I've held off for up to 82 days. After the first, torturous, horny week, all sex desire was erased from my mind. I simply had no impulses. When I saw somebody hot on the street, I'd look — but in an admiring way, not in a way that would allow Boy Scouts to camp in my pants. Unfortunately, after 8 weeks, my testicles began to really — and I mean *really* — hurt. So I decided to try it. I undressed and got into the bathtub so I wouldn't cause a mess; I doubted whether I could control how it would go after so many months. Let me tell you: The mere memory of that session is enough to get me ready for another.
- age 18, Massachusetts
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- age 42, Massachusetts
I am not even close to being the "master of my domain." When the urge hits, I have to do it, so I know I couldn't go for long at all. If I do hold off for whatever reason, in a day or two, it just gets to the point where I have to take care of things, if for no other reason than just to play with my penis because it feels so good. I could never say realistically that I could hold out for any amount of time, because my penis takes over my thoughts and forces me to give it some attention.
- age 48, Illinois
I know I can go at least between [the beginning of] Lent and Easter, but how much longer, I don't know for sure. I gave in then because the time that I had set was up. It's not that sex was always on my mind; I simply missed the feelings associated with masturbating.
- age 23, Georgia
I think I would be able to go for a week at the most. I find it hard to resist in the mornings when I have a morning glory anyway, especially after those horny dreams I get from not masturbating for a while.
- age 16, Denmark
Funny you should ask — I'm in the process right now of seeing how long I can go without masturbating or doing anything else sexually with my penis. My personal best (?) so far was 11 days, set in my teens when I was trying unsuccessfully to induce a "wet dream" by swearing off. (I gave up and gave in.) This time, I caught my penis in my zipper and raised a nasty blood blister about midway along the shaft. That was 14 days ago, and although the blister is finally clearing up, I don't want to do anything to aggravate it until it's entirely gone. I figure I've got two or three days more to wait, at which point — with my wife away on a business trip — my hand and my penis will (probably explosively) renew their long acquaintance.
- age 42, Massachusetts
Oh, I suppose I could last a week or two, but if I had a partner, it would be impossible. The reason? I have a libido that just will not go away — even with the Paxil I take!
- age 18, Illinois (female)
I could abstain for one week, maximum. Earlier this year, I moved into a new home. Even though I was exhausted and it was in the dead of winter (a low sex-drive time for me), I was only able to go 7 days without having an orgasm. By the 6th day, I was getting frequent erections at inconvenient moments. The next day, I had an orgasm in the gym shower while I was cleaning my penis.
- age 36, Ohio
Are you mad? Give up? Ha-ha! If I did (which I wouldn't) I would probably give in when my penis threatened to pack up his testicles and leave. Besides, if you didn't masturbate, you would have testicles like grapefruits and therefore you couldn't walk. Some people ask the silliest questions!
- age 16, United Kingdom
I could probably hold out for about a week without ejaculating. However, I fondle my penis as often as possible, especially when I'm on line. I love to feel and rub my hard or half-hard penis while looking at or reading sexy material on the Web. I particularly love masturbation-oriented material. If this counts as masturbation, I couldn't hold out even for a day.
- age 70, California
I could probably give up masturbating completely. I've gone an entire year without it. I guess I'm good with will power. I could have kept going, but someone said, "Dude, what the hell is the point?" so I was like, "Yeah, whatever!" and just went and masturbated.
- age 15, New York
My first response would be to ask, "Why bother," but I realize this is a valid question. I know I could easily last a week because I often do — especially if I don't stimulate myself or visit erotic sites. Moreover, I know that I could last at least 3 weeks because I did so in 1999 when I had hernia surgery. Finally, I remember that I once lasted nearly 3 months just out of curiosity, but that was when I was inhibited and guilt-ridden, which I have not been since I discovered JackinWorld in 2001. I would be inclined to give in when I started to see erect penises in my dreams, in wallpaper patterns, and in my imagination. If those 3 conditions didn't end my abstinence, a visit from my masturbation pal certainly would.
- age 62, Michigan
One-and-a-half months are the longest I have gone and I don't think I'll do it again. The payoff from waiting was great, but so is that of masturbating regularly. If I were trying not to masturbate, I think I'd probably last between two and four weeks.
- age 14, Florida
If I had no other forms of sexual release at the same time, such as intercourse with my wife, I doubt whether I could last a week. With some sexual release, I suspect it would be about 4 days. I would probably give in because I'd be in such a bad mood that no one could stand to be near me and I would be thinking about suicide.
- age 56, Washington
I've put myself up to this challenge many times before, usually with a goal in mind. My experiences tell me that the orgasm after the waiting period is well worth it; so I hold out regularly. The longest I've ever gone was a month-and-a-half, and that was the first time I tried to stop masturbating because I felt guilty. I soon realized that holding out has its advantages. I once tried to stop for 4 months to see if I could, but I gave in and masturbated, although I didn't plan to have an orgasm.
