NoFap

NoFap is an Internet forum and a resulting movement of people who voluntarily limit or want to avoid the consumption of pornography and masturbation . The name comes from the English slang term "to fap" , which describes male masturbation. Although a predominantly male phenomenon in the beginning, NoFap is now practiced equally by both sexes.

Basic principle

Usually, a period of time is set within which the practitioner (s) refrain from orgasms that are accompanied or caused by pornography consumption or masturbation. Here is NoFap performed to varying degrees:

You can still masturbate in soft mode , but without pornography of any kind
In normal mode , masturbation is also dispensed with (if this serves to achieve orgasm )
in hard mode any orgasm, even during sexual intercourse , is avoided

However, at no level of NoFap is about renouncing partnership-based get-togethers and the exchange of intimacy. As with Karezza , sexual stimulation is still possible and wanted, but should not aim at orgasm.

history

NoFap was founded by Alexander Rohdes in June 2011 after a discussion on the Internet platform Reddit about a Chinese study from 2003. The Chinese study found evidence that male testosterone levels in the blood could rise to 145.7 percent after seven days of abstinence. Alexander Rhodes appears in the documentary "Sticky: A (Self) Love Story," written and directed by Nicholas Tana, in which he discusses his findings and views on masturbation. The number of users on the subreddit tripled in just two years, which led Rhodes to eventually create the NoFap.com website.

On October 22, 2019, Alexander Rhodes filed a lawsuit against Nicole Prause and Institut Liberos LLC . Rhodes accuses Prause of defamation of NoFap and himself. Prause is said to have posted defamatory material against Rhodes under pseudonyms on the platforms Twitter, Wikipedia and Xhamster since 2013. Among other things, NoFap is said to have been described as an " anti-porn profiteer " who afflicts teenagers with " suicidal thoughts ". The lawsuit is being crowdfunded.

Since 2017, the Internet challenge called No Nut November , which aims to remain sexually abstinent in the month of November , has been popular . The phrase is a tautograph and was first mentioned in 2011 in the Urban Dictionary . No Nut refers to the suppression of sperm production in the scrotum ("nuts"). The phenomenon was honored in the network culture with appropriate memes . A joking successor to No Nut November is Destroy Dick December, which is about being sexually active or masturbating as much as possible in December.

Discussion forum

The subreddit "NoFap" is primarily aimed at people who describe themselves as "pornography-dependent". It contains secular discussion sections on abstaining from masturbation over pornographic content, with discussions often dealing with the effects and perceptions of pornography use, as well as personal accounts of experiences. Members exchange advice and sometimes challenge each other. In 2018 the forum had more than 260,000 registered members. A survey from 2014 - which according to the organizers is of limited informative value - found that the vast majority of members are under 28, male and heterosexual . However, the forum is not only aimed at this group.

Views

After a period of abstaining from pornography and masturbation, some NoFap users claim "dramatic increases in social confidence, energy, concentration, mental acuity, motivation, self-esteem, emotional stability, happiness, and sexual skills." of attractiveness for the opposite sex ". According to a technical article published in 2018, the view that doing without such "superpowers" is one of the central principles of NoFap. Some nofap users say their brains have been distorted by porn at the expense of real relationships.

The book author Gary Wilson, who was referred to in the taz as a “scientist of the non-wankers”, argues that “novelty” triggers arousal in the male brain and therefore dopamine is released. Since the Internet provides virtually unlimited new sexual stimuli, the pornography users remain on a kind of "dopamine wave", which leads to a weakening of the reward system and to symptoms such as those mentioned by representatives of NoFap.

Medical consensus is that there is no harm from normal masturbation practices. According to the Merck Diagnostic and Therapeutic Manual, it is considered abnormal only if it " inhibits partnership behavior, is conducted in public, or is compulsive enough to cause anger ".

