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'''Fapstinence''' or '''NoFap''' is a [[PUA|dating strategy]] used by [[Testosterone|"Low-T"]] and [[love shyness|love-shy men]] on the [[inceldom]] spectrum that consists of avoiding [[masturbation]] and pornography consumption. Fapstinents make essentially pseudo-scientific arguments abstaining from masturbation will increase their T levels and increase their [[confidence]] and, consequently, their ability to do cold approach or warm approach women. | '''Fapstinence''' or '''NoFap''' is a [[PUA|dating strategy]] used by [[Testosterone|"Low-T"]] and [[love shyness|love-shy men]] on the [[inceldom]] spectrum that consists of avoiding [[masturbation]] and pornography consumption. Fapstinents make essentially pseudo-scientific arguments that abstaining from masturbation 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 [[religion|religious]] admonitions against "sins of the flesh" have failed. | 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 [[religion|religious]] admonitions against "sins of the flesh" have failed. | ||
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There are also links to the large and growing anti-[[porn]] movement, whose advocates are primarily focused on nofap as a method of curing porn addiction. | There are also links to the large and growing anti-[[porn]] movement, whose advocates are primarily 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> | NoFap would not appear to be an effective intervention to cure inceldom (in the vast majority of cases, at least) 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. | 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. | ||