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Infographics is back, asking the hard questions the UN Scientific committee is too cowardly to
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tackle. What happens when you stop masturbating? From main character energy to hormone shifts,
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turns out that going abstinent suddenly can wreak havoc on your mind and body.
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But to find out how bad it is, we're tasking your favorite lab rat with his hardest,
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longest, most rigid experiment ever. And once more we've recruited his
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girlfriend... all in the name of science!
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Experiment start!
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Alright, someone at The Infographics Show has a special place in the deepest depths of
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hell. Recently, I was the unwitting subject of a 'what happens if you stop having sex' experiment,
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with producers recruiting my girlfriend to cut me off cold turkey. Now I'm in on the
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experiment, but they've not just recruited the girlfriend, they've full-blown gone diabolical.
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Because I'm not just not allowed to have sex for next two weeks,
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there's to be no masturbation either. Oh, but that's not the diabolical part - the
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diabolical part is... I'll be working as a photographer for an ad campaign featuring
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my girlfriend and other models. One client is an underwear brand, the other makes swimsuits.
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Odds are, you've seen their ads on other youtube vids, instagram, and facebook - and you would
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here too except they pulled sponsorship at last minute, so there'll be no free advertising today.
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So this started a week after the end of the last 'experiment', meaning I'd had a chance to...
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flush my system if you will. With the two weeks starting on a monday,
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I made sure Sunday night included vigorous cardio, but that abstinence hit hard come Monday morning.
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If you regularly work out, you know that exercise is a surefire way to get your libido going. The
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girlfriend and I work out together every other morning, and this time she decided to wear her
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tightest fitting workout gear. She even kicked the treadmill up several notches to get extra
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sweaty. I wasn't the only person to notice that she looked like she was smuggling two Christmas
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hams in her workout shorts… two delightfully bouncing, perfectly rounded Christmas hams.
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But for the first time I was a helpless observer just like the rest of the world.
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I was practically gnawing on the steering wheel on the drive home from the gym. And
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rather than go to the bathroom to undress like a normal person, she decided to just
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strip off her sweat-soaked clothes the moment we got in the door and head off for her shower.
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Which we usually share. But not today,
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because Infographics has shut down my sex life for two weeks.
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Listen, I'm as mortal as any of you, and naturally the thing I immediately most wanted
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to do was run off and polish my flight stick. But that'd be against the rules,
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and here's where the first effect of no masturbation started to hit me: anxiety.
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It sounds weird to say not masturbating can make you anxious, but it's a different
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type of anxiety from say, that people who are afraid of dogs experience when walking by one.
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It's more of a build up of extreme amounts of sexual energy that has nowhere to go.
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Your chest can get a little tight, your face gets flushed, and with some people you can
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even get a croaky voice - which normally is a surefire indicator that someone is very turned on
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around you. But if you aren't progressing to the next logical step, it's like fire in your veins.
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At that point, literally everything makes you horny which only makes things worse. I
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went to the closet to pull out the slacks I was going to wear, and caught sight of a little red
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dress the girlfriend likes to wear on special date nights. It's very low cut in the front,
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clinging to and revealing her very perfectly spherical dairy cannons,
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and cut high at the bottom - so high that one wrong move and she's in danger of showing cheek.
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She bought it specifically to drive me crazy. And right now I'm not ashamed to admit that I
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nearly broke my commitment to my employer and had sexual relations with a dress.
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Fleeing from the bedroom - and the sound of her in a steamy,
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hot shower - I ran to the kitchen and did the only thing I could think of:
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stuck my head in the freezer. Then I washed my hands in as cold water as the tap could manage.
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And you know, it worked.
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When you’re fired up, your brain is flooded with sex chemicals - until something unpleasant
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happens. That shock can instantly override them, replaced by the emergency chemicals
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your body releases in stressful situations. See, your brain knows that when you get
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horny you become a very stupid ape, with a very specific goal in mind, and nothing else matters.
