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A porn addiction and compulsive sexual behavior recovery peer support forum. Masturbation in moderation is generally healthy, but excessive porn use can have serious adverse effects. We also host challenges in which participants ("Fapstronauts") avoid porn & sometimes masturbation for a period of time, generally 7-30 days. Whether your goal is casual participation as a test of self-control or if porn use has become a serious problem in your life, you will find a supportive community here.

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Introduction NoFap® is a moderated community-centered website that hosts challenges in which users ("Fapstronauts") abstain from pornography and masturbation for a period of time (often referred to as "rebooting"). This is NoFap's subreddit hosted right here on Reddit.com! Whether your goal is casual participation in a monthly rebooting challenge as a test of self-control, or whether excessive pornography use has become a problem in your life and you want to quit for a longer period of time, you will find a supportive community and plenty of resources here.

This forum is intended for porn addiction and compulsive sexual behavior recovery and is not an anti-masturbation forum: many users return to non-compulsive masturbation after removing porn from their sexual habits. We do not advocate against masturbation. However, excessive masturbation (usually fueled by porn use) can be an issue for many people, and we're here to provide a peer support resource for recovery from problematic pornography use. But remember, how you choose to utilize your genitals during your free time is a personal choice!

New Fapstronauts

  • Learn about what's going on in your brain. This is important so that you know what to expect during a reboot. Our Porn Addiction 101 page is a great place to get started. NoFap also has a Getting Started guide. This includes information about porn addiction, sexual dysfunctions caused by porn such as "PIED", disinterest in real-world sex, and the inability to experience a partnered orgasm. Our friends over at YBOP have a great introductory video on the subject that we highly recommend watching. If you need something that's shorter, check out this basic video by ASAPScience. For further resources to learn more about porn addiction, see our wiki page for other websites, videos, and resources to help you on your rebooting journey.

  • Learn about the process of abstaining from PMO, also known as "rebooting." If you don't know what to expect from abstaining from porn and masturbation, there are a number of things that might throw you off. Learn about rebooting and how NoFap can help you on NoFap's Rebooting 101 page. It is imperative to learn about concepts such as the "flatline", the "surge", the "chaser effect", and more. Please get educated and don't enter this daunting process completely blind to what might happen.

  • We recommend visiting with an appropriately qualified therapist in your area who is familiar with porn addiction and problematic porn use.

  • Get a feel for the community before participating. Afterward, a good first step is to share your story with us. Post a new thread.

  • This forum is for anyone - men and women and other gender identities - the only requirements are being a human and wanting to develop healthier sexual habits. If you are a woman who wants a private community, check out the women's forums.

  • Get an accountability partner, someone who will hold you accountable during your reboot. Post a thread here or on the forums.

  • Choose your own reboot. NoFap's Standard Reboot: No edging, no porn, no masturbating. "Hard Mode": No edging, no porn, no masturbating, no orgasming whatsoever. Lite Mode: No porn. For more information on the programs, check out NoFap's Rebooting 101 page.

  • Sign up for a reboot challenge by replying to a the official sign up thread. These are usually "stickied" as the first post or linked on the sidebar. It is up to yourself to remain accountable, although we're working on developing a more motivating solution.

  • If you come across a word or acronym that you don't understand, we have a glossary of terms commonly used in the rebooting community.

  • Obtain a counter next to your name with Tracker.

  • Read our full disclaimer and rules before posting or participating in one of our rebooting challenges.

  • If you are feeling suicidal or want to self-harm, contact a prevention hotline immediately. Furthermore, we always recommending seeking mental healthcare if you are addicted to pornography.

  • Have an idea to improve NoFap's subreddit? Give us feedback here.

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Hi, i just started my recovery

, I want to quit masterbation, i have been addicted to it for the last 9 years doing 3-5 every day and now i started suffering from its side effects, I want some of you friends to support me and i will support you back

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2024/04/11
01:46 UTC

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Relapsed yesterday, woke up with morning wood today

Wanted to start the day fresh but the morning wood is making it hard... the pun was unintended

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2024/04/11
01:42 UTC

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Day 1: Going to need support

Posting something like this is not something I normally do. I tend to keep things to myself and work my problems out on my own. This is a whole different beast though. I’m 22 and have been watching porn since I was 13 or 14 (scary to think that it’s accessible at such a young age). It hasn’t become a problem until 2-3 years ago, and now I find myself constantly thinking about it. It almost feels like my brain has gained a dependence on it.

I’ve tried to quit several times, but lack the motivation to keep going. I keep convincing myself that it’s normal to do and it’s not bad, but deep down I know I’m abusing it. I’ve tried therapy, but it really didn’t help.

I feel like I have ruined my view on sex through this abuse and it makes me very sad. I’ve had many women in my life who I genuinely think I could have a relationship with, but I find myself always ending it between them because I only look at them as “another person to have sex with.”

I don’t want to be stuck in the cycle of being okay with self pleasure. I want to have feelings again, make genuine connections and be motivated for a relationship besides it being fully sex driven. This is very hard for me to reach out like this, I hope you guys can help get me through this.