- age 16, Ontario, Canada (female)
Unless ill, I suppose I could last a week. Wouldn't a lot depend on the motive, like maybe a few million dollars? Giving in would depend on signals and desires from my body itself. The perceived need to masturbate is intriguing. All I have read about it says that the urge is due to a buildup of semen, which sounds reasonable. In my case, my prostate and vesicles have been removed, so there is no buildup possible. Yet, the urge for orgasmic relief and intensely pleasurable touch is very much the same as it was years before the surgery.
- age 67, Pennsylvania
Speaking from experience, I could last only two days. My friend and I made a bet not to masturbate for a month and neither of us made it past the 3rd day. I will never make such a stupid bet again.
- age 16, Canada
I started masturbating a month after my 13th birthday. In all those years, the longest I've ever gone without masturbating was 8 days — and I can only recall 3 stretches that were that long. I've been happily married for many years and have always enjoyed intimate times with my wife. However, my private sessions have always continued. I'm embarrassed to admit this, even though JackinWorld makes me feel a lot more "normal" than I felt when I was in my teens thinking I was the only one in the world that ever needed to "do it" every day.
- age 48, Ohio
When I was about 11, the answer to this question would have been 4 hours. Now, however, I'm convinced that I could last almost a week. When I have previously tried to abstain, I have either gone back to masturbating because of suffering from extremely messy and frequent "wet dreams," or I have had spontaneous ejaculations when I've done things as simple as getting into a bathtub full of warm water. The other thing that has caused me to give in has been having a full erection in the school showers with all my friends laughing at me.
- age 16, Belgium
Well, I normally masturbate only once a month or so anyway, and my record is 5 months. If I were really trying, I'm sure I could go over a year easily. Currently though, there is someone I'm sort of attracted to and every time I'm around them, I end up coming home and masturbating.
- age 20, Michigan
I think it would be really easy to go several months without masturbating if it weren't for the easy access to free pornography on my computer. Once you're online, it's easy just to go to a porn site and get an erection instantly. I find that if I'm on a camping trip, I can usually go the entire time without masturbating, but as soon as I have access to a computer, I go back to it!
- age 16, Connecticut
I've been married for 18 years and have never gone more than a month without something sexual — intercourse or masturbation. I'm at my 3rd week without anything, since I'm currently fighting with my husband. Reading this question and now answering it may cause me to end it right now. I am so horny that my only thought is to go make up with my husband just to get something! Realistically though, I could probably last two months if I had to, but not much longer.
- age 42, New Jersey (female)
I think I could go without it for about a week, but no longer than that. It seems that if I don't masturbate, I get really angry because I'm not getting all the pleasure I'm accustomed to.
- age 14, Texas
I think I'd make it through about 3 weeks before I'd cave in. At that point, looking at linoleum would make me give in.
- age 41, California
I've gone for 5 months before, so I believe I could do it again. However, this was extremely difficult because my penis just got more and more sensitive to touch and vibration, and my friends thought that I was gay because I usually would get an erection in the school showers. The thing that caused me to give in last time was not my erections or frequent "wet dreams," but when my best friend decided to show me his penis and hair. As soon as he dropped his underpants, the sight of his erect penis made me have to rush to the bathroom and start masturbating. It took me just 3 or 4 strokes before I ejaculated everywhere.
- age 16, Ireland
I could probably go for a month or two, as I've done before. Any time I need to travel or stay in a dorm type of environment, I can lay off masturbating. I always start again to keep my tension level down. It does wonders for my disposition. But I make a point to never let masturbating interfere with my life's activities.
- age 39, Texas
Wow, it's pretty ironic that this question has just been posed. I've been holding off for a little over 11 days and have no intention on giving in anytime soon. I've tried this before, but have never had so much control. Realistically, I think I could hold out for as long as necessary. My goal is to avoid orgasm until I have someone to enjoy it with, but if I were to give in, I would need a particularly hot encounter — something unique.
- age 17, Washington
Great question, which I have been thinking about lately — as I progress into middle age, I find that I can hold out longer and longer between sessions. Over the course of my recent 10-day vacation, I just didn't have the right combination of circumstances to be able to masturbate. I found that I didn't go as crazy as I might have when I was in my 20s. Still, by day 7 or 8, I felt like a teenager — I was getting an erection if the wind blew the right way. I probably could get to two weeks if I had to, but at that point some young hottie on the street would get me to cave.
- age 35, Maryland
I could hold out for about 3 weeks. I know this because this past summer I went on a 3-week trip around Europe, where we had no privacy whatsoever. In many places we even had to share beds, which made any attempt at masturbating impossible. Pure hormones would make me give in, because after a while you just have to do what you have to do.
