Taking a 'Whack' at Porn

TAKING A WHACK AT PORN Profiling the Voyage of 73,000+ Fapstronauts Today's young adults are voracious consumers of online porn – an endless stream of videos can give you anything you want, whenever you want it. But what happens when this habit becomes a problem – can porn addiction ever be broken? PØRN: THE NET GENERATION'S PERFECT ADDICTION The male sex drive is novelty-seeking – new mates are more arousing than familiar mates; THE COOLIDGE this has been empirically demonstrated in rats and other animals. EFFECT: With new mates, male rats climax in a much shorter period than with the same mate. O Different mate each time Same mate each time Continual arousal Declining arousal # OF FEMALE PRESENTATIONS SEVERAL FEATURES OF HIGH-SPEED NET PORN MAKE IT ALIGN PERFECTLY WITH NOVELTY-SEEKING SEXUAL BEHAVIOR: IN YOUR HOME There's no need to travel elsewhere to obtain it. ENDLESS FREE With millions of porn Porn users don't have sites, the novelty is endless. WebMD gives to spend any money to find as much porn a number of as they like. 420 million pages. XXX THE SECOND-LARGEST serves up 100 PORN SITE, YOUPORN million views a day - one view for every three americans This one site is responsible That's the equivalent for 2% of the internet's entire of transferring 475 XXX traffic, transferring 950tb per consumer hard drives second. every second. HOW BIG IS STOP THE SCALE OF PORN ADDICTION: 42% 19% 12% feel they are "controlled" of male college students regularly visit explicit of male college students spend 5 hours or more per by their sexual desires. websites. week on explicit material online. THE FAPSTRØNAUTS: A COMMUNITY STRUGGLES TO BREAK THEIR HABIT Amid millions of porn users, a community on Reddit.com, known as NoFap, is fighting back against their problem and lending support to others who share their struggle. NØFAP reddit.com/r/nofap THE GLOSSARY OF NOFAP FAPPING The act of masturbation. FAPSTRONAUT/FEMSTRONAUT: Male and female NoFap users. "Porn, masturbation, orgasm," the cycle of porn use that constitutes the PMO core of addiction. DEATH GRIP (MALE) / DEATH SCHLICK (FEMALE) Overly intense stimulation during masturbation in conjunction with porn use, which can compromise sexual response. Abstaining from porn for long enough for your brain to return to normal - can take 60-120 days. REBOOT RAPID GROWTH: More than 73,000.uers 4,000 In the past month, more than users NoFap had over 140 per day. new suscribers at the time of this writing. WHY NOFAP? Reasons for abstaining from porn and masturbation include: ANTY DEPR SION OTHER FFECTS A belief that their habit is A belief that it's A belief that it's impacting A desire to resist what they the quality of sex in their relationships causing anxiety and negatively affecting their feel has become an depression and other ability to find a partner uncontrollable urge and a psychological effects wish to re-exert self-control in their lives THE NOFAP COMMUNITY SURVEY In 2012, more than 1,500 NoFap users filled out a community survey. 58% Questions ranged from sexual orientation to hours of porn watched are ages 20-29 per week. Teenagers are seeking out NoFap to overcome the effects of growing up in an era of fast, novel porn. 31% 11% are 30 and are ages 13-19 above Ở 75% Such users tend to seek out NoFap to become more outgoing with women. Ở are single Nearly half Most started watching porn before age 14. ю, ttttt 90% have never had sex. 16% 53% started started before during ages age 12 NO NO 12-14 of fapstronauts are straight men. Weekly porn use before attempting NoFap: 4 - 15 59% HOURS Their habit takes a great deal of 1 1-3 HOURS time out of their 24% daily activities. Tastes change over time: note that their tastes in 64% pornography have become more extreme and/or deviant. Only 27% are ashamed about their 36% of respondents had no more extreme/deviant tastes. symptoms resulting from their porn use. DETØX: HOW PORN USERS SUCCEED IN OVERCOMING ADDICTION OVERALL, 60% REPORTED IMPROVEMENT IN THEIR SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION AS A RESULT OF NOFAP DYSFUNCTIONS REPORTED PRIOR TO NOFAP: 29% 23% 22% 19% 11% DECREASED ERECTILE DIFFICULTY DISINTEREST IN PREMATURE SENSITIVITY DYSFUNCTION REACHING ORGASM SEX/PARTNER EJACULATION USERS WHO STARTED MASTURBATING AT OR BEFORE AGE 10 WERE 3X AS LIKELY TO FAP 4+ TIMES PER DAY AT TIME OF SURVEY. 34% 36% 35% 30% FAP FREQUENCY Less than once per day Once per day 2-3 times per day 4 + times per day 19% 11% 32% 3% STARTED MASTURBATING STARTED AT 10 OR YOUNGER AT 11 OR OLDER Fapstronauts who consider themselves addicts, versus those who don't, show distinctly different patterns of behavior and symptoms. ADDICTED?: ADDICT NOT ADDICT 72% 40% XXX *** XXX Watch more than 4 hours of porn a week. хXX XXX 42% 20% Fap 2 or more times a day. 40% 22% Felt ashamed about increasingly deviant/extreme tastes in porn. HOW THE BODY AND BRAIN HEAL AS A RESULT OF ABSTAINING FROM REBOOTING: PORN AND MASTURBATION Fapstronauts often experience psychological changes due to such abstinence. THE SURGE: FLATLINING: A burst of energy and sex drive that's experienced about 1-2 weeks after beginning to abstain from masturbation, A temporary period of drastically reduced libido occurring 2 - 6 weeks into abstinence from masturbation. RESET 35% reported experlencing this surge. 30% of NoFap users reported a significant decline in their libido. 31% said they did not experience the surge at all. Recovery from the porn addiction cycle requires a renormalization of the sex drive. The remainder were unsure. BENEFITS GO BEYOND IMPROVEMENT OF SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS; FAPSTRONAUTS OFTEN REPORT BENEFITS OUTSIDE THE REALM OF THEIR SEX LIVES. XXX STRENGTH 56% of self-reported 60% of respondents gained a better knowledge of their strengths and weaknesses. 67% had an increase in energy levels and productivity. addicts were more willing to talk to women. 60% reported improvement in their sexual dysfunction as a result of NoFap. CONCLUSIØN Internet porn is ubiquitous, and addiction to it is a growing problem as easy access clashes with evolutionary features of sexual behavior. The NoFap community survey shows how overuse of porn can cause users to suffer from sexual dysfunction, relationship dysfunction, depression, and other negative symptoms. The effects of porn often become ingrained in the psyche of its users starting in their teen years or even earlier. Recovery is possible. A majority of those who abstain from porn as part of NoFap experience improvement in their symptoms in a matter of weeks. Addiction to porn is not lifelong – it can be conquered. 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