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2024/04/11
01:40 UTC

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To NoFap admins

This place is filled with pervs that want to make me relapse We need a solution to this, Cant we just report the accounts each time on a new post here ?

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2024/04/11
01:33 UTC

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Looking Hot Clothed Girls,Sex Scenes And Moaning Sound Everywhere = Relapse?

I Am From India.

  1. I Am Looking Hot Clothed Girls Like Revealing Clothes(Showing Breast And Hip) And Bikini When I Used to Play Movies,Music Videos(Songs),Video Games,Youtube Videos And Thumbnail,TV Ads,TV Shows,Dramas Everywhere. (Even in Normal Love Songs And Motivational Songs Also)
  2. I Hearing And Looking(Sometimes Accidentally) Moaning Sounds And Pic (Without Sex Scene)When I Used To Play Radio,TV,Laptop,Mobile For Watching Movies,Music Videos(Songs),Video Games,Youtube Videos And Thumbnail,Some TV Ads,Some TV Shows,Some Dramas(
  3. I Looking Kissing And Sex Scenes And Pics(Sometimes Accidentally) in Movies,Music Videos(Songs),Video Games,Youtube Videos And Thumbnail,Some TV Ads,Some TV Shows,Some Dramas
  4. And When I Go Outside Some Shop And Street Posters I Looking Hot Clothed Girls Like Revealing Clothes(Showing Breast And Hip) And Bikini Everywhere. This is Become Normalize in India.

it is Considered as Relapse in Above I Mentioned?

(Sorry For My Bad English)

I Am Struggling To Cross Day 1 And I Stuck in Relapse Loop

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2024/04/11
01:30 UTC

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My day one and it’s hard

Help me to survive

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2024/04/11
01:19 UTC

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I’ve been Addicted for more than 12 years

I’ve been addicted with porn and masturbation for more than 12 years and now I decided to quit. But I don’t know how or what to do. I decided to quit starting from today. I appreciate it if anyone is wiling to help me start this journey.

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2024/04/11
01:15 UTC

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challenge me?

I’m naturally competitive and looking for another guy to have a NoFap competition

Hit me up

2 Comments
2024/04/11
01:15 UTC

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30 day challenge

So I wanna do the 30 no nut challenge the thing is I’m a porn addict and I love all porn. What day is gonna be the hardest and what day is gonna be the easiest? Any tips or anything g pls help starting tomorrow

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2024/04/11
01:10 UTC

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What should i do guys?!

I just relapsed last night and I cannot forgive myself. So here is the story. I was about to go to bed but my computer was not off. So I was strongly urged to watch a p*rn anime comic I watched last time. And I DID. Then it all went downhill. and my 4-day streak is gone. I always cannot get past day 4. Guys what should I do?! I am tired of relapsing. I feel so bad this morning and i know my brain is fogged up. please help me guys

2 Comments
2024/04/11
01:08 UTC

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I started reading the book no more mr nice guy I need help with an activity

Free Break: Activity #1

Write up to three possible trusted people or groups that can be

able to provide support for you in your recovery from

Nice Guy Syndrome.

I started reading the book no more mr nice guy I need a help group to do what is in the book

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2024/04/11
01:03 UTC

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Irritated

i’m on day 5 or 4 not too sure trying not to keep count, but i’ve noticed i been more irritated lately, everything pisses me off and i’m quick to get mad. has anyone else experienced this as well ?

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2024/04/11
01:02 UTC

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Day 12

Day 12, haven't experienced morning wood yet. How long did it take you all before you started getting morning wood?

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2024/04/11
01:00 UTC

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Masturbated while sleeping

Does it count as a replase? i was completely unconscious had zero control over it, it was not a wet dream because i know the difference between wet dream and masturbation, but i think what happened to me is a type of noctural emission because i had zero control over it

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2024/04/11
01:00 UTC

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Addicted To Getting Hard Not Porn or Masturbation

Ik this gonna sound weird asf but it is what it is.

I used to be addicted to prone masturbation, doing it daily (sometimes multiple times a day), for the past 5 years or so. I recently stopped, after realizing how disgusting porn is and don't feel any urge to do so. I also dont feel the urge to masturbate (or prone masturbate). BTW ik this also gonna sound weird but I am 20 yrs old and have never masturbated normally. When I first started, it was prone, and continued with only prone masturbation for the last 5 years.

Now although Im done with porn, and have been for over a month now, Ive made it a habit to every now and then look at women on tiktok and get hard to them. I dont touch myself while doing this, or feel any urge to do prone masturbation, but simply like the feeling of being hard (i am always fully clothed while doing this). After being hard for a bit, I continue with my day normally. NOW KEEP IN MIND, the women im looking at are fully clothed, and are not sexualizing themselves at all. Its just hot women on tiktok, that look good with normal clothes.

The problem is not only me liking the feeling of being hard, but also the fact that I sexualize them in my head. And again even though i am doing this, and sexualizing them in my head (which I do realize is wrong as Im viewing women as an object to be used sexually in my head), I have no desire to prone masturbate or go back to watching porn.

