30 something guy here.

I oscillate. Usually somewhere between once every 2 days and 3x/day.

However, I’ve noticed that I feel almost no urge to masturbate when I spend a lot of time in nature - eg, on long backpacking trips. My theory is that - while there is nothing really wrong with masturbation - what is actually happening is that I am masturbating to counteract the stress of modern life. If I feel tired or lonely or anxious or sad, my brain knows it can feel happy chemicals just by beatin’ the ol’ bishop.

In this way, it feels similar to hunger. Sometimes I eat because I need food. But the vast majority of the time, I eat because I feel a compulsion to make myself feel good by eating.

So it might be worth considering if your desire of masturbate is coming from actual horniness, or a desire for some form of enjoyable escape from the moment you are in.

Why not find a hobby that keeps you intellectually and socially active? And physically, for that matter.

Wtf are you talking about?

Looking at the thread you linked, it seems like this is some pretty in the weeds drama. And it is driven by a single dev. So I’m confused by how you think this is some society-wide trend.

Isn’t that the same as saying that one values a pen more than the author who uses it to write something down?

I feel like your analogy is flawed. As a consumer, I don’t care about the pen or the author, really. I care about the book.

Growing old alone must suck.

My goal: don’t do that

some tennis like sport

It’s okay OP. We all know what this is for 😏

Wasn’t there a study done about how rates of sexual assault dropped in counties in proportion to home internet access, when the internet was becoming a thing? The hypothesis being, giving violent people access to free internet porn reduced their desire to assault others quite so much. I feel like this could generalize?

A sympathy card

See a doctor

See a doctor

See a doctor

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Duh. Don’t you know you can jerk off to the people on the train for free? It’s the ultimate in realism!

“Did you just like your own comment?”

It was a good comment

Sure, why not?

You need to lift heavier
- blarghly

^ Show her this

Do you like Mozart? He was probably racist.

I’ve had the best luck with cast iron, but my wife doesn’t like to use them because they’re heavy.

Tell your wife she needs to lift heavier

I know several nurses. They are all quite clear that you simply get used to the ick after a few times, and you mostly don’t socialize with patients. Its like working a customer service job (because it is!) - you will have so many patients cycling in and out that they just become faceless stats on the chart. You don’t remember someone unless they are particularly memorable in some way. Which, 99% of the time, means they are particularly fucked up, or unpleasant to be around. You tend to try your best to show up for the former, because thats where you work on the really interesting stuff and the patient is usually sedated. And you tend to try to get the latter out of the way as quickly as possible, since most people don’t tend to like hearing the rants of a senile nazi or being masturbated on by a homeless schizophrenic. As they tell it, that is one of the two main drawbacks - dealing with the people that no one wants to deal with. Polite, normal people don’t need your people skills - they tell you information and fill out a form and play on their phone, because they are polite and normal.

The other drawback is the schedule. A lot of my nursing friends got into the job expressly because the schedule lets them do things like have an 8 day weekend regularly. But the problem is that: (1) A large portion of nurses work the night shift, or worse, an inconsistent night-and-day schedule - especially early in their career. This destroys your circadian rhythm, and most people need to plan a day or two just to flip back from night to day. (2) Your schedule doesn’t line up with your friends’. Their weekends are not your weekends. Their nights out are your workdays. So your social life tends to shift towards people who also work a non-standard schedule - but that’s still hard because your schedule is unpredictable. Everyone’s schedule constantly shifts to cover everyone elses sick days, since there is essentially no slack in department scheduling - the hospital doesnt want to pay someone to sit on their hands just in case someone is out sick, so everyone has to work erratic schedules. (3) Because your schedule is always changing and your shifts are 12 hours long, it is quite difficult to really stay consistent with anything else in your life. Want to make a habit of running or lifting every morning? Want to make a home-cooked meal for dinner every night (night? What’s night?)? Well, it is going to cut into your sleep schedule.

Iirc, two random cousins fucking has a small but non-negligible chance of creating a genetic issue - something like 1% chance. And at second cousins, your odds have essentially dropped to background levels. The problem arises when everyone in your family only fucks their cousins.

They show up every time someone posts about people becoming disillusioned with Trump

• Cue comments saying how anyone voting for Trump is an unforgivable nazi, and we should strip them of their voting rights, line them up against a wall, and kill more than 100 million people. In the name of tolerance, of course

Probably the destruction of civilization.

Then nothing, as the generations pass and the wreckage of our civilization becomes a simple fact of life rather than a great tragedy.