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You keep ignoring it when this particular point is made in this thread: Being cautious about fucking with gender/identity is not an unwise position. There could be unforeseen consequences of promoting trans ideas so heavily to young people. It could seriously fuck up their identity. Transitioning to a new gender should not be something that is considered so lightly because it causes radical and irreversible changes to a person, physically and mentally. And it may have unforeseen consequences for those kids who are not even trans in the first place but essentially get indoctrinated into that worldview. ^This is the conservative position for non-bigoted conservatives. Some are just bigoted, sure, but not all. The conservative position is based around being cautious of changing the status quo because rapid change can be dangerous, and cause more damage than it fixes.

This is just wrong. Girls lose interest for all sorts of reasons, mostly boredom. Women get attracted to men who can both prioritise her wellbeing and understand what they can selfishly get away with. Being able to read that the girl wants to be kissed but not having to ask her permission and just kissing her whenever you feel like it is extremely attractive

No, because domestic post is almost never inspected in Western countries, so the chances of what you ordered getting caught is almost zero. International post is inspected extremely thoroughly by comparison.

I mean a guy can do all of those things too for the same results. Replace makeup with a nice wardrobe/haircut/style. I've seen guys go from a 4 to a 7 just by getting a better haircut + beard Some people seriously struggle to lose weight for reasons that aren't really in their control. Women also have a lot of hormones that affect weight gain and mood too, which makes it harder. Also, a lot of attraction in women's bodies is about proportion. You can have girls who weigh more but look more attractive than skinnier girls because their proportions are just genetically better. At the end of the day you've still got to take off your makeup and look in the mirror, or be seen by your partner.

Generally you should avoid stuff you buy crossing international borders. If you can order it domestically, you always should.

See my earlier post. Short answer: An average male would need to ejaculate 4.6 million times to deplete the amount of testosterone he produces in a single day.

@Danioover9000 To be clear I think there are emotional reasons for nofap being good and beneficial for an individual, for some it’s the right choice. I only chimed in here because the argument of losing energy/nutrients/testosterone through masturbation is silly and quite easily debunked with a little bit of science and biology.

I’m pointing out you said this again because I think it identifies a heavy amount of bias and unjustified over-confidence in your thinking. With that in mind, would you like to provide some links this time?

@Someone here From some rudimentary research, the average man produces 7mg of testosterone a day. An average ejaculation contains 30ng/100ml of testosterone. An average ejaculation is 5ml. That means there is around 1.5 NANOgrams of testosterone in each ejaculation. You would need to ejaculate 4.6 million times just to use up all the testosterone you produce in a SINGLE DAY. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2883142/ https://moreplatesmoredates.com/how-many-milligrams-of-testosterone-do-men-naturally-produce/

I don't think it's redpill that commodifies people. People commodify each other regardless of whether redpill exists or not. It is very difficult to pick out exactly what your point/criticism is here, I'm sorry.

What does this even mean? This is literally, completely, meaningless. Even your main point is not even really that clear. Dating shouldn't be a marketplace, is that what you are suggesting?

This is such a good way to humble yourself. Your mind is really good at deluding you about how good you are at something when you don't have any great examples of what's possible surrounding you. For example if you had asked me if I was a good software engineer when I graduated uni, I'd have said yes. Now that I work as one around some with 10+ years of experience, I know that I'm still just starting my journey.

I just remember it being a bit weird. Like I could see what they were going for, but it just didn't work for me.

Yea I've done that and it works quite well, depends on the girl a bit though. Some girls might find that weird if you don't judge it right or say it with the right energy. Another thing I've done is say "Come on, lets go find a quiet spot somewhere around here and make out." If she follows you, then you know she's fine with it.

As long as you have some income, you will be fine. Don't feel guilty. You shouldn't feel guilty about accepting help from family. But yes, obviously work towards your independence too. I see you post a lot of stuff in the dating section too. Moving into my own place has helped me with dating and girls an insane amount. It is such a big step. I'm almost a different person than the little boy I felt like when I moved out of my parents house. It's been such a big step in my development. It was scary but god was it worth it.

