you can fap, just stop watching porn
There is absolutely no scientific evidence to support nofap.
But there is loads of science behind noporn.
I let my woman fap me while I watch porn.
Looking at porn is the most neurologically harmful non-drug habit you can possibly have. You can do anything you want as long as you give up masturbating to porn.
Neuroscience Speaks: How Using Porn Destroys Your Brain
Neuroscience now knows that willpower is a function of the prefrontal lobes of the brain. Scientific studies have also confirmed that using porn over and over actually reshapes these areas of the brain, literally eroding our willpower and our moral compass.
Neuroscientists call it hypofrontality. Hypofrontality is a state in which there is decreased blood flow to the prefrontal lobes of the brain. Hypofrontality is observed in schizophrenia patients and is also observed in all manner of addictions.
"Compulsiveness is a good descriptor of hypofrontality. Many porn users feel focused on getting to porn and masturbating even when a big part of them is saying, 'Don't do this.' Even when negative consequences seem imminent, impulse control is too weak to battle the cravings."
The porn-addicted brain has trouble thinking logically. When impulses and desires come from the midbrain, instead of being moderated, the brain feels these desires as compelling needs. The prefrontal region is supposed to be able to weigh consequences and situations and judiciously shut down cravings, but hypofrontality means the addict's ability to do this is impaired.
The more one masturbates to porn, the more dopamine is released in the brain. Eventually dopamine receptors and signals in the brain fatigue, leaving the viewer wanting more but unable to reach a level of satisfaction. The viewer becomes numb to things once considered pleasurable. "To escape this desensitization, people, and men especially, expand their pornographic tastes to more novel stimuli," Black writes. This leads, again, to more fatigue.
To bring the prefrontal lobes back into working order, a two-pronged attack is needed: (1) the old neural pathways must be starved, and (2) new neural pathways must be built and fed, increasing dopamine levels in a way that build up the prefrontal cortex.
http://www.covenanteyes.com/2014/02/28/hypofrontality/
Viewing porn shrinks the brain: Researchers find first possible link between viewing pornography and physical harm
Study showed striatum was smaller the more porn someone had viewed
The striatum is a brain region linked with motivation and reward response
For the study, Dr Kuhn and her colleague Jurgen Gallinat from Charite University, also in Berlin, recruited 64 healthy men between the ages of 21 and 45 years and asked them questions about their porn-watching habits.
They also took images of the men's brains to measure volume and to see how their brains reacted to pornographic pictures, says the study published in JAMA Psychiatry journal (must credit).
They found noticeable differences in the men who abstained compared with those who regularly accessed sexual videos or images.
Dr Kuhn said 'We found that the volume of the so-called striatum, a brain region that has been associated with reward processing and motivated behaviour was smaller the more pornography consumption the participants reported.
'Moreover we found that another brain region, that is also part of the striatum that is active when people see sexual stimuli, shows less activation the more pornography participants consumed.'
However other researchers claimed that pornography in moderation was probably not damaging.
'Dr Gregory Tau of the Columbia University, said: 'Everything is going to be bad in excess and it's probably not terrible in moderation.'
Dr Tau, who was not involved with the study, said more research was needed, in particular longer studies to determine whether porn leads to brain changes.
'Or, it's possible it's the excessive use (of porn) that's perpetuating itself to causing brain changes. Or, it could be both.'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2642712/Does-watching-porn-make-LAZY-X-rated-content-shrink-region-brain-linked-motivation-study-claims.html
Watching Porn Linked To Less Gray Matter In The Brain
To answer that question, German researchers recruited 64 men between the ages of 21 and 45 who watched an average of four hours of pornography per week. The researchers did MRI scans of men's brains while showing them a mixture of sexually explicit images and non-sexual imagery. Their research was published May 28 in the journal JAMA Psychiatry.
"Our findings indicated that gray matter volume of the right caudate of the striatum is smaller with higher pornography use," the researchers wrote in the journal article, referring to an area of the brain associated with reward processing and motivation. Men who watched more porn also showed less activity in another area of the striatum, called the left putamen, which usually lights up in response to sexual images.
Heavy porn consumers also had a weaker connection between the striatum and the prefrontal cortex, an area of the brain associated with decision-making.
