I'd imagine this is how you turn yourself into a psycho killer.

It's a little odd calling them a "mate" in this context. There's nothing wrong with masterbation. If you think porn is had and don't wanna watch it, that's fine, but genuinely there is absolutely nothing wrong with masterbation. I think a lot of people take folks' negative feelings about porn and twist them into negative feelings about self pleasure and try to get people to believe that living some "pure" life where you don't touch yourself is inherently better than the alternative or something. It's really not.

Sex is a big part of life. There's no reason you can't do it alone. There's no reason why you shouldn't do it alone. Go enjoy yourself. Have some me time. It's not something to feel guilty about.

Your balls will explode!

I have a friend who was in that situation. After a while he just started jerking it again. Not watching so much porn and not jerking it every day is probably good for you, but going no fap is just gonna give you wet dreams to clean up and won’t actually solve any problems.

The whole “rarely find a mate” thing is first of all a really weird phrasing and secondly is a solvable problem. That manosphere crap is a learned helplessness grift. Lower your standards a bit, get some hobbies, go socialize. As long as you respect people, you’ll find plenty of people willing to give you a chance.

I know it's not what you asked, OP, but NoFap is a purity cult. Cross reference the mods from r/nofap and you'll find heavy correlation with religious sub's.

Despite claims for helping porn/sex addicts, their intent is to get their foot in the door.

If you want to live a life of NoFap for reasons you decide for yourself, fine, but don't do it to gain any of the benefits those twats claim.

Worst case scenario is you get prostate cancer.

I did it for a little over a month once just to see what it was like. There weren't really any effects beyond just being horny all the time. It was basically like being a teenager in high school again. Other than that nothing changed. I didn't experience any of the benefits you see people talking about. I probably had more trouble focusing on work but that's hard to tell because that's always been a problem.

I'm in it, last relationship was 17 years or so ago

I mean it ain't all bad. So long as you don't mind the actual loneliness, the physical touch gets easy to forget.

But I dunno if I'd recommend this to anyone tbh

Oh edit because I didn't address your question. No it doesn't go away, but it gets easier to ignore over time. Also I'm on 1500mg oh lithium so that may impact things.

Using the term "NoFap" in the title is a bit like putting "AI" in there - it pretty much guarantees zero productive conversation in the comments and instead acts as a bug light for certain people to just chime in with their personal views on that one thing.

I don't even bother writing a response to the actual question because I don't want to spend the rest of the day defending views I don't even hold.

You ll just be alot more horny and you will have more sexual daydreams. The rest normalizes, but keep in mind sex is healthy for the body in general.

I can only guess anger, depression and extreme irritability. Especially in such a sexually charged culture.

One of the side effects is compulsive posting on 4chan /pol

I’m a woman to start.

There’s two modes I’ve found myself in when not masturbating - I’m either purposefully staying aroused and denying an orgasm to heighten sexual tension and pleasure OR I’m not masturbating because life is busy for whatever reason and my libido diminishes over time.

So it depends. And I think everyone is a little different as well, so you might want to play with not masturbating to reduce sexual frustration to see if it works for you.

you can never make art again

Benefits: You can take all the meds with sexual side effects (e.g. most anti-depressants) which is actually a significant reason people ultimately stop taking them, and folks with testicles retain all their spermidine which low n RCTs have shown early evidence for autophagy-based longevity.

I am guessing the "nofap" idea comes from religion. Amazing how a god is so obsessed with sex. Makes one wonder if it is just men trying to control a natural drive in order to control others.

I'll first state that I am NOT the normal outcome but I think it might be interesting for others to see my situation.

I am transfem (male-to-female) and am on Estrogen injections and Progesterone pills. I'm not on any testosterone blockers as my natural testosterone production is literally 1/10th the average male testosterone levels (56 without HRT, 18 on HRT. Minimum acceptable level is ≥250). I am also on antidepressants, and 2 anti anxiety medications. All of these combine to me having essentially no labido at all.
I would call myself asexual but if I find a partner I might want to do it sometimes, but idk since I've never had a partner because I really don't have any natural drive to get one like others do 😅
I only had 1 crush throughout my entire teenage years, but on HRT I am falling for people a LOT more now lol

On estrogen you don't get 'morning wood' like mens bodies do, which is a natural thing your body does to prevent the damage/shrinking to tissue in the penis. So instead you have to manually get an erection at least once a week, but this is difficult for me as I have no drive to. I have casually gone 2.5 weeks without doing it just because I really didn't want to, and have experienced the repercussions of it.

I would say there's some really slight tension for the first week but then absolutely nothing 🤷‍♀️

I feel like this meme portrays my attraction type more than anything sexual

Maybe when you turn 50.