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[–] 9 points 1 year ago

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.

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