- age 16, Texas
I know when I have to ejaculate; my body is just that way. I had never had a "wet dream" as a teen, because I was masturbating all the time. Whenever I try to go without masturbating, especially when there is a lot of stress in my life, I will have a very strong "wet dream," even as an adult. I need to keep on my usual times for masturbation to avoid this. As an adult, I find that "wet dreams" still can be embarrassing.
- age 34, Colorado
I just moved into the dorm at college and I've had trouble finding time to masturbate. Once I got past the first few days, it got a lot easier to go with it. I think I could go about two weeks at the most, but I would give in after walking around with a constant erection and being so horny that I couldn't see straight.
- age 18, Florida
It would depend on how busy I am. At the moment, I have a week off, so I doubt I'd last more than a couple of days, but if I were working and had a full schedule, I'd probably be able to last until the end of the week without masturbating. Beyond that, I'd probably be so horny that abstaining would be counterproductive to just about anything I might want to do.
- age 47, Tennessee
The last time that I tried this I only managed to last for two days and this was after having 4 full orgasms on the day before I started. I gave in then partly because I sleep in a school dormitory where 16 of us are in a room. Almost every morning and evening there will be at least one group of boys masturbating together — having races to see who can ejaculate the quickest or furthest — or sometimes masturbating each other. I don't like to participate in these sessions since I'm embarrassed about the shape of my penis, but having to watch them is extremely exciting and always makes me want to start masturbating again as soon as possible.
- age 15, United Kingdom
I'm not about to do the experiment to see actually how long I could go without masturbating, but my gut feeling is that it wouldn't be more than a week — 10 days at most. I base this on what happened to me a little over a year ago: I was admitted to the hospital ICU with intestinal bleeding. Before the end of the 3-day period, when they were trying to get my blood cell count stabilized, I had an overwhelming urge to masturbate. Weak though I was, I carried through on that urge, even though it had to be a quickie because I never knew when a nurse would pop in on me for vital signs assessment. The hospital event was only about 5 days since my last masturbation session at home!
- age 78, Oregon
I have gone 5 days without masturbating, but during this time I secrete a lot of seminal discharge into my underwear after seeing other guys. I will give in if I see guys wearing tight shorts, Speedos, or track pants that reveal their penis outline — especially when I see them in changing rooms or toilets and they are showing their genitals.
- age 20, Australia
Abstaining from masturbation is a ridiculous idea — don't even consider it. Giving up masturbation is my most remote thought and is probably the same for most people that frequent this site. The first time I masturbated to full orgasm, I knew that I would always be a masturbator. As I got older, I learned how to slow down and enjoy it even more. Sometimes when visiting relatives, I do not have any privacy; so I can last several weeks. However, the first chance I get, I have an extra-long masturbation session. My advice is to enjoy masturbation and do not even have a second thought of giving it up.
- age 58, Texas
The only reason I ever go without masturbating at least once a day is if I'm in a situation where I can't get enough privacy and time to do it right. That happened recently when I was with my family on vacation; I couldn't find a good opportunity for a whole week. If it had been any longer, I would have had to go to extreme measures to find a chance, because I wouldn't want to have a "wet dream," which happened to me when I was 14 at Boy Scout camp. I couldn't masturbate as usual and had a "wet dream," which was obvious to everyone when we got up in the morning and I was a mess. I got a lot of kidding and then one kid said, "Why don't you just [masturbate] like the rest of us do?" I hadn't realized it, but nearly everyone else was doing it in their sleeping bags at night before going to sleep, so I started to do the same, and never had the problem again. When I have a forced abstinence, opportunity makes me give in; the first chance I get, I break out my lube and have a nice, cozy session or two. I must admit that the first couple of sessions after a long abstinence are more satisfying than a normal session, but that isn't enough to make me want to go without the pleasure and relaxation of masturbating regularly.
- age 20, West Virginia
It depends. If I am on an assignment and have something to do all day, then it should be relatively easy to keep from doing it for a couple of weeks. It would be a totally different story if I had nothing to occupy myself. Then I'd give myself a week at most.
- age 27, Germany
When I was 15 and would try to stop masturbating, I would end up doing it again the next day. When I was 23, I again tried to stop for religious reasons and had to do it again after a week. Of course, now I wouldn't try to stop again.
- age 39, Belgium
Two to three weeks — I just recently got back from a three-and-a-half week camp. At the beginning of the camp, I told myself that I would not masturbate while I was there. On the 13th day, I just couldn't help myself in the shower, and went at it. It felt so good, and luckily, no one found out. I probably could have gone longer.
