Anti-masturbation groups are a thing and joining them may be bad for your mental health, study says
invite men to become “fapstronauts” by abstaining from whacking off for a set period of time (like “No Nut November”). Fapstronauts believe that abstaining can help “reboot” a person’s sexual energy and end addiction to sexually explicit images while improving a person’s relationships, desirability, sexual performance, concentration, confidence, and low energy levels.However, new research published in the journal Sexualities found that involvement in NoFap groups can actually increase a guy’s negative self-feelings.“Gay porn has played an historically important part in our community,” Dr.
Joseph Brennan says.“Qualitative studies have consistently suggested that ‘Reboots’ paradoxically cause more distress,” researchers wrote.
So researchers wanted to see if a quantitative study could help illustrate this distress in numbers.Using online ads, researchers recruited 417 men who had heard of NoFap and “reboot” groups.
Researchers then asked these men to complete an assessment measuring their adult content viewing habits, anxiety, belief in conspiracy theories, depressive symptoms, erectile functioning, narcissism, openness to casual sex, and religiosity, PsyPost reported.Of the 416 men, 257 had tried abstaining in order to “reboot” themselves.
