I want to ask a question that I know many people will not want to talk about.
Does masturbation negatively impact the brain and memory ability?
I’m sure that my brain loses some of its power afterwards and up to the next 24 hours.
I’ve heard that the nutrients in sperm are extremely valuable to the body, similar to those used in the brain and thus wasting it is not idea.
Does anyone else think the same thing, or do you think that it is psychological?
No it doesn’t to the best of my knowledge. As far as I know, no studies have been attempted on the subject.
You can research studies on pubmed.
I suspect you’re right about a dampening effect on the brain and memory. Satiation of a primary drive is usually followed by a rest period.
I’ve never heard any studies looking at masturbation and memory directly
The thing about nutrients in the sperm is a load of bollocks, I can tell you that. Sperm is created at a more-or-less consistent rate within the testes. They naturally die off, just like all your cells. So just because you ‘waste them’ doesn’t mean that it suddenly makes your body have to waste nutrients to create more twice as fast. Even with a lot of sperm and semen on ‘standby’ the nutrients to create them have already been used to create that substance so are inaccessible to your body. If there is any problem with your brain not receiving the best nutrition it can, that’s to do with you having a bad diet rather than you masturbating a lot.
Your semen contains a lot of nutrients, you are correct in that. Lots of nutrients that’re required to allow the sperm cells to survive outside your body and do their job right, vitamins, sugars, lipids, mucus and zinc. None of which have an extra-special job in your brain, except for zinc which admittedly plays a vital role in memory and cognitive function; regulating communication between neurons and the hippocampi, so a lack of zinc would impede memory formation and learning, however, masturbation won’t affect this and if it is a problem it is a problem with your diet. Eating healthy foods has so many benefits, good sources of zinc that I can think of off the top of my head are liver, beef, nuts and seeds - all 4 of which are also high in other nutrients that are vital to both your body and your brain such as essential fats and proteins, the latter vegetables also being high in other minerals that are essential for germination; the evolutionary reason that nuts and seeds exist.
It’s been shown that masturbation causes your brain to produce neurotransmitters and affects liver function which produces enzymes necessary to synthesise these neurotransmitters. This is a beneficial and healthy practice unless it is over-practiced. Over-masturbation can really disrupt this enzyme production and cause your brain to overstimulate the parasympathetic nervous system and thus causing your brain and adrenal glands to produce an excess of hormones like dopamine, seratonin, epinephrine and norepinephrine - and overproduction of these hormones causes symptoms like stress, fatigue and impedes memory function; causing memory loss.
So in conclusion, masturbation is beneficial to your brain, but only if it isn’t done an addictive amount. Just like everything else in life, if you enjoy too much of it, it has negative effects on your system.
You are absolutely right, masturbation is bad for memory and concentration. It also causes social anxiety and a host of other problems.
Not only that, but according to me, it can make some people around you aggressive towards you. I think that people who are bullied masturbate a lot, which in turn causes more abuse.
I know it is very hard to believe, but it has been my experience with masturbation.
Masturbation is evil.
If you want more information, feel free to message me.
I’m not particularly au fait with the effects of masturbation on one’s ability to memorise, though I do recall Norman Mailer railing against the practise in his memoir “The Spooky Art”. Never saw the need for it did the old NM, but then again he was a bit of a pants man with the ladies.
Like every other guilty pleasure (coffee, coke, and the shopping channel): everything in moderation, I say.
Without even a little information to back them up, it’s difficult to accept any one of these claims, let alone all seven. Maybe I’m more demanding than most, but even though I see the phrase “according to me,” it is still necessary for me to hear why it is true according to you because I can’t figure it out on my own.
Let me know if I’m derailing this thread too much, but the claim that it is evil is the most interesting of all. I don’t think it could be accurate to say that an evil act is one that is neutral or beneficial to all parties involved because a world in which all interactions were positive or neutral would be a better world than ours, and a surplus of evil would make the world worst. If one were to adopt the stance that an action with beneficial results could be evil if the intentions were malicious, a transgressor would still have to attempt to defy or forestall a person’s wishes. I’m inclined to think that a person cannot be evil to himself because for a person to transgress against his own wishes with his own an act of volition is a logical impossibility. So the evil of masturbation would have to depend on the denial of another person’s desire to control your behavior, and it could only make sense for an action to be evil on the basis of resisting the control of another person on the condition that the other person is the arbiter of good and evil. If they are not, then the action would have to be evil independent of their attempts to control, so we would need a different reason. If we did believe the other person to be the arbiter of good and evil, we could only believe it on the condition that we accept that person’s decree that his own arbitration is valid, which wouldn’t be easy to demonstrate. I know I might be wrong about some of that stuff, but it seems to check out to me for now.
Physiologically, I don’t think that ejaculation by masturbation is physiologically any different than any other kind of ejaculation. And I’m a happily married man. So I definitely don’t fall into the masturbation-is-evil camp.
But, heavy use of porn, especially modern video porn, seems to be able to cause some pretty tangible adverse effects, consistent with other behavioral addictions.
And, porn addictions are hard to break. As with similar addiction-recovery groups like AA, the No-Fap group maintain a more-rigorous criteria than is necessary for basic health needs, to prevent relapses. Thus, instead of simply proscribing porn use, they stop all solitary masturbation. For comparison, Food Addicts Anonymous members abstain completely from sugary and flour-heavy foods when they are on-program.
Finally, I will refrain from discussing the relationship effects of solitary porn consumption when in otherwise intentionally monogamous/monoandrous relationships, as this is a memory forum. 
Cheers,
-Steven
Sources:
http://www.businessinsider.com/nofap-porn-addiction-2013-12