"Dysfunction of this circuitry has been related to inappropriate behavioral choices, such as drug seeking, regardless of the potential negative outcome," the researchers wrote in the article.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/02/porn-less-gray-matter-brain_n_5418607.html
Pea brain: watching porn online will wear out your brain and make it shrivel
http://www.dw.com/en/pea-brain-watching-porn-online-will-wear-out-your-brain-and-make-it-shrivel/a-17681654
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>>24668269
aww shit nigga, it's the NPIF (No Porn Internet Force) again!
How porn is rewiring our brains
Along with a great number of porn users, they had rewired the arousal pathways in their brains. "Pornography," writes Doidge, "satisfies every one of the prerequisites for neuroplastic change," - that is, the brain's ability to form new neural circuitry. The most important condition is the release of dopamine, the neurotransmitter that gives us a feeling of exciting pleasure, which porn triggers. The more often you watch porn and get the dopamine hit it delivers, the more the activity and the sensation become entwined in your brain.
Doidge puts it like this: "since neurons that fire together wire together, these men got massive amounts of practice wiring these images into the pleasure centres of the brain." And, "because plasticity is competitive, the brain maps for new, exciting images increased at the expense of what had previously attracted them."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/10441027/How-porn-is-rewiring-our-brains.html
The brains of men who watch lots of pornography tend to be smaller in certain key areas and have fewer connections than those of other men, a new study has found.
The differences appeared in a brain region called the striatum, which is associated with reward and motivation.
"Since the striatum is part of the brain network that is known to respond to sexual cues, one can assume that this reflects a blunting of the reaction to erotic stimuli," study co-author Simone Kuhn, a psychologist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Germany, wrote in an email to Live Science.
But although the findings are suggestive, it's not clear that watching porn actually causes men's brains to shrink. Perhaps men who watch a lot of porn are different in some underlying way from those who don't, and that could explain the smaller size, experts said.
Sexual disorder?
With the rise of the Internet, people can now anonymously access pornography at all hours of the day with just the click of a mouse. [Hot Stuff! 10 Unusual Sexual Fixations]
"This has fostered the pervasiveness of pornography use and raises the question of whether it has any effects on brain structure and function," Kuhn said.
But even behavior that doesn't rise to the level of an addiction or disorder can still be problematic, said William Struthers, a neuroscientist at Wheaton College in Illinois, who was not involved in the new study.
Brain scans
To assess the effect of pervasive porn watching on the brain, Kuhn and her colleague, Jurgen Gallinat, a researcher at the Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy in Germany, placed 64 healthy men in a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner, and measured the men's responses to sexual and neutral images. On average, outside of the lab, the men watched about four hours of pornography a week, with some of the respondents watching nearly 20 hours a week and others watching none at all.
The avid porn watchers showed lower activation of reward circuitry in the brain (as suggested by lower blood flow to certain brain regions) in response to the sexual images.
When their brains were at rest, they also had smaller grey matter volume in areas of the brain, such as the striatum, associated with reward processing and motivation, compared with men who watched less porn.
Past research, detailed in 2012 in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, suggested watching porn can quiet a brain region that processes visual stimuli called the primary visual cortex.
http://www.livescience.com/46006-can-porn-shrink-brain.html
The symptoms of pornography addiction withdrawal are similar to withdrawal addiction symptoms from substances like alcohol, cocaine and heroin.
Many porn users in Utah and across the United States can find comfort knowing that other people are experiencing similar symptoms as they go through the withdrawal process. In general, some porn users have few symptoms, but others report severe symptoms.
The symptoms of pornography addiction withdrawal are similar to withdrawal addiction symptoms from substances like alcohol, cocaine and heroin.
Utah residents experience pornography addictions, just like individuals in other states. Porn addiction is different from drug addiction, but the withdrawal symptoms are similar because all addictions share certain neurochemical and cellular changes, which influence specific regions of the brain. The brain releases more dopamine for a new mate than a familiar one. It's logical that porn triggers a neurochemical roller coaster in many brains because it's like the individual is experiencing new partners.
Pornography addiction often causes highs to feel great and lows to feel really dark. This up and down is a withdrawal symptom many addicts experience. Furthermore, this symptom is not just physical; it's emotional, too. Changing emotions can take over your thoughts and change your perception of the world. However, there is hope. Many men who suffer from these deep lows report seeing large improvements after being without porn for a while.
