>and there's a tingly feeling in my pelvis, perhaps around where the prostate should be.
Feels good doesn't it?
The point of refraining from masturbating and ejaculating is to learn to control your sexuality. This does not mean being harsh on yourself whenever you find a girl attractive by looking away while reprimanding yourself daring to find her sexy. You are not some asexual alien, you are a man; be a man and feel aroused with no shame for your human nature, so just experience pleasure. But you don't let it control you, which is where abstaining comes in.
Do you see a girl, find her sexy so when you get home you immediately go to knock one out? Then you have no control of your sexuality. By abstaining, even with the urges, you are disciplining yourself. You learn to enjoy your sexuality and not be controlled by it. Soon there will be no urge, just a short time of arousal.
As for your actual situation, the job is only half done. After just one day of abstaining you feel that same sort of pride and feel you can go on forever but then you see a girl with a killer body, and then what happens? A relapse. The temptation will always be there and some days it will be even mort won't get worse, you just have to be consistant and be determined. Then you will succeed in abstaining.e enticing than it was the other day. That is when your own discipline comes in. Be determined: You will control your sexuality. It won't get easier but you will be better.
Once you learn that, the only time you will ejaculate is during sex, and it will feel more satisfying and draining then. Unless you want to learn to retain semen completley and have multiple orgasms without ejaculating, that is the advice I give
TL;DR: Instead of slaying the beast learn to control the beast by controlling your sexuality and that will be the major benefit of abstaining not just "bending the forces of time and space to your will" or whatever the benefits of abstaining are.
Ask if you wanna know more. I'm here to help you guys /improve/.