Dating apps during nofap and not using porn

Silverbeach said:
Hello guys,
how is your experience being on dating apps during nofap or not using porn?
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My experience: not good.
At my worst I would wake up feeling crummy, check dating sites first thing to see if I missed anything. Nope. Then search for new women, reach out to one or two, spend my day endlessly checking my email, more desperate by the evening, and feel such failure that I would turn to internet porn and PMO for hours until 2 or 3 am … and start the process all over again a few hours later.

Clearest sign that I was not well = my laptop was most often found in my bed. (My laptop was my girlfriend!):rolleyes:

I tried online dating a bit when I first started NoFap. Didn’t work. Things didn’t really get better until I gave up on online dating all together.

Quit looking for love on your computer (or your TV), stop masturbating, get out there and join the world … that’s where you’ll find what your looking for. :)
 
I agree. thanks god I didnt install anything last week. Instead I joined a meetup about a topic that i am very passionate about. Thank you for your answer. Much appreciated:) one psychologist said it right. Dating apps can be a precursor to porn. Its sad but true. All the best
 
I deleted the dating apps I was using. Firstly, the amount of effort and attention I was giving the apps wasn’t worth it. I got only one match that wasn’t very communicative after spending many hours with a paid subscription swiping and adjusting my profile. Secondly, I would find women I really liked and would take screenshots of their profile pics for my porn stash. And thirdly, many accounts are either catfishing or links to many Onlyfans and Instagram accounts of softcore and hardcore porn.

I want to start dating again. That is one of the reasons I made this account a couple of days ago to kick the PMO, so I can be more attractive and confident and redirect my libido towards actual women.
 
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During This Attempt in Particular I Cut Off All Social Media, Along with Dating Apps. I Particularly Use to Fap To Instagram Models as well as P. so I Decided to Delete All my Social Apps to reduce the Risk Of Temptation.
 
From my personal experience, dating websites have prostitutes. Some prostitutes produce porn. Huge no-no for me. Also, dating websites are online and I reduce my internet usage to help stop my porn addiction. I've read other accounts of men stumbling onto unsolicited inappropriate photos on dating websites.
 
lowkeysonly said:
Dating apps trigger the same pathways in your brain as porn (endless searching, dopamine hits from new pixels, fantasy, anxiety).
Using them can lead to relapses easily.
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I agree with this, dating apps are not terribly different than porn. Especially on bumble a lot of girls will post pictures of themselves in thongs at the beach or whatever to show off their assets. That can easily trip everything up
 
lowkeysonly said:
Dating apps trigger the same pathways in your brain as porn (endless searching, dopamine hits from new pixels, fantasy, anxiety).
Using them can lead to relapses easily.
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They are probably nearly as a bad as porn in that they desensitize us from the actual process of real time communication. They are probably full of bots.
 
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