Anyone heard of “NoFap”?

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This is what these NoFap people believe:

this is what ‘YOU’ can achieve after ‘X’ amount of days of avoiding PMO (Porn, Masturbation, and Orgasm)!

5 minutes - heart rate returns to normal.

2-3 days - guilt and shame seems to decrease.

7 days - brain fog lifts.

14 days - prolactin starts to drop.

14 - 21 days - due to drop in prolactin, dopamine sensitivity increases, you can start to enjoy the little things in life again, no longer emotionally numb, energy levels start to increase big time, confidence also increases.

30 days - cravings and flashbacks noticeably reduce.

30-60 days - PIED (Porn Induced Erectile Dysfunction) symptoms disappear or improve. Erections become rock solid, unless you’re PIED symptoms are severe. Confidence keeps rising

42 days - ΔFosB (DeltaFosB) that has accumulated around the nucleus accumbens starts to remove itself. This makes it possible for the neurons in the porn-addicted pathways to now start to slowly break up over time without use.

90 days - considered a full reboot for most people, however people with severe PIED will need longer. Confidence still rising

120 - 150 days - symptoms of severe PIED disappear or improve.

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Oh my god this is stupid…

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Well i have some issue watching porn all day long, might be useful to me idk

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Oh shout you have a panic button :rofl: it’s not that useful to me, maybe others chronic stages idk

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I have heard of them. I think of them as basically extremists of a practice that itself is valuable in its own way. I dno’t practice “nofap” but am trying ot get away from the type of thinking that pornography reinforces, I think it obviously depends on the kind of porn you’re watching, but it’s probably safe to say that things can get pretty out of the realm of reality fairly quickly. I’ not sure if htat sort of fantasizing is entirely helpful or healthy when relating to the opposite sex. Been single for a while so what do I know, but I definitely feel like my respect for the opposite sex is increasing; feelings of “romance” being inserted for sex drive, etc.

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I am into NoFap. It seems to me that I am multiple and my alter is my fapmate. So I figure that nofap leads to self-integration, but I am may be very wrong. Here below is the reddit thread that stared nofap
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/i514e/til_when_men_dont_masturbate_for_7_days_their/

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My Faps are just about my only pleasure in life and I start to feel depressed after 4 days without an orgasm.

NoFap is probably a front for right wing religious nut jobs. I love wanking and I ain’t giving it up.

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I wake up in the morning and I immediately start fapping dirty talking to an imaginary girl really intensely it’s how I start my day lmao.

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OH god…

I mean there are some ways that self-control can bring confidence… and that’s just sort of a general thing.

I quit wanking when I feel like too much a pervert to be considered forgive-able any more… when it hits that point where my thinking goes “Yeah that girl probably shouldn’t bother liking me anyways… look at what I just did… that was 4 hours time watching that ■■■■.”…

Other than that though… I know that I don’t need some extra guilt with my porn fascination just cause I am a guy… I’ve come to know some women well enough to know how comfy they can be… porn is more just a joke to most of them.

NoFap… I get the feeling of the process… like if I don’t jerk off for forever I become a more genuine type human being or something… guaranteed to get a girlfriend then right… lol

No no what people need is money… money is what wins.

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If u don’t fap forever you’d just wake up in goo in the middle of every night…

Unless ur getting laid

And if you get laid once In a while not fapping sure it feels better but you won’t last very long.

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looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool bro… yep… its gross but we lose out either way… peoples got sexual needs… it’s fo real.

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I fap 6 times per week. Not bad for a 54 year old guy - and a performance record to be proud of at my age.

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I thoughts about giving up porn as is probably playing with my view of women in general, I only watch 5-10 minutes a day enough to get me going, porn is the only thing that gets me going because I don’t fantasy

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Do you all think meds block the ability to masturbate based on imagination??

You know I used to be able to imagine a person in my head and now on meds need porn. And it’s much less.

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for me the trick is not ejaculating or having orgasm. I feel weaker afterwords. if eating a vegetarian diet like I do, it will take me a week to recover to where I could go out and get turned on by a women in everyday life.

im not big into porn anymore, I used to watch it until one time I had trouble getting it up with a girl in real life. so anyways I cut out the porn and started fapping to all the women in the neighborhood lol. problem solved.

so far the time when I had the highest sex drive was when I was eating vegan and not orgasming. I would masturbate everyday but I wouldn’t finish. I learned it took me like a week to get horny again if I orgasmed. anyways I would just walk around the neighborhood and check out the women all day. I liked the feeling of being turned on and excited instead of pacified.

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yeah I can agree with the influence there… I’m a sucker for chicks either way though… take my porn and I’m an emo nutter… at least the shame of porn is enough for me to have a natural mechanism of knowing I should bother them due to the intrinsic rejection.

lol obne of the girls I knew did like me saying… “As the sense of inherent rejection grew… the lust for women died.”

I mean some of them are cool… but most of those ones even are still players.

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I Fap only when i watch porn :man_facepalming:

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I never fantasize even before meds, I have a big imagination but can’t fantasize, I get intrusive thoughts sometime but they don’t help

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I wind up fantasizing when I’m in bed for too long… kind of hate it… it’s inevitable.

I mean I did have a girlfriend once… for a long time… I mean formative years psycologically… I used to know what it was like to be used to having someone with me in bed…

lol… forgot all that ■■■■ some time ago… just leaves me hugging pillows and feeling like a 7 year old.

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I realize I want women to make me feel horny and that’s why I look at them and check them out but it’s useless, the closest thing I got to being horny is a curiosity about asses and boobs, I mean what’s all the fuss about? They don’t get me horny but I would inspect them and play to see maybe I will get horny

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