• Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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    3 hours ago

    Trying to regulate it is close to the alt right christians doing the same thing. My mom left me a book about how touching myself would lead to drugs and hell eventually.

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      ISIS enforced abstinence too. It makes their members easier to agitate and more violent, less rational. Plus it lets them promise a reward in the afterlife.

    • vrek@programming.dev
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      Fun fact corn flakes were initially released in the thought of them being so bland they would remove your desire to masturbate.

      Basically like “I really want to cum but instead I’ll just eat this bowl of cereal”.

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      NNN is not a forced regulation, it’s a choice and challenge. Most people who participate in NNN don’t link touching yourself to Satan, they do it for the challenge.