NNN 2022. The month of November is an opportunity for men who wish to participate in “Not Nut November” or NNN. What is this challenge? What are the rules for this challenge?
The “No Nut November” (or NNN) returns every year in November. But what is it ? A challenge to promote the detection of a disease? To call for a donation in favor of a great cause? No way. “No” means “no” in English. “Nut” means “nuts” in its classical translation and can pictorially designate the testicles but also be used more vulgarly to “ejaculate”. And “November” for the month of “november”. “No Nut November” thus means “No ejaculation in November”. It is a challenge that offers men to not ejaculating for a month, in this case the month of November. No masturbating and no sex to avoid any accident! Because if “Man can control ejaculation during sexual activity, as long as he is below the ejaculatory threshold. Beyond that there is no more control possible“ recalls Dr. Sylvain Mimoun in the book “The male universe”. Clear : the man who participates in Not Nut November must be abstinent for one month if he wants to take up the challenge.
This challenge would have been first launched in 2010 but was popularized from 2017 on the American social network Reddit. More than 110,000 men are subscribed to the dedicated page for the event. For what benefits at the arrival ? “No scientific study has shown any benefit or negative effect of abstinence for 1 month” answers Dr. Ala Chebbi, urologist and andrologist surgeon at the Paris Saint-Joseph Hospital Group. So what interests ? To show oneself voluntary, courageous ? On Twitter, during the 2021 challenge, the sports influencer Tibo InShape said “never let it down“. Others, anonymous, declared that it was necessary “stay strong”. “I am not not sure it’s very good psychologically, comments Dr. Antoine Faix, urologist, andrologist and sexologist from the French Association of Urologists (AFU). And physiologically it is certainly not neutral. For the sperm for example, its quality is less good after 4 to 5 days. So it’s no better if you wait to have sex. On the contrary, it is even the reverse. If the challenge was at least toto draw attention to pathologies of the male reproductive system, to promote the consultation of young men to talk about sexual health, male contraception orself-examination of the testicles or cancer screening in older people, it would make more sense, but here we are not far from being stupid” concludes our interlocutor.