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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Somebody told me it was to create awareness of testicular and prostate cancer. I know it's also a fetish thing in the kink community (those wearing chastity devices).

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It was used as a method to promote awareness but that wasn't the original intent. It was just simply a joke that got insanely out of hand. The Chastity thing you're talking about is actually an October thing called Locktober. Some people do carry over into November but the kink community in general uses October.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah. I might not be into the kink but, I can respect that people are doing Locktober for safe, sane, and consentual pleasure-related reasons. NNN was a joke originally (like the "fap roulette" challenges of yore) but definitely subverted for some pretty nefarious reasons, using shame and sexual frustration to try to radicalize people into right-wing misogyny and violence.

It's really fucking weird.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Yep. I've not known anyone, myself included, to do Locktober for some awful reasons. No Nut November just got out of hand and next thing you know you have extremist figures going mental.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wasn't No Shave November the movement that was supposed to bring cancer awareness?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Correctamundo. No idea why I said that but yeah, you're right.