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NoFap was founded in June 2011 by Pittsburgh web developer Alexander Rhodes after reading a thread on Reddit about a 2003 study, [5] [19] (which was retracted in 2021 due to overlap with another published article in Chinese), [20] which claimed that men who refrain from masturbation for seven days experience a 145.7% spike in testosterone levels on the seventh day.
Importantly, this is the opposite of other online support forums. NoFap participants report, and appear, to be harmed by participating in the forums. [2] In "Research concerning NoFap forums and followers" add: A 2023 study identified two mass murderers in the USA and UK as following NoFap, which precipitated a study of the violent posts in NoFap.
r/NoFap is a subreddit dedicated to supporting those who wish to give up pornography or masturbation. Some journalists have described NoFap's forums as filled with misogyny: "there is a darker side to NoFap. Among the reams of Reddit discussions and YouTube videos, a 'fundamentally misogynistic rhetoric' regularly emerges".
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Introductory psychology textbook authors Coon, Mitterer and Martini, passingly mentioning NoFap (former pornography users who have since chosen to abstain from the material) speak of pornography as a "supernormal stimulus" but use the model of compulsion rather than addiction. [20] Psychological effects
Wikipedia is simply a service which renders mainstream science, mainstream scholarship and mainstream press. Drawing the line: the rules of Wikipedia do not allow us to write an positive article about NoFap. We have to write a positive article about NoFap. Wikipedia will simply never deliver this article to their liking.
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