Here is the list of NoFap legends (Great men that benefited from seminal conservation). All on the list fall into one of the three categories:
- Refrained from all sexual release (masturbation and sex) believing it provided mental/physical benefits
- Refrained from masturbation believing it provided mental/physical benefits
- Refrained from sex believing it provided mental/physical benefits
Whether one refrained from sex or masturbation (for life or for a short period of time, as in the case of athletes) they must have done so due to their awareness of its benefits.
(Note: Some of these men refrained from masturbating, some men had children, and some of these men were completely celibate or became celibate at some point in their lives.Nonetheless, for our benefit, I make the logical assumption that if they were celibate, they probably did not masturbate to pornography on the internet.)
Swami Vivekananda Indian Hindu Monk and chief disciple of the 19th-century Indian mystic Ramakrishna Paramahansa
โYou may wonder what made them do this, you may wonder if I had some strange power. Let me tell you that I did have a power and this is it โ never once in my life did I allow myself to have even one sexual thought. I trained my mind, my thinking, and the powers that man usually uses along that line I put into a higher channel, and it developed a force so strong that nothing could resist it.โ (Source: โComplete Works Of Swami Vivekanandaโ and http://www.vivekananda.net )
Mike Tyson Boxing Legend
โI never knew that conquering so many women takes so much from you more than adds so much to you. I always read that the great fighters never had sex before fights and I was a young kid and I wanted to be the youngest heavyweight champion in the world, so I restrained myself from sex for around five years.โ
( Source: Mike Tyson in โTysonโ and Athletes on Abstinence )
Muhammad Ali Boxing Legend
โThereโs a kid just come down here named Cassius Clay. If you bet on him every time he fights, youโll be a rich man, โcause he wonโt lose a single fight. I believe his thing is sexual control. And heโs got it. Any kid who can control his sex can with the title. I believe it.โ (Olympic Boxing Coach, Harry Wiley, a quote from the book โMuhammad Ali, The Greatest.โ Further source: The New Science of Seminal Conservation )
Sir Issac NewtonScientist & Mathematician
Life long celibate. Believed to have died a virgin.
โThe way to chastity is not to struggle with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some employment, or by reading, or by meditating on other things,โ
(Source: Letter to philosopher John Locke )
Nikola TeslaLegendary Scientist and Inventor
โHe believed that celibacy spurred on the brainโฆโ
One of Teslaโs other biographers, Kenneth Swezey, a journalist who remained close to Tesla in his declining years, called Tesla โan absolute celibate,โ and confirmed that
he rarely slept. (Source: BBC Article and TeslaUniverse Article )
Steve JobsFounder of Apple
โOur birth control method up to that point was Steveโs coitus interruptus, also called the pull-out method, which for him was about his conserving his energy for work,โ she wrote. He explained that he didnโt want to climax so he could build โpower and wealth by conserving oneโs vital energies.โ (Former girlfriend Chrisann Brennanโs book quoted in UK Daily Mail Newspaper )
Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader, Tibetan leader
โSexual pressure, sexual desire, actually, I think is short-period satisfaction and, often, that leads to more complication.โ
Kanye West Rapper
People ask me a lot about my drive. I think it comes from, like, having a sexual addiction at a really young age,โ he says. โLook at the drive that people have to get sexโto dress like this and get a haircut and be in the club in the freezing cold at 3 A.M., the places they go to pick up a girl. If you can focus the energy into something valuable, put that into work ethic . . . โ (Quote from: The Unraveling of Kanye West )
50 CentRapper
โMasturbation is a sin you stop right now fool!!! lol God is watching youโ โStep to stop masturbating: 1. To avoid the urge to masturbate stop going to โ โ โ โ sites, 2. Make a conscious decision not to turn your head after people walk to you, 3. Do not go to strip clubs, 4. Do not look at lust filled magazinesโ (From Tweets, collected from: The 50 Cent Four-Step Stop-Masturbating Plan )
Martin โFarmerโ Burnsโ
โcatch-as-catch-canโ wrestler, coach, writer and teacher โDo no dissipate in any form whatever. You should sleep alone, and from eight to nine hours. Get up at 5:30 and take a walk.โ
( Source: Farmer Burns, โLessons in Wrestling and Physical Cultureโ and Athletes on Abstinence )
Georg Hackenschmidt 20th century strongman, wrestler and philosopher
โModeration in sexual intercourse is very important. Sexual abstemiousness should be strictly observed during the early age of manhood and development. He who observes this recommendation will soon benefit by the immense prerogatives of chastity. A few years ago a colleague of mine said to me: โNonsense, that is only human nature.โ This โcleverโ man, however reached only a secondary position as a strong man, and now, at the age of thirty, he is actually degenerating as an athlete.โ
David HayeWorld Heavy Weight Boxing Champion
โI donโt ejaculate for six weeks before the fight. No sex, no masturbation, no nothing. It releases too much tension. It releases a lot of minerals and nutrients that your body needs, and it releases them cheaply. Releasing weakens the knees and your legs. Find a lion that hasnโt had some food for a while, and youโve got a dangerous cat. So there wonโt bet a drip from me. Even in my sleep โ if there are girls all over me in my dream, I say to them, โIโve got a fight next week, I canโt do anything. I canโt do it.โ Thatโs control. Iโve been doing that since I was fifteen and its part and parcel of my preparation now. Thatโs why Im am who I am today โ itโs down to all those little sacrifices. Find me another boxer who makes that sacrifice, and youโll find another champion.โ (Quote from: David Haye: Fight Night Preparation )
Manny PacquiaoBoxer, Eight Division World Champion
Believing the old adage that sex saps strength, Pacquiao follows a strict no-[wife] policy during training. โWeโve talked to doctors about it,โ [trainer Freddie] Roach says. โSex lowers your testosterone, so youโre not as mean.โ Most boxers abstain for a week or more before a bout. โI ask my guys for 10 days,โ Roach says. Of course Pacquiao beats the others even when it comes to abstinence. He stays chaste for 21 days before a bout, husbanding his energies for post fight festivities. ( Source: Playboy Magazine Article. Quoted in Manny Pacquiao Abstains Before Fights )
Note: There are many on the list that we all have a problem with in terms of their personalities or certain things they might have done. Kanye is an obnoxious personality. Tyson was convicted of rape. Issac Newton believed in witch-craft. Tesla believed in aliens, would ruin the reputation of other inventors and at one point started to get delusional. The samurai Takamori beheaded thousands of people. Nonetheless, these men all accomplished a lot in their lives. Tyson is a legendary boxer and in that endeavor maybe seminal conservation helped him? But we can all find at least one person in this list who inspires us and help to stay away from the evil of internet โ โ โ โ and excessive masturbation in short PMO.
Many More
1) All Jain & Buddhist Monks
2) All Brave kings like Shivaji, Maharana Pratap etc
3) All Brave Queens Rani Laxmi Baiโฆetc
4) Many Hindu saints like Dayanand Saraswati,
5) Many Freedom Fighters
5) Inventorsโฆ
And The List Goes On But Exeptions are also There in This Listโฆ