Thread: 365 days w/o Jerking Off: A self control challenge

^so are you guys just going for no masturbation or no sex or anything? hard to control when it comes to sex dreams

Originally Posted by BossMan

What constitutes excess.

by my old standard, more than once a day every day. by my current standard, every day - more than 4 times a week. 4 times a week even seems like a lot now i try to only do it once a week at most but that doesn't always happen haha. that day after i get a little kick start and want to more. fucks me up if i have a sex dream too lol. i made a good post about this a month or two ago on another forum, maybe i'll copy+paste it here later

The goal isn't to abstain from everything sexual, just PMO (Porn -> Masturbation -> Orgasm). Real life sexual situations are fine.

Originally Posted by BossMan

What constitutes excess.

Anything that you can't go without indulging in for vast amounts of time.

Originally Posted by RareCola

While I agree with this, I think abstaining for a while is necessary if you want the benefits. After years of jacking off it takes months of nothing to rebuild dopamine receptors. After that, everything in moderation, yes.

Personally I'm doing NoFap2013 just as a personal experiment. When I did it before I had my best dreams, lucidity and plenty of other non-dream related benefits in my life.

And as this thread is coming back alive, incase anyone hasn't seen it, here's the TED talk about this: The Great Porn Experiment: Gary Wilson at TEDxGlasgow - YouTube

Excellent video contribution. Thoroughly enjoyed watching it.

Originally Posted by RareCola

While I agree with this, I think abstaining for a while is necessary if you want the benefits. After years of jacking off it takes months of nothing to rebuild dopamine receptors. After that, everything in moderation, yes.

Personally I'm doing NoFap2013 just as a personal experiment. When I did it before I had my best dreams, lucidity and plenty of other non-dream related benefits in my life.

And as this thread is coming back alive, incase anyone hasn't seen it, here's the TED talk about this: The Great Porn Experiment: Gary Wilson at TEDxGlasgow - YouTube

Excellent video, I'm in for stopping for a while!
One month, and I'll see how I feel.

yea that video is interesting. it's funny i mentioned in my last post how i made a post to another forum about all of this and one of the things in that post was this article which talks about the coolidge effect. Orgasm | Psychology Today

here's some other interesting related articles
What If She Were Always in the Mood? | Psychology Today

Another Way to Make Love | Psychology Today

i also mentioned that study he talks about where they couldn't find anyone who didn't watch porn haha.

also, this is kind of irrelevant to the topic but in the video he also mentioned something about asking a fish what they thought about water which is from this. really good talk btw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5THXa_H_N8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSAzbSQqals



lastly, another thing i mentioned which was also in the video was my dislike of people seeking drugs like benzos, ritalin, adderal etc to combat all of their corresponding ailments and how really they should just start eating healthy, stop using drugs, stop masturbating as often, start exercising. doing all of those things will help more than the band aids that are drugs. shit i almost feel like i could've done that presentation haha

i was thinking about posting that TED talk on my facebook but idk if i want to share this valuable information hahaha. i also don't really feel like dealing with the comments it would elicit and the subsequent explanations considering fb is not anonymous... it is kind of information that should be known though i think and it would be a nice gesture to share it. shit lol.

Originally Posted by RareCola

The goal isn't to abstain from everything sexual, just PMO (Porn -> Masturbation -> Orgasm). Real life sexual situations are fine.

yea i kind of knew this just couldn't recall.

I'd share it if I were you
You're doing people a favour by informing them, they can decide what they want to do.
I'm glad I watched it!

Originally Posted by Solarflare

You only have 1 life...

... why waste it NOT masturbating?

I lol'd

If that's what you think man...
I was just asking a question, there's no need to try to be superior. xD
Anyone would think you were a sad little boy.

Orgasms are great for nerves. I can feel myself getting edgier when it's been too many days. I don't highly recommend what you folks are doing, but it's a challenge like climbing a mountain, so good luck with it. I will never ever try it. I would be much more likely to climb Mount Everest.

By the way, make sure you don't look up Bridgette Monet on Google Images.

For me the formatting and time zones are all over the place but I was only kidding Yuppie. Sorry if you were offended, it was only meant as a joke I guess I took it too far. Again, I apologize.

I began a similar challenge 2 days ago. I am eliminating all porn from my life, and I am also ceasing to masturbate for the time being.

Originally Posted by enak101

Like it matters to you yuppie.

Dayyyyyummmmmmm

Double post?....

The forums is making all of my posts double T.T

So, the goal is to abstain from masturbation only, correct?
Normal sexual activity is still permitted?

Originally Posted by yuppie11975

So, the goal is to abstain from masturbation only, correct?
Normal sexual activity is still permitted?

Like it matters to you yuppie.

Couldn't wake up this morning, but I had to I'm afraid I am guilty of quitting. New: January 5th - March 7th

I'm going to start a quest. It is a little past this new year, but that is a random date anyway. I'll start a fiscal year today.

I want to fap every day this year. If you want to help, you can post dirty pictures, send me dirty pics of yourselves ladies (with face or not), and post sexual stories, or whatever you can think of.

^did you just edit that? i was i just thinking of one of the emails i got. tbh though if you're serious it's not really appropriate for this thread haha. the OP however long ago even asked for nothing to be posted that would make him want to jerk it lol

lol spyguy i wasn't officially going for anything but i was trying to go for a bit after new years, i failed last night lol. tbh though i feel like it's a little easier if you don't set a date or anything. it kind of puts it in your mind sometimes cuz you'll think "o what day am i on" or something like that.


also, i have a bunch of email notifications from this thread and there are only 2 new posts.. i can understand why most were deleted but 2 weren't involved with the argument.

yuppie, if you want your question answered you can read a couple posts above it because i asked the same thing... when you post in a thread you might not have read, it might benefit you to at least read the page your post is on lol

Originally Posted by enak101

For me the formatting and time zones are all over the place but I was only kidding Yuppie. Sorry if you were offended, it was only meant as a joke I guess I took it too far. Again, I apologize.

It's all good man, xD.
I was just in a terrible mood when I read your reply to be honest. I probably should have read into the sarcasm.
I love you long time <3

Week 1 was a success! I am certainly not attempting to go for 365 or even 90 days but I just want to make it a smaller part of my life. 7 days down, plenty more to go.

EDIT:

Other effects include: Tired less, and it is mentally easier to exercise for some reason. Also, my voice is deeper than it was before, I first noticed when I couldn't sing the normal high notes that I can I am pretty sure, it's not the placebo effect doing that. Also I have been having good recall, but I can't draw conclusions yet.

Originally Posted by SpaceCowboyDave

Week 1 was a success! I am certainly not attempting to go for 365 or even 90 days but I just want to make it a smaller part of my life. 7 days down, plenty more to go.

I'll see if I can take up the slack; I'll redouble my efforts. This should be fun.

Yea do it at least twice as much as you do now. And watch a lot of porn too.

My first week also went by smoothly

Here's something interesting I found, Testosterone makes you horny when I started Female HRT my sex drive plunged through the floor before slowly making a come back (Kinda like the opposite of what happens when your 15 and male)

The other interesting quirk I've noticed is that the longer you go without orgasming the more intense it is when you finally do. I didn't masturbate for over 3 months after starting hormones because I just didn't feel like it. When I finally did it was so intense it nearly shook my hip bones loose and I fell asleep after. Doing it more frequently however reduces it's impact.