Superpowers Are Real, and Here's How to Get Them (With Sources and Links!) [xpost r/NoFap]

Dopamine37 · 2014-10-04T15:09:08+00:00

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Cosmicandy · 2014-10-04T11:42:28+00:00

Pornfree > NoFap

People have been jerking off for millennia, it's fine as long as you don't death-grip that shit. Porn is the problem, it's way too much stimulation for your mind to handle and it will desensitize your dopamine receptors like any other drug. What human male historically would be accustomed to seeing a seemingly infinite number of naked women constantly fucking and sucking dick on demand? It's a godamm hyper-stimulus.

If you don't think it's addictive just try to go without watching it for a week, you'll see.

2014-10-04T08:48:42+00:00

NoFap is a great sub but some people there are literally like this

godiebiel · 2014-10-04T13:32:07+00:00

Nothing In Excess, and Know Thyself !!

TowardsBetterThings · 2014-10-04T14:21:14+00:00

Check out yourbrainonporn.com if you want to know more about nofap without all the broscience surrounding it. This video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHHyt6z0osA, made by the founder of yourbrainonporn.com, Gary Wilson, is a very good place to start and actually substantiates its claims with scientific research. Don't mind the title, the video is a very good summary of the why and how of nofap.

angel3110 · 2014-10-04T14:45:09+00:00

A post on NoFap sent me here. I am on NoFap since January 4. No masturbation since then. Once a week or two i watch porn. I am highly motivated, more creative, more confindence. The energy that you feel/have is amazing. This year i managed to write more than i did in 2 years combined. Try it. It will help.

ExistD · 2014-10-04T08:42:07+00:00

Got to 77 days without watching porn or masturbating then gave in because of the urges; it's harder than you think. There is an addiction; by masturbating to porn you begin to become dependent on them women, it's also a massive cause for erectile dysfunction.

Keypart: masturbating is fine, just don't masturbate to porn or even visualize porn.

HalfPastTuna · 2014-10-04T13:27:40+00:00

Porn induced ED is a real thing 100%. If you have a one a day wank masturbatory habit I would definitely recommend scaling it back or doing nofap. After a week it honestly is like drug withdrawal. Tossing and turning in your sleep. Insane cravings.

vandaalen · 2014-10-04T11:14:45+00:00

Ah. The weekly bro-science post.

Stop shaming people for their sexuality and guilt-tripping them about getting some relief with some esoteric bullshit.

I'm 38 and for more than 25 years have been furiously fapping with and without pron. Sometimes three times a day. Even when I was in relationships, where I had sex on a daily basis I would sometimes want to jack off again by using both porn and my imagination. I've got a very high sex-drive and I refuse to suppress it.

Never did I experience the need for more extreme porn. I also didn't end up fapping 24/7.

Porn addiction is just a symptom of problems which go deeper than just the easy access to porn. People who suffer of it might as well end up being an alcoholic or addicted to WoW or whatever.

Also fapping doesn't reduce your t-levels as is propagated by the church of /r/nofap. Read this article or use Google to find millions of others on that topic.

Fapping won't make you go blind and also won't make your spinal marrow shrink.

In fact to the contrary masturbation might even benefit your health and especially your prostate.

This shit has been going on for centuries and boys and men have been shamed long enough for their need to relief themselves sexually.

Don't give in to this bullshit.

RogerHaymaker · 2014-10-04T08:11:18+00:00

I'm not sold on NoFap/NoPorn. If I watch a lot of horror movies I don't know that it desensitizes me to real life horror - it desensitizes me to horror movies.

lycanthr0py · 2014-10-04T12:57:25+00:00

This stuff can work. If you are accustomed to hyperstimulus, your neurological system will respond to the lack of hyperstimulus by becoming more sensitive to the regular version of that stimulus. This happens in nature. Simplified example: If a bird is programmed by its genes to protect big blue eggs, it will ignore its real blue eggs and protect bigger bluer fake eggs.

It costs your body things to create seamen, if you don't spill it, it reabsorbs. The taoists have been on to this for a looong time. Nofap will be great for some.

RedPillSafe · 2014-10-04T13:11:24+00:00

Most guys can Nofap for about a month.

I say give it a try.

Testosterone is an awesome high. (use responsibly)

Robdogx9001 · 2014-10-04T14:09:41+00:00

Alot of excessive masturbation has to do with how much free time you have. Yeah cutting back is a good thing, but if you don't have anything to do you will eventually slip back into old habits. This also applies to drugs.

