https://www.health.harvard.edu/mens-health/ejaculation_frequency_and_prostate_cancer

“Compared to men who reported 4–7 ejaculations per month across their lifetimes, men who ejaculated 21 or more times a month enjoyed a 31% lower risk of prostate cancer.”

https://ubiehealth.com/doctors-note/how-to-masturbate-stress-relief-benefits-57-health2e11

This one isn’t as easy to sum up in a single quote like the Harvard study, but it speaks to a lot of the points you’ve made about your personal experience and is worth reading based on the concerns you’ve expressed.

Firing the gravy cannon on a daily basis is unironically healthy for you. I would not worry about something being wrong with you because you experience negative health effects from abstaining; the medical research on the subject suggests it is within normal human functioning to experience positive health effects from regularly thumb wrestling the one eyed sea monster. Finally, because the opportunity so rarely presents itself to make masturbation jokes in a supportive way, consider the following:

Imo the cigarette is just there to imply nonchalance towards the column of fire in the last panel, and outside context (watching people cook in Chinese takeout places) suggests to me that she’s using a gas burner with significantly higher output than what’s common in western kitchens. You need some serious heat to get that wok hei reaction

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Something something graveyard of empires

Same, kinda. I eventually realized weed was making my mental health worse after I started seeing a therapist and taking an antidepressant that works for me, but I don’t think I’d still be here today if I didn’t start smoking when I did. I am glad to be sober from it now though, and have no desire to start again

I actually haven’t played D:OS 2 yet. I haven’t really had the free time for that kind of game since it came out, until now. I’m excited to try it after replaying DOS1 and remembering how phenomenal that game is/was. What is different about the armor system in the second one that you thought wasn’t as good?

Ahh. Thanks for the context!

That kinda seems like a strategy for selecting dudes who won’t respect you. I stop flirting with women if they act disinterested; no means no, and I’m not about to possibly overstep somebody’s boundaries on the chance that they’re just playing hard to get rather than genuinely being disinterested

Tired: getting world news from corporate media Wired: getting world news from a defense shitposting community

What event or meme is this referencing? I am OOTL

I’ve been replaying “Divinity, Original Sin” for the past few weeks and I’ve been having a blast with it