 goal is to avoid 'busting a nut' – also known as ejaculating – throughout the month, which means staying away from partners, porn, or self-pleasure. Although NNN originally began as a joke, it's picked up speed in recent years, with the Reddit community /r/NoNutNovember now standing at 137,000 members, a massive jump from the 16,500 subscribers it counted in November 2018. The subreddit's description claims that some who take part 'do it just for the memes, while others do it for actual self-improvement.' A mastur-break is for those who want to practice abstinence but can't or don't want to avoid sex for a whole month. Rather than spending your November totally nut-free, a mastur-break doesn't involve a set time limit. Instead, you commit to temperance and let your instincts help decide when to stop. When or if you do restart, you haven't 'failed' – guilt and shame are not tied to your ability to delay gratification here. There's no right or wrong way to have a mastur-break, so it's a pressure-free way to put the focus on other aspects of your life, heighten anticipation for your next sexual encounter, or just test out celibacy on a temporary basis. But is a month-long masturbation ban improving anything? Or is it a futile exercise in self-flagellation that plays right into society's pru){kind=link}
NEWS… BUT NOT AS YOU KNOW IT
Since the dawn of time, man has tried to curb the human urge to practice onanism.
John Harvey Kellogg invented corn flakes with the aim of boring people into abstinence, while Freud cited the ‘disease of masturbation’ in his work, associating it with addictive substances.
Even today, boys are told the urban legend that they’ll go blind if they overdo it, creating a sense of fear, shame, and taboo around masturbation.
This is likely part of why the No Nut November challenge has become so pervasive. It’s also why we’re proposing a different strategy: a mastur-break.