It does sound like fun, though I've always wondered about the, ahem...uh...er...let's see... release of "male sexual tension buildup". Are there Navy regulations about this? Are there giant "jizz filters" on the sub shower drains or something? Inquiring minds want to know!
There was one individual of a really un-fun religious background who did not release any of the tensions that build up normally in healthy males of reproductive age. He did not read any of the girlie magazines (technically illegal on all Navy ships (A technicality seldom enforced in any meaningful manner, though that might be different now that they have coed submarines), nor watch any of the porn (see previous technical note) and during movies of a certain nature, would look down a the deck when women wearing scanty or less were on the screen. He so assiduously avoided any sort of simulation that he stopped having wet dreams.
Come to find out, if there's no natural release of certain byproducts of natural human processes, they go stale. He woke up one morning with 'seamy yellow discharge' in his underwear.
He looked through some of the books in the ship's library and self-diagnosed a venereal disease. Reported to the ship's Corpsman. Who immediately asked, "Who've you been sexing?" Sailor insisted he was a virgin. Doc asked a lot of questions and finally determined, "No, look, if you don't flush that stuff out, it rots. And the body WILL flush out the dead sperm when it builds up."
He was the only man i've ever met, in or out of the Navy, with a prescription to beat off 'daily or as needed.'
He was poorly served by his upbringing and had to consult... Um. Experts. Or at least very experienced sailors.
First thing we did was laminate his prescription ("Don't wanna lose THAT baby!") then we introduced him to our smut locker. At the time, on that ship, it was a massive archive, a repository for reference material picked up over many years in ports in Scotland, Puerto Rico, Spain and Italy.
He went... Wild, really. Was in the rack at every opportunity. After three months of lecturing us all on the various sins we were guilty of, now he was shouting "I REPENT!" three times every off-watch period.
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Most guys make do with a Patrol Sock. Use it at the appropriate moment, stuff it into the laundry bag and recycle.
Personally, i can no longer get erect unless i have a paper towel on my chest.