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==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
[[File:Nofap timeline.jpg|thumb|Claimed benefits from fapstinence (source: https://1st-man.com/nofap-timeline/)]] | |||
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 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> | 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> | ||
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==Porn use, masturbation and inceldom== | ==Porn use, masturbation and inceldom== | ||
Abstaining from masturbation would not appear to be an effective intervention to cure inceldom, in the vast majority of cases, at least, because | Abstaining from masturbation would not appear to be an effective intervention to cure inceldom, in the vast majority of cases, at least, because | ||
# 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 [[Testosterone|T]] levels, which it doesn't) | # 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 [[Testosterone|T]] levels, which it doesn't) | ||