I was practicing a modified Wim Hof (The Iceman) Method. It involves submersion in cold water. He does it in ice ponds and pools loaded with ice. He has been submerged for 2 hours or more with no affect on his core temperature and injected with harmful bacterias that merely died off. He is rewriting the medical books as he amazes scientists by his stamina and remaining impervious to cold and disease and helping others to become disease-free by his methods of breathing and ice-cold showers and baths.
Anyway, in practicing, I did reach some very blissful levels of awareness where thoughts of women, sex and other earthly shackles seemed to have no hold, at least for a while. It does give me a break from the habitual sexual thoughts that oftentimes consume my consciousness. Later in the day when I return to average normal routines and an opportunity to habitually entertain sexual content in my mind, it seems as though I am better able to have a choice as to allow myself to enter into the old habitual thought patterns or not.
If I go out and play the game with the ladies now, it is more controlled and thought-out, well-planned. I do it when there is time and freedom and if something more important arises, it is easy to lay aside and pick it up when I see fit or dismiss it.
Don't get me wrong, the female body is still beautiful, desirable and intriguing but it is something that is so easy to get. It is not rare. It never brings lasting happiness. There is always a newer more beautiful one on the horizon. I am not a slave to a woman's tits, ass and pussy. We all know how changeable, wicked, cruel and greedy they can be. (same as men) So, why not be cool about the whole thing. find some nice blissful states within because you are the only one who will be with you till the day you die. It is far better to be well-acquainted with your deeper states and take some of your attention away from them and put it on "numero uno," you.
These methods seem to release wonderful chemicals like serotonin and dopamine into your system. Wim Hof calls it "getting high on your own supply."
Anyway, it has proven helpful for this guy (me) and others. This practitioner and teacher Wim Hof is 60 years old and holds 26 Guinness World Records including climbing almost to the top of Everest in shorts and shoes.
Incidentally, he claims his method promotes great sex with no drugs or stimulants and he follows a simple diet. And he is a very normal guy. He goofs around, strums guitar and drinks beer after running a marathon in the Namib Desert without fluids and losing 5 liters of water.
In my humble opinion, and basically the opinion of most of the world throughout history, sexual pleasure is a great pleasure and a great trap that can deplete a man of his funds, vital energy, peace of mind, destroy his marriage and reduce him to the level of an animal. But the pleasure is so enticing and thought to be the highest pleasure. As long as it is the highest pleasure, you can't beat it. As soon as you go above it to a higher state, then from that higher perspective, you are free to choose when, where, what, why and how often.
For me, in performing these types and other types of disciplines, the energy that seems stuck in the genital area, rises upward along the spine and fills the brain. Basically, the big guy has full control over the little guy.