I've tried. And succeeded.

*chuckles* ill have to try it next year or when they set it next time.

The fap challenge? I know there are times I've gone for about 3 to 4 days without fapping just cause things get crazy at times with me, but I've never heard of an actual challenge. Course at the same time, I'm not surprised.

There's a whole reddit subforum dedicated to it!

http://www.reddit.com/r/NoFap if you're curious.

90 days?! Wow, and here I thought 2 weeks to a month was a long time...

Once the end of 90 days arrives that'll bring a new meaning to that Christmas Story line "You'll shoot yer eye out, kid!"

Reddit subforum? Where I come from, we call those subreddits.

Where I come from, we don't comb through a week old journal just to point out something so random and insignificant.

Reddit subforum literally means the same thing as subreddit.

Hahahahah. . . no.

i c wat u did thur eue

I have gone weeks without it before. I don't know how it's so hard. People like to say we're better than animals and still cry about being unable to resist primal urges =P

much more difficult for guys usually.

People always perpetuate the stereotype that men are more sexual than women. NOT TRUE.
If anything, this site should be proof of that, since many big name artists who do porn are women xD

I hold no belief that women are any less sexual than men.

And yes I'm well aware of the many awesome female porn artists, haha.

yeah I can vouch for this .

Also i'de probably fail the No Fap Febuary challenge on the second day.

With guys, it can actually be a very pressing kind of physical need, like the need to pee or something, and sometimes even painful (for me, anyway). Your balls hurt, and stuff :P

It can be like that for women, too. I think it depends on the person. I know several men who don't masturbate and several women who cannot go a day without it. It depends on the person, not just the gender.

Yeah, well, I'm sure in general there have got to be different ways men and women usually react to prolonged serial denial...Is there any female equivalent to blue balls, I wonder?

Syntharia (below me) has a good reply to that. But I've had times (because when I was younger I got much like a guy and was masturbating every day or multiple times a day. Hormones I suppose?) where I went a few days without it and I began to actually ache and feel a kind of weak, sharp pain from it (often times it was more in the clit, but sometimes it was inside)

Hysteria was even an 'illness' that affected most women, which was exactly that, they even had to go to the doctors for a 'massage'

Some women get really bad tightness and cramps if they don't. It just depends on the person

Ive done it. Was blueballed for 4 months :\

I managed to do it this February. Juuuust barely. D:

*Shrugs* Sure, once or twice. I don't really get it, but whatever floats yer boat.

explain this challenge

http://www.reddit.com/r/NoFap

No. Fapping.


Explained! \o/

I've never even fapped, not that hard to beat.

what does this challenge consist of?

My libido is dead, so that's pretty easy. Who would have thought extended birth control use (several years on the pill) would so thoroughly kill off my sex drive. Whoops. Thankfully i know it comes back once i go off it for a month or two. :P

It's rough on us guys! But has some worthwhile benefits supposedly. Even if it's just saving money on tissues :P

I think it's cool girl's are responding too though. I find it really interesting that the pill can have that effect over prolonged use!

It's funny because if you go to the doctor they'll be like OH NO NO IT CAN'T POSSIBLY BE A SIDE EFFECT OF THE PILL even though it's on the list of side effects if you really pore through the freaking HUGE piece of paper you get with every little packet xD It's like. Fully-detailed american map-sized piece of paper. Covered in side effects, ingredients, STOP IF THIS HAPPENS, etc etc stuff. IT'S CRAZY MAN SRSLY. Just covering their butts though, i guess. :P

On a side note, gecko sez hi

I'm not too fond of doctors and their opinions on many things. Pharmaceuticals is big business and I doubt many would support a negative concept like that.
And yeah, haha... the side affects are pretty lengthy. Kinda scary and I'm glad I don't have to worry about it.

Hello gecko! :D

luckily the side effects aren't that bad and don't happen much... I have something different than the pill, more consistent so you don't have the daily mood swing when you take the pill. smaller doses help, but the libido loss is probably the main thing. I mean, it's telling your body HEY YOU'RE TOTALLY PREGNANT so that you don't get pregnant for real, so the libido loss is understandable.

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/9038127/ This is how she says hi :D By walking all over anything i'm trying to use! Or if she's on my laptop, by watching the screen and climbing when she sees faces (she recognizes faces sob she's so smart) This is her 'it's time to feed me now' face. Myes.

My girlfriend had Exactly the same thing happen. Doctors told her it must be stress.
We take a sabbatical from it for a month, and the difference is instantaneous. We've had more (Protected) sex in the last two weeks than in the last year.

