Anyone ever tried nofap?

[Light Cleric]

Nofap is dangerous - After a week it makes me want to hump everything. All the time. It's very distracting and I don't get anything done. If I were a doctor I'd be prescribing a fap every couple days to all my patients.

I keep re-reading this and I can't decide if I should be thrilled or devastated that you aren't a doctor.

 

[The_J]

You'd go to a doctor with that problem ^^?

imo more than twice a day isn't sustainable, twice a day is hard iffy, and once a day (usually right before bed) is pretty optimal for managing hormone levels.

...er....wrong .

Longest time in the recent time...mmhh...16 hours? No, wait, have been on a conference for 2 days in December, so around 48h, probably.
Anything else which prevents me are in general holidays/longer times not being at home or emotional turbulences, else I'll just go with my routine.
And I'm with Warpus on that. I'd go crazy.

 

[Leifmk]

Only when my wife & I have been actively trying to conceive; at those times I have been husbanding all my resources for goal-oriented purposes, as it were. So... a stretch of several months back in 2010, and then for about a month and a half in 2013 (hit the bullseye a lot faster that time).

 

[Josu]

I tried once, they were the worst 20 minutes of my life

 

[Mise]

That's what you get when you let the Brits come up with cunning linguistics.

We call it wanking. First (and only) time I heard it called fapping was by immature Americans on the internet.

 

[bhsup]

That's what you get when you let the Brits come up with cunning linguistics.

Took me a minute for it to hit.... BAD Antilogic, bad!

 

[Light Cleric]

You'd go to a doctor with that problem ^^?

The problem would be I don't know if I'd want those hands touching me for an exam.

 

[Paul in Saudi]

That's pretty impressive. What's your secret?

Well, I got married again, and my church-going wife would cry if she found a porn cache. My sister got divorced and I sat in as the ladies discussed the ex- in very intimate detail. He may have thought he had secrets but he really didn't.

I keep a diary and a count, 90-something day on this streak. I try to keep to a routine. I try to break bad habits.

Maybe porn is not a 'real' addiction, but it is certainly tough enough for me.

 

[Farm Boy]

Laying off seems good for building up some additional energy and spunk in your step. If engaged in a project or something to channel the energy fasting seems to be pretty helpful. Like Warpus though, I don't really like the propensity for distraction that comes with it. "Why am I sitting around in this situation daydreaming about sex? I have stuff to do, I'm not 14 anymore." So there's probably a happy medium or rhythm to beat out.

 

[BirraImperial]

Nofap is dangerous - After a week it makes me want to hump everything. All the time. It's very distracting and I don't get anything done. If I were a doctor I'd be prescribing a fap every couple days to all my patients.

Same here. No porn does make a lot more sense, IMHO.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

I can cut down on it, but I don't think i've ever gone more than a week completely without, and I don't feel the least bit guilty despite having a catholic mother.
Fapstinence (I just made that word up !) isn't any healthier than fapcessiveness (I'm lke Shakespeare !). Any man should ejaculate once or twice a week to rinse the tubes. It lowers the risk of prostate cancer.
Anyway, if I -and please tell me if this is TMI- don't discharge for three days or more, I'll have a nice dream from which I will suddenly wake in the middle of the night with a mess to clean up. I'll rather keep my bodily fluids under control, thank you very much.

 

[Snerk]

Did a one month streak of idleness a while back just to try something different. Not sure if I'll ever top that. Maybe when I'm in my nineties..

 

[warpus]

Please don't be in the middle of a long nofap challenge during our deep sea fishing trip.

 

[Snerk]

Please don't be in the middle of a long nofap challenge during our deep sea fishing trip.

"This one's reeeal puuurdy!"

/plays Deliverence banjo tune

 

[Farm Boy]

You look like one of them female swordfish?

 

[cybrxkhan]

Due to my bout of bad health last year, I went with no fapping and no porn for about three months, possibly longer because I was already feeling a drain of energy generally speaking about one month or so before it really started. Though in this case it was more I had no choice, unsurprisingly it's hard to excite yourself when you have a fever and are lying in bed half-dead. Even after that I was no where near my original levels, since I had a surgery drain sticking out of me rather close to my crotch, which is a bit of an inconvenience. After my second, bigger surgery in October, I understood how successful it was and how much of my health I recovered in a short time based on how horny I got while still in the hospital, just a mere couple of days after the surgery. So, lesson here is, illness is a way to forcibly force nofap on yourself.

Voluntarily I have done it for periods of a week or two weeks now and then just for the hell of it. For porn I've probably gone without it for much longer. I think my longest may've been half a year during the end of high schools and beginning of college.

 

[Leifmk]

a stretch of several months back in 2010

Correction, come to think of it: There would be about a week of every month when certain goals could not be achieved, and systems need to be kept operational... so in reality it was a series of several three-week stretches.

 

[GenMarshall]

I'm with dusters. nofap is weird and I don't get it.

Ditto. It's more like some prudish thing.

 

[Paul in Saudi]

Well, drinking is a lot of fun, but for some people it gets out of control and becomes too big in a life. Fapping is OK. For most people it is no problem at all. But for some people, it can be an addiction.

 

[warpus]

Adicktion?