some people claim that nofap is unhealthy. They say that watching porn and masturbating is part of a normal healthy sexual life.
They consider watching porn and masturbating as self-pleasure activities that have no harmful side effects and some even claim that it has benefits.
People who promote watching porn and masturbation say that PMO(porn, masturbation, orgasm) has the following benefits:-
- It relieves stress and improves mood
- Masturbating frequently reduces the chances of prostate cancer
- Porn teaches you about sex i.e. porn is sex education
- PMO is necessary for good sexual health
- Masturbation promotes healthy, well-formed sperm and normal semen volume.
- Masturbation may help a person better understand their sexual desires, learn what feels good to them, and communicate with their partner.
They also claim that refraining from PMO(porn, masturbation, orgasm) and doing nofap is unhealthy. They say that people who do nofap miss out on many proven benefits of porn, masturbation, and orgasm.
In this article, we’re gonna discuss is nofap healthy, do porn and masturbation have benefits, does ejaculating frequently reduces your chance of getting prostate cancer, etc.
Is NoFap Healthy?
NoFap is completely healthy. On the other hand, watching other people having sex on a pixel and forcing your body to release sperm through masturbation is not healthy.
Porn and masturbation have no benefits. If you do it in moderation, you won’t experience the harmful side effects of PMO(porn, masturbation, orgasm), but that doesn’t mean that porn and masturbation have benefits. Porn and masturbation can get addictive and interfere with the quality of your life.
Watching porn/masturbating gives you only short-term pleasure just like drugs and alcohol give you short-term pleasure. Saying porn and masturbation have benefits just because you feel good after doing it is like saying doing drugs has benefits because you feel good after doing drugs.
Just like drugs, porn and masturbation spike up your dopamine levels temporarily making you feel pleasurable. But that high level of dopamine becomes your “new normal”. Now activities that can’t give you that high dose of dopamine will feel boring/monotonous and you’ll need to go back to watching porn and masturbating just to feel “normal”. This is how porn and masturbation become addictive. Excessive use of Porn and masturbation screws up your dopamine receptors just like any drug.
Even if you indulge in PMO in moderation, it has no benefits. It’s just that the side effects are too small to be observed. So, why indulge in PMO for short-term pleasure when it has no benefits and can get addictive.
Is Watching Porn and Masturbating healthy or unhealthy?
Ask yourself, Does watching other people having sex and pleasing yourself by stroking your penis and depleting your body of various nutrients by forcing your body to release sperm healthy or unhealthy?
Your semen contains various nutrients including vitamin C, B12, ascorbic acid, calcium, citric acid, fructose, lactic acid, magnesium, zinc, potassium, sodium, fat, and protein.[Source]
When you ejaculate, you’re depleting your body of various nutrients. Sperm is always forming inside your body, but if you deplete your body of nutrients faster than it can replace it, then you’re body will go into nutrient deficiency, which is not healthy.
Porn Can Get Addictive
Not only does porn has no benefits, but it can get addictive too.
The more addicted you get to porn, the more extreme your taste in porn becomes. After a while, “normal porn” will stop giving you pleasure and will become boring and you’ll need to switch to some hardcore stuff like BDSM, A2M, etc. to keep feeling pleasure.
After a while, that too will become boring and you’ll need to switch to even more extreme stuff to keep feeling pleasure. It’s an unending cycle. Just like a drug addict needs to keep injecting himself with an even stronger drug to keep feeling pleasure, you’ll need to keep switching to even more extreme stuff to keep feeling pleasure. This running behind pleasure is a trap.
Once you get addicted to porn, other activities which can’t release that high level of dopamine, won’t give you pleasure and will become boring/monotonous and you won’t feel like doing it. Activities like exercising, studying, working, socializing will become boring and you’ll start avoiding it so that you can indulge in self-pleasing activities.
Does Porn and Masturbation Have Benefits?
Now that you’ve understood that porn and masturbation can get addictive. But if done in moderation, do porn and masturbation have benefits?
The answer to that question is that No, Porn and masturbation have no benefits whatsoever.
People claim that porn and masturbation relieve stress, but that is only temporary. After a while, you’ll face even more stress. PMO doesn’t relieve stress, it just numbs it down temporarily, just like alcohol or drugs.
The momentarily pleasure you feel while watching porn or after jerking off is due to the spike in your dopamine levels. Dopamine is a feel-good chemical that gives you the sensation of pleasure. Porn and masturbation don’t satisfy your horniness, it just leaves you craving for more.
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Does NoFap Causes Prostate Cancer?
The people who claim that nofap is unhealthy argue that nofap increases your chances of getting prostate cancer. There are many faults in that argument.
There was a study done in 2016 which concluded that people who ejaculated more often have a lower risk of getting prostate cancer. Based on this study people say that masturbation lowers your risk of getting prostate cancer.
First of all, NoFap is about not watching porn or masturbating, it’s not about not having sex or preventing nightfalls. You’ll still ejaculate through sex and wet dreams. Even if you don’t have sex, you’re still gonna ejaculate through wet dreams.
Your body gets rid of excess semen through wet dreams. Wet dreams are natural, it’s your body’s way of releasing excess semen while forcing your body to release semen is not natural.
Second, there was nothing conclusive in that study. Other studies have shown that not masturbating actually lowers your chances of getting prostate cancer. So, there is no clear link between ejaculation/masturbation and prostate cancer. Different studies give different conclusions.
The truth is people who are emotionally attached to masturbation and can’t imagine their life without it, often use the statement that masturbation lowers your risk of getting prostate cancer to justify and keep doing it.
They comfort themselves by saying that by masturbating they are reducing their risk of getting prostate cancer. They also comfort themselves by saying that there is nothing with masturbation because everyone is doing it.
Porn and masturbation are not good for your health, both mental and physical health. Low libido, low motivation, porn-induced erectile dysfunction(PIED), depression, anxiety are just some of the harmful side effects of porn and masturbation.
Conclusion
NoFap is completely healthy and has many benefits. Watching porn and masturbating have no benefits and can get addictive.
If you watch porn or masturbate in moderation(once a week), you might not experinece its harmful side effects, but this doesn’t mean that porn and masturbation have benefits.
There’s no conclusive evidence linking ejaculation/masturbation with prostate cancer. Some studies say it might lower your risk of getting prostate cancer while others say it might increase your chances. You don’t need to worry about prostate cancer while doing nofap.
The goal of nofap is to kick porn and masturbation out of your life permanently. If you’re experiencing that porn and masturbation are interfering with the quality of your life, you must do nofap.
