Hey Guys, I'm new to this forum and like everyone else I'm masturbating a bit too often. It's really wasting my time to binge watch porn so I decided to stop it, but I don't want to go full abstinent. In my opinion, I'm confident enough. I want to keep on fapping but not so frequently. My question might sound a little bit stupid, but what is actually worse, watching or fapping to porn? I've read once that watching porn sends out a lot of Dopamine too, so if I stop watching porn and start fapping to imagination will it actually matter or is really fapping the bad thing? I know that sounds stupid, but I really would like to know. Thank you in advance.
Ejaculation is perfectly healthy, however over stimulation is the problem. Watching porn is probably worse as it messes up your dopamine receptors and makes you become addicted. Masturbating is still a bad thing because you lose all that sexual energy and that affects your motivation and other things.
@Moritz_ , This is from the NoFap homepage: "NoFap® is a comprehensive sexual health platform. We’re here to help you quit porn, improve your relationships, and reach your sexual health goals. Science-based, secular, and sex-positive." So, the point of NoFap is to achieve a healthy sex life. What porn does is change the way the brain thinks. Instead of sex being a real life mystery that one day turns into a healthy sex life in marriage or a relationship, online porn presents sex as a "perfect" image. If the vid being watched isn't working, just click to the next vid. So, the problem is normal social interactions cease because the brain doesn't need them to get sex. All that is needed is a high speed internet connection and a private space to pmo. So, my answer to your question which is worse "porn" or "fapping to it" is yes. Yes, both are the problem. The brain thinks all real life sex will be as good as fapping to porn. Then, in real life, when the moment arrives for sex the brain is bored and unimpressed. It just doesn't measure up to online porn and the result is PIED and DE. PIED and DE are explained in the "Getting Started with NoFap" guide. You can download it for free on the NoFap homepage. Keep posting, let us know how you are doing, L
Fapping to imagination is better than watching porn, I don't think it's healthy but it's better than watching porno.
I am pretty sure that fapping to imagination is okay. The visual stimulation is bad. But if you imagining staff then at least you can close your eyes and start imagining when you have real sex . Just watch your grip, you might find out your left hand is better than any woman .
The problem is if you've been watching porn for years, you've obviously been masturbating as well every time. The two get lumped together when your brain wires new connections, and more often than not most are addicted to masturbation and porn. Porn is obviously far worse than anything else though. That's why it's suggested to stop PMO entirely for a set amount, and then gradually add sex and if you want occasional masturbation back in. It's more for the sake of giving your brain a rest and letting the dopamine receptors return to normal.
They're both bad b/c they're both part of the addictive cycle but watching porn gets a slight edge since it is, in a sense, the "substance." And you get dope hits just from watching it, regardless if you maturbate or not.
Both are bad for ones self development and motivation in life. But the combination of porn and fapping makes it even more destructive.