Someone help me cuz wtf am i doing lmaoooo

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2024/04/11
00:55 UTC

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Just PMO'd twice after being completely clean for two weeks

I'm not back to square one, but man it still hurts to see that black mark on what should've been a perfect run for this month.

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2024/04/11
00:50 UTC

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I finally stopped

I did it. I deleted all my porn and as the nerd that i am i even deleted it via the command prompt, so i wouldnt even have to look at it for a final time. Scrubbed every social media or media platform from sensual or suggestive content and from now on i am going to be fully focussing on getting my engineering degree. just needed to get that out. Heres to a fresh start and staying committed to my goals.

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2024/04/11
00:47 UTC

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My story

So I have been thinking and I wanted to give out some thoughts. So I have been addicted to fapping for 20 years now, started out with just nude scenes from films and SI Swim magazines, then later softcore, then hardcore and then hentai and so forth just deeper and deeper. Then in 2020 I got discovered the gooning community on here and Disc and I posted my first nude pics online and I got great responses from both women and men, and I discovered I loved the compliments and the attention, I posted more and more, got into camming and so much more filthy stuff but over the past four years I discovered how toxic it was. It took all my time because those people demanded my time all the time, I was a prisoner in my own fantasy world that I was destroying the real world I lived in. My fantasies became more important than reality, I didn't care anymore and every part of my life suffered, it was like being a heavy drug addict. It was hard to break away from because I enjoyed the company and didn't want be lonely. I have finally been able to make real progress to break away because I found people on here in the same boat as me, we have normal conversations and help each with our struggles. I no longer have to present my body to feel accepted. They're have been plenty of people that have been traps and just want to drag me back but I block them because I can't go back. It was acceptance I craved but I looked for it in the worse places.

I don't know if anyone has had the same experience as me but I figured I would share my story. I'm on Day 10 and have had great help along the way. Stick together guys, we don't have to be slaves to this anymore.

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2024/04/11
00:47 UTC

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Need to talk about semen retention

Is there any benefits associated with it? I want to chat so bad

0 Comments
2024/04/11
00:34 UTC

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Help

I’m trying to stop masturbation, please help me

1 Comment
2024/04/11
00:28 UTC

1

Feeling horny anyone calm me down

Pls

4 Comments
2024/04/11
00:18 UTC

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Day 2!

Rising from the dead

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2024/04/11
00:14 UTC

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Here we go....

On Day 10 today however I am starting a nearly two week vacation now. My old disc account is almost deleted but still a few more days. Just gonna try to get through this while I don't have work as distraction

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2024/04/11
00:07 UTC

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Day 1 (My story)

By the time I'm writing this i decided to quit once and for all. I started porn and masturbation at the age of 9 years old because of early access to the uncensored and vague algorithm of the internet. I thought masturbating and watching 20 porn videos a day was cool and "teen behavior" it completely ruined me and my childhood. Locking myself in a room watching countless of videos and films thinking i was practically getting more educated at the topic which i wasn't. I was sucked and pulled into the pornographic addiction literally getting to a point where it physically hurt me to jerk off by that i mean severe stomach ache, and migraine. I'm currently 16 years old soon to be 17 next month and boy i can tell you that these years are my lowlights; Made no friends through all the 7 fucking high-schools i went to. No fucking pictures, Insecure as fuck, unable to speak or maintain a conversation with a Woman, Sexually portraying ANYTHING i even got to a point where i watching Gay/Trans, Incest, Gore and ect... I never was interested in homosexual relations or any of that but it drew me in. I tried to quit once but got ridiculed by "friends" so i relapsed and again and more. i have tried to quit since 2021 and still struggling i watched millions of podcasts and videos, read a ton of articles, paid for a course but nothing worked so i kinda resulted into Killing myself so all this pain could just go away resulted that i got caught and put in Mental Watch i still think ab suicide every single minute of my life and still don’t know how to stop.

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2024/04/11
00:03 UTC

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Day 2

Have been busy outside today. Didn’t have to think about it.

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2024/04/10
23:59 UTC

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My testicale hurts

Guys so usually i dont masturbate much but yesterday i did 2 times in a short period now it has been day and a half that my left testicale hurts not like i have pain its kinda getting heavy or somethin should i be worried please any advice?

1 Comment
2024/04/10
23:58 UTC

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Help?

I’m about to relapse. Somebody pull me back

2 Comments
2024/04/10
23:53 UTC

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day 12 I feel GREAT 🔥

What does it mean Edging?

1 Comment
2024/04/10
23:46 UTC

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Joining up with yall

This has been an embarrassing shit part of me for too long and today I’m starting to change.

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2024/04/10
23:44 UTC

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Symptoms of withdrawal ?

Wondering what symptoms have been experienced by people ? Im in the middle of a flatline that i just learned about last night and ive had mild headache for a few days about as long as ive been flatlined and i was wondering if they might be connected or other things to watch out for .

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2024/04/10
23:43 UTC

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