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Sexual Health
Porn Addiction Recovery
Recovery involves abstaining from porn, masturbation, and sometimes even sex for a period of time (this is often referred to as a "reboot"). This often lasts a month, sometimes up to around 90 days. This is done to assist recovery from pornography addiction or other forms of compulsive sexual behavior. Discuss the recovery process here. Topics include: Potential benefits, tips, advice, peer support, etc.
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Porn Addiction
This section isn't focused on porn addiction recovery, but on pornography addiction itself. Topics include: Discussion about the causes, effects, and the science of porn addiction.
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Compulsive Sexual Behavior
A forum section for those who aren't here to discuss porn addiction, but rather feel that they have issues with perceived "sex addiction" and/or other compulsive sexual behavior. This includes problems with excessive masturbation practices, cheating, excessively frequenting sex work services, compulsive and otherwise risky sexual encounters, non-illegal voyeuristic / invasive activities, etc.
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Success Stories
Has quitting pornography or excessive masturbation changed your life? Please share your story here to help inspire other people across the Internet. Requirement: 30+ days porn-free.
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General
Off-topic Discussion
If your discussion thread doesn't belong in anywhere else, it belongs here. Low-quality posts are discouraged.
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Self Improvement
Recovering from addiction often goes along with other self-improvements. Here you can discuss about other areas of life (health, fitness, dating advice, social dynamics, spirituality, etc).
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Loneliness
A forum section devoted to dealing with the loneliness involved with not being in a romantic relationship, not having enough friendships, or struggling with lack of family relationships.
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Dating during a Reboot
Discuss how to handle issues like social anxiety, confidence, and dealing with the ups and downs of the dating life while rebooting. For people who are looking for a partner, or are in the first, non-committed, stages of a relationship.
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Abstinence, Retention, and Sexual Transmutation
Beyond Recovery "MO", masturbation and orgasm discussion. While not particularly on-topic for this recovery-oriented forum, retention, coined from "semen retention," is the act of abstaining from orgasms for a period of time, often outside of the goal of recovering from pornography addiction. Those "retaining" are often interested in topics such as "sexual transmutation", motivation/energy level changes, or other effects of going for periods of time abstaining from or greatly reducing the occurrence of orgasm. Some "rebooters" end up enjoying the impact of inadvertent "retention" from a reboot and want to continue even after they feel like they've gotten a handle on porn addiction. General masturbation discussion can go here too. NoFap doesn't advocate for such concepts, but please keep any conversation about such things relegated to this forum section.
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Communities
New to NoFap
Welcome to NoFap®! New Fapstronauts, please introduce yourselves here. Old Fapstronauts, feel free to welcome new users to our community.
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Rebooting in a Relationship
Has porn impacted your relationship or marriage? Talk about it here, seek support, and get advice. For partners of porn addicts and Fapstronauts undergoing reboot.
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NoFap Technical Feedback
Discussion about NoFap® itself - the forum, the website, the apps, etc. Need technical support from fellow users? This is a peer-to-peer support forum for using the website. Also team announcements regarding new features are posted here.
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Categories Discussion about recovery from different types of porn categories.
Camming / Live Models
Discussion about recovery from the problematic use of live cam websites.
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Erotica
Discussion for reducing or eliminating problematic erotica (written text) use.
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Reboot Logs
Under 20
Children are being exposed to pornography at younger and younger ages, these days often below the age of 10! Many of us are experiencing significant detrimental effects before reaching our 20s. This is for journals for rebooters in their teenage years.
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Ages 20-24
For reboot logs between the ages of 20 and 24. This is a common age group of rebooters, so we split the 20s into two sections.
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Ages 25-29
This is the age group of many of the original users of the NoFap® platform. We're among the first generation of those who went through early puberty with the existence of high-speed Internet porn, and many of us are experiencing significant side effects.
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Ages 30-39
You are among the first generation of those who went through their teenage years with the existence of high-speed Internet porn. This is for journaling between the ages of 30-39.
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Ages 40-49
You have some life experience under your belt, and you have plenty of time to make significant changes to turn things around.
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Ages 50-59
Journal section for those aged 50-59.
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Ages 60+
Journal section for those aged 60 or older.
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Women in Recovery
Journal section for women who are actively in the recovery (often referred to as "rebooting") process.
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LGBTQIA+
Although welcome everywhere in our community, this is a journal section specifically for LGBTQIA+ folks to talk about recovery, log their progress, or just chat. If you consider yourself LGBTQIA+ you are welcome to post in this forum. Or not and post in your age cohort forum - it's up to you!
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Uncategorized Recovery Journals
This is a section for uncategorized journals. If you don't wish to reveal your age or gender, post your thread here.
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Reset and Relapse Reports
Report your rebooting resets and relapses here. Evaluate your progress and the best path to proceed forward. This is a stumble, not a fall, and an opportunity for growth. Also, this is a place for user-to-user support for relapses and resets - please go to other threads and share your support and advice!
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Dopamine not only happens during the reward, but before the reward; it's an anticipation molecule. As PMO would anticipate the "release," we need to understand that the urge performs the exact same thing, without requiring a relapse in itself. Therefore, we need to train the brain to feel the "release" from PMO using the urge's anticipation, reinforcing the reward by having it die down, by not physically relapsing.