Red_Shirt_Blue_Pants · 2014-10-04T16:09:01+00:00

I did 100 days of NoFap as an experiment and noticed that 7 day increments are no different than 100 days. Watching porn is far more detrimental because it is simply time-consuming. Fapping with porn can take an hour or more - using your imagination and inspiration takes 10-15 minutes. Having the discipline to exercise moderation in fapping is good practice. Being an obsessive jerk hound or a Puritanical fap-Pharisee are both unnecessary extremes.

lycanthr0py · 2014-10-04T12:28:51+00:00

Whatever works for you bro. But I've been to that sub red and it's so full of sobbing little cunts it's really hard to take anything they say seriously.

WarmApfelPi · 2014-10-04T08:13:45+00:00

The idea of being desensitized to neurotransmitters by instagratifying through any available outlet is very interesting. I wonder if there's any research on it. Maybe floods cause MAO to build up and once the gratification is gone the dopamine gets torn up almost instantly? I remember reading that salvia actually drops dopamine levels instead of raising it.

200mgtestc · 2014-10-04T17:14:07+00:00

I loved NoFap. Obviously, a lot is written about giving up porn, which is great. However, I think actually giving up masturbating is important too.

I have a friend who works on smoking cessation studies. Often, the hardest part is giving up smoking, per se, but realizing/avoiding the triggers that lead to having a cigarette.

NoFap was amazing for reorienting my relationship with jacking off. I could make a list, but they all have to do with procrastinating on something challenging that I didn't want to do and pure boredom. Kind of like reaching for a quick smoke, because that's how I deal with things, I thought critically about what/why I masturbated.

I'll get off my soap box.

golden_flower · 2014-10-04T13:33:36+00:00

Superpowers are basically sexually energy going upwards and being reflected through the eyes. These vibrant eyes create etheric attraction .It just creates attraction and your physical body doesnt have a clue about this.

Anderfail · 2014-10-04T14:29:27+00:00

Two things will cause ED if you are young, death grip and being an out of shape fat fuck or skinnyfat loser. As soon as I started lifting and got into better shape my issues went away. I now both have sex and masturbate more often than before.

This is yet another reason why it is INCREDIBLY important for you to lift weights hardcore.

Jack--Hammer · 2014-10-04T15:25:54+00:00

Does anyone know what mental activities are Ok or not ok when it comes to this dopamine depletion thing? Apparently porn is off. Someone was hinting at reading too much news/information overload, but how about reading a book or something less exciting?

godstriker8 · 2014-10-04T17:03:47+00:00

I tried it a couple times. I always get a few weeks in, and then stop because I get frustrated with feeling the exact same as before. Never got any "superpowers".

frameintegrity · 2014-10-04T17:39:15+00:00

I think a better way of thinking about nofap is in relationship to the Stanford Marshmallow experiment. From Wikipedia:

The Stanford marshmallow experiment[1] was a series of studies on delayed gratification in the late 1960s and early 1970s led by psychologist Walter Mischel, then a professor at Stanford University. In these studies, a child was offered a choice between one small reward provided immediately or two small rewards if they waited for a short period: approximately 15 minutes, during which the tester leave the room and then return. (The reward was sometimes a marshmallow, but often a cookie or a pretzel.) In follow-up studies, the researchers found that children who were able to wait longer for the preferred rewards tended to have better life outcomes, as measured by SAT scores,[2] educational attainment,[3] body mass index (BMI),[4] and other life measures.

I think if you master nofap, you're training yourself for future success and this has nothing to do with avoiding desensitization of your equipment or testosterone levels.

Flimflamification · 2014-10-04T18:50:56+00:00

As a member of nofap I use it as one of many platforms to improve within myself. For me I feel like I have more energy which I can channel into working out, meditating and having fun sober. It certainly has its benefits. I dont think masturbating is wrong. I think porn is fucking up alot of peoples brain chemistry and I feel sorry for the future generations. There are alot of blue pilled people on nofap who put girls in crazy pedestals. I created a post on nofap with a list of subreddits that go well with nofap including the redpill. Its a shame alot of people thought the redpill was full of shit.

Jooceyjooce · 2014-10-04T23:31:06+00:00

Nofap is fucking retarded. If you're so weak minded that you can't stop touching your dick, then you have more wrong with you than simply ceasing masturbation will ever fix. The base problem is impulsiveness and a lack of social awareness that would allow you to meet your needs otherwise. Get this bandaid post the fuck out of here. Nofap is literally the most pathetic neckbeard sub on this site.

BadJokeHour · 2014-10-04T13:33:12+00:00

been saying this for a while now. no fap and red pill have a lot in common in terms of getting women and improving oneself. glad to see a cross post between the two - they're my two favorite subs

brotherjustincrowe · 2014-10-04T15:54:16+00:00

389 upvotes and no downvotes. Yeah.

Title	Superpowers Are Real, and Here's How to Get Them (With Sources and Links!) [xpost r/NoFap]
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Date	October 4, 2014 7:53 AM UTC (11 years ago)
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