somewhere on this site there's results to a poll or survey, sorry i forget where it is. and i can't find it. but in it, one result got this: if you ejaculate, it DOES effect (or affect, damned if i know what those two words mean) your gains, you don't gain as much. if you masturbate (or master bate, if you are the master) and do NOT ejaculate, you gain more. so how can this be? well, from my experience (yes, i do have a dick, in fact i'm touching it right now, and one handed typing is more difficult) after one 'dumps the load', the dick is done doing it's job, so it shrivels up, the blood drains out. but, if one does not shoot the spoo, the dick hasn't finished it's job, so the blood doesn't drain. blood is what makes the gains, it feeds the cells that were worked so you do gain. so what's my point? don't whack off so much. of coarse this is difficult to do if you're younger, if you're 40 like me, i can do without. so what's my point? i don't know. i forget. i must be getting old i lost my train of thought...