• CashewNut 🏴󠁢󠁥󠁧󠁿@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It used to be called Movember and was meant to highlight mens sexual health. Testicular and prostate cancer.

    Not ejaculating can increase the risk of prostate cancer and reduces the chance of you spotting testicular cancer lumps.

    So people have switched from a healthy activity and awareness campaign to a stupid, unhealthy and pointless campaign.

    Well done.

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      They’re different things. Movember still exists. NNN started as a meme evolving from the nofap movement only because of alliteration.

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      I quite liked the idea of Movember when I was younger, it seemed like a neat idea to grow a mustache over the month with some of your homies.

      Nowadays I have a beard thanks to the lockdowns and the reduced shame of it looking weird at the start so no need for Movember anymore.

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      Gotta take them wins when you can.

      Also why is it so often the people who appear most awesome on the surface who suffer from horrible shit like that. Your memes are top notch and I hope your days will be better soon.

      I’ve been through depression and that shit sucks.

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      You only need like a week of not cumming to get a huge load and potential increased sensitivity back. Unless you’re a chronic masturbator with death grip, in which case a month would probably be better lol

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    Nah your reward is something you reap throughout the month, it’s more pleasurable sessions with your favorite dildo because having not come in a while really heightens the experience

    I’m serious, it does

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    Man, yall really hate men who want to take a fun self-control challenge and maybe end an unhealthy relationship with pornography, huh?

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      It’s still a “fun self-control challenge” if you just stop watching porn for the month. Nothing wrong with that. But the masturbation part is just silly religious stuff with a dash of prostate cancer.

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        I’d be fascinated to see all the medical data of men who suddenly developed prostate cancer in December because they didn’t wank in November.

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          It’s same data of men who suddenly develop lung cancer after their first month of smoking. Doesn’t mean it won’t come back and bite you in the long term.

          “In all, men who averaged 4.6–7 ejaculations a week were 36% less likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer before the age of 70 than men who ejaculated less than 2.3 times a week on average.”

          - a havard article, based on an australian study.

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            “In all, men who averaged 4.6–7 ejaculations a week were 36% less likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer before the age of 70

            i can confidently not masturbate for the rest of my life and still not drop below this lifetime average.

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            Note the word averaged. Given this quote (I’m not sure if the study gets more specific), you could just wank a bit more the other months.

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        but with the masturbation part

        Funny, because I never mentioned masturbation. I don’t think anyone except the most die-hard members of the NNN/NoFap/etc. community would argue that masturbation in itself is wrong or unhealthy. The original “goal” of the challenge was to curb pornography consumption. I think most people would agree that the spirit of NNN is a lot closer to “no porn november” than “no ejaculation november.”

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      Careful now, this is Lemmy. We are only good at complaining about the system and government.