So, I made a burner account to talk about this because I’m sort of baffled at myself.
I (21M) usually masturbate once a day. On very rare occasions, twice. About month ago, I was in a stressful situation where I had to do a lot of work in a small amount of time. When I get stressed, I have to take the urge out of my head, so one day I did it twice with a difference of 2 or so hours. (Not entirely out of the norm for me, sometimes the only thing that happens is that it feels slightly less good the second time).
Since then, I’ve been stuck in a strange situation where my penis has lost pleasurable sensations gradually. Mind you, I don’t use an excessively hard grip and I’m uncircumcised. I can still climax properly, it just doesn’t feel like much when I do (actually feels a little uncomfortable, like if my penis spammed in a strange way that isn’t exactly pleasurable).
Here’s the strange part: I’ve been taking time off from masturbation, in particular lapses to try and see where it goes. I’ve let myself become more sensitive and my penis responds to touch quite well, except for stroking. I’ve noticed that after 2-3 days I can stroke it for a little bit and it just degrades in sensation, like going back a stage, even more. It immediately happens upon stroking it a little bit. That caused me a lapse last week where I stroked myself to climax and entirely regressed back to stage one.
Right now, I’m in a spot where I’ve gotten back most of that touch sensitivity, and my erections feel stronger too. Like anyone would if they took a break for a few days, naturally. But that stroking sensitivity still hasn’t returned entirely. I think there’s been lapses where I noticed it returning for maybe 5 seconds before it starts regressing again, and it’s not because of how I stroke it, but rather because my penis itself hasn’t fully recovered.
I feel like I should try again after maybe 2 extra days or so, because now I’m in a reasonably decent “stage” for further improvement, but I’m worried that the regression will happen again.
I’m not on any drugs, I’m not overweight and I don’t really have a bad diet. I wonder if something similar has ever happened to anyone else?