On day 4 currently. Doing this with a buddy of mine, we each wagered $100 for the month of November, and will have to donate it to some super leftist charity if we fail, so I'm not going to do that!

Day 6 now, still going strong. I have been getting up earlier, and the discipline and unwasted time is starting to creep into other areas of my life. I'm going to keep it going, no real cravings as of yet.

Had 74 days free, but after Monday I am 1 day sober


It was a great period of abstinance. Improved so much as a person.

Today feel like my life force has been taken away from me. Feel unmotivated and uninspired.

Need to keep going in abstinance.

I rarely post on these forums but I've been a big fan of Roosh for years. Anyway I recently started No Fap because I wanted to understand it from a human factors perspective. I am a pilot and human factors is a big role in this industry. I've only been on 11 days but I can say that has made a huge difference in the amount of rest I feel I have. I am able to focus more on the job and I am catching small mistakes a lot faster. I need to get some time and dig through my library but I had a book on Human Factors regarding pilots. I'm fairly certain there was a chapter on sexual activity and masturbation. Should be a decent source since it isn't pozzed up like most studies and media. As far as women go, I've noticed some conversational improvements. I do not know if it is a hormonal thing or simply increased energy. Either way, I am going to try and stick to this. I agree now that pornography is damaging to the human mind and should really not be viewed in the excess we view it today. In just these few days I've noticed I am now more attracted to women I thought were not as hot before. Although now I am finding myself attracted for different reasons... I suppose more human qualities? Anyway this is a ramble but I wanted to post.

Man this is hard... I failed after banging a girl from Barbados, new flag though and a rare one!

I just wasn't satisfied with the sex, and had the urge to jack off when I got home. I plowed her for a very long time, and she was a puddle of water, yet I still wanted more.

Sex addiction is real, we gotta be careful.

I think I have to go on a complete purge of no sexual stimulation whatsoever, for a least a couple of weeks. I might do a water fast as well to help out.

(11-06-2018 11:54 PM)CaravanPilot Wrote:  I rarely post on these forums but I've been a big fan of Roosh for years. Anyway I recently started No Fap because I wanted to understand it from a human factors perspective. I am a pilot and human factors is a big role in this industry. I've only been on 11 days but I can say that has made a huge difference in the amount of rest I feel I have. I am able to focus more on the job and I am catching small mistakes a lot faster. I need to get some time and dig through my library but I had a book on Human Factors regarding pilots. I'm fairly certain there was a chapter on sexual activity and masturbation. Should be a decent source since it isn't pozzed up like most studies and media. As far as women go, I've noticed some conversational improvements. I do not know if it is a hormonal thing or simply increased energy. Either way, I am going to try and stick to this. I agree now that pornography is damaging to the human mind and should really not be viewed in the excess we view it today. In just these few days I've noticed I am now more attracted to women I thought were not as hot before. Although now I am finding myself attracted for different reasons... I suppose more human qualities? Anyway this is a ramble but I wanted to post.

The term you should be researching is DOPAMINE. This chemical has profound impact on the brain, body, and spirit, and porn and masturbation are most men's only source of DOPAMINE. See what your texts have to say about dopamine, separately from sex, and I bet it applies to us here.

Starting day 1. Goal is one week.

Day 12.

I had some strong urges last night that I somehow overcame. I've got my sights set on that one month marker to prove to myself that I'm not controlled by my impulses.

Day 2 of my 2 week no sex challenge, and I'm already dying.

Shouldn't have started on the weekend but fuck it.

I think I'm addicted to sex overall, and not to porn or masturbation, so I have to do this to reset a little. Perfect timing really because it's before Christmas and New year, which gets absolutely crazy.

(11-10-2018 10:15 PM)redbeard Wrote:  

(11-06-2018 11:54 PM)CaravanPilot Wrote:  I rarely post on these forums but I've been a big fan of Roosh for years. Anyway I recently started No Fap because I wanted to understand it from a human factors perspective. I am a pilot and human factors is a big role in this industry. I've only been on 11 days but I can say that has made a huge difference in the amount of rest I feel I have. I am able to focus more on the job and I am catching small mistakes a lot faster. I need to get some time and dig through my library but I had a book on Human Factors regarding pilots. I'm fairly certain there was a chapter on sexual activity and masturbation. Should be a decent source since it isn't pozzed up like most studies and media. As far as women go, I've noticed some conversational improvements. I do not know if it is a hormonal thing or simply increased energy. Either way, I am going to try and stick to this. I agree now that pornography is damaging to the human mind and should really not be viewed in the excess we view it today. In just these few days I've noticed I am now more attracted to women I thought were not as hot before. Although now I am finding myself attracted for different reasons... I suppose more human qualities? Anyway this is a ramble but I wanted to post.