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ NoFap: Why Young Men Stop Masturbating , Men's Health. Retrieved October 8, 2018.
↑ Hands off until enlightenment , time. Retrieved October 8, 2018.
↑ ^a ^b ^c Life without masturbation: Confident without masturbation - Der Spiegel
↑ No porn, no masturbating, not even flirting: what's behind "NoFap" - Focus
↑ A Complete Beginner's Guide to NoFap - Your Brain on Porn
↑ Jiang M, Xin J, Zou Q, Shen JW: A research on the relationship between ejaculation and serum testosterone level in men . In: J. Zhejiang Univ. Sci. . 4, No. 2, 2003, pp. 236-240. doi : 10.1631 / jzus.2003.0236 . PMID 12659241 . }
↑ http://www.fandango.com/movie-trailer/sticky:aselflovestory-trailer/189754
↑ https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/30620620/RHODES_v_PRAUSE_et_al
↑ https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/relevant-research-and-articles-about-the-studies/critiques-of-questionable-debunking-propaganda-pieces/nicole-prause-david-ley-defame-harass-alex -rhodes-nofap /
↑ https://nofap.com/defend-alex/
↑ Ethan Vassar: Seriously: You failed No Nut November, what now? November 11, 2019, accessed January 2, 2020 (American English).
^ Zachary Zane: Guys Are Going a Month Without Masturbating for the Sake of Health. November 5, 2019, accessed January 2, 2020 (American English).
^ EJ Dickson, EJ Dickson: How a New Meme Exposes the Far-Right Roots of #NoNutNovember. In: Rolling Stone. November 8, 2019, accessed January 2, 2020 (American English).
↑ No Nut November: the insidious internet challenge encouraging men not to masturbate. Retrieved January 2, 2020 .
^ After the "No Nut November" comes the "Destroy Dick December". November 16, 2017, accessed January 2, 2020 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Kris Taylor, Sue Jackson: 'I want that power back': Discourses of masculinity within an online pornography abstinence forum . In: Sexualities . tape 21 , no. 4 . SAGE journals, 2018, pp. 621-639 , doi : 10.1177 / 1363460717740248 (English).
↑ Marco doesn't want to masturbate anymore , now. Retrieved October 8, 2018.
↑ "I couldn't get up because I masturbated too much," Stern. Retrieved October 8, 2018.
↑ How not to do it , world. Retrieved October 8, 2018.
↑ ^a ^b Francesco Giammarco: Hands off! In: taz . April 13, 2015, accessed October 10, 2018 .
↑ Masturbation - why masturbation is so important , lifeline. Retrieved October 8, 2018.
^ Dennis Coon, John O. Mitterer: 11. Gender and Sexuality . In: Introduction to Psychology: Gateways to Mind and Behavior , 14th edition, Cengage Learning, 2014, ISBN 978-1-305-54500-7 , p. 363: “Is there any way that masturbation can cause harm? Seventy years ago, a child might have been told that masturbation would cause insanity, acne, sterility, or other such nonsense. "Self-abuse," as it was then called, has enjoyed a long and unfortunate history of religious and medical disapproval (Caroll, 2013). The modern view is that masturbation is a normal sexual behavior (Hogarth & Ingham, 2009). Enlightened parents are well aware of this fact. Still, many children are punished or made to feel guilty for touching their genitals. This is unfortunate because masturbation itself is harmless. Typically, its only negative effects are feelings of fear, guilt, or anxiety that arise from learning to think of masturbation as "bad" or "wrong." In an age when people are urged to practice " safer sex ," masturbation remains the safest sex of all. "
^ Lisa Z. Sigel: Masturbation: The History of the Great Terror by Jean Stengers; Ann Van Neck; Kathryn Hoffmann . In: Oxford University Press (Ed.): Journal of Social History . 37, No. 4, Oxford, Summer 2004, ISSN 0022-4529 , pp. 1065-1066. doi : 10.1353 / jsh.2004.0065 . "Stengers and Van Neck follow the illness to its fairly abrupt demise; they like the shift to finally seeing the emperor without clothes as doctors began to doubt masturbation as a cause of illness at the turn of the twentieth century. Once doubt set in, scientists began to accumulate statistics about the practice, finding that a large minority and then a large majority of people masturbated. The implications were clear: if most people masturbated and did not experience insanity, debility, and early death, then masturbation could not be held accountable to the etiology that had been assigned it. Masturbation quickly lost its hold over the medical community, and parents followed in making masturbation an ordinary part of first childhood and then human sexuality. "

[1] NoFap: Why Young Men Stop Masturbating , Men's Health. Retrieved October 8, 2018.

[2] Hands off until enlightenment , time. Retrieved October 8, 2018.

