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Reddit might have yet another ticking bomb at hand: r/nofap becoming breeding grounds for violence.
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Masturbation abstinence practices have returned to the USA in the form of semen retention communities.
Well, that's a combination of words I've never ever seen before.
Also, both this article and web site are weird. It's this strange combination of a "news article" and a research paper. Which is it?
This study uses a systematic search on r/NoFap and two control forums (r/pornfree, and r/stopdrinking) to define a corpus of violent content.
Well, there's a textbook definition of cherry-picking right there. Control group needs more than just two other forums.
Of the 421 violent posts identified from September 2011 to September 2022,
Oh boy, if I had a dollar for the amount of times I saw a news article reference a science paper with an abysmal sample size, I could use that money to buy a decent used car. It's the main problem on something like 98% of the science shit I've see here and on Reddit.
