Seth Walsh
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1/ There is something uniquely brutal about conspicuously posting about “semen retention.”
Because the entire premise requires you to announce publicly:
“I am currently not ejaculating.”
2/ And once you announce it, everyone immediately has the same forbidden thought:
Is this actually discipline…
or has involuntary circumstance simply been reclassified as a spiritual practice?
3/ That’s the problem with semen-retention posting.
Nobody can verify the counterfactual.
You might be rejecting endless sexual opportunities with monk-like discipline.
You might also just be having an extremely quiet month.
Same tweet either way.
4/ It becomes even funnier when the content gets extremely serious.
“Day 37. Mental clarity is insane. Energy through the roof.”
Brother, there is another possible explanatory variable here.
5/ The conspicuousness is what kills it.
You could simply retain the semen.
Privately.
Silently.
Nobody needs quarterly reporting.
6/ Imagine publicly announcing any equivalent biological non-event.
“Proud to report another week without vomiting.”
“Day 22 without sneezing.”
Nobody asked for the KPI.
7/ And the language always turns an absence into an asset.
Not having sex becomes:
- discipline
- masculine energy
- dopamine restoration
- spiritual ascension
- competitive advantage
8/ Again: maybe it genuinely helps some people.
But the moment you repeatedly broadcast it, you create the funniest possible ambiguity:
Are you abstaining from sex?
Or are you simply experiencing abstinence?
9/ Some achievements become less impressive the more urgently you need everyone to know about them.
Semen retention may be the purest example.
The highest-status version is surely retaining without issuing investor updates.