So I Gave NoFap a Try...

MarryUglyGirls · 2021-01-13T07:37:46+00:00

The idea and the raising awarness of nofap is great but the community and the evoloving into a sorcerer with superpowers is just autistic.

My personal advice for you is to cut porn out of your life, its just not healthy for your sexuality and sexdrive, masturbate once a week maximal.

Stay with it for about a year and your body and mind should be cleaned from all that garbage.

Remarkable-Paper-814 · 2021-01-13T06:10:46+00:00

The community certainly exaggerates the impact. I haven't gone deep into the science of it but I've tried it and I've noticed a change, nonetheless. Undoubtedly, it increases your sex drive, which makes you more determined to get the job done in the pussy department. I was also more precise and shameless in interactions with women, more dominant one could say - I simply knew what I wanted and I knew there is no substitution in the form of my hand. So, yes, overall it was beneficial.

ur8moms · 2021-01-13T08:23:58+00:00

Nofap, as I see it, is mostly a mental reset than anything else. If you masturbate when you feel horny, it probably isn’t an issue. But if you take time out of day for it or masturbate just because you are bored then you have a problem

I_cant_go_to_heaven · 2021-01-13T06:20:41+00:00

I've been on a nofap hard streak too since Jan 1 when I tried to fuck a hooker and my dick wouldn't get hard because of porn induced erectile dysfunction. I quit porn and jacking off. I might go back to jacking off though because it's too easy to get blue balls now, and the sexual frustration is insane. No more than 1x a week though.

CompetitiveAd4912 · 2021-01-13T11:59:36+00:00

Problem is mostly porn because it is an unnatural, extreme dopamine spike, similar to doing coke

JohnZoffman · 2021-01-13T06:52:35+00:00

Semen retention is a man's natural state between sex.

There's no reason to fap ever, it's an inherently beta male trait. It's surprising how much cognitive resistance there is to this idea here.

Jacked5parrow · 2021-01-13T07:46:49+00:00

Been no fap for a year now, but I’m in a LTR so I don’t face the sexual release droughts that you are describing. I can attest to more energy and more uh discipline I would say. Stronger erections for sure.

If you must beat off, do it sparingly and probably not in the morning. Part of no fap is not letting sexual urge control your day. Also no porn but you already know that.

It takes 60 days to create a habit, stick to it and you won’t want to Jack off again

modern_soma · 2021-01-13T07:24:51+00:00

The fact that you're unable to abstain from something like masturbation for a week without significant "withdrawal" symptoms is indicative of you having an unhealthy relationship with it. I used to have "InSoMnIa" when I was a loser, then I started working 12 hr days and gymming 15 hrs/week, turns out when you do shit you sleep like a baby. I commented on a semen retention question a couple months ago on this account I believe, the TLDR is that "SR/Nofap are good so long as you're not using them to cope for an inability to get laid, or adopting a holier than thou view because you're able to abstain from ejaculation/masturbation". Don't allow SR/Nofap to give you an unhealthy relationship with masturbation or sex in the other direction though. There's a balance that can be found after you've done Nofap or SR for a while, where that healthy balance is is up to you to figure out.

AuberyBitoni · 2021-01-13T13:51:01+00:00

I've tried it in the past because I was experiencing ED as well. Fapping is one thing but porn and dead grip is another. Porn had fucked up my brain so much, I could only get hard to porn. When I was with a girl I sometimes couldn't get it up, which absolutely sucked,

I started too, 1 January and so far I'm not seeing any chances, in the past I've made it to 80 days without fapping. I think my brain needs to reset from the porn. It'll take some time though.

And about the NoFap sub, it's a joke. Just quit watching porn and fap once in a while.

guyfindinghispath · 2021-01-13T07:05:15+00:00

I want to share my experience because I've tried 2-3 times nofap. Every time I've lasted around 20 days. What I was able to experience that this is not healthy solution at all. I was feeling angry, depressed and anxious after a week, I was also feeling horny and had wet dreams, once I've had them two in one night. I wasn't able to function like a normal human being, couldn't concentrate on anything. All I was thinking of fucking, even looking at landwhales and thinking she's not that bad. This is how it fucks with your head.

The last time I started to had chronic pain in my crotch, it was painful to urinate as well. I stopped it and said that I would never do this again. I took bee pollen for months to fix the problem caused by not ejaculating. Our body is not designed for this, this is harmful. When we train seriously, I mean proper strength program and eat right, we naturally increase our testosterone levels, and I know from my own experience is that I'm horny most of the time.