[spiegel-3] Life without masturbation: Confident without masturbation - Der Spiegel

[4] No porn, no masturbating, not even flirting: what's behind "NoFap" - Focus

[5] A Complete Beginner's Guide to NoFap - Your Brain on Porn

[6] Jiang M, Xin J, Zou Q, Shen JW: A research on the relationship between ejaculation and serum testosterone level in men . In: J. Zhejiang Univ. Sci. . 4, No. 2, 2003, pp. 236-240. doi : 10.1631 / jzus.2003.0236 . PMID 12659241 . }

[Fandango-7] ttp://www.fandango.com/movie-trailer/sticky:aselflovestory-trailer/189754

[Twitter-8] ttps://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/30620620/RHODES_v_PRAUSE_et_al

[Twitter_Posts-9] ttps://www.yourbrainonporn.com/relevant-research-and-articles-about-the-studies/critiques-of-questionable-debunking-propaganda-pieces/nicole-prause-david-ley-defame-harass-alex -rhodes-nofap /

[Crowd-10] ttps://nofap.com/defend-alex/

[11] Ethan Vassar: Seriously: You failed No Nut November, what now? November 11, 2019, accessed January 2, 2020 (American English).

[12] Zachary Zane: Guys Are Going a Month Without Masturbating for the Sake of Health. November 5, 2019, accessed January 2, 2020 (American English).

[13] EJ Dickson, EJ Dickson: How a New Meme Exposes the Far-Right Roots of #NoNutNovember. In: Rolling Stone. November 8, 2019, accessed January 2, 2020 (American English).

[14] No Nut November: the insidious internet challenge encouraging men not to masturbate. Retrieved January 2, 2020 .

[15] After the "No Nut November" comes the "Destroy Dick December". November 16, 2017, accessed January 2, 2020 .

[sexualities-16] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Kris Taylor, Sue Jackson: 'I want that power back': Discourses of masculinity within an online pornography abstinence forum . In: Sexualities . tape 21 , no. 4 . SAGE journals, 2018, pp. 621-639 , doi : 10.1177 / 1363460717740248 (English).

[17] Marco doesn't want to masturbate anymore , now. Retrieved October 8, 2018.

[18] "I couldn't get up because I masturbated too much," Stern. Retrieved October 8, 2018.

[19] How not to do it , world. Retrieved October 8, 2018.

[taz-20] Francesco Giammarco: Hands off! In: taz . April 13, 2015, accessed October 10, 2018 .

[21] Masturbation - why masturbation is so important , lifeline. Retrieved October 8, 2018.

[22] Dennis Coon, John O. Mitterer: 11. Gender and Sexuality . In: Introduction to Psychology: Gateways to Mind and Behavior , 14th edition, Cengage Learning, 2014, ISBN 978-1-305-54500-7 , p. 363: “Is there any way that masturbation can cause harm? Seventy years ago, a child might have been told that masturbation would cause insanity, acne, sterility, or other such nonsense. "Self-abuse," as it was then called, has enjoyed a long and unfortunate history of religious and medical disapproval (Caroll, 2013). The modern view is that masturbation is a normal sexual behavior (Hogarth & Ingham, 2009). Enlightened parents are well aware of this fact. Still, many children are punished or made to feel guilty for touching their genitals. This is unfortunate because masturbation itself is harmless. Typically, its only negative effects are feelings of fear, guilt, or anxiety that arise from learning to think of masturbation as "bad" or "wrong." In an age when people are urged to practice " safer sex ," masturbation remains the safest sex of all. "

[Sigel2004-23] Lisa Z. Sigel: Masturbation: The History of the Great Terror by Jean Stengers; Ann Van Neck; Kathryn Hoffmann . In: Oxford University Press (Ed.): Journal of Social History . 37, No. 4, Oxford, Summer 2004, ISSN 0022-4529 , pp. 1065-1066. doi : 10.1353 / jsh.2004.0065 . "Stengers and Van Neck follow the illness to its fairly abrupt demise; they like the shift to finally seeing the emperor without clothes as doctors began to doubt masturbation as a cause of illness at the turn of the twentieth century. Once doubt set in, scientists began to accumulate statistics about the practice, finding that a large minority and then a large majority of people masturbated. The implications were clear: if most people masturbated and did not experience insanity, debility, and early death, then masturbation could not be held accountable to the etiology that had been assigned it. Masturbation quickly lost its hold over the medical community, and parents followed in making masturbation an ordinary part of first childhood and then human sexuality. "