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Greater engagement with anti-masturbation groups linked to higher rates of depression, anxiety, and suicidal feelings (www.psypost.org)
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The researchers also asked the participants to rate how often they noticed ten different problems in the online forums. Visitors to NoFap forums reported seeing content that was often trolling (88%), misogynistic (73.7%), bullying (49.1%), anti-LGBT (42.9%), or anti-Semitic (32.0%). Additionally, a significant number of participants reported being told to harm or kill themselves (23.5%), witnessing threats to hurt others (21.1%), and witnessing doxing of others (17.1%) on the forums.

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[โ€“] huf@hexbear.net 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

i found out about the volcel police just by encountering the memes here and it was immediately obvious that it's there to prevent this place becoming yet another porn aggregator and all around misogynistic shithole.

i love it.

i havent seen any ... ahem... perversion of the meme so far.

[โ€“] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

like i said, i'm speaking from personal experience on all of these points. That's rare, we're generally on a good track, but some people don't fully get what the volcel bit is about.