I stopped staying awake till 6am. I stopped staying in my little apartment for days on end. I stopped slacking on important work. I stopped smoking cigarettes. (Used to like to smoke while PMO). I stopped being the guy with no opinion. I stopped following fake instagram accounts. I stopped looking for artificial beauty. I […]
COMMENTS: Study reports that porn use correlates with both social anxiety and loneliness. Subjects weren’t basement dwelling INCELS. 70% were married or had a life partner. Average age was 37. Relevant results: “Bivariate correlations were also conducted to answer the third research question: What is the relationship between social anxiety and pornography use? The third […]
Read More… from Social Anxiety, Pornography Use, and Loneliness: A Mediation Analysis (2021)
I made it to 100 days. I made a thread at 58 days and gave some updates there (https://forum.nofap.com/index.php?threads/58-days.304140/), you can look it up if you want. Days 0-60: I felt like crap. Days 60-80: were not bad. Days 80-100: feeling bad. benefits: – I became a bit more aggressive and am not backing off […]
Read More… from Age 23 – I’m heavily attracted to real life women
Latest Update: Masturbation WITH vs WITHOUT Porn So I’ve (27M) been a porn addict since I was 12. Fortunately, this past year I’ve been able to drastically reduce my consumption of porn (websites, TikTok, Instagram, etc) but I still indulged in it from time to time (maybe twice a month). Currently, I’m around 1 month […]
Read More… from Age 27 – I feel more in control of my masturbation habits when porn is absent
Where the focus should be is in the process, in the rewiring part, in changing your default mechanism to S and M without P. And to deal with problems in life with healthier solutions, like emotional intelligence, taking responsibility instead of always being a victim, developing new healthy habits, not being in toxic relationships or […]
Read More… from DE and PIED cured. Change your default to sex and away from masturbation
When I thought of people with a porn addiction I imagined people fapping uncontrollably for hours alone in their parent’s basement. I’m 33 and happily married and I was honestly convinced that the odd sneaky fap over NSFW Reddit subs was completely fine – at least that’s what I told myself I did. In reality, […]
Read More… from Age 33 – Porn ruined my libido for sex with my wife
You could say that people go through a transition when they journey through NoFap. I want to talk about my ‘transition’ here. If you are isolated due to covid, or if you in general do not interact with other people, then you are a lot like me. Everyone who is going through nofap in a […]
Read More… from Age 27 – Not until I had actual conversations did I realize how much I have changed
J. Castro-Calvo, V. Cervigón-Carrasco, R. Ballester-Arnal, C. Giménez-García, Addictive Behaviors Reports, 2021, 100345, ISSN 2352-8532, Comments: Really well written, and helpful in understanding many of the neuropsychological studies listed on YBOP’s brain studies page. This is a review of 21 porn studies assessing 4 neuro-psychological “processes” which are altered in drug and behavioral addictions: 1- […]
I just wanted to share something 🙂 I am 20 years old and due to my porn addiction since my youth I have some larger erection problems from time to time. Moreover I suddenly stopped having morning erections when I was 18 years old. They just disappeared and never came back unfortunately. Since then I […]
Read More… from Age 20 – I had my first morning wood after almost 2 years
I. Before NoFap I got to know “NoFap” thanks to NoNutNovember of November 2019 Before November 2019 Before knowing this event, I tried as best I could to stop this addiction which was destroying my brain, I did not take long without plunging back into this addiction. I lasted for a maximum of 5 days, […]