thinks you are copulating with actual women when you masturbate to internet porn. So you have no motivation for actual women.
    There’s much concern about the dwindling population in Japan because the young men aren’t reproducing and seem to have no interest in doing so. Among young men 18-34, a high percentage are virgins and between internet porn, sex dolls and other forms of virtual reality sex, young men just aren’t interested in flesh and blood women. They may cognitively know that they should be, but the part of the brain that causes desire easily confuses the women on the screen or the realistic looking sex doll as real women.
    And it’s only going to get worse. When sex dolls that look and feel like genuine young women become available at a relatively cheap price or virtual reality simulations that are just like having whatever kind of kinky sex you want with your favorite porn star, young men will really start checking out. Especially once the societal prohibition against it has changed.

    1. Spot on sir. Immediate gratification and unlimited novelty of porno provides a lil heroin like rush in the brain. It all ties together. All of the symptoms society is experiencing come frome One big disease that needs to be chemo-ed.

  23. Part 2 to above
    I don’t think porn ought to be banned, but I think the effects it can have should be made known. It essentially sterilizes men. Doctors have noted that since 2006, a sharp rise in ED in men as young as their late teens have been noted. Healthy men in their 20s and 30s have seen sky rocket increases of ED and loss of sex drive towards actual flesh and blood women. And the one thing they all have in common is addiction to internet porn.
    Thirty year ago, in 1988, it was unheard of for a healthy man under 40 to have ED unless it was performance anxiety. Today it’s more and more common.

  24. Actually, it’s a health issue. I worked in surgery as a much younger man, and I will never forget the words of advice from a cystoscopy nurse: “Keep the juices flowing.”
    And sure enough, it’s been demonstrated that regular ejaculations through life reduces your risk of enlarged prostate or prostate cancer.
    Between GF’s and wives over the years, I’ve happily spanked the monkey for health reasons, and that has not failed me yet. I have the PSA of a guy half my age. I’m 64 now.

    1. @BlankReg
      Exactly…and “blue balls” is a painful reality after just 4 or 5 days of buildup. That’s nature telling you to release the hounds.

  25. 20 years ago id jack off to “girls gone wild” tv commercials and bust a nut in less then 30 secs!

  26. So if i save up my fap for 40 days ill be ready to hose the beach hotties like a tower aparatus belching firefighting foam on the scene of an air crash?
    They certainly deserve it. A tower, a ladder, a couple of engines, all going full psi like a legion of chads lined up and hitting them with a full regimental volley of milenial bukake.
    And while we’re taking it back to medieval roots, can we also drag them back to islam as slaves? It’s all they’re gonna be really good for anyway.
    They def deserve that.

  27. Fapping is bad for your reward system in your brain. Even worse with porn.
    Quit fapping for Christ sake! Quit fapping for your mind’s sake! Quit fappping for your own cock’s sake!
    Break away from the (((porn))) industry!!!

  28. There are many myths when it comes to abstinence – raised testosterone levels, higher sex drive, or if you visit places like the nofap forums you apparently gain “superpowers”. It’s all nonsense.
    For health reasons you shouldn’t go longer than 3 days with ejaculating. It’s unhealthy for the prostate to abstain long term – men who masturbate/have sex less than twice a week are 20% more likely to develop prostate cancer for example. Long term abstinence damages sperm quality. As for the penis – “use it or lose it”. Regularly increasing bloodflow to the genitals is healthy, as is exercising the PC muscle – the opposite will lead to atrophying PC muscles resulting in less bloodlfow to the penis and weaker erections.
    I can understand why so many people are jumping on the bandwagon of the whole “nofap” movement, regular sex with women is of course much better than fapping to (((porn))) like a cuck. However, total abstinence is also a bad idea for your health and sexual performance.

    1. MASTURBATION is a slippery slope. That’s the problem. Some guys do it once or twice and can’t stop. Next think you know they’re content with their hands and not virgin cunt.

      1. Most guys have done it since they were about 12 and do just fine getting laid. It’s only a problem when a guy is unable to attract a woman and refuses to improve himself in order to get to a level where he can because he can’t be bothered and instead turns to porn, in which case the problem is that he’s a loser. This whole anti-masturbation thing has gotten weird.

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