Tag: Abstinence

Not Masturbating Raises Health Risks

A study is hitting back at “NoFap,” a movement urging men to avoid masturbation, showing abstaining may lead to health issues. Born out of groups on Reddit, “NoFap” claims not masturbating boosts confidence, focus, and even cures erectile dysfunction. Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) surveyed 587 men who had taken part in the abstinence practice, finding that men said they felt worthless, shame, sad, and sometimes suicidal when they “relapsed.”

Those who underwent more extended periods of abstinence were likelier to report erectile dysfunction, depression, anxiety, and more sex negativity. The UCLA scientists also found that many people on the online forums singing NoFap’s praises were doing so with little scientific backing. Medical professionals encourage regular masturbation, saying it can help to reduce stress, improve self-esteem and even, for men, reduce the risk of prostate cancer.

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New Dating Show Features Horny People Who Can’t Have Sex

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Netflix’s new reality series Too Hot to Handle has a different approach to hot people living together on an island—they can’t have sex. The show says, “Too Hot To Handle puts to the test whether these hot singletons can find emotional connection…without the sex.” Yes, you read that right: these hotties who’ve never gone more than a handful of days without having sex must live under the same roof without getting it on!

They also can’t kiss, “heavy pet,” or even masturbate. If the house remains abstinent for their stay, they all split $100,000. But every sexual infraction committed by a couple—or even solo sex— results in them all losing money from their collective pot. We’re not taking that bet!

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Check out more about a dating show that won’t let horny people fuck: https://www.buzzfeed.com/ehisosifo1/too-hot-to-handle-nextflix-new-dating-series

Porn Site Reroutes Utah Traffic To Sex Ed Videos

LetsTalkSexThe popular porn site xHamster has the perfect response to Utah lawmaker’s recent decision to reject a bill that would have offered parents the choice of opting their children into comprehensive sex ed as an alternative to abstinence-only education: it’s sending traffic to the site from Utah to sex ed videos! “Beginning immediately, we’re rerouting all xHamster traffic from Utah to our comprehensive sex ed series, The Box,” said xHamster. “We’ve been working on The Box since last year, producing videos based on questions submitted by porn viewers.”

Utahans are being served with a popup reading, “Can we turn the thirstiest state in the nation into the smartest?” (A 2009 report found that Utah ranked No. 1 in subscriptions to porn sites.) Visitors redirected to the not at all explicit The Box can find videos like “the secret to anal sex” and ask questions like “How do you have an orgasm” instead of getting an eyeful of porn. As the site explained, “While we love porn, we don’t think that it should be relied on for sex ed any more than Star Wars is a substitute for science class.” May the force be with you, xHamster.

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Check out more about xHamster redirecting Utah porn traffic to sex ed videos here: https://www.dailydot.com/irl/xhamster-reroutes-traffic-sex-ed-videos/

Utah Declares a War On Porn

nopornCongratulations, Utah—you’ve just become the first state in the US to formally declare pornography a “public health crisis.” It’s true. The state’s Senate recently passed an unanimous resolution to crack down on pornography and the “sexually toxic environment” that it perpetuates. Though the resolution didn’t pass any laws, it aims to address “the pornography epidemic that is harming the citizens of Utah and the nation.”

State Senator Todd Weiler recently told Vice that porn is addictive and harmful, and that its consumption “can impact brain development and functioning, contribute to emotional and medical illnesses, and shape deviant sexual arousal.” Utah is a very religious state—60 percent of its residents identify as Mormon—which explains the public condemnation of porn as a “fatal epidemic; like a moral plague.” Many critics are calling Utah out for hypocrisy: the state teaches “abstinence only” in schools, and doesn’t include contraception education in its curriculum, which could account for the high STD rate among teenagers. As studies have shown, when you make sex taboo and shameful, it only fuels sexually risky behavior—maybe it’s time for Utah to include sex-ed in its schools before scapegoating porn for its problems.

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Check out more about Utah’s war on porn here: https://news.vice.com/article/utahs-legislature-has-declared-porn-a-public-health-crisis

John Oliver Schools the Nation in Sex Ed

LetsTalkSexOn a recent episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, the host dedicated the show to an important and often glossed over (or blatantly ignored) subject in school: sex education. With the massive problem of abstinence only education and educators’ choosing to shame and moralize to students instead of actually teaching them about sex, John Oliver decided to conduct his own sex ed crash course. And as you can imagine, it is not just any sex ed course, but the ultimate sex ed course complete with hilarious celebrity videos (check them out below).

John Oliver, in his characteristic way, pointed out that only 13 states require sex ed to be scientifically accurate in America. This means that states and individuals can decide how to teach the important lessons of sex ed to youth—which often results in teaching it in a way that condemns sex as an act that devalues those engaging in it, especially women. Enter: hilarious celebrities making a sex ed video. Their message is simple: it’s your choice, and people should respect it. Abstinence or not, be safe, use protection, know and respect what consent is, and be informed of medical facts. Now that’s good sex ed!

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Check out more about John Oliver’s sex ed episode here: https://www.buzzfeed.com/juliapugachevsky/a-bunch-of-celebrities-made-a-sex-ed-video-and-you-need-to-s#.pf5Bg2lm1J