This Happens When You Quit Masturbating (Funny Challenge)

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0:00Infographics is back, asking the hard questions the UN Scientific committee is too cowardly to

0:05tackle. What happens when you stop masturbating? From main character energy to hormone shifts,

0:10turns out that going abstinent suddenly can wreak havoc on your mind and body.

0:14But to find out how bad it is, we're tasking your favorite lab rat with his hardest,

0:19longest, most rigid experiment ever. And once more we've recruited his

0:23girlfriend... all in the name of science!

0:26Experiment start!

0:28Alright, someone at The Infographics Show has a special place in the deepest depths of

0:31hell. Recently, I was the unwitting subject of a 'what happens if you stop having sex' experiment,

0:36with producers recruiting my girlfriend to cut me off cold turkey. Now I'm in on the

0:41experiment, but they've not just recruited the girlfriend, they've full-blown gone diabolical.

0:46Because I'm not just not allowed to have sex for next two weeks,

0:49there's to be no masturbation either. Oh, but that's not the diabolical part - the

0:54diabolical part is... I'll be working as a photographer for an ad campaign featuring

0:58my girlfriend and other models. One client is an underwear brand, the other makes swimsuits.

1:03Odds are, you've seen their ads on other youtube vids, instagram, and facebook - and you would

1:07here too except they pulled sponsorship at last minute, so there'll be no free advertising today.

1:12So this started a week after the end of the last 'experiment', meaning I'd had a chance to...

1:17flush my system if you will. With the two weeks starting on a monday,

1:20I made sure Sunday night included vigorous cardio, but that abstinence hit hard come Monday morning.

1:26If you regularly work out, you know that exercise is a surefire way to get your libido going. The

1:31girlfriend and I work out together every other morning, and this time she decided to wear her

1:35tightest fitting workout gear. She even kicked the treadmill up several notches to get extra

1:40sweaty. I wasn't the only person to notice that she looked like she was smuggling two Christmas

1:44hams in her workout shorts… two delightfully bouncing, perfectly rounded Christmas hams.

1:49But for the first time I was a helpless observer just like the rest of the world.

1:53I was practically gnawing on the steering wheel on the drive home from the gym. And

1:57rather than go to the bathroom to undress like a normal person, she decided to just

2:02strip off her sweat-soaked clothes the moment we got in the door and head off for her shower.

2:07Which we usually share. But not today,

2:09because Infographics has shut down my sex life for two weeks.

2:13Listen, I'm as mortal as any of you, and naturally the thing I immediately most wanted

2:17to do was run off and polish my flight stick. But that'd be against the rules,

2:21and here's where the first effect of no masturbation started to hit me: anxiety.

2:26It sounds weird to say not masturbating can make you anxious, but it's a different

2:30type of anxiety from say, that people who are afraid of dogs experience when walking by one.

2:34It's more of a build up of extreme amounts of sexual energy that has nowhere to go.

2:39Your chest can get a little tight, your face gets flushed, and with some people you can

2:43even get a croaky voice - which normally is a surefire indicator that someone is very turned on

2:48around you. But if you aren't progressing to the next logical step, it's like fire in your veins.

2:54At that point, literally everything makes you horny which only makes things worse. I

2:58went to the closet to pull out the slacks I was going to wear, and caught sight of a little red

3:02dress the girlfriend likes to wear on special date nights. It's very low cut in the front,

3:06clinging to and revealing her very perfectly spherical dairy cannons,

3:10and cut high at the bottom - so high that one wrong move and she's in danger of showing cheek.

3:15She bought it specifically to drive me crazy. And right now I'm not ashamed to admit that I

3:20nearly broke my commitment to my employer and had sexual relations with a dress.

3:25Fleeing from the bedroom - and the sound of her in a steamy,

3:27hot shower - I ran to the kitchen and did the only thing I could think of:

3:31stuck my head in the freezer. Then I washed my hands in as cold water as the tap could manage.

3:36And you know, it worked.

3:37When you’re fired up, your brain is flooded with sex chemicals - until something unpleasant

3:42happens. That shock can instantly override them, replaced by the emergency chemicals

3:46your body releases in stressful situations. See, your brain knows that when you get

3:50horny you become a very stupid ape, with a very specific goal in mind, and nothing else matters.

