It’s been a bit of a struggle, especially last night. But I found snapping my arm with a rubber band helps take my mind off the urge. I feel good though, a bit of clarity has returned not having to obsess over what my next get off urge will be and spending time hunting for harder and harder porn. I’ll update tomorrow!
Getting away from the hedonic treadmill can help especially if bigger and harder hits were getting required for the same effect. Having that kind of willful abstaining without the cryptofascist occult baggage of NoFap should be encouraged.
Would you be willing to expand on how it’s cryptofash? I get the occult part of the criticism, “woo” is what made me disregard it when I encountered it, but I’m not making the connection. Is it the ubermensch “triumph of the will” vibes?
It’d be exhausting to dig up individualized examples, especially because it’s been a years long phenomenon, but to summarize, Reddit’s NoFap community has had a right wing leaning since its inception, went all-in for right wing cryptofascist cranks like Jordan Peterson because his babbling ostensibly seemed to align with their mysticism regarding “essence” and “retaining” it and how their masculinity (and yes, NoFap is almost entirely male coded as a community norm) was so easily drained/weakened/contaminated by “temptations” and by feeemales in general, as if such feeemales were out to get them.
Ultimately, yes.
Thanks. I guess I didn’t make the connection, but its obvious in hindsight. It’s like a group of people who took Dr. Strangelove as a rolemodel.
I haven’t heard anyone do that.
YET.
I have met someone who unironically admired General Jack Ripper in that film, however. Even said “he had a point, but of course the (antisemitic slurs) that made the movie had to twist it.”