Moderate sexual activity can enhance emotional bonds between couples and can release anxiety in individuals. If sexual desire is not released for a long time, it can cause anxiety and insecurity in a person’s body. Especially for men, if abstinence lasts for a long time, it can not only affect their physical and mental health but also cause uneasiness and negative emotions. Let’s further discuss the impacts of long-term abstinence.
Long-term abstinence can lead to erectile dysfunction. When a normal man abstains from sexual activity for a long time, his psychological state will be affected, leading to negative influences that can cause erectile dysfunction. The desire to satisfy the physical need is essential for the human brain. When the desire in the brain gradually matures, this stimulation will be transmitted through the hypothalamus to the pituitary gland, triggering sexual desire. If people intentionally suppress their sensory impulses for a long time, they will feel unfamiliar and estranged from these stimuli. Over time, exercise can decrease, and even the neuromuscular responses involved in sex will diminish.
Long-term abstinence can get worse. Some men wanted to retain their semen and adhere to abstinence. In fact, even if they do abstain, the sperm will accumulate to a certain extent in their epididymis, which is a coiled tube located behind each testicle, which will overflow from them or enter the urethral orifice to be discharged with urine. This will not store night semen, and it can also be harmful to health.
Long-term abstinence can cause diffuse prostatitis. Some experts have studied the bodies of executed prisoners and found that almost all men’s prostates have varying degrees of diffuse prostatitis as the main pathological manifestation. This result can be calculated from the pathogenesis of male prostate disease: irregular sexual activity, frequent sexual activity, masturbation, sexual cessation, and excessive sexual inhibition can cause prostatitis.
Moreover, the prostate is located in the male body, and the fluid it metabolizes, semen, is the main component of nocturnal emission. Traditional Chinese medicine has a fundamental theory: “obstruction causes pain.” In other words, active sexual activity can help discharge prostatic fluid, thereby reducing the pain caused by diffuse prostatitis.
Long-term abstinence can also cause depression. Sexual science research shows that long-term sexual desire will cause depression in terms of physical and psychological conditions and the development of working, studying, and training trends, which will eventually endanger physical and mental health. When lovers in love fail, they may experience negative emotions such as distress, sadness, anxiety, suspicion, boredom, and depression, which may lead to “emotional syndrome,” mainly manifested as low mood, weakness in limbs, loss of appetite, and serious, easy, and palpitations. Scientific research has also found that losing direct relatives will increase incidence rates and is easy to cause premature death. The more emotional a person is, the greater the impact.
Long-term abstinence affects lifespan. Chinese historical records demonstrate that ancient people once said that a person who lacks sexual desire or does not satisfy sexual needs will not live for long. Doctors say that normal sexual activity between couples is a human need and is the essential requirement of physical and psychological states. Abstinence can cause various diseases, which is consistent with scientific research in modern science and social psychology. Normal sexual activity can coordinate our body’s various physiological functions, promote all normal estrogen metabolism, and help us maintain mental health.