One of the things I read at the beginning about chastity that most intrigued me was the behavioral changes that chaste men experience. That’s really what persuaded me to try it. I wanted to learn for myself whether those things actually occurred.
Recently, I read a post, “Behavioral Changes,” over on the Male Chastity Journal blog. One of the blog readers there, a chaste man, posted a comment about the behavioral changes his wife had noticed. What he shared is an excellent illustration of what I want to talk about in this post.
Observed Behavioral Changes
Here is what he said:
“I asked her what the benefits were to her and she said:
- You listen to me more and pay me more attention
- You are more loving and tactile – more hugs and kisses
- The house is tidier as you do more things
- I feel desired and adored
- We have sex more often
- We have less arguments and disagreements
- You seem happier and less stressed – and I know now that if you do seem grumpy or stressed that a good spanking helps alleviate that.
- Generally I feel happier and there is more romance in our everyday life.”
Those are precisely the type of reported changes that had intrigued me. Having since learned by experience they do occur, the next natural question is why. That I have discovered, is easily explained by the science of male chastity.
Biochemical Mechanisms Connected With Sexual Release
Have you ever considered how your sex life affects things like your emotional state, frame of mind, and behavior? If you have, or if you think about it now, you might conclude that a relationship exists between sex and mood.
A lot of scientific research has been performed in the area of the biochemical mechanisms that occur before, during, and after sexual gratification. As a result, the relationship between the brain, sexual release, and the science behind male chastity is well understood by researchers.
The Role Of Neurotransmitters
The brain is a complex organ. Many different neurotransmitters direct the brain, which produces changes in our moods throughout the day, and throughout our lives. Neurotransmitters are chemical messengers in the brain that shuttle across the spaces between cells. These messengers then bind to docking-station molecules called receptors. Those receptors relay the signal carried by the neurotransmitter from one cell to its neighbor.
There are three of these neurotransmitters which are most involved with sexual activity—dopamine, oxytocin, and prolactin.
Dopamine
Different neurotransmitters are made in different parts of the brain. Two main brain areas produce dopamine. One is called the substantia nigra. It’s a tiny strip of tissue on either side of the base of your brain. It sits in a region known as the mid-brain. Close by is the ventral tegmental area. It, too, makes dopamine.
The ventral tegmental area sends dopamine into the brain when animals (including humans) expect or receive a reward. That reward might be a delicious slice of chocolate cake, pizza, a favorite song, or sexual gratification. This dopamine release tells the brain that whatever it just experienced, it’s worth getting more. And that helps animals and humans alter their behaviors in ways that will help them attain more of the rewarding item or experience.
Dopamine even affects moods. Things that are rewarding tend to make us feel pretty good. Lowering dopamine can make us lose interest in activities we usually find pleasurable. Dopamine does a lot of things, but here we’re focusing on the relationship between dopamine levels and sexual activity. Since dopamine is commonly associated with the brain’s reward and pleasure centers, it can cause feelings of pleasure if we partake in or anticipate having sexual activity.
Oxytocin
Oxytocin often called the love drug, is a powerful hormone that acts as a neurotransmitter in the brain. It is responsible for feelings of trust, connectedness, closeness, and protection. While a burst of oxytocin is produced during orgasm, oxytocin is released during all forms of intimate activity, which includes touching, hugging, and caressing.
Prolactin
Prolactin is a hormone and neurotransmitter produced in the pituitary gland. Two main hormones, one of which is dopamine, control prolactin production. Dopamine sends a message to the pituitary gland, primarily indicating whether to begin or cease the production of prolactin. Dopamine restrains the production of prolactin.
This neurotransmitter has over three hundred uses within the body, but it’s effects on orgasm are the most well researched in comparison to others. An orgasm, through either physical sex or masturbation, results in the pituitary gland releasing a large amount of prolactin into the bloodstream. Prolactin in men directly affects the refractory period after orgasm before they can maintain an erection and engage in sexual activities again.
Role Of Neurotransmitters In Chastity
Here are some simple details that explain the role of the three essential neurotransmitters in chastity.
Dopamine is the intense pleasure hormone, a built-in reward system. We might call dopamine the crack cocaine of neurotransmitters. It produces high highs, followed by a deep crash. As chaste males, we want dopamine.
Oxytocin, the “cuddle hormone,” is involved in bonding, intimacy, and trust. Keyholders want oxytocin because this hormone is what produces the positive behavioral changes in a chaste male that the keyholder finds beneficial.
Prolactin can be called the “satisfaction hormone.” It’s like the antidote to the dopamine and oxytocin. At orgasm, when a large amount of prolactin gets released, it shuts down the sex stuff. In chastity relationships between a chaste male and his partner keyholder, no one wants this.
Takeaway
Dopamine levels continually increase over time through frequent sexual play and intimacy with your partner when you do not get sexual release. For some guys, just wearing a chastity device can increase their dopamine levels because they find it arousing. That all helps to maintain the sense of constant, heightened arousal chaste men crave.
The dopamine contributes to the release of oxytocin, which is what causes chaste males to pay more attention to their partner keyholders, behave more affectionately and caring, become less argumentative, and feel happier and less stressed in general. Oxytocin builds up and stays high all the time, making chaste men more attentive, aroused, and eager to please their keyholder. The more teasing, the more oxytocin. The gradual increase in oxytocin levels continues as long as there is teasing, and the keyholder denies him orgasm.
Once a keyholder allows a chaste man to orgasm, there is a massive release of oxytocin and dopamine, which in turn produces the release of prolactin. Almost instantly, he loses sexual desire, intimate feelings, and submissiveness. It then takes as many as seven to ten days to rebuild the levels of dopamine and oxytocin. It’s easy to see why many keyholders ration orgasms carefully.
Chaste men do experience behavioral changes. Now you know the established scientific reasons why it occurs.