Wednesday, June 02, 2021

RIP Gary Wilson

Just a quick note to relay the sad news that Gary Wilson has died. He was the founder of the nofap movement, not a male sexualist per se but a public health advocate who helped millions of men including myself understand that porn/masturbation is bad for us. I consider nofap to be the self-help branch of male sexualism and have incorporated it into our ideology. Thanks for making our philosophy complete, Gary.

The press release from YourBrainOnPorn.com:

ASHLAND, OREGON: May 21, 2021: After years of battling chronic illness, public health advocate Gary Wilson passed away on May 20, 2021.

Gary Bruce Wilson is the author of the best-selling book Your Brain On Porn: Internet Pornography and the Emerging Science of Addiction*,* presenter of the immensely popular TEDx talk “The Great Porn Experiment” (14+ million views), and creator of the website YourBrainOnPorn.com, a clearinghouse for the latest research, media, and self-reports on pornography’s effects and potential harms.

Gary Wilson is survived by his wife, Marnia Robinson, his son, Arion Sprague, and his canine companion, Smokey. He was born in Seattle, Washington, and resided in Ashland, Oregon. In his personal life, Wilson was a wonderful husband, father, and friend, and he was loved by many.

Gary Wilson taught human pathology, anatomy, and physiology for years and has long been interested in the neurochemistry of addiction, mating, and bonding. Wilson possessed a gift for teaching, a passion for compiling information, and an unwavering desire to help others. After he noticed many young people online experiencing adverse effects associated with excessive porn use, he created YourBrainOnPorn.com in late 2010. Since the corresponding book was first published in 2014, Your Brain on Porn has been translated into Arabic, Dutch, German, Hungarian, Japanese, and Russian. In 2016, Wilson co-authored an academic paper with seven US Navy doctors entitled “Is Internet Pornography Causing Sexual Dysfunctions? A Review with Clinical Reports” and another journal article entitled “Eliminate Chronic Internet Pornography Use to Reveal Its Effects.” Gary Wilson’s tireless work in cataloging the research surrounding the effects of porn use touched countless lives worldwide.

Gary Wilson cannot be replicated or replaced, but his legacy will live on through the enormous impact that he had. He successfully pushed for more research on pornography to be conducted, gave a voice to people silently struggling with excessive porn use, and raised awareness about porn addiction to millions.

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This press release was written by family members and friends of Gary Wilson, including Noah Church, Gabe Deem, Darryl Mead, Alexander Rhodes, Marnia Robinson, Mary Sharpe, Arion Sprague, Staci Sprout, and Liz Walker.

The public will be invited to share their condolences on an online memorial being set up at www dot GaryWilson dot life

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holocaust22 said...

I've ben banned from that news website, and all my comments have been removed. Took around 7 hours.

holocaust22 said...

@anonymous

There's a video on youtube back in the 1990s, in a brazilian school, where a bunch of teenagers were debating whether or not the age of consent should be lower than 14. They were asking, is it right to not give people under the age of 14 legal rights? Brazil has always been pretty good about this topic.

Eivind Berge said...

Since you were banned that means it wasn't an unbiased sample after all and public sentiment is probably far less bleak, so that is good news.

I am at work on a new blog post which is overdue since we are now on page two of comments here that most readers probably don't click to, but might take up to a couple days to complete.

Anyway, here is an article I just came across from 2015 to lighten us up a little, maybe you've seen it already, speaking some sanity about saner days.

https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/i-lost-my-virginity-to-david-bowie

IN THE EARLY 1970S, the Sunset Strip was a magnet for rock stars: Bowie, Zeppelin, Iggy Pop, Mott the Hoople, The Who. They all hung out in the VIP rooms of louche LA nightclubs like E Club, the Rainbow, and Rodney Bingenheimer’s English Disco. And with them, of course, came groupies. Scantily clad 14- and 15-year-olds like Sable Starr and Lynn “Queenie” Koenigsaecker sipped cherry cola, dropped pills, and evolved into pubescent dream girls for the platform-shoed rockers who could get anything and anyone they desired.

Decades before Drake dissed Tyga for dating 17-year-old Kylie Jenner, and R. Kelly faced multiple allegations of having sex with minors, the most visible rock stars in the world blithely made it with girls who were barely out of junior high school. It was all glorified in the pages of a glossy magazine called Star, which reveled in the underage groupie scene for five issues. Other publications, such as the rock ‘n’ roll bible Creem, flicked at the Sunset Strip doings without so much as a wagged finger. Hell, in 1973, a leisure-suited Tom Snyder devoted an entire show to interviews with some of LA’s highly desired teenage groupies.

Starting from the age of 15, Lori Mattix ranked among the most desired of these so-called baby groupies who were helping to satisfy the sexual appetites of Jimmy Page, David Bowie, Mick Jagger, and others. She hung out at the Playboy Mansion and modeled in the pages of Star. In time, she and Sable Starr helped inspire Kate Hudson’s character in the film Almost Famous....


