This is an article about the online communities of people who abstain from masturbation. It discusses the reasons people join these communities and the potential harms and benefits. Some people find these communities helpful in overcoming pornography addiction. However, there is concern that these communities spread inaccurate information and may overlap with extremist groups.

  • jpreston2005@lemmy.world
    415·
    5 months ago

    “Spokespeople of online forums like NoFap, for example, have been very concerned with distancing themselves from anything having to do with extremism,” says Burke. “Alt-right, neo-Nazi, white supremacist, antisemitic — they are very clear to say we are not that. But they’re not willing to recognize what I think is just an empirical reality, which is that some people who buy into porn addiction rhetoric also buy into these more extremist beliefs.”

    dumbest fucking thing I’ve ever read. What? Guys are trying to masturbate less? It’s probably because they’re NAZIS

    • EatATaco@lemm.eeEnglish
      104·
      5 months ago

      . What? Guys are trying to masturbate less? It’s probably because they’re NAZIS

      Holy shit, this isn’t even remote close to what you just quoted actually said.

      • systemglitch@lemmy.world
        47·
        5 months ago

        It does if you read between the lines, because it came off exactly like that to me as well while reading it.

        • EatATaco@lemm.eeEnglish
          93·
          5 months ago

          You’re not “reading between the lines” you’re just making shit up to confirm what you want to believe is true. It doesn’t even remotely say this, they’re saying that they think it’s being co-opted by these right wing groups, and they don’t want that to happen.