>>15258882>>15258887"NoFap" was coined by people who espoused it as a method for kicking a compulsive porn habit. No negative effect was ascribed to the jacking off or load-blowing itself. It's like staying out of bars while you're trying to quit smoking - you're not trying to quit the drinking or hanging out, you're just avoiding the one scenario where you know you're highly likely to say "Fuck it" and spark up a cig. Hence the whole notion of a pre-determined, limited period of abstention in the first place.
The blending in of ideas about semen retention and sexual tantra is a separate thing entirely that only started to happen later.