January '15 No-Fap Challenge vol: the entire year is too much

Murkn3m said:
What's going on in here
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Men debating about fapping
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  It was really entertaining both had really good points and I understand where both were coming from. 
 
To repeat an earlier post that got lost in the shuffle:
ThatMartianKid said:
 
First, I am a regular outpatient that goes to therapy for addiction.  Though I don't apply the steps because I am going for other reasons, the first step in the 12 step program: 


  1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.

This doesn't necessarily have to be alcohol, where as it can be narcotics but in this case porn.  If you're an addict, then you're an addict of all things and can not do anything in moderation.  Even if you never picked up a drink before, you are still considered an alcoholic.  There's a lot of debate when one says if you're an addict or if you're an alcoholic.  Addiction is a deadly disease, it isn't the alcohol or the drugs, its the person who isn't able to do it in self moderation.  There are so many people who are able to smoke, drink, and do drugs in moderation.  If you're an addict, you can not do it in moderation and are consumed by it.  In this case its porn.  There many people who can watch porn and masturbate in moderation, and then there are people like us who can not.  I for one realized when I did give up drugs there was something that was put in its place, porn.  Though I don't think my problem as an addict is severe, I see the potential problems.  I am doing this no challenge as a form of self control, especially because I'll be finishing my outpatient therapy soon.  

I agree with Darth, that even if this is a no fap challenge, some people replace it with things such as going to the gym.  Even though its a positive thing, if you are truly an addict, then you probably won't be going to the gym in moderation.  Replacing porn with something else is still a form of an addiction if you really have a problem.  I can argue that what happens if I replace porn with just reading, how can that be so bad.  As the first step says, if your life becomes unmanageable due to whatever that addiction is than you have a problem.  The problem with addiction is that one can not do it in moderation.  

This is why the result of overcoming addiction is so small, because many will relapse.  I knew this one guy who was clean for 17 years, and once he picked up his first drink it was all over from then.  The disease of addiction is in you, and its like cancer there isn't a proper cure for it.  Just a healthy way of maintaining it.

Just my two cents.
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Props on your recovery my dude.

I sincerely hope that nothing I've said has stepped on your toes, offended you, or anything like that.

I definitely agree that there are those who are watching porn with an addictive personality, and moderation isn't really a healthy choice for them, just the same as an alcoholic can't reasonably go to the bar with friends and drink moderately.

Just frustrates me when I hear people come anywhere close to the opinion that everyone who watches porn is addicted, or that everyone who is quitting is doing so because they were addicted, or that everyone who challenges norms or popular thinking is a threat who doesn't 'get it'.

The reality is that some people watch pen in moderation, and some people have a problem. Keeping the lines blurred between who watches in moderation, life unaffected, abd who has a problem... I think keeping that line blurred is unfair and problematic. Clearly distinguish who has an issue, and who is not in the conversation of problematic.
 
Day 9... Failure :smh:

Snooping around one of those hidden gem blogspots and found some new fire ****. I goofed.
 
Ya know something?

I'd never thought the day would come when I get everything ready to wipe down my lamp

And I'd find nothing to fap to

Nothing .


Last few times I've wiped the lamp I wasn't even solid ya know?

Maybe it's time to throw in that crusty towel :smile:lol) and call it quits
 
Super good stuff in there, you should watch the whole thing but the 8 minute mark contains the meat of it. I know I've posted it before but I just watched it again myself

 
Day 6 but the hard part is not these times when I dont feel like fapping. Its those times when it feels like my balls are a grenade of sploosh. Or whatever the male equivalent of sploosh is. Which I guess would still be sploosh.... with semen.
 
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21 days in.

random chumps at work showing me that nofap respect. waking up non groggy like its nuffin. can pull stuff outta my memory super quick.:smokin
 
Day 2

I'm gonna say this as often as I need to, nofap does NOT give you X-Men superpowers like some of yall appear to believe

Talmbout memory and ish
 
KingdomFlatbush said:
 
sunshineblotters said:
^Nice flambait. Can you do it again?
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No flamebait, just tryna inform folks to (as Serius Jones put it) keep it realistic

There's a reason that Nofap is ridiculed on Reddit
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Take a habit forming excessive dopamine intake activity and cold turkey cut it out your life with no replacement....

Im no biologist, but to me it's fairly obvious that it would have some neurological effects on your brain when you just stone wall an addictive habit.

The brain is reactionary, and that is a fact.
 
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Jay Patt said:
Take a habit forming excessive dopamine intake activity and cold turkey cut it out your life with no replacement....

Im no biologist, but to me it's fairly obvious that it would have some neurological effects on your brain when you just stone wall an addictive habit.

The brain is reactionary, and that is a fact.
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What do you mean
 
Jay Patt said:
Take a habit forming excessive dopamine intake activity and cold turkey cut it out your life with no replacement....

Im no biologist, but to me it's fairly obvious that it would have some neurological effects on your brain when you just stone wall an addictive habit.

The brain is reactionary, and that is a fact.
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There is literally no arguing this.

But I will agree that I hate that NoFap Reddit. Those guys are cults. They say **** like porn is synonymous with sex trafficking and no person has EVER wanted to do porn. Act like starlets have a gun pointed to their heads when they make this decision. Act like girls liking strokes they see in porn is outside the realm of possibility. And those are the more reasonable beliefs those guys have.

Not uncommon to see things like "Went on a 12 day streak and met the love of my life". Really *****?

This thread /r/nofap
 
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