Many of us here are sexless, some of us are virgins looking to solve that issue. Not masturbating is not the solution. As for me, sometimes I can do it once in a week, because I feel stressful in life and have personal issue. Sometimes I can do it every two days, or every day, it depends. But I do and don't feel bad about it. It's same with porn, you just need to control it, if I want to watch porn I watch it, if I want to fantasize about sex, do that as well, if I want to look pictures of hot women I do it. It's my personal choice and I have control over it. Find some porn by Erika Lust, it's directed for women.

I've started to think that this nofap community was established to shame men for our sexual urges and overall sexuality. Look, women can go longer without sex and without masturbation, our bodies are not design like theirs. We can go withouut sex, but we can't go without ejaculating without health consenquences.

My personal suggestion would be to start right strength program and healthy diet for increasing testosterone levels. Stay of porn for a while and then start to control it, you watch it on your own terms, when you feel like. Masturbate once a week or every few days, it depends on your libido. This is healthy and this is what our bodies need, nobody should be ashamed of it.

Another bullshit is that it makes us respect women more. You see how this make us more feminine? Respect women it's not what it is, it is the way to make undesireable men to optout out of sexual market themselves. Look at nofappers on YT, they are bunch of simps. Also it makes women to look at us differently, like they attracted to us, no they don't. As we increase our sexual market value women start to notice us, not because we stopped jacking off.

Another is channeling our sexual energy into productive things. Why we do that? Because of possibilty after acomplishing something we woukd get pussy, in the end everything boils down to a pussy. My focus is how to create right balance in life, to work and earn, have a hobbies, have fun, have women, enjoying the life. This is how I'm looking at it.

You do you, I'm just telling you this is not good for men.

actuallythink · 2021-01-13T06:14:58+00:00

Do you think dudes that are fucking are beating off to sub-par bitches online?

Do you think sub-par bitches online are getting fucked by dudes who beat off to them flicking their beans?

Without getting into the details of your balls, that should be enough to persuade you to stop beating your dick and start using that drive for something more useful. Fucking hoes or creating the next Sistine chapel, you decide what.

lietruth · 2021-01-13T15:12:38+00:00

nofap never worked well for me.

I don't know why, it's not a community that's framed well on any sort of backbone. It's just "don't do x". That doesn't motivate me. On the other hand, I did try semenretention, and I can say that it's a much better method to abstaining. I have way better sleeps, a more positive outlook, stronger, skin is better, more energy. I would check that out and see if it resonates with you r / semenretention.

JohnZoffman · 2021-01-13T17:33:02+00:00

Yesterday i was on a 5 days nofap streak, felt angry, sad, annoyed, not social.

Got home late from work, fapped 3 times since to some crazy porn, and today im happy as hell, social as fuck out at work.

Jdamoftruth · 2021-01-13T17:53:38+00:00

Is there any science behind going "hands off" for 30 or 90 days like they always push?

No. Nofap and science don't belong in the same sentence. ED has many causes but masturbating isn't one of them. Never has been, never will be.

So many guys want to go nofap but are lazyasses, don't lift, don't do cardio, always skip leg day, eat fast food junk and a ton of sugar and carbs, smoke, drink, don't get good sleep, etc...but yeah jacking off is the problem....

I quit smoking 7 weeks ago and have been lifting and eating well since then

Exhibit A of known testosterone killers....Quitting smoking is good. Define "eating well" and lifting? How many days a week lifting? What about cardio? Insomnia as well? Known T killer.

Dude it's not jacking off that's screwing you up.

ZachMeadows · 2021-01-14T09:19:28+00:00

I don't know if it has been mentionned in the thread but before going full NoFap, there is a grey area. Kinda like doing other stuff but penetration before marriage. It's called edging.

In my case I suspected an addiction to either porn or masturbation, so I tried going without it while keeping masturbating.

After that, I tried the reverse, watching from time to time 1-2 'soft' videos to tease me, give myself a couple of strokes without nutting. I found that it was beneficial to release the tension without giving in to much.

Now I function normally, whatever that means. I sleep well and have plenty of energy. I'm also in a good mood. Maybe you can try that.

howthecookiecrumble · 2021-01-15T12:10:03+00:00

There’s literally an entire website dedicated to this on the nofap sub Reddit

danaw1992 · 2021-01-13T09:33:42+00:00

Check out the ''Semenretention'' sub

usedtimecapsule · 2021-01-13T15:57:54+00:00

I did nofap for 100+ days last year I had more energy in the gym I’m trying to do nofap again. A lot of people suggest it and let’s be honest alphas don’t need to fap like a beta.

100 days is only April. You can do it, we can

Title	So I Gave NoFap a Try...
Author	edjohn88
Upvotes	18
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Date	January 13, 2021 5:59 AM UTC (5 years ago)
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