Has anyone ever written nofap fiction?

That definitely sounds like an interesting concept, although in practice I’m not entirely sure how something like that would look.

I suppose you could tell it as kind of a “based on a true story” type of scenario where it basically goes through the person’s life and circumstances and how it was affected by their porn addiction as well as how their life circumstances may have also been contributing to it.

It would be challenging to accurately portray something like that though, and get the right kind of feel to it. And where do you draw the line as to how accurately you portray it? Do you include the graphic details? And if not, how do you get the right emotions across to the reader without giving the explicit details?

I guess what I’m trying to say is...it’s complicated.

 

I'm kind of doing this

 

That was a pretty clever way to get across a point on such a tough subject.

 

The movie Don Jon was made with that message in mind.

The difficulty in that, however, is that because of the nature of the man's addiction, the movie itself is rather explicit. In fact, I've literally only seen a few scenes of it, because I used to get off on them. They were basically porn or psubs to me.

It's hard to write a story like that, getting deep into the raw emotion and struggle, without becoming explicit material itself. I'm struggling with that just in having a charcater who has been sexually abused as a teenager. It's difficult to balance wanting to show the raw reality of how this has damaged him, without going too far into becoming pornographic.

And now, in the next installment of his story, I'm delving into the difficulties he has with sexual intimacy in his first real relationship, with this history of abuse. It's extremely difficult to tackle subjects like ED and sexual PTSD without getting too graphic. It's quite a balancing act.

 

That's the struggle.

I struggle with this a lot in sexual scenes. I write mostly romance, and of course my goal is always to make the reader feel everything strongly, like they are in the skin of the characters. But when it comes to sexual stuff, I don't want to be writing erotica, when I know how damaging that can be. It's tough, because I feel like with my skills in eliciting deep emotion in readers, I could probably write a really incredible sex scene. But instead I have to pull back, which seems like poor writing, and it fights against all my instincts as a writer to do that. It's a struggle, but I will always prioritize what I know is right over what I might want to achieve with my writing. And I know I don't feel right about writing anything at all similar to the kind of vile crap I used to read to get off on.