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No Nut November is a kink
A month of orgasm denial, a kind of sexual masochism that “literally hurts almost to the point of tears,” but which will make you more of a man and win you the homoerotic admiration of your peers? Sounds horny as hell to me.
Yes, yes, I know, it’s founded on a faulty idea, there are “literally no benefits” to giving up masturbation, and the movement is chock-full of Jordan Peterson stans, but stay with me for a minute here…