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Huanjing bunao (traditional Chinese: 還精補腦; simplified Chinese: 还精补脑; lit. 'returning the semen/essence to replenish the brain' or coitus reservatus) is a Daoist sexual practice and yangsheng ("nourishing life") method aimed at maintaining arousal for an extended plateau phase while avoiding orgasm.
Vajroli mudra (Sanskrit: वज्रोली मुद्रा vajrolī mudrā), the Vajroli Seal, is a practice in Hatha yoga which requires the yogi to preserve his semen, either by learning not to release it, or if released by drawing it up through his urethra from the vagina of "a woman devoted to the practice of yoga".
The ancient world discouraged promiscuity for both health and social reasons. [4] According to Pythagoras (6th century BCE), sex should be practiced in the winter, but not the summer, but was harmful to male health in every season because the loss of semen was dangerous, hard to control, and both physically and spiritually exhausting, but had no effect on females. [4]
[9] Nevertheless, the "retention of the semen" is one of the foundational tenets of Taoist sexual practice. [10] There are different methods to control ejaculation prescribed by the Taoists. In order to avoid ejaculation, the man could do one of several things.
“Those feelings of having value, having high-quality experiences – and sex being one of them – are public health benefits,” Hargons said. “I feel good, then my disposition in the world ...
Around the start of the first millennium, Tantra began to include practices of semen retention, like the penance ceremony of asidharavrata and the posterior yogic technique of vajroli mudra. They were probably adopted from ancient, non-Tantric celibate schools, like those mentioned in Mahabharata .
Conservative Rabbi Ariel Wolpe, while conceding that the Talmudic rabbis do not take a permissive view with regards to masturbation, argues that possible health and relationship benefits could justify the act. She points out that masturbation can lower risk for prostate cancer, offers stress relief, can lead to healthier sexual relationships.
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