Is nofap a meme or does it actually work?

day 85 here


It's both. Retards are always talking about super powers but they have no real idea what they are talking about.

Anyway, I'm noticing benefits albeit small but nofap is different for everyone. I'm happy that I quit though, it was draining my energy levels and making me have really bad brain fog.

I have some stuff you can read (I compiled a list of motivational quotes and paragraphs on my desktop) that helps explain it and something that helps you want to change.

>>35964489
Damn I'm just on day 31. Hoping I can make it another month

I just stopped getting morning wood one day. I'm not even sad or happy anymore. At least theirs no mess to clean up.

"You are training yourself to not be able to tolerate negative feelings.
Jerking off doesn't simply numb negative feelings. It numbs all feelings.
So, you either toughen up and deal with your feelings (that's what being an adult is), or you cower from every negative feeling (weak). Also, getting rid of negative feelings is "making a deal with the Devil" - the method you are using to get rid of negative feelings doesn't only get rid of negative feelings, it gets rid of all feelings. You got to take the good with the bad.
This doesn't simply apply to jerking off either. It can be anything you turn to get rid of negative feelings (drugs, porn, jerking off, video games being some of the main offenders).
So the problem isn't jerking off per se. It's when you use it as a deliberate strategy to avoid negative feelings.
That's in part why nofap works. You are no longer in the habit of avoiding negative feelings - you force yourself to accept them, deal with them.
If you understand this you are on your way to being a modern Stoic. Stoicism is essentially the acknowledgement that life won't always feel good. It won't always be pretty. So you better get used to being strong, because the only other option is being weak. And the weak inevitably suffer more than the strong." - Post on r/nofap

>>35964394
Wait a while, nofap just becomes regular life, not a challenge. I only fap every couple weeks if i really can't sleep

>>35964394
Depends

Sometimes it can make you confident enough to be more social thus better chance with girls

Sometimes it can make you so horny that you start putting too much thought into talking to a girl.

Your testosterone only moderately increases for a short period (4 days) and after that it declines back to normal.

Every other feeling after that is a placebo affect.

Not knocking it. Masturbation allows you to get yourself a happiness boost without having to earn it, so if you take that push button away you'll have to come up with other ways to get that boost.

But there's no actual scientific benefit behind it.

>>35964489

and how many of those days have you successfully interacted with women of equivalent attractiveness and experience level? how many raises and job offers did you get?

what's the plan if you get to touch a roastie and you blow your load instantly?

>>35964582
You could have read a chapter, paid the bills, leveled up in a game, spent time on something important, but here you are alone in your space.

You just finished rewarding yourself for nothing, chasing sexual desires you can't obtain.

Porn is a solution to feeling unwanted.

The porn can't deny you, but afterwards the reality of why you're there in the first place settles back into focus.

>>35964606
No. I could have had sex a couple of days ago but I decided not to. A girl from high school I used to know wanted to be FWB because she wasn't getting laid.

The plan is to never jerk off again not never have sex though. Jerking off just makes me depressed as fuck so doing it is counter productive the same way someone does alcohol or a drug is to the user.

>>35964627
Porn is free sure, and masturbation doesn't cost money either.
But...
You are wasting three key things.

Time: (the most precious thing you have) Fapping costs hours and hours of time.

Energy and Motivation: Fapping costs a lot of energy and motivation. One fap session can take away literally days of energy and motivation.

Interest in real sex: When you spend hours looking at unrealistic perfect women (usually with specific camera angles) you lose the ability to get turned on by real women. Real tits become boring, you may even be turned off by a real vagina. You may even grow a cock fetish (some people may be okay with it, but not every one wants it) YOU CAN LITERALLY BE HOOKED ON PORN FOREVER! Since you cannot get turned on by real women anymore, you may even resort to other fetishes that are dangerous or illegal.

With all this factored in... you lose a lot of money and oppurtunities.

For those of us who want to be financially successful, it isn't achievable by fapping all day.

Not masturbating doesn't actually do much. Now, quitting porn? That's fucking gold. Porn is a fucking poison and is designed to be a poison on purpose. It's addicting and affirming to have access to sexual release whenever you want.

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>>35964582
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>>35964687
>Mfw reading this after buffering 7 videos

It works but you have to focus the now not-pent-up energy somewhere else.

It is very hard though. Touching your dick with no visual or mental stimuli can get you close to over the edge.

>>35964713
"I don't get it why people look for relationships and love in life, people are inventing VR nowadays. They could come up with something so that we never have to deal with people again." - Comment on Porn site.

When you're under the influence of your addictions, you are like a slave having to watch his world crumble around him.

>>35964394
well in my experience nofap works but i am unable to feel that much better than i normally do if that makes sense. its like i cant deal with the high levels of energy, and i have to fap again.
so it could actually make you feel worse.
you should try and see for yourself. i used to fap every day or every other day, now i fap every 4-5 days.
if i dont fap for 15 days + i start to feel really uneasy

a pointless meme, if you don't fap you will have a nocturnal emission anyway and the physiological effects are negligible, not sure why people are so zealous about pushing it

>>35964713
What do you jerk it to if not porn?

>>35964795
>if you don't fap you will have a nocturnal emission anyway
I have literally never had a nocturnal emission in my life

>>35964796
Your imagination, dingus.

>>35964765
It's just passive acceptance of their own weakness.

>>35964808
Same. I might have had one when I was younger but I'm 26 now and still no wet dreams

>>35964808
I barely produce semen at all