NoFap

I'm sure many of you have heard of a thing called NoFap. It claims that ''Fapping'' decreases productivity or drive and that it also decreases happiness. Is this true or all just a bunch of pseudo intellectuals trying to find a scapegoat for their shortcomings

I don't know user, it sound like a meme to me.

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Fapping too much sure decreases your drive and energy. Not fapping at all will probably fuck you up even more.
Being addicted to porn is another problem entirely.

why would not fapping fuck you up?

Well if you don't fap you get wet dreams anyway.
Your body is trying to tell you that releasing semen every so often is a good thing.

so I should just wait for wet dreams and not fap?

Just stop watching porn

>so I should just wait for wet dreams and not fap?

If you like to soil your underwear with glue, sure, go ahead.

Just think about it, this claims to NoFap makes you more productive and bullshit, but it doesn't talk about having sex. You cum in both actions, what's the diference? Why not to call it "NoCum" or something like that? It's a meme.

Well they say that sex drive is root of all drive. By eliminating masterbation we will have more drive and also be more inclined to build real relationships.

>It's a meme.

Mostly. There might be some truth to it when you factor in the truly fapping addicted. Fapping multiple times a day is probably going to fuck up your hormones and body chemistry.

What if you just edge without cumming?
Does that count as NoFap?

It's called NoFap (or NoPorn on the lighter level) because people in those circles don't usually have access to much sex.
There are also lots of proposals to not cum (and thus fucking being allowed, but without orgasm), and those ideas are super old as well (mostly Eastern stuff)

Fapping and having sex is the same thing for your body. So is it bad to have sex twice a day for example ? I don't think so.

Like and said, the problem is the pornography industry.

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>Fapping and having sex is the same thing for your body
I have done both of these multiple times twice in the same day. I definitely felt a different sensation and a different level of energy deprivation in each. Sex was far better overall for my health, no placebo. Fapping left me feeling drained and weakened, whereas I usually felt energised through sex. Maybe there's a different amount of cum released through sex?

I think the feeling of shame and energy deprived is mostly psychological. If I fap I become very un productive. I won't get anything done and I'll just feel disgusted with myself for about a week. That's why I started doing NoFap. It's honestly changed my life. I get so much shit down and I have a reason to go out and socialise.

I think that's a common thing, user. I know that feel well.

>study
>can't do a problem
>get frustrated
>go for a fap
>feel relieved
>try again
>same process
>repeat for days, weeks, months, so on.
>...
>final exam comes
>can't do a problem
>get frustrated
>dick hard
>get insatiable desire to fap
>fuck.png
>leaving not allowed for 1h.
>just

What do you think OP?

daily reminder that there's not a single journal mention on their propaganda.

is all pseudoscience reddit circlejerk.

I tried for one week and felt good to dominate the urge, but after fapping not longer feel the urge.

also, I learned to control my fap with kegels and now can last wathever I want, I went from 30 seconds to 20 minutes straight of fapping, simply with kegels, in one day, without losing the porn.

the bad thing is that I not longer worship sex, after trying to not cum during almost half an hour, it simply comes as a fucking chore, boring as fuck.

It's a cult.

Leaving is allowed. You're just not allowed to return unless your escort gets succed in the bathroom while you're at it.

if i dont know that feel, can i keep fapping daily?

I really don't know. Speaking from experience, I am a massive porn addict and would end up masturbating 2 or 3 times a day (at least that was before. now I try to balance it to once every 2 or 3 days).

To this day, masturbating a day prior kind of fucks my early day up (from the moment I wake up) and leaves me all tired (but not demotivated or THAT less productive). And If I masturbate that same day without having finished all my tasks I feel the intense need of sleeping (mostly due to depression and the shame of failing again, so this doesn't apply to everybody).

I've noticed that when I go on 3+ day streaks I get a massive (trying to not be as biased as possible here) change in my mood. I just feel like a completely different man, at least in a good way, and I just feel like I am irradiating confidence. I cant say if this feeling *continues* since that's usually when I end up failing.

I've never been able to really get past the fifth day.

Hard to beat it with a diced up dick eh, Schlomo?

What if I'm a month into nofap and I want to suck dick?
No homo.

It's a meme.
First of all, the problem is being addicted to porn, not cumming.
Second, fapping and having sex are not the same thing, no matter what virgins tell you.
Third, sex is good for health (sex, not fapping).
Fourth, NoFap has been shown to be entirely useless. Sure it slightly increases (in a very negligible amount) your testosterone around the 7th day, but it goes back to normal soon after.