On the other hand, all her zits went away, she lost 80 lbs and stopped having gender issues. Now that she's off it, she keeps thinking she's a boy again.

It's a bit hard to think you're a boy when your hormones are telling your body that you're pregnant i guess :P Subconsciously i mean, it might have that effect. Maybe the presence or regulation of more female hormones in her body balanced her out in terms of that. If you felt like checking on that, you might could see if when she's been off it for a while, she's got a very low female hormone level. just for shits'n'giggles. It might explain it, it might not. o-o

And yeah hormone imbalances cause acne. It's annoying. I: And that doctor is full of crap. I lived an entirely stressfree life before i got my job and my libido is still flatlined. The pill has a ton of side effects xD I'm glad for her that she's managed to lose weight(if that's alright with her idk some people like/choose to be heavier) o-o

Yeah, the baseline Ortho-Trycyclin pills just flat out obliterated the androgens she had floating around, at least from what I can tell.
And the weightloss has been great for her, we tried everything beforehand, but this was the only thing that worked. We're gonna have to have them check her horimone levels and adopt a more robust plan to deal with it though, She missed sex more than I did. <_<

She might contact you (Though she's shy) 'cause she's felt really alone in this whole thing. And I can only help so much, being male and all. =P She's on FA as  budgiebin

If she wants to, i welcome it c: I never have enough friends c: I'm not on ortho-trycyclin, i happen to be on Levonorgestrel/ethinyl estradiol 0.15/30 c: Most of the different chems will do it though. If she's managed to lose weight on that, maybe i'll have to ask my doctor about those o-o

Same!!! UGH. I can't go off it though, it's for my horrendous cramps.

I won't go off it cuz it's the only thing keeping me from getting knocked up. My general situation: Unwilling to stop having sex because i join it and it's usually part of maintaining a healthy relationship (stress relief awwyeh), don't want kids EVER of my own because i loathe them, want two surgeries(uterine ablation and tubal ligation) to lessen the effects of my PMDD (it's like pms except way worse, and it can ruin your joints. I'm 20 and cracking and groaning and hurting like i'm out of shape and 50, and every time i have one of my...times i become anemic and weak because of blood loss) and prevent myself from having kids, but no american doctor will do it because despite the fact that i have always wanted to ADOPT since i was 5 years old and had the concept explained to me, obviously i'm going to change my mind right? Even though i'm viciously uncomfortable around children, a severely logical mind and opinion that i shouldn't burden another human being with the combination of potentially crippling/fatal things -i- have and what my long-term bf have, and a severely negative personal opinion about them. They do wonders for other people but i'll still to my four-legged babies(geckos, dogs, cats, exotics) Unconditional love, pottytrained at a few months, stays cute forever and doesnt run off to college to bankrupt you? SIGN ME UP FOR FUZZIES YES

You're not alone there. I can go a lifetime because anything sexual is just meh and have other things more important occupying my time. And BC kills any hope of your drive

I'm just glad it's not permanent, honestly. I was really afraid about that, but i had a 2 month stint where i went off it and apart from being reminded why i was on it on the first place (my internal regulator is broken, had a pregnancy scare because uh i ovulated after two months instead of one so i didnt have a time of the month for abooouuuuuttttt 9 weeks whoops) I'm also lucky because if i really TRY, i can get in the mood for sex still. But normally i just dont think about it, so i don't get excited. I have to say it's nicer than being horny ALL THE TIME CONSTANTLY like i used to be. That was rather annoying, never having a clear head and all I:

Tried and failed horribly, after a week i was ready to pounce anything that breathed. 8D

Sounds accurate!

what.


what is this.

http://www.reddit.com/r/NoFap

huh... owo

I always say I will, I usually end up fapping that same day or the next day xD

I'm not sure I would be able to do this

I guess being a female I don't understand how hard it is to resist fapping. I once went about 6 months without having "alone time" or sex at all.

This month was terrible.
No fap November.
Never again.

Doing it wrong.

I hear that after 90 days is when it gets less maddening!

I just hit 30 days myself and feel like I'm going insane :P

Haha, after two weeks for me I feel like I could go for a while.

Maybe you're not as addicted as many guys who grew up with convenient access to porn all the time now are.
Be very thankful for it! :)

It's a very real, and very hard to beat addiction (lol)

Lol, it's actually become a big habit for me more than anything. Habits can be broken, they're just annoying.

DO HO HO~ WELL PLAYED. ;O

It's a tradition (challenge) that my buddies do every year that I decided to partake in. It's all in good fun, but it's a pain. Makes a great work out for the first week though... after that it's the "I hate everything" phase. And then... mood swings and all that good stuff. Glad to be done with it.

