Ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer (2022)

I think if you're looking for some cookie-cutter viewpoint, you'll be disappointed, and no you won't win a prize.

If you look at the rest of my comments on this branch of the tree, you'll find that I am identifying a pattern... whenever X vs Y start fighting (women vs men, vaxxers vs antivaxxers, vegans vs meat eaters, ) there is a bigger issue that involves government and corporations working together, while individuals are distracted and blaming each other.

(2021) https://magarshak.com/blog/?p=362 Super-processed Foods and obesity, Factory farms and veganism, Plastic containers and recycling, Fossil fuels and climate change, Vaccines and mask mandates

(2017) https://magarshak.com/blog/?p=286 Women in Tech controversy

(2014) https://magarshak.com/blog/?p=194 Net Neutrality controversy

Both Greta Thurnberg and George Carlin are right. The people in charge have not just failed us, but the entire system is pushing the individual around. What you perceive as a medication you have to take is a symptom of an underlying systemic issue.

Just in the last few decades we have had:

  an opioid epidemic for men

  one in four middle aged women uses antidepressants

  elderly in nursing homes are medicated more than ever

  a huge rise in diagnosis of ADHD, autism, gender dysphoria for kids

did I miss any demographic? adult men, women, elderly and children are given medication, and somehow people are more depressed than before. (Sometimes even more than countries with seasonal affective disorder.)

There are many societal reasons I could get into, but let's look at a few other ones:

  attention spans of adults have steadily fallen
  (not just ADD for kids) to that of a goldfish

  stress levels are higher than they used to be

  obesity and diabetes has risen tremendously in USA
  (including in children)

Perhaps we should really look at upstream issues, like technology, economic system, social institutions, cultural influences / celebrities / TikTok / notifications / incentives.

Yes in some ways I am a social conservative. But it seems to me, just like "postmodernism", my views are more progressive than "progressives" LOL. I want the government and industry to stop dominating our lives, our time, making us work and telling us that "having no time" is a badge of honor. You're right that I want most women not to "lean in" at work, but I also say that exact thing to the men... if we had a UBI, we could all "lean out", and spend more time with our kids an elderly parents who took care of us, instead of sticking them in nursing homes, that would be a start.

I'm atheist from birth. My family is atheist and I live in Europe. You'd have a hard time finding someone so far removed from religion.

Yet I believe porn is one of the worst addictions, and masturbation, even without porn, should be moderated, but these days the two things work in concert.

It's not a religious book that told me that, it's real life experience.

"High ejaculation frequency was linked to a decreased risk" tldr

I got diagnosed in middle age after a very long assessment that cost me a lot of money, because I wanted accuracy. If it was depression, neglect or trauma I would've been fine with that assessment too. I had no idea going in that I was anything close to ADHD, just extremely frustrated at my career & life stagnation. If I known years ago I'd would've been about 7 or 8 years ahead in my career.

Yes ADHD is a different mind structure, it's also being called neurodiverse. But just watch a kiddo or a completely dysfunctional adult a with severe ADHD / autism and you quickly dissuade yourself that it isn't a problem and isn't a dysfunctional disability, and to expect a society to totally reconfigure itself beyond the equivalent of a few wheelchair ramps to match a forever minority with a lack of various mental abilities is economically naive.

Just like how we don't mandate zero-flicker lightbulbs for autstic people with sensory issues for the entire country because they consume more power with a higher power factor.

But it doesn't matter much either way in the end, and seeing how conspiratorial you are, I don't think I'd get much of anywhere trying to convince you otherwise. Sadly or happily, reality is way more mundane than you think it is.

Also many freak out about stimulants, but they really are not that big of a deal IMO. If ADHD didn't involve stimulants, one of the most effective mental health medications for any mental condition out there BTW, I don't think you'd get this denial of treatment for the condition so much.

This is how ADHD works in reality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tpB-B8BXk0

And how is he benefiting from particularly saying that? What he says is based on studies and talks with experts in the field. You may not like many things he says, but this doesn't automatically make them wrong.