A couple of 20-year-old developers make $500,000 a month promising to help men to stop watching porn, but exposed their private porn watching habits.

  • Eximius@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    These are some wild takes I have only ever seen on lemmy. I mean you can argue about the need for public proclamation, but “nofap” has a lot of self-esteem, social benefits. There are two different worlds, one where you fep, the other where you are giddy and horny and fepless.

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      “NoFap” doesn’t really refer to any masturbation addiction program as much as it refers to a specific community on Reddit that very much is pseudoscientific and the mods have promoted right wing candidates.

      The benefits are all either “I personally have self esteem issues from masturbating, likely due to religious norms” or “I’m overthinking the concept of a refractory period.”

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        and the mods have promoted right wing candidates.

        What does that have to do with anything?

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          It means they suck as people, and generally have compromised morality.

          Human rights are a “Left Wing” concept these days in general. Right Wing bastards are quite literally ruining our world.

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        I see. I wasn’t really too aware of the current reddit community. Personally, my empirical evidence is simply if I don’t fap, I feel more energetic, happy, searchful, and of course, horny. Makes life nicer. Was not religious for all of my conscious life. Fap is just an addicting task like others (lots of dopamini for little effort). Best if not wasting the time, but damn it’s sure good once in a rare while.

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      You could argue that the stigma on Masturbation fuels the self esteem etc problems and the improvement once people address it.

      If it works for some, great!

      Btw not saying there isn’t a lot of rotten stuff about the porn industry, sexy-economics and stuff. Still, just gaving a good wank is great.

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      Pretty sure you can comfortably argue the whole thing. No doubt there are benefits both sides depending on the individual and their circumstances, but I have never heard anyone outside internet even mention “nofap” or equivalents. I know zero people who would’ve even just mentioned it. So anyone I have ever known would also have these “wild takes”. Pretty sure none of them are in lemmy, and it’s not much wider a set if I include those that realistically could be but I just don’t know. So I’ve only ever seen your take in memes about incels and now, in lemmy, right here.