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==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
Fapstinents often make dubious 'evidence-based' arguments that abstaining from masturbation will increase their [[testosterone|T levels]] and increase their [[confidence]] and, consequently, their ability to do cold approach or warm approach women. Fapstinents also often believe that "high-T" men exude a greater "animal magnetism" that is highly attractive to women, often obviating these men's need to approach women altogether.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/NoFap/comments/1uzdgr/list_of_superpowers/M/</ref> | Fapstinents often make dubious 'evidence-based' arguments that abstaining from masturbation will increase their [[testosterone|T levels]] and increase their [[confidence]] and, consequently, their ability to do cold approach or warm approach women. Fapstinents also often believe that "high-T" men exude a greater "animal magnetism" that is highly attractive to women, often obviating these men's need to approach women altogether.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/NoFap/comments/1uzdgr/list_of_superpowers/M/</ref> | ||
Some more enthusiastic | Some more enthusiastic fapstinents also appear to believe this T increase would positively affect their [[body attractiveness|muscle]] or [[beauty|bones]] in a noticeable way, i.e., they are using it as a [[looksmaxxing]] technique.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/NoFap/comments/4557x3/i_finally_found_some_evidence_that_nofap_makes/</ref> It is also commonly advised in the bodybuilding/fitness subculture due to these reasons,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPSRlANKpDw</ref> though the bulk of scientific evidence into masturbation and sports performance only suggests a weak negative link between sexual release and sports performance when it occurs right before the event, though masturbation per se has not been examined here to a great extent.<ref>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4914923/</ref> | ||
Claims like these have led to criticism that the movement is pseudo-scientific and cultish in nature.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NoFap</ref> | Claims like these have led to criticism that the movement is pseudo-scientific and cultish in nature.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NoFap</ref> | ||
However, the modern nofap movement essentially proposes empirical and secular arguments against masturbation, as opposed to traditional religious arguments for celibacy of different degrees. This secular, superficially evidence-based approach may be one reason why fapstinence, in its modern incarnation as an internet-based movement, took off and become a popular trend while traditional [[religion|religious]] admonitions against "sins of the flesh" have typically failed to attain widespread appeal. | However, the modern nofap movement essentially proposes empirical and secular arguments against masturbation, as opposed to traditional religious arguments for celibacy of different degrees. This secular, superficially evidence-based approach may be one reason why fapstinence, in its modern incarnation as an internet-based movement, took off and become a popular trend while traditional [[religion|religious]] admonitions against "sins of the flesh" have typically failed to attain widespread appeal. | ||
Some modern fapstainers do take a less materialistic approach, stepping overtly into 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 Dharmic religious practice of brahmacharya (total celibacy of body and mind). These approaches to masturbation abstinence can be broadly called semen retention, as many of these people also advocate sexual activity without ejaculation among men, a practice known as coitus reservatus. Coitus reservatus has also historically been used as a form of birth control, to increase male sexual potency, to make sexual intercourse more pleasurable (esp for women),<ref>https://www.huffpost.com/entry/karezza-sex-technique-relationship_l_5d7c1a9de4b00d690598e15f</ref> and has been a common practice among many religious sects to control male sexuality, such as the utopian socialist Oneida community in the United States, who saw it as one method enforcing greater gender equality by 'liberating' women from what they viewed as the burden of reproduction.<ref>https://dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/handle/1951/69892</ref><ref>https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/oneida-christian-utopia-contraception-king/</ref> | Some modern fapstainers do take a less materialistic approach, stepping overtly into 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 Dharmic religious practice of brahmacharya (total celibacy of body and mind). These approaches to masturbation abstinence can be broadly called semen retention, as many of these people also advocate sexual activity without ejaculation among men, a practice known as coitus reservatus. Coitus reservatus has also historically been used as a form of birth control, to increase male sexual potency, to make sexual intercourse more pleasurable (esp for women),<ref>https://www.huffpost.com/entry/karezza-sex-technique-relationship_l_5d7c1a9de4b00d690598e15f</ref> and has been a common practice among many religious sects to control male sexuality, such as the utopian socialist Oneida community in the United States, who saw it as one method enforcing greater gender equality by 'liberating' women from what they viewed as the burden of reproduction.<ref>https://dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/handle/1951/69892</ref><ref>https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/oneida-christian-utopia-contraception-king/</ref> | ||
==NoFap and inceldom== | ==NoFap and inceldom== | ||