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But evolution needs you to survive, which is why it built in a sort of safety mechanism.
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Imagine it's about 1.5 million years in the past and you're one of humanity's earliest ape-like
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descendants. You're about to get some prime-A homo erectus booty, some of the nicest nice in
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the entire savanna. Your brain is flooded with sex hormones and chemicals - dopamine
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increases your sense of motivation and sensations of pleasure; norepinephrine increases your sense
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of sexual arousal as well as your ability to focus and sense of energy... which is why you
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become so single-minded by the way. Oxytocin and vasopressin meanwhile makes you feel a sense of
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attachment with that lovely upright relict hominid you're about to desecrate the grasslands with.
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All of this is creating the infamous sex fog, and giving you the reverse
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of attention-deficit disorder. You've got attention-surplus disorder - and
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all of that attention is fully on the primate strange you're about to get.
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But then there's a rustling in the grass that you've evolutionarily learned to associate with
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Dinofelis, or the sabre-toothed cat. Suddenly, your brain releases a chemical soup including
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epinephrine and norepinephrine. The epinephrine, or adrenaline,
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works together with the norepinephrine already in your system to shift your attention to
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survival - making you forget all about the monkey clam you were on the verge of claiming.
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The rush of cold water can create a milder version of this same chemical reaction,
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as it shocks the body and the brain responds with a massive ‘what is going on here,
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and could it be trying to kill me?!’ The feeling you get after is what's famously known as post-nut
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clarity - which by the way, there is no scientific term for. Really seems like there should be.
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With my emotions under control, I banished the harlot in my bedroom from my sight by
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literally covering my eyes and rushing into the bathroom for a very cold shower.
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This was going to be a challenge, and it was only getting worse.
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So I have a photography background, and the work we were doing didn't require
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much skill to be honest. I was just shooting the girlfriend along with other models on a white cyc
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stage. While they were wearing underwear. And swimsuits. For the next three days.
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I powered through the first day, but was a live wire by the time we got home. I felt
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like I would literally explode at the slightest touch, which is why I forbade it. She slept in
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the bedroom alone that night and I slept in the living room. I didn't need that Jezebel
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tempting me by pressing her Christmas hams up against me in the middle of the night.
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She was clearly enjoying this sadistic experiment - after all,
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she was free to release all her sexual frustrations even as she heaped them onto me.
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The girlfriend and I have shot things together before - either just for art's sake or even a
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few brands that she's modeled for. When it's spicier types of shoots,
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I have a habit of dragging her away halfway through for a... private five
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minute consultation. It's rare I can make it through a whole shoot otherwise. I honestly
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don't care much when working with other models - but there's something about that
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woman that makes me feel like a 12 year old finding a dirty magazine for the first time.
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In fact, I was feeling a lot like that - because when you stop playing
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the skin flute altogether and have no other sexual outlets,
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turns out your libido actually increases instead of decreases. Experiences may vary,
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but for a lot of people they find themselves hornier than before, which makes a lot of sense
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evolutionarily speaking. You are basically a meat puppet programmed to make more meat puppets, so if
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you aren't making meat puppets your brain starts demanding that you do - making you feel hornier.
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But taking the girlfriend away for a 'private consultation' wasn't an option - not just
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because we were working with other people, but because of this stupid experiment.
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So I learned to take frequent bathroom breaks and basically just hold my head
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under the tap with the water on cold. I tried splashing water on my face but
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I was in too great a need - the only thing that helped was fully dunking.
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I started feeling like a teenager again. Even the motion of the car going over bumps was starting to
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get my attention in unhealthy ways. And at home the girlfriend wasn't helping. She was doing
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things not fit for youtube, things that would've gotten her burned at the stake 400 years ago.
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These feelings were sort of like a wave though, and by the end of the first week
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I actually felt better. I got a crazy sense of focus and worked on several new scripts.
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I even cleaned the entire house by myself. When I searched for the scientific basis for
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this I discovered that abstinence can actually lead to dopamine regulation.
