There's times when I am more sensitive to irritants and it just so happens to correspond to a length of time I've gone without masturbating, but I don't know if it's a true link.

Stress or tension, however, is something that I can sometimes relieve by pleasuring myself. I think it's more a case that I'm allowing myself to be distracted from what is weighing heavily on my mind.

It does seem to release some soothing endorphins, doesn't it?

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.