3:56But evolution needs you to survive, which is why it built in a sort of safety mechanism.

4:00Imagine it's about 1.5 million years in the past and you're one of humanity's earliest ape-like

4:06descendants. You're about to get some prime-A homo erectus booty, some of the nicest nice in

4:10the entire savanna. Your brain is flooded with sex hormones and chemicals - dopamine

4:14increases your sense of motivation and sensations of pleasure; norepinephrine increases your sense

4:19of sexual arousal as well as your ability to focus and sense of energy... which is why you

4:24become so single-minded by the way. Oxytocin and vasopressin meanwhile makes you feel a sense of

4:29attachment with that lovely upright relict hominid you're about to desecrate the grasslands with.

4:34All of this is creating the infamous sex fog, and giving you the reverse

4:38of attention-deficit disorder. You've got attention-surplus disorder - and

4:41all of that attention is fully on the primate strange you're about to get.

4:45But then there's a rustling in the grass that you've evolutionarily learned to associate with

4:50Dinofelis, or the sabre-toothed cat. Suddenly, your brain releases a chemical soup including

4:54epinephrine and norepinephrine. The epinephrine, or adrenaline,

4:58works together with the norepinephrine already in your system to shift your attention to

5:02survival - making you forget all about the monkey clam you were on the verge of claiming.

5:07The rush of cold water can create a milder version of this same chemical reaction,

5:11as it shocks the body and the brain responds with a massive ‘what is going on here,

5:15and could it be trying to kill me?!’ The feeling you get after is what's famously known as post-nut

5:20clarity - which by the way, there is no scientific term for. Really seems like there should be.

5:25With my emotions under control, I banished the harlot in my bedroom from my sight by

5:29literally covering my eyes and rushing into the bathroom for a very cold shower.

5:34This was going to be a challenge, and it was only getting worse.

5:37So I have a photography background, and the work we were doing didn't require

5:40much skill to be honest. I was just shooting the girlfriend along with other models on a white cyc

5:45stage. While they were wearing underwear. And swimsuits. For the next three days.

5:50I powered through the first day, but was a live wire by the time we got home. I felt

5:54like I would literally explode at the slightest touch, which is why I forbade it. She slept in

5:59the bedroom alone that night and I slept in the living room. I didn't need that Jezebel

6:03tempting me by pressing her Christmas hams up against me in the middle of the night.

6:07She was clearly enjoying this sadistic experiment - after all,

6:10she was free to release all her sexual frustrations even as she heaped them onto me.

6:15The girlfriend and I have shot things together before - either just for art's sake or even a

6:20few brands that she's modeled for. When it's spicier types of shoots,

6:23I have a habit of dragging her away halfway through for a... private five

6:26minute consultation. It's rare I can make it through a whole shoot otherwise. I honestly

6:31don't care much when working with other models - but there's something about that

6:35woman that makes me feel like a 12 year old finding a dirty magazine for the first time.

6:39In fact, I was feeling a lot like that - because when you stop playing

6:42the skin flute altogether and have no other sexual outlets,

6:45turns out your libido actually increases instead of decreases. Experiences may vary,

6:50but for a lot of people they find themselves hornier than before, which makes a lot of sense

6:55evolutionarily speaking. You are basically a meat puppet programmed to make more meat puppets, so if

7:00you aren't making meat puppets your brain starts demanding that you do - making you feel hornier.

7:05But taking the girlfriend away for a 'private consultation' wasn't an option - not just

7:09because we were working with other people, but because of this stupid experiment.

7:13So I learned to take frequent bathroom breaks and basically just hold my head

7:17under the tap with the water on cold. I tried splashing water on my face but

7:21I was in too great a need - the only thing that helped was fully dunking.

7:25I started feeling like a teenager again. Even the motion of the car going over bumps was starting to

7:30get my attention in unhealthy ways. And at home the girlfriend wasn't helping. She was doing

7:35things not fit for youtube, things that would've gotten her burned at the stake 400 years ago.

7:40These feelings were sort of like a wave though, and by the end of the first week

7:43I actually felt better. I got a crazy sense of focus and worked on several new scripts.

7:48I even cleaned the entire house by myself. When I searched for the scientific basis for

7:52this I discovered that abstinence can actually lead to dopamine regulation.

