Courious about you experience/ ideas on cognitive function and prolonged male chastity. It's suggested that consumption of pornography affect short term memory negatively. Would male chastity do the same? Or maybe the contrary? Have you noticed any changes since you embraced this lifestyle?
While I'm not into porn, having been feminized and kept in chastity certainly has my mind working overtime. The "Pink fog" that comes over me when I am dressed in lingerie and cage seems to prevent other, more rational thinking. My FLR has taken over my mind and I find myself unable to do the most simple, everyday things!
I am a lot calmer, a lot quicker to apologise to my Wife when I have made a mistake or been rude. I look for more ways to be just close to her without being sexual. As time has passed I am less frantic with regards to where all of this is going and more accepting of her control. Whether chastity has affected my memory, positively or otherwise, is not something I can say I have thought about or noticed. I have however got to a point where I 'consume' virtually no pornography at all. In recent weeks chastity blogs on Tumblr have started to seriously wind me up. Awful English in chastity captions, ridiculous statements about female superiority, obvious wank fodder that misses the irony of someone masturbating to chastity themed images and captions. I have definitely changed the way I think through my experience of being kept chaste. I am sure if now me met pre chastity me they would be quite different.
I myself personally don't think it changes who we are, but does change who we want to be. I think I'm the same person, with the same values and desires...but without the hormone drop I think of others and not what is easiest. I can stay in bed or I can get dressed and scrape the frost off her windows. In chastity I think of her needs first, and if I had just masterbated I almost guarantee I would be cozy in bed. It's not on purpose, it's not that I don't care, heck it's not even because I think I might get lucky. It just changes your inner what's in it for me attitude. Although in my defense, my kh also changes her behavior while I'm in chastity and doing those type of things for her. This makes it quite rewarding and downright difficult to resist trying to please her. Her thanking me with a kiss or a pat on the cage, her telling me what a good job I've done with this or that. Telling me how much better I am when I am attentive and submissive. They are all things built into the action and response. If she didn't reward me with encouragement I doubt my changes in behavior would last. Action reaction. Negative reinforcement I believe also works, there have been times she has threatened paddling if I didn't stop something. After the first time I didn't and she really gave me a paddling, I always stop in time before she punishes me. I suppose it's a form of training, whether we believe it to be or not. If given enough rewards or shocks, we learn to associate pleasure or pain with certain behavior. Ring a bell and feed a dog or ring a bell and shock a dog...eventually those dogs will forever associate that bell with consequences. I think chastity keeps our reptilian brain on...keeping us from thinking too much. Once we start thinking and weighing the rewards and benefits subconsciously...we make poor decisions. Pavlov's dogs heard a dinner bell and were fed. They associated the bell with food and began to salivate at the sound of the bell. I bet they wouldn't salivate at the sound of the bell if they had just stuffed themselves silly. Anyway, that's my long winded theory. Sorry to compare men with dogs, but I think our instant gratification centers are fairly similar, as well as our need to please our companions....plus I am easily distracted. But hey, I'm very loyal and will fight for those I care about, so there could be worse things to be compared to.
Overall I feel that I'm a better person after a couple weeks locked up. If I do get angry about something I find that I'm a lot quicker at calming myself down or if stupid things irritate me I'm more apt to let them roll off my back. It can help me focus more on my tasks and work but if I'm really horny and some days are more of a struggle than others I find that I can't focus and when I can't focus I tend to spend more time here at the mansion or on Tumblr when I probably shouldn't be spending time on that stuff. I think there are pros and cons to significantly long lockups but the pros far outweigh the cons in my opinion. I do think some porn in some instances can be a negative with chastity. I don't think it effects the memory but it does create falsities and can create unrealistic expectations and then people can obsess about those unrealistic expectations. In that sense it's bad but not dangerous. Overall I think chastity is healthy for any couple who wants to partake and good for relationships.
I actually find that the feel of a snug cage is a good reminder to keep yourself focused and not get sidetracked by base things, wither physically or mentally.