I do this on a regular basis. For fun. :V

Certainly has some interesting results doesn't it.

Even more interesting if it involves another person. ;3

Considering my fapping (and browsing inappropriate material) doesn't absorb much of my life, I see no point in trying XD

Not a hard thing to do, i have gone 3 months without touching myself before and regularly go 3-4 weeks without even rubbing it a little

I'm too weak-willed to do this.

Yeah it definitely isn't lacking in the will power requirement.

I found becoming a vegetarian much, much easier, haha. And I looove the taste of meat.

I find myself having no desire to do either of those things. I love bacon and fish too much to even consider giving either of those up. As for the fap challenge... I'm not even single and I still fap every day, so fat chance of me ever getting far in that :)

you became a vegetarian too! I did too, last July. I'm hoping to cut Gluten as well soon.

Yessss. Pretty much one of the best decisions I've made. Glad to hear you've chosen that lifestyle as well :D

Reading books like The Ultramind Solution and watching movies like Food Inc. , The Beautiful Truth, and The Gerson Miracle will convert anyone with a brain/willpower imo.
The effects have been awesome since I made the switch! Probably the biggest one is I never breakout or get acne anymore. Obvious sign that there's something to it since I used to struggle quite terribly with that stuff. Made a believer out of me in any case!

I have so much more energy now too! I LOVED to cook meat, and loved the taste of meat, I'm glad my body has done this though because now when I think about meat it makes me stomach turn, or even smell it. I really enjoy it, and feel so much healthier.

Did a fap-free-feb once. Wasn't too difficult.

I've only gone a week once. :c

Just for curiosity's sake..

Girl or boy? Assuming girl.

You'll be surprised.

Age 16 to 21.. I did nothing... think thats what made me crazy

Haha.

Honestly, I think it's better not to. Hence why I'm doing it.

Get married and you'll do this all the time, whether you like it or not! :V

I'm kidding, but I still don't see much of a point for me to do it personally, since I'm not dysfunctionally addicted to sex or anything, and I'm not really willing to deal with having my brain explode from lack of release. :P

I've done it.. not too bad.. work wears me down enough.

Longest I went is 15 years. Then I discovered porn.
My longest record then was 12 hours lol.

now....longeat I went was about 2 months....then it hit me again
I blame furry

starting at 15 is actually pretty impressive! I think I was like.... 11, yeah.

LOL, yeah the furry stuff doesn't make it any easier. Especially if you're the one creating it (and you actually like what you're drawing)

At first I just thought it was funny and weird how...'active' I was getting down there.
I didn't think much of it. Then I accidently came across porn looking up gaming cheats. Never been the same since XD
Then I discovered Furry out of a weird Curiosity of animals mating. Then the first imge I see is a Giraffe getting Gangbanged by 2 Hyena. Then....my indoctrination into Furry began.

Darknatasha's work. My first glimpse was also her gallery.

I don't know why I'm putting all my business out there, but I feel like going wild for today, at least....

So, I don't have a very high drive. I can easily go weeks without pawing and not even notice it. When I actively try not to, it's always harder. The most I've gone when making a point to was probably about 2 months. No reason in particular, just busy with crap and not very interested.

Anyway, my advice is don't make such a big deal about it. Also, don't tempt yourself. Keep yourself busy with other things and you'll find the time goes by much faster.

I'm not going to join in because it's a special day for me and I'm going to enjoy it. <: Best of luck to you, though!

That's all good advice. Keeping busy especially. Of course not looking at nsfw stuff really helps as well, haha. But yeah, if you're not thinking about it and are distracted by work or whatever it does wonders.

Also my page is fine for any sort of openness. If someone was rude about something someone said they'd get blocked for sure. Haven't had to resort to that yet though!

so how did you do on this? were you successful? if so, are you going to keep going?

If you have a SO, it's like a cheat code for that. =D
But I imagine it to be really challenging, especially for guys. c.c I don't think I'd last terribly long. A week or so?

That's certainly one work around, haha.

Though it can still be fun to abstain from sex for a bit. Spices things up!

I cannot do it, Kiptin!

Like they say, one fap a day keeps the doctor away.

Is that what you keedz call apples nowadays?
I kid, I kid.

