What benefits have nofap?

You cum buckets

There are none. Like many other beliefs, it's about blaming your own issues onto an external entity, in this case the evil porn industry. There's also a strong overlap in the usebase with the red pill movement, men going their own way and incels.

Define "porn"

Nice way of getting around linking a source man,
did you learn it from flat earthers?

>Define "porn"
pictures or videos that cause sexual arousal

>There's also a strong overlap in the usebase with the red pill movement, men going their own way and incels.

I guess it's not really surprising that the kind of people that you would expect to consume excessive amounts of porn would spend a lot of time talking about trying to watch less porn.

So it's okay if I imagine scenes similar to porn? Why?

Obviously anything can be unhealthy if it gets to the point of being an obsession, but yes, if you use your brain to generate these signals, it's a fair bit healthier and easier for your metabolism to manage than having external sources triggering your hormones all the time.

it's ok.
Hardcore pornography is a very strong stimulant. There's only so much your own imagination can do to get you off the same way porn does. Otherwise, businesses like internet porn, camgirls and such wouldn't be profitable at all if everyone is just imagining shit.

So it's somehow OK if I imagine the same scene instead of watching it?
Another thing that I've read is that it's OK to have sex. Wouldn't that lead to the creation of more red-pilled retards who are desperate to fuck anything? This whole thing is basically an anti-masturbation movement that uses very similar arguments to the ones used 100 to 200 years before, which could never be empirically confirmed
The reason for the porn addiction isn't the porn, it's the other problems the person has, which won't simply be solved by abstinence from porn.

So you have shit imagination?

>So it's okay if I imagine scenes similar to porn? Why?

That's a good point.

I think I get where you are going: If things that release dopamine are bad, then why is porn bad, when damn near anything that feels good at all releases dopamine. Why did I single out porn?

So, I'm sure that sexual fantasies release some dopamine, and maybe fantasizing about sex is kind of bad for you.

But answer this question: Which do you find more pleasurable? Thinking about sex, or watching porn? If you're jerking off, which one of the two will make you cum faster?

For me at least, the answer is porn. Porn feels more pleasurable. It causes the brain to release waaaay more dopamine.

And the more important point is that I've experimented. I've stopped porn, and started again, and stopped, and started again. Every time I started again, it was like I suddenly acquired ADD. Forget about all these hypothetical lines of reasoning; if the experiment tells me what _is_ true, that trumps all hypotheses telling me what _should_be true. Some other people have experimented also, and come to the same conclusion.

I'd also like to point out that everyone is different, and everyone might not have my same experience. I have some psychological tendencies that I think made my porn habit more harmful for me than it is for most people. That's why I encourage you to experiment for yourself.

Did I answer your question?