And the way I found it was via David Ley, who disagrees with me about nofap, but on this he speaks wisdom:

https://twitter.com/DrDavidLey/status/1395858452648366083

"Before making concrete judgments that any teen girl with an older male is automatically a victim, remember these stories from the past. This girl had no regrets. I Lost My Virginity to David Bowie - Thrillist"

holocaust22 said...

"At 16, I dated men who were 21. I pursued them. I knew what I was doing & I didn’t come from an abusive home. Young teens like sex, and surprise, not just young teen boys. She slept with David Bowie. I think that’s awesome. Sorry not sorry. Teen girls aren’t always so innocent."

From a girl named Danielle kingstrom under that post. Lol great. We've got some allies.

Anonymous said...

Young couple kill themselves in suicide pact after being raided by pigs for 'child porn' investigation.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9749495/Police-raided-home-PTSD-suffering-ex-soldier-Army-veteran-wife-child-porn-probe.html

The comments underneath are worth reading. Unusually for the Daily Mail and stories like this, most of the comments are sympathetic (probably because one of them is a young woman, if it was just the man nobody would care - Eivind will understand).

But the comments are quite illuminating as well. Many people have experiences of friends or relatives being similarly raided by the pigs, being made to wait not just months but years before their computers and phones are returned with the all-clear (and no apologies from the pigs afterwards). One reader mentions that over 300 people in the UK have their electronic devices seized EVERY DAY by the pigs under the grounds of child porn investigations. That's around 100,000 a year. Given that nearly all are male, that means that over the course of two decades, the average male in the UK has around a 1 in 15 chance of suffering a dawn raid by pigs and having to wait months or years to know whether his life will be destroyed. All because of 0s and 1s, mere pictures. It's high tech medievalism.

Child porn hysteria and laws alone are enough to explain the rise in male suicide rates over the last 20 years. But as we know, the MRAs refuse to even discuss feminist inflated and draconian 'child porn' laws.

And our dear leader himself thinks porn is worse than heroin... ironic that we're talking about cases like this and the American guy sentenced to five lifetimes, under an article regretting the death of a male feminist anti-porn activist whose very homepage argues against porn on the grounds it leads to rape culture and child abuse.

Eivind Berge said...

So sad. The scale of the witch-hunt is astonishing, a Kafkaesque punishment machine that runs forever on nothing. It's no thanks to me that they persecute indecent magnetization on hard drives (or electrons trapped in floating-gate transistors, if you use an SSD), but we do need to put it into perspective. This is not persecution of our sexuality, since the indecent bits do our sexuality no good, but malignant madness and evil and sadism and a runaway bureaucracy with its own life once these instructions are fed into it -- unopposed, of course, because no one dares question the voodoo "child abuse" narrative.

Eivind Berge said...

Eureka, a humble proposal. I was just reading this today:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/06/knowledge-compendia/485507/

About infinite libraries in literature, such as Borges's Library of Babel. All possible indecent images (or instructions for how to encode them) exist in such an infinite library. They are all there, forever, in Platonic heaven or the multiverse or whatever you want to call it. Since it is metaphysically impossible to destroy this library no matter how many hard drives they seize, how about we just agree once and for all that it is pointless to root them out and call off the witch-hunt?

Eivind Berge said...

Borges should have written a sequel to "The Library of Babel" where child porn hunters have to spend eternity in futile book burning. Now, that would be a proper hell for antis!

Meanwhile we can enjoy the original here:

https://sites.evergreen.edu/politicalshakespeares/wp-content/uploads/sites/226/2015/12/Borges-The-Library-of-Babel.pdf

Eivind Berge said...

"I repeat: In order for a book to exist, it is sufficient that it be possible."

The same goes for indecent images. Why don't we take a clue from Borges, if nothing else will suffice.

Reading this story, and in light of what I said in my previous two comments, I cannot help but conjure up indecent images in my head -- ASCII encoded, which I am forced to mentally decode as per these instructions. EVEN RIGHT THERE IN THE FUCKING SHORT STORY which is in every library in even this world. Either we need to ramp up the persecution so this is covered too or snap out of it.

Eivind Berge said...

"Methodical composition distracts me from the present condition of humanity. The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal. I know districts in which the young people prostrate themselves before books and like savages kiss their pages, though they cannot read a letter. Epidemics, heretical discords, pilgrimages that inevitably degenerate into brigandage have decimated the population. I believe I mentioned the suicides, which are more and more frequent every year. I am perhaps misled by old age and fear, but I suspect that the human species -- the only species -- teeters at the verge of extinction, yet that the Library -- enlightened, solitary, infinite, perfectly unmoving, armed with precious volumes, pointless, incorruptible, and secret -- will endure."

holocaust22 said...

