I think you want to find a happy medium as an aspiring PUA. If you are not getting laid regularly/withhold masterbating, it may lower your standards or make you more inclined to approach, but, if you have big googly eyes and drooling like a sex starved teenager, you aren't going to get very far if you reek of desperation.
If you decide to punch the clown right before you head out for the night, and then stand in the corner in post-masturbatory bliss and have no urge to open, that won't get you very far either.
also want to keep in mind you don't want to have held back too long or else when you actually do get to step up to bat for the real thing, you may have a less than stellar performance.