Just another day to keep the doctor away in these day and age :p

It gives me too much energy to stop X3

o0o wow! never heard of it... would be super easy for me though id think XD might try it one day.

done it. i have a very, very low libido from being on the pill. I literally went from pouncing my partner several times a day, to maybe wanting it once a week, if that. it's slowly picking up again since i stopped taking the pill (was on it because pill > condoms in terms of price (we're talking about $3 for six month pill vs. $20 per box of condoms)) ^-^

I find them to be decently cheaper online. In fact, I always buy my condoms from amazon (if I have the luxury of time)

But yes, I would have to agree, condom prices be CraZZZzzeeeEE. And in addition to saving money, the ability to go bare back with some peace of mind is well worth it imo :D

it simply takes too long for them to get here (I live in new zealand).

it is definately worth that peace of mind.

I... I can't... XP Medical reasons

I am a master of this..being buddhist..spirituality over sexuality..that and I never found it all that great like what people crack it up to be..
I dunno...I never felt like time should be wasted on it. So years and years. Master.. *gong sounds*

lol!
It does indeed waste a lot of time and energy. I think this sort of practice has many benefits both physically and otherwise.

I'm a fan of it at least!

I can barely go a day without busting a nut about 3 or 4 times minimum. I have a problem... ;3;

Hopefully attempting this challenge will cure me of it because I don't even enjoy it, haven't enjoyed it in years, but I just can't go without that endorphin rush! D: Welp, here's hoping. :P


And that was your daily dose of TMI. :D

Hmm, you may find the information found on this site useful/motivating to helping you kick the habit then :)

http://yourbrainonporn.com/
The reddit forum was pretty much based on it.

i still enjoy it :3

same problem though, work on saturday sucks cuz i dont get time to get off first...

Fap, fap your way healthy man!

I doubt my bf could ever do this.

The rampant jerking off all the time aside, he sometimes makes the excuse that fapping is the only thing that makes him feel better when his tummy hurts (flare up of a medical condition), or when he's upset he uses fapping to feel better.

What doesn't help is when he tries to involve me and I end up feeling really bad for constantly telling him no, I'm not interested because goddamn he faps like twice a day or more.

Hmm.. only makes me sleepy usually... and hungry. It takes up a lot of time to do it too.
All in all, could definitely do without it personally.

is it a long distance relationship you're in?

nope.

he frequently wakes me up with how vigorous his fappage is. 8|

He passes out after fapping too, but he still enjoys doing it. sometimes he tries to stand up after, and just falls over. I reserve the right to laugh at him when he does that. :)

haha, oh man... That's great XD

it's TERRIBLE... but I know what you mean :) He's going to have abdominal surgery in the next couple months though, so no idea how that'll affect his fapping other than /he can't/.

Could be a blessing in disguise :P

who knows, it could go either way... stops fapping for a long time, or, gets pent up and ends up fapping extra hard to make up for lost time =S

For me it is not that hard. But only if I'm not doing any artwork/sculpting of any sexy creatures. Even if it is sfw I can't stop my brain thinking about naughty things... :}

Though I think it would be easier to live if I "disabled" all this stuff... Sometimes it is just a distraction in the creative process... or maybe otherwise, it is an inspiration to make porn images? ^^ Hmm...

I think it's a major motivation and boon to one's productivity concerning adult art... IF you can keep from relapsing while working on such stuff. Very difficult to master that to say the least.... haha.

That's exactly what I'm trying to master! xD

Went 4 months. Long enough that the first time I did it actually hurt to get off, haha.

hahaha awesome I should try this

No thanks, longest would probably up to 10 days.

I accept a different challenge.. the fap challenge of doing it multiple times everyday.

woah woah woah

You're a champ, haha. Glad to hear your libido is in working order ;3

nah..I fail..Ive been missing days by being at my friends house. but I can dream of the freedom of a multifap challenge eh?

just makes it all the funner once you get to it ;)

Never saw the need. *goes back to fapping*

usually i fap one time every two or three days, i like it intense.
my longest abstinence was one week, but i'm sure that would be no problem for me now.
longer than a week..maybe. but only without any internet or media connection

only one way to keep the urge away is to not look at fa art :p

hmm, idk, actual fappable art is few and far between for me around here.

Think I've been spoilt!

My partner and I lasted for a few weeks before we gave up. NO WAY

I lose.

No.
You win.

Here's your prize *hands over a lil babby amyf*

*carries him around in her mouf like a momma cat* :3

Oh man, thank you SO much for posting about this! I found the TED video via that subreddit and showed it to my boyfriend. Everything made so much sense! Otherwise I would have never fully known what's going on in regards to his libido.
THANK YOU! :'>

um yeah.... the consequences are super real for this stuff. I'm very glad to hear this was helpful for you!! :)