Im in. I have been trying to quit for some time now. It definitely has a negative effect on my marriage. It makes me feel physically weak and I feel like a POS after I do it.

IM IN. Its been 3 days.

eh, never mind

8 days

had a nice weekend getting some fresh air, swimming, jumping off cliffs, eating meat, talking to girls. didn't waste 1 second focusing on fapping. don't miss it at all. boners have been irregular and infrequent.

is this the end goal?

That's supposed to be the flatlline part of the process. 6.5 days here, life is miserable right now, though not do to that

1st day btw.
let's make no-fap team.

Been since Tuesday for me. Come at me brah. Longest I've gone in a while for sure. I do notice myself thinking about sex and what I'd do to certain girls I see more than normal but nothing out of the norm. Wish I had a girl to come home to and f*** just so I could be on that Peter norh time onec nah imsayin?

The same could be said of you. There is this thing called the placebo effect you know, and it's not so clear cut what is going on here.

It's not so obvious to me, why?

Why?

do some reading in the original post before you display your ignorance. your not a question asker searching for the truth, just annoying.

I did

so it's no porn or no fap?
fap on imagination > fap on porn?

Would you count this as porn?

if you decided beating off was bad for you based on data presented from one source, neither were you.

cborders is legitimately offended you decided to stop wanking. seems weird, bro.

i don't even have words to describe my disappointment. i've been writing his screen name in pud

I seriously can't draw the line at where people are trolling, and where they suck at critical thinking.

I'm not surprised since you suck at or aren't critically thinking if you can't draw the line and distinguish trolls.

ha, was gonna say that's not critical thinking, but than realised I made the exact same mistake you made in my last post :s

FWIW, I've looked into this in the past, and couldn't find any non-ancedotal/speculative evidence. If there is any research that backs up what you guys are saying, it's gotta be relatively new. I have no idea why you guys would stop fapping altogether, and even stop watching porn, from what I gathered from that site, it seems like the potential negative effects can be worked around by fapping masturbating not as frequetly, and using soft-core instead perhaps. Perhaps when I start having erection issues I'll look deeper into this, but until than,

You guys really let the masturbatory shame of society get to you

well, let's just say I've experienced some difficulties. And when A scientist tells me that there is porn induced ED, that your brains neuro-plasticity can be affected by heavy porn watching then I'm going to stand up and take notice. And when he tells me that stopping porn viewing and masturbation is the solution, I'm going to try it.

Isn't it interesting that no other generation has ever had this problem?

I believe in the explanation that our genetics are meant for a different society. The reason why obese people are fat is because eating a high amount of carb/fat foods was seen as a way to store fat and live longer, but is now harmful. Tough when you have very cheap food offered on every street corner. We all know that fat women are viewed as beautiful in certain societies because being fat was a sign of health and wealth, and better chance of carrying your genes to the next generation.

It's in the lecture but you can see more vaginas in 10 minutes of web surfing than multiple generations of men before you. I can't quite connect why this is harmful, but I'm trying it out and seeing how I feel. Right now I'm preferring dopamine induced by real life girls as opposed to girls on the screen.

I've been convinced from the start, and 9 days in I've seen no reason to believe otherwise. I had the best sleep in a very long time yesterday.

Nowt wrong with a fap. Would've thought fapping would give you more control over your mind and actions. Surely with constant unresolved sexual hunger (assuming you're not in a fresh relationship) your mind is generally far more 1-track/unfocused and you'd be more prone to horrible relationships and desperate 1 night stands.

the best sleep i've had in the past month has been immediately post-fap.