I think it goes back to ancient China, I used to read about that Chinese men had sex with their wifes but didn't ejaculated - for the purpose of longevity and vital powers. Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taoist_sexual_practices#Male_control_of_ejaculation
I wish I could cease masturbating, but if I don't masturbate for over three days, I relapse into my natural state, which basically is that I must struggle against impulses to jump over the nearest human being on the street and bite off and eat their face.
And I think I would probably start licking the floor, attack the audience or the judge or smack my head against the wall while thrusting a finger into my rectum if I lost a fighting sport match. If I lose something against another human being, my first instinct is to destroy myself as a punishment because I lost, and to destroy the winner as a revenge for that he/she won.
Punching bags don't work. The only thing that works instead of masturbation is several hours of Stag Knight 2, and it anyway only delays my mental collapse into a slobbering monster.
Discipline is the tool to achieving nofap but I don't think it's the ultimate goal. The goal is to be liberated from your addiction and to become the person you want to be. There must be other benefits as well I think you are under selling them.
I am well-functioning, at least in relation to the goals I have, and most people would currently think of me as a sort of role-model. My problems are not AS-related, but mood-related. Also, I do not have an identity or an image of myself I aspire to be internally. I only aspire to externally look like an agreeable person. Internally, I am just a huge, formless ego. Porn for me did not mean that I dehumanised women, because I had never humanised them - or men - for that matter. De-facto, I do not view myself as a human being primarily, but just as a primordial, formless self. Therefore, I do not even view myself as a person.
Try this then - watch porn but don't fap. I know it's not PMO but it is MO . It's easier at first. Just stare at porn but don't touch your penis. Let it be. After some time you'll get bored of watching porn, but you must remember to don't play with yourself. That maybe will help you with frustration that occures at first days.
I appreciate the intention behind the OP, but this seems like really obvious advice. If you do those three things, your discipline will skyrocket? Of course it will ... but only because those three things require you to already have discipline. "Work hard and don't skip a workout no matter what" ... great ... now how does someone who already struggles with discipline go about doing that? It's basically like saying, "you can beat addiction--just try harder." I think it's wrong to claim that the benefits of NoFap are strictly benefits of discipline. From a purely biological perspective, it's been made abundantly clear that NoFap carries significant benefits in brain chemistry and neurological function. Those benefits are hard to deny when you have literally hundreds of guys on this site attesting to their reality.
Best of luck with that strategy. If you can look at porn repeatedly and not masturbate, then you're a stronger man than I'll ever me.
that's how I started.. and now I'm 22 days in so.. it worked for me I'm not interested in porn now tho
You are new to is as seen on your profile. Don't discourage other people from nofap simply because it didn't work for you, pce
A key? like the keys to success? (Am I right?) You're avatar has a bunch of keys. That's what it made me think of