Wendy Zukerman

It's not a crazy idea.

Yeah.

But both Brent and Justin aren't sure if the ejaculating is actually helping you to avoid prostate cancer or perhaps if something else might be going on here.

Okay.

Yeah.

Exactly.

Much like masturbation, it's a bit messy.

So Justin actually told me that, you know, his bigger concern for people when he's thinking about the risks is that if you are really into not fapping and you join these communities that then tell you jerking off is bad and terrible for you, that that is going to cause harm in itself.

Oh, right, right.

Yeah, and if you buy into this stuff online that it is so bad to ejaculate, you can start to feel crappy about yourself when you start to feel horny or when you relapse even using sort of language like that.

And in fact, a study found that people who hang out more on the NoFap Reddit forums tend to feel more shame, more worthlessness.

Some even have suicidal thoughts after ejaculating.

Which is different to, because there's a lot of support groups out there for if you have cancer or various diseases and studies tend to find the more time on these forums, the better people feel because they're sort of communing with each other.

They're sharing how difficult it is.

So it's quite telling that in this case, it's kind of going the opposite.

Yeah, Justin says that totally makes sense.

You know, at worst, I did not know this before.

I thought no fapping was all about...

sex and fapping.

But away from the culture of nofap, if you are interested in going for a month or maybe even more without ejaculating, Brent and Justin were very aligned on this.