When I used to compete in kick-boxing it was a 'common sense' not to have sex couple of days before the competition. It was supposed to make you soft and lose vital nutrients. Here's an National Geographic article that tries to invalidate that advice - http://bit.ly/5JZSeL

I don't think it's quite true that 'every splooge is equal to ridding yourself of four meals worth of essential vitamins and minerals'. But I guess it's quite a bit of zinc that is lost and it also lowers man's testosterone level.. which in turn lowers your ability to build muscle. Theoretically. And shouldn't be any problem at all on RAF.

Anyway I stopped forcing myself not to cum because the possible damage to my prostate and after the christmas try having sex only once a day (with the focus on lasting longer, an hour or more before letting it go) and see if it makes any difference in terms of weight/muscle gain.

Because of my interest in this topic I'll receive bunch of funny christmas presents this year, including a male g-spot stimulator - http://bit.ly/7iPAMC - that's supposed to keep your prostate healthy by massaging it externally. Sounds very gay indeed but I guess I'll give it a try. I'm sure cavemen had their girlfriends sticking things up their bottoms as well. So off topic.. sorry!

Happy Xmas y'all!

I have a crack-pot theory on masturbation that I've wanted to share. So here goes.  I'm not for one to make conclusions from personal correlations/connections but it seems to be that I perform, on average, much worse when attempting to pick up women on a day that I've masturbated. It's like a curse. It could be that I've just conditioned my mind over time to accept defeat more readily the days that I masturbate since I grew up in a fairly strict religious environment that deemed masturbation sinful.

Or...since I've ejaculated I'm naturally less inclined to pursue a female partner. My body believes I have already continued to spread my seed for the day and no longer will attempt to optimize my abilities to get a woman to want to have intercourse with me. When I approach a woman I will not have the drive and the strategies I use will not work to their full potential.

On the other hand, if I don't masturbate, my body will think that my need to spread my seed is of utmost importance. I will do what it takes to win a female into my bedroom using a better strategy than when I had ejaculated. I will be wittier, more enegetic, more confident, patient when I need to, basically my game will be in top form. This seems to generally hold true for me.

This may seem contrary to conventional thought in that not masturbating would lead to us needing to release even more and more quickly.  I don't think this is true and I feel much calmer when I havent ejaculated in a while, though this feeling takes much longer than 1 or 2 days of holding back arousal.  

It also seems to make sense that the frequency of sex would be greatly reduced during paleo times as being constantly pregnant would not really make much evolutionary sense. Also, how frequently do other animal species (specifically apes) mate? Do any of them mate all year round like humans?

Ha! You became temporarily sane.


IIRC the paleopopulation was supposed to be stable at ~15 million in the whole earth, that to me means that they knew how to do it without making unwanted babies. Their minds as well as their bodies were healthier than ours, lacking the media to pollute them.
We don't need evolution, please don't drag that stuff in.


 
Not that I ever heard. They don't have the brains required to avoid pregnancy.


Tempting offer - maybe you could share the agression-reducing honey with TD? 
I suppose you mean lack of ejaculation from coitus interruptus, rather than from living like a monk?

Nothing can convince those who refuse to consider the evidence; too true.

On rawpaleoforum we try to discover what paleoman ate to achieve health. I don't know of any rawhominid forum, or rawanthropoid forum, probably because hypothetical ancestors' diet is both hypothetical and irrelevant.