Chastity milestones

Why round numbers fail beginners

The usual milestones are a week, a month, ninety days. For somebody on their first lock they are all in the wrong place. Day 3 is the wall: the nights are broken, the fit is still being found, and the urge is at its loudest. A first seal at day 7 is four days past the point where most first locks end, and day 30 is somewhere over the horizon.

A milestone is only a milestone if it comes before you give up. Early ones need to come fast and often, while the lock is hard; later ones can spread out, because by then the lock is a habit and a seal every few months is enough.

The sequence

The seals on chastity.report fall on the Fibonacci days, where each number is the sum of the two before it: 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610, 987, 1597 and 2584. The first five come in the first week, the next in the second, then 21 and 34 carry the first month and a bit. By 89 they are months apart, and by 987 and 1597 they are years.

Round numbers are kept for the ones people actually say out loud: 100, 500, 1000, 1500, 2000, 2500, 3000 and 3500 days. And every whole year is a seal, with no end, so a lock always has a next milestone however long it has run. Day 1 is the day the lock starts, so the first seal is the first evening.

Pick the next seal as the target

The simplest way to use the sequence is to make the next seal the target, and let each one decide the next. On day 4, the target is 5; on day 9, it is 13; on day 40, it is 55. A target that is always within reach is one you keep hitting, and hitting targets is what keeps a lock going.

A planned end can still be a round date, a birthday or the end of a month, with the seals as the steps to it. Locktober works that way: the month ends on Day 31, three days short of the 34, if you want a reason to carry on.

A streak is not a day count

Two numbers get called a streak, and they are not the same. The lock day is how many days the cage has been on, from Day 1, and it is what the seals are on. The log streak is how many evenings in a row you have logged, whatever you logged: a day caged all day, part of it or not at all counts the same, as long as you wrote it down.

That split is deliberate. The lock is about staying locked; the streak is about keeping the record. A shield covers an evening you forgot to log so the streak survives, but it never touches the lock day, a figure about being caged or the calendar. A day out of the cage is a day out of the cage, logged honestly, and the log streak carries on.

Seal dates from common start dates

Because Day 1 is the day the lock starts, a lock started on a given date reaches each seal on the same date for everybody. These are the first ten seals from four common starts. The dates repeat every year, except that a lock from 1 January reaches its 89 a day earlier in a leap year.