If you are an avid social media user, you must have stumbled upon #NoNutNovember or #NNN on your Twitter and Instagram feeds this month. Wondering what these hashtags are about?
No Nut November (NNN) is an online challenge between men where they take a month-long oath of sexual abstinence. This challenge pops up every year in the month of November. It involves men giving up ejaculation for 30 days, which means no sex and no masturbation for a month.
The origin of “No Nut November” is unclear. However, several reports suggest that it all started in 2011, when Urban Dictionary user uploaded an entry for the phrase “No Nut November.” The user defined it as a challenge in which an individual must refrain from having sexual pleasure in the month of November.
Internet challenges can be fascinating, but it seems like this ongoing “No Nut November” trend has failed to get a nod from several men.
Asked 26-year-old Anil Arora about his views on NNN, he said, “If someone offers me Rs 50 lakh to participate in this challenge, I will never accept it. I have a life to make Rs 50 lakh, but what good is money if I cannot satisfy my body.”
Ahmed, 43, who has been married for 16 years, feels this challenge is extremely “silly.”
“No Nut November doesn’t mean anything to me. It’s silly. India witnesses lakhs of marriages alone in November, it would be disappointing and unfair for the young men who marry in this month if they start following this challenge,” he said.
According to Ahmed, “such challenges are best for men who don’t have anything to do in life.”
“The person who started this challenge must be a loner who wanted to generate more sad people on Earth (no offence please),” he added.
Raj (Name has been changed to protect the anonymity of the interviewee), 27, has a similar opinion.
“It’s a stupid challenge. It is about bringing the human need to a standstill because you want to complete a challenge on the internet. This movement was always meant to be satirical, but some idiots took it too seriously. There is no reason to go all the way for a stupid challenge and one should not curb their basic instincts,” he said, strongly opposing the NNN challenge.
However, there’s a Reddit user who claimed that by participating in NNN, he was able to get rid of his porn addiction. Another Reddit user claimed that the NNN challenge helped him in exercising self-control and claimed that he’s able to workout for a longer time at the gym because of “higher energy levels.”