The term you should be researching is DOPAMINE. This chemical has profound impact on the brain, body, and spirit, and porn and masturbation are most men's only source of DOPAMINE. See what your texts have to say about dopamine, separately from sex, and I bet it applies to us here.

+1

When I discovered the paleo diet/primal lifestyle movement six years ago (thanks in large part to the RVF) I quit the standard American diet cold turkey and immediately saw huge improvements across the board, to the point where I rarely felt tempted to deviate (no regular "cheat days" or the like).

One of the side effects of this consistency is that when I DO deviate I feel like absolute shit. This immediate negative feedback really helps to avoid future temptation - I KNOW if I eat that pie/cake/etc. I'll feel like hell, so no matter how good it looks or smells I'm able to say no thank you.

Now that I've been off porn for a while I'm noticing the same thing. On the rare occasion I do relapse, I immediately feel awful - tired, depressed, low confidence, apathetic - to the point where I'm almost certain it's due to the porn.

For those still struggling to kick the habit, take note of how you feel after a week or two without, and then definitely pay attention to how you feel in the 12-24 hours following a porn binge. Once you can associate the "hangover" with the drug, you've got one more tool in your arsenal for resisting temptation.

Day 101 without porn, hooray! It's getting easier. I still fap, though. I don't see the point of quiting.

Anybody know a way to completely ban porn from a laptop. Especially the top sites like xvideos and pornhub? My willpower is ok so far but I want a safety net.

I'm suffering of PFS and POIS, I'm gonna give a try abstinence since i realized if i stop pmo'ing after day 4 i start to feeling normal. Let's see how it goes, currently on day 2.

Nearly 2 months of breaking the habit, then got stressed and binged 4 times this week. I'm so angry with myself knowing that I don't want to do this and I feel miserable for days after, yet I let my hindbrain talk myself into doing it.

Fap Watch and NoFap are great apps to help out. Guys saying you feel like shit after I think is 90% mental. Don't take it too seriously that you failed to live up to some Plotonic No Fapper ideal. Laugh at how your mind can hamster shit, learn from it and be happy you can have these insights that other people miss.

(11-21-2018 08:49 PM)oilbreh Wrote:  Fap Watch and NoFap are great apps to help out. Guys saying you feel like shit after I think is 90% mental. Don't take it too seriously that you failed to live up to some Plotonic No Fapper ideal. Laugh at how your mind can hamster shit, learn from it and be happy you can have these insights that other people miss.

For me it feels very real. It's as if my brain's been hit by a sledgehammer and my motivation and energy drops to near zero.

(11-20-2018 07:43 PM)Donfitz007 Wrote:  Anybody know a way to completely ban porn from a laptop. Especially the top sites like xvideos and pornhub? My willpower is ok so far but I want a safety net.

I've found wide-net filters not to be too useful. Too many false positives (which start to interfere with regular browsing) and too easy to disable. What worked for me was identifying the most problematic sites for me personally and blocking them in an application called Cold Turkey. I blocked all the top porn sites as well as Instagram, Reddit, etc. Cold Turkey's almost impossible to disable. I ended up buying the license.

The best thing you can do though is to cut your electronics use in the first place. I almost completely stopped browsing mindlessly, which is bad for you too, by the way (fake dopamine hits).

So I've been doing "No Nut" November but have been No Porn/No Fap for over 30 days (mid Oct).

I've always flirted with No Porn but have always caved in around the two week mark and indulged. I kind of think that's the big sticking point, the 12 to 18 day period of stopping Porn and Fapping. Going a week without it is easy and most guys can do it. It's the second week that's the most difficult as the urges come back strong. And there's really nothing that will help you other than old fashioned willpower and discipline.

But once you power through the second and third weeks, it's seriously smooth sailing. I feel great and have no urges to look at porn, Instagram hos, or fap at all.

As far as being abstinent for close to 28 days now, I feel great. Been trying to meditate every day for the past couple of weeks, and although I haven't activated my third eye or developed super powers (joking), I feel more present in my conversations, can maintain stronger eye contact, and just feel more charismatic overall. And of course that leads to greater confidence and happiness in my day to day interactions with everyone.

