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Refraining from sex accumulates a lot of energy/will in you, it's great (in moderation). After a week or two I experience a huge buildup in confidence and motivation. It's just difficult getting to that point, heheh
From my time on Reddit I find people find nofap then start listening to Ben Shapiro and Joe Rogan and next thing you know they’re brown shirts for the GOP.
Wow, ok. What's the link exactly ? is it religion/abstinence ? but Shapiro and Rogan are not particularly religious are they ?
The idea that refraining from masturbating builds up some kind of internal energy is pretty popular in the incel community, a kind of modern take on conservative daoist sexual energy beliefs. Once you start really looking into it, this stuff feeds directly into the manosphere since they talk all the time about it. It's also not really a new thing, just reworked to be algorithm friendly.