And you decided to take a confrontational tone over my comments because? I work out. When I was working out 5-6 days a week, I still felt the urge to masturbate, and still felt sexual urges in general. This is a sign of a healthy sex drive. Exercise does not remove sex drive. So you are basically saying that sex and masturbation are unhealthy ways of de-stressing, despite the fact that it's been proven to actually have healthy benefits for the body, such as with prostate cancer.
There is nothing unhealthy about sexual urges. Especially if they are released in a healthy fashion: masturbation or safe-sex with someone you care about.
I agree about the whole sex drive thing, but I do want to point out that the average male has a nice little tool in their abstinence arsenal called a wet dream (I know some chicks get 'em too... the lucky few). If you don't masturbate, chances are wet dreams will eventually kick in, and get rid of the stuff for you. So, greatly reduced risk of prostate cancer. However, this is a blow to people who are inclined to think that orgasm/ejaculation causes their acne... if you don't do it yourself, your body's gonna do it for you.
On a different note, I still think that the "edging theory" outlined in my previous post may have some substance, and it's something that you can try regardless of whether you want to abstain or keep on choking the chicken. I encourage any male who thinks there may be a correlation between their wankery and those annoying spots on their visage to give the theory a shot.
I do believe that most who view a correlation view it as the hormonal shifts that occur during the act are what cause acne. And I'd assume that whatever hormonal changes occur when masturbating or having sex would be similar to a wet dream. And I'd assume that if you seriously deprive yourself, you'd likely get quite a few of those. Much better to just masturbate when you really feel sexual tension building (and no amount of other activities will rid you of sexual tension in the long-run, unless something happens to kill your sex drive entirely, in which case what a sad existence).
I just don't see this (abstaining from masturbation) as a practical solution. what will you do when you get married or are in a serious relationship? Will you just hold hands together and then go hit the gym any time you feel like having sex? I doubt you'd want to just keep sex to once or twice a year, or even just once or twice a month if you are quite young. No idea waht your theory was, I am too lazy to check back. But if it means not completely avoiding sexual acts, then I'm all for it.
When I tried abstaining, my wet dreams kicked in within a week, and I then proceeded to get one around every 2-3 days. So it just replaced my usual masturbation schedule pretty much.
My theory was that total abstinence is difficult and maybe even unnecessary. And for those of us who get wet dreams, abstaining from ejaculation / orgasm is impossible. I was just thinking that perhaps getting it over with quickly rather than prolonging your session ("edging") would limit the amount of hormone fluctuation that occurs and thus minimize the amount of acne you get. All I know is, my acne seemed to spiral out of its normal "teenage pimples" state and into the "crazy cysts" state as soon as I realized that the longer it lasted, the more enjoyable it ended up being.
I'm also going to try to get back to a "normal" sleep schedule, meaning 11pm-7am or maybe even 10pm-6am. Right now I'm at 4am-11am which probably isn't the healthiest thing out there.
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Its really not worth shifting your life around for acne... at most change your soap and moisturizer to something with the skin's natural ph(but even then your tap water that you shower with will change the level either way), drink water and try a medication or two and then bust out accutane and get rid of it and move on with life if nothing else works(or just move on and nothing works lol), at least for me that's how I see it. But stop getting off? noo way 