Pornography addiction withdrawal symptoms include anxiety, restlessness, irritability, insomnia, fatigue, headaches, poor concentration, depression, social isolation and loss of libido. These symptoms can take days to occur, but might last for months to years.
Pornography addiction causes a chemical imbalance in the brain, which is much more than a moral weakness. The brain and body can heal, but it's just like any addiction. Similar to other dependencies, a small dose here and there_-_even if infrequent_-_often renews the cycle.
Porn users in Utah and across the nation can be startled by the severity of their withdrawal symptoms when they stop using porn. These symptoms serve a purpose and help individuals understand the physical addictiveness of this type of dependency. It may take months to fully recover, but it's important not to compare progress with anyone else.
If you or anyone you know is suffering with or recovering from a pornography addiction, consider working with one of Utah's trained specialists that can help you or a loved one receive the proper care.
https://medium.com/@Fusion_360/3-things-you-should-know-about-pornography-addiction-withdrawal-1be95da89eff#.5wpti01km
Internet pornography by the numbers; a significant threat to children's development
Teenagers with frequent exposure to sexual content on TV have a substantially greater likelihood of teenage pregnancy; and the likelihood of teen pregnancy was twice as high when the quantity of sexual content exposure within the viewing episodes was highviii.
Pornography viewing by teens disorients them during the developmental phase when they have to learn how to handle their sexuality and when they are most vulnerable to uncertainty about their sexual beliefs and moral valuesix
A significant relationship also exists among teens between frequent pornography use and feelings of loneliness, including major depressionx
Adolescents exposed to high levels of pornography have lower levels of sexual self-esteem
http://www.webroot.com/us/en/home/resources/tips/digital-family-life/internet-pornography-by-the-numbers
The growing epidemic of children addicted to Internet porn
Kids as young as 8 years old have become addicted to pornography.
Pornography has been the bane of many American communities for decades. With the advent of the Internet the problem has become exacerbated. Most parents are aware of the dangers of pedophiles, but other dangers lurk online that are just as potentially damaging to children-especially children between the ages of 8 to 12 years old.
Internet pornography has destroyed careers, broken up marriages and led to financial ruin _ and those are just the downsides for adults who became addicted. Now a growing trend has emerged of addicted children-kids as young as 8 years old-who have become exposed and addicted to pornography.
This article will present a very brief synopsis of the efforts of some of the people leading the charge to counteract this trend towards self-abasement, destruction and ruined lives. From learned psychologists and family counselors to esteemed neurologists and the clergy, the lines have been drawn and the battle is beginning for the hearts an minds of America's children-not to mention their souls.
Addictions are an insidious thing and often involve an insidious process. Neurological studies of children who have become addicted to Internet porn (including brain scans) has revealed that the physiological changes in the brain of a porn addict almost exactly match those who are addicted to alcohol and drugs.
Addictions change the physiology of the brain. An addiction especially has a deep impact on those brains between the ages of 8 to 12 that are still developing. This is the latest demographic group now becoming exposed and immersed to "sexting" (sexual flirting via text messages), user group "orgies" and triple X-rated pornography sites on the Web.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-growing-epidemic-of-ch-by-Terrence-Aym-101023-680.html
Porn: A Favorite Past-time of Normies Pushed By Feminists
More than 50 percent of men now look at pornography regularly, thanks to easy access and constant bombardment of images on the Internet. Men cannot go online without seeing air-brushed provocative women inviting them to click. Twenty-five percent of Internet searches are related to pornography, and one-third of all who look at porn on the Internet are women.
Looking at pornography frequently is an addiction. Yet society looks the other way at pornography, dismissing it as harmless "men's entertainment." The pornography industry renamed itself the "adult entertainment industry" to create the perception that it's just entertainment. The reality is that porn is extremely addictive, and along with the addiction comes life-destroying side effects. It has become a chilling epidemic that is ruining the minds, families and jobs of possibly half the men in the country.
