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[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago (20 children)

Yeah kinda. It has roots in christian fanaticism where masturbation=bad. It also had some roots in faux masculinity stuff like how they said not masturbating increases testosterone (it doesn't). It's one of those things where on the surface it may seem silly and goofy but if you delve down deep enough you get bad shit.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 11 months ago (19 children)

It’s one of those things where on the surface it may seem silly and goofy but if you delve down deep enough you get bad shit.

To make it abundantly clear, No Nut November was always a satirical thing. That's how it was intended to start with and it didn't have any of that masculinity nonsense attached to it. After it started getting traction though people started injecting in all kinds of insanity into it and it almost got completely co-opted by extreme far-right nutjobs. Rolling Stone even put out an article saying as much.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (5 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] 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.

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