The podcaster Thaddeus Russel said on twitter there are plenty of relationships with 13 year olds that are harmless, and now he's under fire. I tweeted a bit, defending him, under one of his posts. I'm telling you guys. We need to form a male sexualist alliance, and raid twitter with burner accounts to defend guys that come under fire from this. ORGANIZE.

Eivind Berge said...

I see, Thaddeus Russell made some good points about age of consent and got the usual hate for it.

https://twitter.com/ThaddeusRussell/status/1410617835395555339

@ThaddeusRussell
Since yesterday afternoon I have received hundreds of open death threats on Twitter.

Why?

I called into question the age of consent laws in the United States, which are far higher than in all the countries in Europe.

My argument is here:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/polanski-and-the-debate-about-the-age-of-concent

Holy shit, this shows some mad antisex bigotry among very young women that calls into question the old hags theory:

"My students were willing to discuss the appropriateness of the 16-18 range, but were resolutely opposed to going any lower. One said she was so disturbed by the Spanish law that she was reconsidering spending her study year abroad in Barcelona."

amelio said...

And finally that there is no difference between men or women having sex with them."

But why on earth should there be a difference ??? It's just that we are used to the pussy pass. Women get it as long as they are not seen as aiders and abetters of male sex crimes. In these cases women are just acting like males corrupting (the myth of )innocent teens, they jeopardise the narrative and must then suffer and perish.

Eivind Berge said...

This visceral hatred of sexuality that the bigots clearly feel, how is it possible, where does it come from? I can understand not wanting to go to a country because the laws are too oppressive, but too lenient? On consensual relations that can't possibly hurt you? How is it possible to be so disturbed by that? Jealousy is an explicable feeling, but now we're talking about college students, women who can't be more than 18-20 themselves, still at the peak of their sexual power.

It is the behemoth, indeed. We don't have good terms to explain such a phenomenon, which is simply so insane that it defies further explanation.

amelio said...

"women who can't be more than 18-20 themselves, still at the peak of their sexual power."

18/20 yo or younger are not necessarily attractive, most of them are plain or overweight.
All have been fed with the "culture of rape" narrative ever since they were born...

amelio said...

"One said she was so disturbed by the Spanish law that she was reconsidering spending her study year abroad in Barcelona."

Out of date. The AOC in Spain is now 16.

Eivind Berge said...

Amelio, the difference is in the value exchange. Apart from considerations of consent, female sexuality has tremendous inherent value that male sexuality does not. This is why boys feel so lucky and why it is a greater travesty to criminalize women for being so nice to them. A teenage girl can feel perfectly fine that she is giving herself to an older man and have a beautiful loving relationship, but it lacks that dimension that she is lucky. Neither should be punished, but the woman is more than innocent and over in the heroine category that deserves a medal for her charitable contribution to humanity.

Eivind Berge said...

"18/20 yo or younger are not necessarily attractive, most of them are plain or overweight."

I disagree with this as well. All college age women are extremely attractive. Yes, some of them will be judged unfavorably by a small number of very picky men, but not enough to make a dent in their power. Feeling jealous of younger girls just doesn't enter into it yet and we need to look for other explanations. Yes, the brainwashing with "rape culture" is big, but can't fully explain this visceral feeling either that motivates the sincere desire to destroy men's lives and intolerance for countries that don't. Americans are also exposed to propaganda about drugs and alcohol, but you don't ever hear of young people who are afraid to go to Europe because we let 18-year-olds drink. What is the difference?

Anonymous said...

@ThaddeusRussell
Since yesterday afternoon I have received hundreds of open death threats on Twitter.

Why?


Could be because all the bigots gather on Twitter, as they are the only ones that face no risk to be banned.

holocaust22 said...

@amelio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LHQdSDdmmQ&ab_channel=Piano%26Pleng

The girl on the right here, with the braces, is 18. Hottest girl in the entire world. nocap

holocaust22 said...

https://globalnews.ca/news/7997598/chris-hansen-arrest-warrant-to-catch-a-predator/

Chris hansen has another warrant for his arrest. Cheated on his wife with a girl 20 years younger than him, fired, sued, arrested, and now about to be arrested again. A paedocrites fate. Imagine a cheater making a group called "perverted justice". Oh the irony.

holocaust22 said...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZU7JRu8J64&ab_channel=JohnSwan

Good hit piece on chris hansen.

Eivind Berge said...

Yeah, Chris Hansen is a scumbag and I hope this ends badly for him. Some more on the new arrest here:

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/catch-predator-host-chris-hansen-190601735.html

Apparently he had faked evidence of a sting he was doing to entrap men (which is entirely fake to begin with, of course), and is refusing to turn over the whole video so the victim can defend himself. Imagine being backed by an entire civilizational witch-hunt against male sexuality and still he fucked up.

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