NoFap is worthless for normal and subpar humans. It's only possible "worth" might be curbing porn addiction, but there are far better ways.

>but there are far better ways

like?

"Getting a life". Simply stop watching it, getting a girlfriend, getting hobbies, etc. Of course, if you're a weak-willed faggot (which I'm sure is about 100% of the people who even consider this laughable NoFap idiocy) none of that will work...And neither will NoFap.

Basically, you idiots believe NoFap is a magical solution that will effortlessly solve all your problems instead of admitting they are "deeper" issues that need constant working on.

>NoFap is a magical solution that will effortlessly solve all your problems

People believe this?

But it was stated right from the beginning that its goal was to rewire the brain and cure porn addiction.

What are you talking about user?

>7 days
There's one study which says this.
As far as proper evidence goes, the issue hasn't been investigated.

That porn fucks with your dopamine levels sounds reasonable.

I'd like to know if not cumming/blue balls can be harmful

Over at Veeky Forums NoFap is a magical mystical gift from the gods that will increase your testosterone by a bajillion, cure your porn addiction forever, attract women, make you so motivated that you can conquer the world, make you good with women, increase your charisma to Bruce Campbell levels, reverse baldness AND MORE!!11

>I'd like to know if not cumming/blue balls can be harmful

user, just get laid.

Lots of mischaracterization going on in this thread. It's like imagining practicing Buddhism is only possible by going fullon monk. No, Buddhism's whole philosiphy is just an escape from the eternal cycle of suffering (samsara). A goal for the average Joe. Likewise, NoFap calls for an escape from the endless cycle of PMO(fapsara). A goal for the average Joe.

Just get laid, faggot. You NoFappers act like having some semblance of self-control (not wanking every fucking day/hour) is a goal or something sooooooooooooooo hard to do.

NoFap is abstinence of porn or acquiring higher tolerance to porn.

Cumming gives quick physical gratification and feeling of accomplishment.

It becomes a habbit if done frequently and an 'addicted' person will unknowingly waste a lot of hours that could have been used for productivity or skill mastery.

Whenever I have time to kill I usually allot 20min - 1hour everyday for fapping and that's only when I'm bored and feel blank. To avoid the rabbit hole you only need to fill the gap. Try to develop a different hobby like learning a music instrument or some extraverted recerational activity (having other people at your vicinity helps a lot, loneliness leads to fap).

Yes, thats probably Veeky Forums idea.

But we are talking about where the idea originated, which is from that one TED talk and what not.

None of that is exposed there.

Its all a method to get rid of porn addiction.

Considering this, are you still against it?

do u not read pixels on ur computer screen?

>fapsara
kek

I fapped three times today.
First to Korean porn.
Then watching a picture of Cristin Milioti's feet.
And the last was with the orgy scene in Sense8.

fapping is bad for you, but don't expect losers on Veeky Forums to accept that, because they need someone to have social approval to believe them.

it's bad for spiritual, psychic, chi, kundalini reasons. and that's the truth. can it be proven scientifically? no, because science is a bankrupt and depraved organization of deceit. is it true?

yes.

fapping too much makes me feel tired and unmotivated

It's not that I even feel "guilty" about fapping because lolchristianity, it's a good way for me to actually relieve stress in moderation.

relieving stress is for the weak.

boys your age were stabbing krauts in the guts with bayonets 50 years ago, you didn't see them jerking their dick off because it 'stressed them out'. no, they put on their boots and stomped a niggers teeth in, that's what THEY did to relieve stress. stress, what do you know about stress? when the big bolshevist agricorps are buying your families land and you have to go west to pick grapes with eight people in a sedan, THAT'S stress. when your wife cuts your dogs dick off because you cheated, THAT'S stress. when you can't sleep at night because all you see is the german children killed in the dresden firebombing, THAT'S stress. stop jerking off and stop pretenind tthat you know anything.

Questions:
1) What proportion of the sexually mature/developing male population in America would you estimate is addicted to porn (addicted in the clinical sense, not the colloquial)
2) Can a porn addict ever completely reverse the effects of the addiction? If no, can they reverse them to an extent? If yes, then to what extent?
3) Is it harmful for a man to masturbate to amateur pornography of himself engaging sexually with a woman?

Bonus questions
1) What proportion of the sexually mature/developing female population would you estimate is addicted to porn?
2) Why the discrepancy across genders?

these are stupid fucking questions kys

Yeah only generals know what REAL stress feels like

these are stupid fucking questions kys

these are stupid fucking questions kys

just because african children are starving, it shouldn't mean our first world problems aren't valid