7:56When you're regularly having a tug of war with your cyclops,

7:59you're creating irregular surges of dopamine - especially if you're ham shanking several

8:04times a day. This isn't necessarily as harmful as if for example you're abusing pain killers,

8:09but it can still have an effect on your brain. You can actually start to feel

8:12worse if you're playing pocket pinball extremely often throughout your day. The

8:16dopamine highs lead to dopamine crashes, which brings about low mood and brain fog.

8:20But when you stop milking the snake for good, your brain's chemistry can stabilize.

8:25The dopamine surges are gone, and you can sort of equalize with the natural chemical rhythms of

8:29your brain. In many people this can actually lead to a greatly heightened sense of focus,

8:33which is why some people swear by abstinence. You'll find it easier to concentrate on tasks

8:37and get things done, and you might even be more creative- though your mileage may vary. There's

8:42no hard and fast scientific rule on this because we all have different chemistry.

8:46But the problem comes from having a bunch of pent-up energy, especially if you live with an

8:50absolute harlot intent on making you fail your abstinence challenge... or at least making it

8:55as painful as possible. I warned her she would pay for this on day 15, but that only made me hornier.

9:01So I went for a run. A very long run. I actually started running a lot,

9:05because it's a great way of burning up energy. Can't be horny if you're exhausted. Well,

9:10actually you can be, as soon I discovered when my mind started wandering to day 15 in

9:14the middle of my run. I had to jog back home hiding the fact I'd grown half a third leg.

9:19During week 2 I started experiencing some mood swings, nothing severe but definitely noticeable.

9:24Masturbation can affect stress hormones, and is known to release endocannabinoids

9:28that are used to reward your brain for certain behaviors. They're part of what's behind the

9:32feel-good that you get after doing things that evolution approves of - things like eating,

9:36exercising, and having positive social interactions. Like I've said in the past,

9:40each one of us is basically just a meat computer, and the chemicals in our bodies

9:44tell us how to react or directly encourage us to do certain things.

9:48How much free will do you really think you have when your body rewards you

9:52with feel-good chemicals for doing something good for you?

9:55It's part of what drives animal behavior, and led to evolutionary success for many species.

10:00After all, if an animal is rewarded by feeling good by doing certain things,

10:04it's going to keep doing them. The trick was for evolution to tie the

10:08release of feel-good chemicals with the right things. I wonder how many species

10:12didn't survive because their brain was wired to reward them for running off tall cliffs.

10:16You should be grateful - you're the product of a lot of failed, very stupid chemistry.

10:21After reaching out to an academic contact of mine, I discovered that my mood swings were

10:25actually being driven by more than just a lack of sex or masturbation. Like we've discussed,

10:29during sex your brain releases chemicals like oxytocin and dopamine which are critical for

10:34bonding. Oxytocin has the nickname of the “love hormone” and helps you feel trust

10:39and closeness with a partner. The dopamine heightens the pleasure of these feelings,

10:42further strengthening that sense of real, loving intimacy that sex can create in the right context.

10:48And it is all about context. If you have sex with someone you don't love or care for,

10:53odds are no amount of oxytocin is going to convince you otherwise. But when you have

10:57sex with someone you care for, this powerful drug cocktail can be as addictive as a drug.

11:02That was my problem. It wasn't just that I wasn't producing these chemicals through

11:06sex or masturbation, it's that I'd been cut off from that very physical and psychological

11:11sense of intimacy with the person I loved most in the entire world. With a deep enough bond,

11:16even masturbation can produce part of the real effect, and I wasn't even getting that.

11:20Cut off from a physical sense of being loved was kind of tanking my mood. If you've gone through a

11:25breakup with someone you deeply loved, it's a very similar effect. Thankfully it was milder, because

11:30I knew this was temporary, but it was interesting to see how very real an effect that it was having.

11:35The two weeks were rough, but it showed me there's some very real benefits to abstinence. It also

11:39showed me that me and the girlfriend are bonded on a deeper level than I'd ever realized - my

11:44brain's chemistry literally needs her in my life, without her I'm not just a lesser man,

11:49my brain doesn't work right... and I have the science to prove it.

11:53Now go watch What Is Sex Addiction? Or click this other video instead!

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