Masturbation increases social competence...

These are all excuses which our mind make to fap and get that dopamine release. Stay away from pmo for 90 days and then social capability may increase.

 

Suit yourself. If masturbation helps you, knock yourself out.

Most people will find the opposite, though. This site is called NoFap for a reason.

 

The problem is porn and not masturbation. Porn makes you view women as sex objects. Masturbation on it's own is not bad if you don't let it take over you. The problem with masturbation for me is that eventually leads me back to porn. If masturbation helps you, go for it. Just don't watch any porn. Most people here are anti masturbation even though NoFap is an anti porn movement and not an anti masturbation movement. If you watch videos like Your Brain on Porn you'll find that it talks about the downsides of porn or masturbation TO porn but not masturbation by itself.

 

Then they chose the wrong name for it. To 'fap' means to masturbate. Therefore, NoFap means NoMasturbate. If they were focused on porn, they should have called it not using porn.

From your comments, @Vilcox, I get the idea that you're not actually here to get better. It sounds like you're just interested in making people uncomfortable. Welcome to my ignore list.

 

You may have aspergers syndrome, or something like it.... or a mild case of sociopathy. How old are you? Have you been brought up on the internet?

Reading your posts, Data comes to mind.

 

Yes they have chosen the wrong name for it. This forum is a platform for porn addicts. Masturbation is only seen as a problem when it is used along with pornography. NoFap is still a weird name. Yeah but that's what this page is. It's an anti pornography page. You can of course say that masturbation is bad but that's not the main goal of this site. It's to get people away from pornography.

'We’re here to help you quit porn, improve your relationships, and reach your sexual health goals.
Science-based, secular, and sex-positive.'

This is what the NoFap website says. Says nothing about quitting masturbation.

Again, I don't think giving up masturbation is a bad things. It's just not what this site is about. And if Vilcox feels better when masturbating regularly, why should we tell him not to?

 

it sounds like you need and want to masturbate. that is 100% o.k., maybe there are some other challenges you would like to work on, besides only masturbating every seven days. like diet or other habits that you might want to focus on? you don't need to reply, just trying to get you thinking. I chose to quit masturbating though I have failed way to much lately. I just keep trying.

 

Apparently, there are a lot of health benefits associated with holding in your semen...

 

Well yes, he is probably trolling- but that doesn't mean he is of sound mind, he still could use help with his addiction

 

sounds like Patrick Bateman

 

Never it did, but the opposite 'YES'

 

Well duh. It's 3-7 days. In my opinion during the first 1-2 weeks of NoFap you will actually be in a WORSE place than when you were fapping, simply because of all the cravings, urges etc being multiplied, if you have uncontrolled sexual urges then they'll be brought to the forefront during this time.

That's why you need to really do longer streaks. 3-7 day streaks will not help you in any way. You need to be doing at least 1-2 months before you'll notice any of the real long term benefits. You'll also notice that after about a month or two, urges drop down significantly and that's when your attitude to sex etc starts to change.

That said, porn is certainly the bigger issue than masturbation. However, the fact that you're finding things taking a darker turn and you genuinely feel you're at risk of assaulting someone after 3-7 days of no masturbating clearly makes it obvious that you have an addiction to masturbation and not just porn, and so you will certainly be one of the people who benefits from taking a very long extended break from masturbation and NOT just porn.

 

That is no different than a heroin addict claiming that before heroin they were depressed. You had an issue that caused you to pursue a means of escape. That's what masturbation was. It allowed you to escape, and focus on something else for a while. That doesn't make it a good idea, it just means that there are underlying issues that you need to deal with. You are simply masking those underlying issues, which will achieve nothing, and will in fact cause the problem to worsen.