Although porn eroticizes male supremacy and degrades women, it is ironically women who are responsible for instituting this laissez-faire attitude toward porn. Feminists in the 1960s ushered in a sexual revolution of anything goes, free love, free sex. Sexologist Alfred Kinsey also played a major role normalizing porn. He performed research on subjects that included a high percentage of pedophiles, inmates, sex offenders, pimps and prostitutes. He claimed his results proved that men need deviant sexual behavior and that it is normal. His findings were widely adopted in schools and universities and by psychologists, even though it became well-known later that he was a deviant himself who welcomed the sexualization of children. Culture theorist and author Jackson Katz explains what is wrong with normalizing pornography: "It normalizes the men's pleasure-taking as it sexualizes the woman's degradation."
http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/porn-addiction-at-crisis-level
Internet Pornography Addiction is it a social epidemic or something more
Pornography is the most popular type of content available online. Every single second, 372 internet users type pornographic search terms into various search engines.
With the internet being so prevalent and widely available all over the world, it has made viewing pornography much easier than in the past.
About 12% of the internet is pornographic websites and about 42% of internet users view porn. The largest sections of people that view these pornographic sites are men in the ages 35 to 49.
Perhaps nothing in the mental health world has been more hotly contested than the extent of pornography's addictiveness. Addiction is a term often bandied about rather carelessly, as we often label too much of anything an addiction.
Medically, a substance is addictive if and only if an addict experiences both physical and psychological withdrawal symptoms when the substance is no longer available.
Another component of addiction is the desire for more and more of the substance to achieve the same "high." While many users of pornography have experienced symptoms that would classify pornography as an addiction, there's still no substantiated proof that porn addiction actual exists.
http://www.examiner.com/article/internet-pornography-addiction-is-it-a-social-epidemic-or-something-more
>>24668332
Jap detected.
What's the matter, afraid that the aryan master race is going to stop feed you money for your degenerate trite?
Go ahead, gajin
Take day off
Keep fapping to cartoons, white man
>No Porn
>Fapping feels betters
>Imagination can sustain erection
>Sight of bare skin can get blood flowing
>tfw 13 years old again
>>24669470
>tfw 13 years old again
IKTFB. I'm feeling all sorts of things I haven't felt since middle school. Feels fucking NATURAL. It's like having an instant advantage over everyone
I came so hard this morning. IDK why i did that.
>>24668805
I like this picture because it looks like early 2000s FMV.
I completely stopped looking at pornographic material after seeing this (not something I'll be missing, I think). I don't know whether there has been any changes due to cessation of watching said material, but things that have changed that I'm aware of is this:
- I've been picking up math
- Reading more than I used to
- Finding more pleasure in everyday activities in general (I think)
- More appreciative and fascinated by nature and it's inhabitants
- Increased empathy for everyone and our common struggle (or lack thereof) that is existence
- More appreciative of other viewpoints
(all of this could of course be placebo, or an error of judgement on my part. As far as internal processes are concerned, it's very hard to discern myself now compared to myself one month ago)
I tried lsd shortly before I stopped watching porn, so I guess that could also have played some part. After all, behavioral- and internal changes are frequently reported after having had a psychedelic experience.
If any of you have quit watching anything pornographic I would be interested to know what kind of changes, if any, you have experienced.
>>24669708
kinda looks ps1
>>24669724
you write like a faggot and your shit's all retarded
>>24668115
Can a mod ban this guy? He's been spamming this shit thread with so much samefagging repeatedly. Can the robot stop threadspamming?
>>24670907
This isn't Reddit senpai
>>24668115
i can't cum without porn...
>>24671079
then why cum at all?
>31 posts
>9 IP's
No one should be able to samefag this hard
>>24671233
idk. i'm always horny.
>>24671302
you're not horny, you're addicted
>>24671270
This thread also has the same posts/IPs. >>24668314 I don't see why you think threads can't be discussions.
>>24671314
i'm horny. i get a boner when i see my female coworkers.
and when i don't have time i just don't fap. so i think i'm not addicted.
>that's what a junkie says
but i can't do nofap for a long time to get rid of death grip and porn influence shit.
>>24671378
If you had sex drive, you'd be able to fuck a woman and actually perform to orgasm. You're not capable of doing that because you can't even fap without porn. You're addicted to porn, not masturbatory/sexual activity.
Yeah no. Fapping is bad, as well as porn. At least for me. It is up to everyone of us to evaluate whether fapping or porn is good or bad for you.
That is all the argument you need for yourself.
>>24671872
Getting rid of porn would get rid of fapping in the long run, most nofap people relapse and go back to porn.
there was something in there in one of ops posts about stopping to fantasize. Thats taking it a bit for imo.
>>24672316
It depends on far you wanna heal, but the only thing required is removing porn from your life.
