u/martinonan66

I surprised a Redditor by telling him that at age 60, my penis responds better to my touch than it did 40 years ago.

I can masturbate for days on end, because I’ve learned that pleasure isn’t proportional to the state of the penis’s erection, contrary to what pornography suggests.

The huge advantage of prolonged masturbation is that it allows you to explore your own desires and pleasures with complete freedom. Here’s what I’ve gradually discovered through experience.

The Inuit, it seems, have dozens of words to distinguish the different states of ice and snow. Any good masturbator should have just as many to describe the states of erection and arousal of his penis, beyond the terms “soft,” “half-hard,” and “hard.” Each of these states can correspond to one or more caresses, a particular kind of arousal.

For example, when I know I have a whole day ahead of me, I like not to reach an erection quickly, but rather to delay it for an hour or two, alternating between slow caresses with my thumb and index finger and more vigorous thrusting motions. Often, during this phase, I hardly need any pornography. If I don’t have my eyes closed to savor the surges of desire, I watch the slow effects of the blood rushing into my penis. That’s enough to keep me aroused. But above all, I open wide the swirling, ever-changing space of my fantasies, which, like dreams, follow one another in a chaotic rhythm, with no apparent logic.

When the erection finally sets in, I maintain it for 15 to 20 minutes, and the peak of my desire leads me to repeat the words “penis,” “dick,” “masturbation,” etc., like mantras. If I manage not to ejaculate, then I let the erection of my penis slowly subside, to repeat the entire cycle once again.

It’s 1am. I got home two hours ago after a long, stressful and exhausting day at work. My wife is asleep. The only way I can unwind is by masturbating for an hour or two. When I masturbate, I finally feel like a human being again; I reconnect with my true self.