Every year courageous men from around the world test their resilience, grit, and determination for thirty long, excruciating days. Sounds like the title of some Survivor-style show right? Well, not even close. This is something far different. The above lines describe a "phenomenon"(or trend, whatever floats your boat) known as No Nut November. No Nut November is an annual Internet challenge revolving around abstinence, where the participants abstain (or at least try to) from ejaculating- or busting a nut as it's known (which is where the challenge gets its name from) during November. The term was first coined in 2011 when its definition was published in the Urban Dictionary. In 2017, the "movement" started to gain more popularity on social media and grew rapidly in base, with the Reddit community of the same name gaining 80,000 followers by 2020. The movement has often been associated with NoFap, a not-for-profit community-based recovery platform for porn addiction, overuse, and compulsive sexual behaviour. In this way, it serves as a support group for those who wish to give up pornography and masturbation. Now coming to the challenge itself-what exactly are the rules of it? To try and put it as simply as possible- 1. You cannot have sex, masturbate, or "nut in any way, shape, or form. 2. Watching pornography is allowed, but you can't nut. 3. You don't have multiple tries-only a single shot. If you miss, you're out. Now, one of the questions that pops into one's mind after reading this is, is there any real benefit by doing this? While some participants claim abstinence from masturbation has health benefits, Australian research suggests ejaculation increases fertility, with one doctor saying reduced sexual function was "strongly associated" with a reduction in serum testosterone. Furthermore, a Harvard study affirmed there were no random assignment clinical trials supporting abstinence as a cure for compulsive sexual behaviours. Simply put, there's no benefit. That's about No Nut November itself, but the article would be incomplete without mentioning how taboo the subject of masturbation is. It may not be something no one speaks about, but it is one of the many things we as a society know exists, but will never accept as a whole, in the open. However, I don't think you can blame anyone here because the kind of social environment we grow up in isn't conducive to the open discussion of such topics. It seems it boils down to sex education as we grow up. It makes such topics slightly less taboo, be it in our friends' circles or at home. Our society has this tendency to be extremely fluid and flexible in many aspects, and yet there are these few chosen topics where there is a stoic rigidity, immovable of sorts. The stigma should break, and it actually can go away over time, all it needs is more acceptance, and that begins with us.