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Comment author: gwern 13 May 2012 05:36:12PM 9 points [-]

That's not a very good article.

  1. Anecdote & assertion.

    Worse, the one link provided says the opposite of what the author claims! (Hint to whatever idiot wrote it: "beating off kills your testosterone levels" is not a correct description of a study in which testosterone levels did not change during abstinence except for a transient spike a week later. The second study does not support the claim either, and there are no other studies mentioned.)

  2. Anecdote & assertion.
  3. Pheromones, oh dear, but let's look closer anyway... Oh, not a single study is cited in the link anyway, so I don't have to facefault like in #1.
  4. Yes, that's probably true. It doesn't matter. (Do men actually need to find women more attractive?)
  5. Anecdote & assertion
  6. Anecdote & assertion, and even more than #4, this is a reason to masturbate.
Comment author: Multiheaded 02 July 2012 02:46:21PM 1 point [-]

I actually read that article before when checking out that silly website. It's really very typical of them.

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