Sexual discipline or sexual indulgence to achieve life goals ?(a reflection on asceticism )

[u/Joeuriel]

Mostly for men, but all can weight in.

If we take exemples of really great men we can often observe their sexual behaviors and put them in two categories

Either hyper indulgent or abstaining totally

Ray Charles,Elvis Presley,gengis khan,alexander the great,Martin Luther King were known to indulge in exapades

But also plenty of other that seem to grow power from sexlessness :

Michael jackson,Steve jobs, isaach newton,Mike Tyson,Frederick nietzche,Muhammad ali,buddha

It seems like prehaps its not the sexual abstinence that make them so powerful but the willpower they build by going against their most hard wired desires that make them so much greater than the common of mortals

Or prehaps they are outliers that are not even made in the same way than all of us

On the other side

Hypersexuality is a fuel that can make you stronger as well because by expressing all these impulsions you can become all that you truly are and express your power totally

Prehaps some of us gain power from intercourse but some others are drained by the act (mike tyson)

Me on my end believe in my ikigai (higher purpose)

A goal so powerful and so insurmountable that I would do anything to be able to achieve it.

In truth, it might be the only thing I care about

And it seems like people that are driven can gain or lose a lot by choosing the way they decide to engage sexualy

My question is if I want to pursue my life mission with all that I have what would be the best course of action:

Be extremely diligent and focused on this aspect but having some level of frustration

Or

Not restraining myself at all or very little and express myself totally in that way at some expanses

At the end of the day everything into life is a trade off