• ManOMorphos@lemmy.world
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      Used to be a joke playing off of “No Shave November” until parts of the internet took it with no irony, just like it always does.

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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      Originated in the same country that invented cereals and crackers to discourage masturbation. Masturbation bad. Pedophilia and rape ok.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      Basically people who believe in pseudoscience about “retaining” being good for you (which is the opposite of what medical research has proved) and/or a sign of mental fortitude, nonsense like that.

      To make matters worse, there’s a lot of overlap with “men’s rights” and other organized misogyny groups such as Proud Boys and toxic masculinity peddlers such as Andrew Tate and the like.

      TL;DR: It’s silly at best, and deeply problematic if not downright harmful in many cases

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      Apparently, if you avoid doing a thing for a brief period of time, it is a demonstration of self-control and virtue. Thus, you are a better person and can nut, drink and eat uncontrollably for the entire rest of the year. I don’t personally believe in such practices. Do anything whenever you feel like it, but in moderation.

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      The amount of guesswork in the responses is astounding. NNN came up as cancer awareness, exactly the opposite of what some have commented, because not nutting for prolonged periods is bad for you.

      Now, the step-on-me crowd running with it is a different story entirely, it’s just what they do.

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        I don’t know if that was NNN, that sounds more like movember where you grow a mustache for prostate cancer awareness.

        It’s also a bit counterintuitive to do something for prostate cancer that raises your risk of said disease, since regular ejaculations have shown to be somewhat protective.