NoFap
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Type of site
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Private |
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| Slogan(s) | Get a new grip on life. |
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| Registration | Optional (required to post) |
| Launched | June 20, 2011 (subreddit) |
| Current status | Active |
NoFap (: an internet slang term for male masturbation) is a website and community forum that serves as a support group for those who wish to avoid pornography, masturbation, and/or sexual intercourse.
NoFap was founded in June 2011 by Alexander Rhodes after a thread on Reddit about a 2003 Chinese study that found that men who don't masturbate for seven days experience a 45.7% increase in testosterone levels hit the front page of a popular forum on Reddit.
After this, Rhodes created NoFap as a "subreddit" forum community on Reddit. At first, NoFap ran weekly and monthly challenges for a small group of people on the forum, and then the NoFap administrators created a day counter system. Now forum members set their own challenges based upon their own personal goals.
Users on NoFap's subreddit more than tripled in number in two years, leading Rhodes to build an off-Reddit forum at NoFap.com and began other plans to better serve the website's fast-growing factions in Brazil, Germany, and China. NoFap.com is a forum-style website where individuals who have committed to abstain from pornography and masturbation for a period of time can talk about their experiences and engage in challenges to help them recover. NoFap.com is the sister website of the Reddit-hosted NoFap community.
As of January 2017 the NoFap subreddit had over 200,000 subscribers, and was the 247th most subscribed subreddit.
The membership of NoFap ranges from atheists, like founder Rhodes, to fundamentalist Christians. Women are also a part of NoFap. The users of the website call themselves "Fapstronauts." Some correspondents have nicknamed NoFap's community members as NoFappers. Some self-described porn addicts seek out NoFap for help, while others join the website for the challenge or to improve their interpersonal relationships.
After abstaining from porn and masturbation for a period of time, some of NoFap's users claim, among others, "dramatic increases in social confidence, energy, concentration, mental acuity, motivation, self-esteem, emotional stability, happiness, sexual prowess, and attractiveness to the opposite sex". Some NoFap users say their brains were warped by porn, at the expense of real relationships.
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