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people have been demonizing it for most of the AD years i think but it's quite pleasant really. are there any proven negative effects?

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[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

That's a problem with attitudes about sex and lack of impulse control during competition. The same could be said about doing your taxes before a tournament. It can take your focus, but it is not the taxes fault. It's your lack of impulse control to keep your mind focused on the competition. Bad coaches ignore that there is a strong psychological component to training. But it has nothing to do with the sexual nature of the stimulus, just what you do with it and what is the attitude towards it.

Still, absolutely nothing to do with any physiological element of performance. Jerking one off the night before is not going to knock off anything, much less weight in your lifting personal record, for instance.

[-] Lovstuhagen@hilariouschaos.com 1 points 3 months ago

I actually think there's an argument to be made that a lot of top tier athletes are never doing things like their taxes prior to a big match. It's just really anticlimactic to say "My spouse/manager/dad does all my paperwork and handles my finances before a fight" than to say "I isolate myslf from my spouse and don't have any orgasms before a fight."

I also think that they would make the argument that they have plenty of impulse control and focus, it's just a matter of the extent to which one has it.

It's one thing to be a man who does not look at p0rn or masturb8 and only sleeps with his wife and another thing to be a monk.

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