Obviously not planning on being abstinent forever, but I am going to finish off the month no nut. I just feel a greater sense of well being and contentment.

I think someone should commission a study that monitors one group of men who watch porn and fap, and monitors another group that are completely abstinent (as long as they are completely honest) in order to study the effects on the body and the brain.

Unless there's been a study already? I tried searching for one, but no clear results.

(11-22-2018 12:04 PM)falafel Wrote:  

(11-20-2018 07:43 PM)Donfitz007 Wrote:  Anybody know a way to completely ban porn from a laptop. Especially the top sites like xvideos and pornhub? My willpower is ok so far but I want a safety net.

I've found wide-net filters not to be too useful. Too many false positives (which start to interfere with regular browsing) and too easy to disable. What worked for me was identifying the most problematic sites for me personally and blocking them in an application called Cold Turkey. I blocked all the top porn sites as well as Instagram, Reddit, etc. Cold Turkey's almost impossible to disable. I ended up buying the license.

The best thing you can do though is to cut your electronics use in the first place. I almost completely stopped browsing mindlessly, which is bad for you too, by the way (fake dopamine hits).

You can do this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoFap/comments/..._block_in/

https://www.wikihow.com/Block-a-Website-on-Mac

(11-22-2018 04:05 PM)Dodgy Wrote:  ...

I think someone should commission a study that monitors one group of men who watch porn and fap, and monitors another group that are completely abstinent (as long as they are completely honest) in order to study the effects on the body and the brain.

Unless there's been a study already? I tried searching for one, but no clear results.

The precise issue with such studies is that researchers have been unable to locate a group of men who have never been exposed to pornography and/or are not regular consumers of it. With NoFap and the like gaining greater exposure this might change. The best way to conduct such an experiment would be to do a closed-door lab test over, say, a month. But, good luck getting funding or ethics approval for that.

Also, this is the exact type of study that they don't want. When you get in to academic studies and writing grant proposals, you very quickly learn that there are people pulling the strings on most of this stuff. You want to study how interracial coupling improves fetal development? Great, here's a million dollars. You want to study the effects of pesticides manufactured by [redacted]? Good luck with that, and good luck getting tenure.

The effects of porn use, specifically in men, is an area of study that is a bit dicey. For years, you were only getting grant approvals for studies that would reinforce the idea that masturbation to porn was "natural" and "healthy". Recently, there have been a number of closed and private studies looking in to possible detrimental effects. Interestingly, the funding for these studies is coming almost exclusively from the US government.

I had a pretty tough breakup last month and as a result I fell back into the porn spiral. At the advise of some forum members, I've been using K9 Web Protection for a few weeks now and I highly recommend it.

Benefits:

-Free
-Blocks through all browsers, so you can't just open another browser to bypass it
-Infinitely customize-able, so if you're like me and love browsing Reddit for porn gifs, you can block all of Reddit with this tool
-Password protected, which lets you create a random, difficult password you can store away from your computer to prevent easy disabling of the blocker

The interesting thing I've found is that I don't really care about masturbating. It's moreso that the porn makes me horny which makes me want to jerk off. So, removing the porn from my life is the #1 goal now.

Broke a near two month streak.

Starting again this weekend

(12-01-2018 01:04 AM)Waqqle Wrote:  

(11-22-2018 12:04 PM)falafel Wrote:  

(11-20-2018 07:43 PM)Donfitz007 Wrote:  Anybody know a way to completely ban porn from a laptop. Especially the top sites like xvideos and pornhub? My willpower is ok so far but I want a safety net.

I've found wide-net filters not to be too useful. Too many false positives (which start to interfere with regular browsing) and too easy to disable. What worked for me was identifying the most problematic sites for me personally and blocking them in an application called Cold Turkey. I blocked all the top porn sites as well as Instagram, Reddit, etc. Cold Turkey's almost impossible to disable. I ended up buying the license.

The best thing you can do though is to cut your electronics use in the first place. I almost completely stopped browsing mindlessly, which is bad for you too, by the way (fake dopamine hits).

You can do this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoFap/comments/..._block_in/

https://www.wikihow.com/Block-a-Website-on-Mac

That's great if it works for you. I've found all the methods in that wikihow article to be trivial to circumvent, whereas Cold Turkey is actually difficult to bypass.