Probably because it would be a monumental time sink with almost zero actual benefits. Maybe he could use the Dr title to impress some girls in Vegas clubs

Losing nutrients from ejaculation? What did I just read? Do you have links for that, lol. There are like 10 calories in the average ejaculation and a tiny quantity of various different nutrients. Your body will not have breakdown if you lose too much semen/sperm through ejaculation. Your body has evolved over billions of years to maximise how much sex it has. It would be stupidly counter-productive if having lots of sex resulted in your body having serious shortages of nutrients and vitamins. Such genes would not propagate well at all.

Moving into my own place a year and a half ago has been the single biggest decision that drove personal growth for me in my life thus far. I was also quite reliant on family and close to them. It helped a lot. However, I was financially stable. I don't know how good of an idea it is to go into debt just to move out. I would maybe focus on building up some finances and getting a job first...

That was not what I suggested. I suggested progressively cutting down on how often you do it, I didn't say cut it out cold turkey for 2 weeks. If it's easy to go 2 days without doing it, then start with that. Stick to that for 2 months and if you stick to it then change it to once every 3 days, until you hit a frequency that you're happy with. I am not a no-faper, I don't think cutting it out all together is necessarily a good thing. Maybe for some guys. If masturbating once every few days interferes with your life then you have a condition of some kind, or you are creating a self-fulfiling prophecy by unnecessarily guilting yourself every time you do it. That's not a normal experience of masturbation for guys. I'm a guy. I notice there are some guys who get negatively affected by masturbation more and then assume that it's normal and all guys are negatively affected. But it isn't normal to experience negative effects from masturbation as a guy unless you're doing it excessively

It is healthy, just not in excess. 2 weeks with only masturbating every other day, or 2 weeks without doing it at all? I think limiting yourself to masturbation every other day is a very good starting point and you should continue to aim for that.

Maybe you don’t need to stop completely. It is a healthy thing to do as long as it doesn’t interfere with your life. if you feel like it is controlling you, then exercise some control over it instead. For example start small. Only let yourself masturbate every other day. An easy way to implement this is to only masturbate on days of the month that are even e.g 2nd, 4th, 6th and so on Then you can adjust it to every third day with a similar technique, and then so on. Until you reach a desired frequency where you feel you’ve demonstrated enough control over it.

Im straight, but I can definitely deeply appreciate really good looking dudes when I see them. It’s pretty rare, though. And it’s not sexual. It’s more an appreciation of beauty. I find that you can see very attractive women pretty frequently if you go to the right places, but it’s a lot rarer to see guys who are exceptionally good looking, which might explain the pickiness.

I don’t think my open eye visuals are as strong as others, I get like mild open eye visuals. But my closed eye visuals are pretty intense and frankly it’s the closed eye visuals where all the mind-bending shit happens. Most of the time I go into like 4 or 5 really long trances when I trip where all the most interesting stuff happens. The open eye visuals are just icing on the cake

It does help to have friends, but it isn't a requirement. If you start going out at weekends a lot you will kill two birds with one stone. You'll make friends and you'll start talking to girls. Usually most big cities will have at least one (if not multiple) "going out" or "party" groups on meetup.com which are a great starting point.

My profile picture is something I generated years ago using Deep Dream and infinite zoom. I had to scale down the length and quality a lot for uploading it here, but here's the original video in higher quality. Make sure you set the quality to max before watching. It works by telling a network to overemphasise certain features. But you can select which layer of the network it uses at each stage. So I set it to progressively move to deeper and deeper (more abstract) levels as the video progresses. So it starts out with basic lines and shapes, then basic features like eyes, and by the end it is hallucinating animals. It's a good demonstration of the internals of a convolutions in a neural network (the fundamental model that most AI art models are based upon)