Qanon Anonymous has been doing a good patreon series about masculinity cults. This week it's about health perverts and they got to /r/nofap. Apparently the guy who created it was inspired by a post on /r/TodayIlearned about pseudoscientifically boosting your testosterone by not masturbating. I was friends with the guy who created r/TodayIlearned and he had me on as a comoderator in its early days. By not removing that post, I've directly altered the course of history and convinced a generation of reactionaries that they're the Harry Potter of cum.

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    1 year ago

    A butterfly flaps it's wings in Tokyo and some incel in Schenectady loses no nut november.

      • RNAi [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Yes.

        All the OG fascists / nazis loved ocultism, just like all the generations of reactionaries from previous centuries to them.

      • build_a_bear_group [he/him, comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        Sex Magick has always been reactionary. It is responsible for the founding of a NASA lab and the California Aerospace industry.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Parsons#Religious_beliefs

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      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        1 year ago

        :astronaut-1:

        Nothing good comes from a weird dude in a bathrobe telling bored middle class people that they can attain wealth and power by doing cocaine fueled orgies in an abandoned church.

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  • happybadger [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Wait if I'm responsible for r/nofap then I'm also responsible for /r/nofapchristians. I gooberwatch them because they turn the sexual pathology up to 11. It's like having an ant farm.

  • RNAi [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    :hesitation-2: Why did you have to log off? Look at what you've done!

  • ssjmarx [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    boosting your testosterone by not masturbating

    You know, I swear I've seen links to studies where your testosterone is elevated after sex/masturbation. Specifically I remember one article on ESPN where a soccer coach told his players to get laid (or "fly solo") the night before a game to increase their competitiveness as a joke.

    • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      I think what happens is your testosterone temporarily goes down after ejaculation due to prolactin release, but goes back to normal within 30 minutes. So reactionaries misread the studies and thought that it testosterone levels stay down much longer.

      There is a hypothesis that being in the company of people you find attractive (so attractive women for straight guys) can temporarily boost testosterone. So that's why some coaches encourage getting laid. Other coaches discourage it because they fear it could make the athletes exhausted, so they say no sex the day before a game, or that the athletes must be on the bottom and/or put no effort in. (There's a meme about Antonio Conte saying that).

      All in all I think it makes no difference and people are just weird about it, because society is weird about sex in general.

      • keepcarrot [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        I know if I'm doing sports with someone I think of as attractive, I can go much longer. I feel it the next day though

  • macabrett
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    1 year ago

    You're the most influential person on chapo.chat Hexbear.com and soon to be the most influential person on the entire Fediverse, congratulations!

  • abc [he/him, comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    I was friends with the guy who created r/TodayIlearned and he had me on as a comoderator in its early days.

    uhhhh mods...??!? MODS1?!??!

  • StellarTabi [none/use name]
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    1 year ago
    1. Find a hot ripped anglo WASP white guy who looks conservative, has epic beard, and start a mostly shirtless/outdoorsman instagram.

    2. Claim to be conservative and unvaxxed.

    3. Sell loads for $3500

    4. Have your cool minority friends secretly make the loads during your bi-weekly JO bud meetups and ship to people paying for "unvaxxed loads"

    5. $$$$$

    6. To thank me for this great plan, allow me to occasionally drink the combined loads from a martini glass.

    • nohaybanda [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      :volcel-kamala: :volcel-judge: :bunny-cop:

      We're gonna need backup!

    • Abraxiel
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      1 year ago

      Is that what it means when they say dirty martini?

  • CthulhusIntern [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    The fact that there was a TIL for that pseudoscientific practice means that it existed prior to r/NoFap. They would've found out about it anyways. You can't blame yourself.

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        1 year ago

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    1 year ago

    deleted by creator

    • AlkaliMarxist
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      1 year ago

      I think depressed people are just more likely to spend all day alone watching porn.