Masturbation abstinence is popular online. Doctors and therapists are worried::undefined

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      Browse something like r/nofap. If that is a joke, a lot of those commentators have a Leslie Nielsen level straight face.

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        Nofap is honestly reaching cult territory. Some of those dorks are swearing they get super powers like night vision and super hearing, all cause they haven’t jerked off in a month. It’s 50% hilarious and 50% scary.

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          It’s especially ironic when it’s been proven that regular (not excessive) levels of masturbation is actually good for your prostate and similar.

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          NoFap was reaching cult territory five years ago when I found it. Its insane side is already ingrained in their identity and probably has been since its inception.

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        r/NoFap is unironically just a bunch of undiagnosed ADHDs realizing what happens when you stop relying on constantly flooding your brain with dopamine as a default

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      It might have started off that way, but it could easily go out of control and become a genuine movement.

      Flat Earth originally started as a joke arguing for something silly and easily disproven, and look at how that’s gone.