Originally Posted by kingpole
One must periodically clean out one prostate gland. Even when ballooning one should not go to long without ejaculation. So if you balloon and not ejaculate you should at least let it go by the end of the week.
Why? Unless you’re pushing semen into the urethra, either through reverse kegels or because of insufficient control of involuntary BC contractions, I see no reason to promote a specific schedule for ejaculation. If semen enters the urethra and is not expelled through ejaculation, it will go into the bladder and be expelled in the urine. This is mildly uncomfortable, and probably not a healthy thing to do on a regular basis. So in that case yes, it’s better to just go ahead and ejaculate (unless you’re training yourself in semen retention, in which case it can be useful to experience a “retrograde ejaculation” in order to learn your body’s response patterns, know where your PON is, and demonstrate to yourself that ejaculation is NOT an essential part of the sexual arousal cycle.)
However, if you are able keep the semen from entering the urethra, and you practice full-body relaxation, “spreading,” or the “microcosmic orbit,” there is no theoretical limit on how long a healthy man might choose to retain.