- age 14, Maine
I remember abstaining from masturbation (for a little while at least) while I was on an exchange trip to Spain in 2002. Being in a different country, I had to adapt to different customs; so masturbating didn't really crop up in my daily routine. However, this all went out the window when I met my Spanish Exchange partner's friend called Raquel. She was hot! Not wanting to cause a scandal by masturbating in the bed that I had been given to sleep in during my stay, I found solace in the shower nearly every evening before we went out. In the end, I think I lasted about 5 days.
- age 18, United Kingdom
The longest I ever went without masturbating was when I broke my arm and had to learn to change the way I did it. It took about 9 days to get it right. I can't remember a time that I had gone more then two days without doing it. Being highly sexually active and having a wife who is always ready and masturbates with me regularly is all I need to do it and that is almost daily.
- age 37, Iowa
I tried this once — the longest I went was 12 days. What caused me to give in was my friend telling me that my balls would explode if I didn't give them some release. I believed him. Duh! (Wait a minute — could they?)
- age 17, Canada
I have been married for 27 years, and I still have to masturbate at least once a week. I have tried to go longer between sessions, but it seems that every time I am alone at home and the computer is on, I can't resist going online to a site like this one and I end up masturbating. So I would have to say that after all this time, I can wait no longer than about 8 days — and it drives me up the wall.
- age 47, California
I go through some times when I think that I masturbate too much and I may be addicted, so I'll tell myself that I wont masturbate again until, say, this Sunday just to see if I can. But after about a day-and-a-half, I give in because I think, "What harm does having an addiction to masturbation do to me physically or mentally?" Alcoholics get liver cancer, smokers get lung cancer, and heroin addicts die, but what happens when you masturbate too much — do you die smiling? I could never answer this question, but I find that when I have a girlfriend, I don't masturbate that much — especially when my girlfriend and I are sexually active. So I'll go days without masturbating and not even realize it. Then, when we part, I find myself in the same old timeless rituals I was involved in before meeting this person — masturbating at least once a day. So to answer your question, I don't know how long I could really give it up, but if I found the right reason to try, I would...well, I might.
- age 18, Missouri
If I were to stop masturbating, the most I could hold out would be a week, and even that would be torture! There are times when I will hold off just to build up a good reserve of sperm so the resulting orgasm will be intense. Once I went 9 days and by then, I was hard almost constantly. On the ninth day I was riding home from school on the bus and the vibrations gave me a massive boner. Without touching myself, I blasted off in my jeans. I covered myself with my jacket and no one noticed, but I was still very embarrassed.
- age 15, Minnesota
Judging from past efforts, I'd have to say close to two weeks, but no more. And what would cause me to cave in? Probably either physical contact with my husband or a woman I would find attractive. And let me tell you, that first orgasm after two weeks would be a doozy!
- age 43, California (female)
I think I could about 5 to 7 days, at most. After about 3 days, my penis gets really sensitive. I guess it could be more if something real bad were to happen, such as the death of someone close. Let's put it this way: I had surgery on my dominant arm and am very bad at masturbating with the other hand, but I did it anyway. I also fought through the pain in my surgically repaired arm to masturbate.
- age 28, New York
This really seems to be an age-related question because at my age, if I wanted to quit masturbating, I could probably stop for an indefinite period of time. I choose to masturbate now and do it when I want, but when I was younger, I *had* to masturbate and seldom could last more than a couple of weeks. Back then, I was always quitting but now I say never quit.
- age 58, Ohio
I think I could go a week or so. I have gone longer, but there has to be something that *makes* me go longer without masturbating. For example, when I'm on vacation with my family and I'm distracted from sexual stimulants, I can easily go for two weeks. But when there is nothing actually keeping me from masturbating, I can probably go only a week or 10 days. Usually, a girl I like a lot or a conversation about masturbation with a buddy will end any masturbation dry spell.
- age 20, Illinois
I have been taking an anti-depressant that, although it doesn't keep me from getting horny, feeling good, and having erections, does make it quite difficult for me to achieve orgasm. I have found that if I wait a week or two, by then I am so horny that I can get to orgasm, but only with great effort and concentration. The resulting orgasm is more intense than if I were masturbating daily, but I've found in the past that holding off for a month or more doesn't make the orgasm any more intense than holding off for a week. Without the interference of the anti-depressant, I might go a few days without masturbating, but I'm mostly a once-a-day guy. The only thing the anti-depressant prevents is achieving orgasm. I still have all the other nice, warm feelings of being horny, fondling myself, being close to the one I love, and the warm buildup that I get from sexual stimulation. However, there is a point in my buildup where the feeling levels out and then doesn't increase anymore; shortly, I usually lose my erection and the good feeling. There is still some feeling of satisfaction from the buildup, although not nearly so much as with an orgasm.
- age 62, New Jersey