NoFap - Why you should quit porn & masturbation !

[Shin]

2 minutes ago, Shroomdoctor said:

@Psyche_92 the only thing keeping me going is the knowledge that it will pass...in like...60 days ?

[Kubia]

Hi! Im new here, im interested in all of the topic of the forum but this is quite controversial to me.

I've tried doing nofap because of my addiction (i tought PMO was a totally normal behavior) and i've experienced the known benefits, whit huge surprise.

Now, i've not be able to do this for more than 20/30 days straight, beacuse the urges become greater and greater, and if too much masturbation made me lazy and unmotivated, the total abstension made me too much hyperactive and "aggressive" and the urge too much present. So, lately i would go to a middle road, not too much masturbation, let's say 1 times a week (vs 1/2 a day before). I wouldn't be too lazy and still motivated, but the urges dont catalyze all my attention.

 

I know this can be self-deception, but i thought that if mere orgasm can distrupt my will to do things in life, when i have a active sex-life whit a GF is basically the same thing, you keep relapsing over and over. So whats the point? Isn't body supposed to work like that?

 

The only things i'm sure is that whatching porn isn't healthy at all, and and we all agree here, but is the total abstension from orgasm the answer?

Or is the dose that make the poison?

 

Thanks for your attention (and sorry if i've made some grammar error, i'm Italian).

Edited March 13, 2018 by Kubia

[Shin]

No you don't have to do semen retention.

It's powerful but you don't have to.

That's just me honestly.

Porn is definitely stupid, but to masturbate once a week isn't bad IF it's because your mind go crazy and you can't focus.

Edited March 13, 2018 by Shin

[LiakosN]

Today i relapsed after a 4 day streak... I ejaculated after masturbating to a youtube video.. But I keep on my 6th day of arctic shower.. I am feeling them gains coming pretty smoothly...

[Kubia]

The good news is that with time you will better control the urges, if before 2 days without PMO was a nightmare to me now i can go straight to 1/2 weeks without so much effort, after that time i began to feel the urges again. With no doubt if i force myself to go any further the time span will increase, but i think the issue is to get rid of the porn addiction.

For me it was like going from being an alcoholic to having a beer with friends on the weekend. I could get rid of that too, but the benefit wouldn't impact my life so much. 

Anyway now i started a new streak, and for curiosity/experiment i will go further i can. 

[sgn]

56 minutes ago, LiakosN said:

I ejaculated after masturbating to a youtube video

Lol 

[Shin]

7 hours ago, Kubia said:

The good news is that with time you will better control the urges, if before 2 days without PMO was a nightmare to me now i can go straight to 1/2 weeks without so much effort, after that time i began to feel the urges again. With no doubt if i force myself to go any further the time span will increase, but i think the issue is to get rid of the porn addiction.

For me it was like going from being an alcoholic to having a beer with friends on the weekend. I could get rid of that too, but the benefit wouldn't impact my life so much. 

Anyway now i started a new streak, and for curiosity/experiment i will go further i can. 

Not sure about that.

Seems more psychological than physical.

I only reached 16 days 4 times top, and It's not hard at all.

Should have been hard, I'm quite psychologically down lately (well today it's way better).

[Morten]

14 hours ago, LiakosN said:

I ejaculated after masturbating to a youtube video..

Was it Quantum Mechanics Debunks Materialism - Part 1 or Quantum Mechanics Debunks Materialism - Part 2 that pushed you over the edge

[LiakosN]

@sgn At least I am honest 

[Kubia]

6 hours ago, Shin said:

Not sure about that.

Seems more psychological than physical.

I only reached 16 days 4 times top, and It's not hard at all.

Should have been hard, I'm quite psychologically down lately (well today it's way better).

It's both psychological and physical in my opinion.

The more you masturbate, the more the body will get ready for a new session, but of course the mind has a main role here. The mind if addicted to this would be triggered much easily in doing the PMO cycle. 

Some times i interrupt my nofap chain just because I wanted to remember what fapping is (ah-ha), so without real urges, but when I did it ONE times my genitals would be triggered to do that again, like i awakened my willy from lethargy and will send a message to my brain to do that again.

It's connected. That's why many suggest cold showers to get rid of urges...is a physical sensation that calm body and mind.

 

If it easier i think is for both less mind addiction and less physical stimulation overall. But who knows, is only my assumption.

[ADD]

2 hours ago, Kubia said:

Some times i interrupt my nofap chain just because I wanted to remember what fapping is (ah-ha), so without real urges, but when I did it ONE times my genitals would be triggered to do that again, like i awakened my willy from lethargy and will send a message to my brain to do that again.

This is true, that's why it's easier to stay completely away from masturbation than masturbating once a week. Just get laid once a week and all is well.

[Ether]

day 5

[Psyche_92]

That moment when you get rejected for a job, and your mind is like: fap. 

[Shin]

Day 17 

[Shroomdoctor]

@Psyche_92 Stay strong, my brother.

[Ether]

@Shin have you been feeling pleasant because of nofap?

I feel the same lol but i have been appreciating things i did

[Psyche_92]

24 minutes ago, Shroomdoctor said:

@Psyche_92 Stay strong, my brother.

I will, thanks.

[Ether]

day 6

[Psyche_92]

1 minute ago, Ether said:

day 6

Is this your first streak ever?

[Ether]

@Psyche_92 Well, I used to go 4 or 5 days without thinking i was doing nofap. Intentionally, yes. Non-intentionally, nope.