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'''Fapstinence''' or '''NoFap''' is a dating strategy used by "Low-T" and love-shy men on the inceldom spectrum that consists of avoiding masturbation and pornography consumption. Fapstinents | '''Fapstinence''' or '''NoFap''' is a dating strategy used by "Low-T" and love-shy men on the inceldom spectrum that consists of avoiding masturbation and pornography consumption. Fapstinents make essentially psuedo-scientific arguments that this will increase their T levels and increase their confidence and, consequently, their ability to do cold approach or warm approach women. | ||
Many of them also believe that women are directly attracted by the greater "animal magnetism" that high-T men apparently exude, essentially making materialist, secular, and empirical arguments for celibacy of different degrees, based on very preliminary research that they misinterpret to support their beliefs. This secular approach may be one reason why no-fap has taken off where traditional religious admonitions against "sins of the flesh" have failed. | |||
Some nofappers also appear to believe this T increase would positively affect their muscle or bones in a noticeable way, i.e., they are using it as a looksmaxxing technique. | Some nofappers also appear to believe this T increase would positively affect their muscle or bones in a noticeable way, i.e., they are using it as a looksmaxxing technique. | ||
NoFap forums have a large overlap with [[incel forums]] in terms of overall themes and characteristics of the forum users. | Some fapstainers take a less materialistic approach, steeping overtly in the realm of "woo" and adopting the practices and beliefs surrounding the dissipation of "sexual energy" advocated by certain Eastern religions and mysticisms, such as Chinese tantra and the Hindu practice of brachmacharya (total celibacy of body and mind). People in both groups think this practice will help them eventually deincelize. | ||
There are also links to the large and growing anti-porn movement, whose advocates are mainly focused on nofap as a method of curing porn addiction. | |||
NoFap would not appear to be an effective intervention to cure inceldom as 1) testosterone levels have very little to do with mating success in men<ref>https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.06.980896v1/</ref> (assuming abstention has any major effect on T levels,which it doesn't), and 2) there seems to be a positive linear relationship between porn use frequency in males and their odds of being in a relationship (and thus the majority of men are not substantially limited in attaining relationships owing to their porn use).<ref>https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.06.980896v1/</ref> | |||
Many have noted that NoFap forums appear to have a large overlap with [[incel forums]] in terms of overall themes and characteristics of the forum users. | |||
== Scientific evidence == | == Scientific evidence == | ||