Man explains benefits of 100 day 'semen retention' journey as he has got taller during process
A new documentary explores the 'manosphere' and what lengths people will go to
A man has opened up about the benefits he’s experienced during his 100-day ‘semen retention’ journey.
Jack even reckons he got taller during the process as he spoke to James Blake for a new documentary.
Appearing in BBC’s Men of the Manosphere, the 27-year-old said he was once ‘lost’ without really realising and had ‘no respect’ for himself.
And after watching videos by the likes of Andrew Tate, the Northern Irishman decided he wanted ‘to be respected’ and ‘stop being a loser’.
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So, he turned to the various teachings of the ‘Manosphere’ and can be described as seeking its ‘alpha male’ qualities. This new documentary explores this controversial concept and its ‘network of communities that create, consume and distribute content online aimed at men and boys’.
Jack is one of the young men who presenter Blake meets, ‘seeking status, wealth and women’.
The host explains that being a so-called ‘alpha male’ means ‘working harder, looking better and reframing our mindset’.
“It starts with daily discipline like going to the gym to the more extreme and obscure advice like ‘stop wanking’,” Blake adds.
And that’s exactly what Jack is doing as he says on social media video: “No wanking, no sexual intercourse, no interactions with any female parts at all.”
Day 57
First shown in the documentary on the 57th day of ‘semen retention’, he explains it’s all down to having masculinity.
“If you can control your lust and your sex drive, you can control your mind, people don’t realise it, every time you masturbate you're releasing your masculine energy, your testosterone,” Jack claims - not necessarily with scientific, factual evidence to back him up.
He goes on to say the labelling of masculinity as ‘toxic’ makes young men ‘ashamed’ and that they’re ‘being sent mixed signals’.
Day 80
And on his 80th day of the ‘journey’, Jack says: “I have never felt more alive than I am right now.”
Committing to the gym and abstaining from any form of intimacy and ejaculation, he continues: “I’ve went from a complete blank canvas to having nearly an eight-pack, veins coming out man, vascularity. And probably other things – people have actually said I’ve got taller as well. It’s pretty interesting but I think that’s just to do with going to the gym and just my posture in general.”
When asked if he’s doing it for himself or for the attention of women, he says it’s ‘100 percent’ for himself.
“Female attention isn’t even a thing,” Jack adds. “All my life has just been chasing cheap dopamine all the time, whether it was porn or video games or alcohol or partying or whatever.”
The man claims he wants to be ‘respected by people’ and wants ‘people to recognise’ him and know his ‘values’.
Day 103
Jack ends up surpassing 100 days of ‘semen retention’ in the documentary and says he feels ‘f**king untouchable’.
Although, he seems to be experiencing a bizarre side effect. “Every morning, I’m waking up with an erection. It’s crazy and I’ll get about 15 to 20 a day,” he claims.
“That would be minimum,” as he jokes he ‘wouldn’t be surprised’ if he got one randomly during the interview.
“I will continue to keep cutting it out because the way I feel now – both mentally, physically and even spiritually – I don’t ever want to go back to what I was, being a slave to my desires.”
Doctors and studies have said there are both advantages and disadvantages to a person’s physical and mental health if they do not have sex or masturbate.
At the end of the documentary, Blake says: “The Manosphere promises brotherhood and self-improvement, but often it teaches criticism – of women, of weakness, of feeling,” as he adds that the doc’s subjects ‘have all found purpose’ under its influence. “But they’re also evidence of how our search for answers can be manipulated for profit,” Blake continues.
“People talk about ‘lost boys’. Maybe we need to find our way back, what happens next is up to all of us.”
Men of the Manosphere is now streaming on BBC iPlayer and airs on BBC Three at 10pm on 17 November.
Topics: Andrew Tate, BBC, Mental Health, Documentaries
Jess Battison