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When you're regularly having a tug of war with your cyclops,
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you're creating irregular surges of dopamine - especially if you're ham shanking several
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times a day. This isn't necessarily as harmful as if for example you're abusing pain killers,
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but it can still have an effect on your brain. You can actually start to feel
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worse if you're playing pocket pinball extremely often throughout your day. The
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dopamine highs lead to dopamine crashes, which brings about low mood and brain fog.
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But when you stop milking the snake for good, your brain's chemistry can stabilize.
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The dopamine surges are gone, and you can sort of equalize with the natural chemical rhythms of
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your brain. In many people this can actually lead to a greatly heightened sense of focus,
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which is why some people swear by abstinence. You'll find it easier to concentrate on tasks
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and get things done, and you might even be more creative- though your mileage may vary. There's
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no hard and fast scientific rule on this because we all have different chemistry.
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But the problem comes from having a bunch of pent-up energy, especially if you live with an
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absolute harlot intent on making you fail your abstinence challenge... or at least making it
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as painful as possible. I warned her she would pay for this on day 15, but that only made me hornier.
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So I went for a run. A very long run. I actually started running a lot,
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because it's a great way of burning up energy. Can't be horny if you're exhausted. Well,
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actually you can be, as soon I discovered when my mind started wandering to day 15 in
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the middle of my run. I had to jog back home hiding the fact I'd grown half a third leg.
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During week 2 I started experiencing some mood swings, nothing severe but definitely noticeable.
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Masturbation can affect stress hormones, and is known to release endocannabinoids
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that are used to reward your brain for certain behaviors. They're part of what's behind the
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feel-good that you get after doing things that evolution approves of - things like eating,
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exercising, and having positive social interactions. Like I've said in the past,
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each one of us is basically just a meat computer, and the chemicals in our bodies
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tell us how to react or directly encourage us to do certain things.
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How much free will do you really think you have when your body rewards you
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with feel-good chemicals for doing something good for you?
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It's part of what drives animal behavior, and led to evolutionary success for many species.
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After all, if an animal is rewarded by feeling good by doing certain things,
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it's going to keep doing them. The trick was for evolution to tie the
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release of feel-good chemicals with the right things. I wonder how many species
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didn't survive because their brain was wired to reward them for running off tall cliffs.
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You should be grateful - you're the product of a lot of failed, very stupid chemistry.
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After reaching out to an academic contact of mine, I discovered that my mood swings were
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actually being driven by more than just a lack of sex or masturbation. Like we've discussed,
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during sex your brain releases chemicals like oxytocin and dopamine which are critical for
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bonding. Oxytocin has the nickname of the “love hormone” and helps you feel trust
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and closeness with a partner. The dopamine heightens the pleasure of these feelings,
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further strengthening that sense of real, loving intimacy that sex can create in the right context.
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And it is all about context. If you have sex with someone you don't love or care for,
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odds are no amount of oxytocin is going to convince you otherwise. But when you have
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sex with someone you care for, this powerful drug cocktail can be as addictive as a drug.
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That was my problem. It wasn't just that I wasn't producing these chemicals through
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sex or masturbation, it's that I'd been cut off from that very physical and psychological
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sense of intimacy with the person I loved most in the entire world. With a deep enough bond,
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even masturbation can produce part of the real effect, and I wasn't even getting that.
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Cut off from a physical sense of being loved was kind of tanking my mood. If you've gone through a
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breakup with someone you deeply loved, it's a very similar effect. Thankfully it was milder, because
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I knew this was temporary, but it was interesting to see how very real an effect that it was having.
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The two weeks were rough, but it showed me there's some very real benefits to abstinence. It also
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showed me that me and the girlfriend are bonded on a deeper level than I'd ever realized - my
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brain's chemistry literally needs her in my life, without her I'm not just a lesser man,
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my brain doesn't work right... and I have the science to prove it.
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Now go watch What Is Sex Addiction? Or click this other video instead!
