>>38973I eased into it. The first year was going without porn, this year will be without porn and without ejaculation.
>resultsDisappointing tbh. I dream more often and vividly. I get morning wood (didn't much before) and my erections from the occasional sexy thought are diamond hard with a strength previously unachievable. But no increased energy or motivation, no adderall-like effects as some people describe, no signs of slow testosterone increases over time like that one guy who posted his bloodwork before and after nofap. The training of the willpower has been the most effective and important aspect of this experiment, and I suspect it's merely the willpower training that is behind so many of the stupid /r/nofap stories of sudden revitalization of the will to live in depressed people.
I'm also involved in the western esoteric traditions (aka ceremonial magic, theurgy, occult philosophy) and was interested in the spiritual effects of preserving what Dion Fortune calls "the downward current of creation." My daily banishing ritual seems more affected by the phases of the moon than anything, and I've done some basic practices to take the extra lifeforce that I should be conserving and move it up from the lower centres into higher energy centres (NOT the same thing as chakras), but all that achieved was once making colours super vivid and beautiful for a brief moment.
So overall, some effects, but I expected a lot more and I'm rather disappointed. When my "year and a day" is over in a couple months, I'll bring the experiment to an end. I'll still probably use porn less and fap a lot less after I'm done though. I currently no longer feel the constant burning need to jack off every few days, though if I think long and hard about a sexual fantasy my sexual circuitry comes roaring back at a full gallop, so I'm clearly fine and healthy, just less interested in cold pixels and jacking off alone in an empty room, and I'm not desperate to go on a crazy porn binge when I'm done. At the end of the day, I'm mostly satisfied that I've proved to myself that I'm not a slave to my cravings and desires, and proud to have a tangible example of my willpower being exercised. Pic related.