NoFap adalah situs web dan forum komunitas yang berfungsi sebagai kelompok pendukung bagi mereka yang ingin berhenti dari pornografi dan masturbasi. Namanya berasal dari istilah prokem fap, merujuk pada masturbasi pria. Alasan untuk menghindari ini berbeda-beda pada setiap individu, dan termasuk alasan agama dan moral, perbaikan diri, dan keyakinan fisik yang tidak didukung oleh obat-obatan. Pandangan dan upaya kelompok tersebut untuk memerangi kecanduan pornografi telah dikritik sebagai hal yang sederhana, ketinggalan zaman, dan tidak benar oleh ahli saraf, psikolog, dan profesional medis lainnya. Cowell, Tom (17 September 2013). “No fapping, please, it’s making us ill”. The Telegraph. London, England: Telegraph Media Group. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal June 10, 2015. Diakses tanggal 22 May 2015. So why are men doing it, and what happens when they do? McMahon, Tamsin (20 January 2014). “Will quitting porn improve your life?: A growing ‘NoFap’ movement of young men are saying no to porn and masturbation”. Maclean’s. Toronto, Canada: Rogers Media. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal May 2, 2015. Diakses tanggal 22 May 2015. Despite the evangelical tone, NoFap is fundamentally different from traditional campaigns that view masturbation as an assault on religious values. Instead, it is developing as a secular movement popular among young men, many of whom identify as liberal and atheist. The majority of NoFap members are men in their teens and early 20s, though there are women, too, says Alexander Rhodes, the 23-year-old web developer from Pittsburgh who founded the movement two years ago. He estimates about 60 per cent are atheists; the site is also home to a fair number of Christians and some Muslims, all in broad agreement that porn is harmful. Imhoff, Roland; Zimmer, Felix (2020-04-30). “Men’s Reasons to Abstain from Masturbation May Not Reflect the Conviction of “reboot” Websites”. Archives of Sexual Behavior (dalam bahasa Inggris). ISSN 0004-0002. PMC 7300076 . PMID 32356083. We recently published a paper titled “Abstinence from Masturbation and Hypersexuality” (Zimmer & Imhoff, 2020) in which we tried to explore correlates of men’s motivation to stay abstinent from masturbation. Coon, Dennis; Mitterer, John O. (2014). “11. Gender and Sexuality”. Introduction to Psychology: Gateways to Mind and Behavior (edisi ke-14). Seventy years ago, a child might have been told that masturbation would cause insanity, acne, sterility, or other such nonsense. Caroll, 2013). The modern view is that masturbation is a normal sexual behavior (Hogarth & Ingham, 2009). Enlightened parents are well aware of this fact. Still, many children are punished or made to feel guilty for touching their genitals. This is unfortunate because masturbation itself is harmless. Typically, its only negative effects are feelings of fear, guilt, or anxiety that arise from learning to think of masturbation as “bad” or “wrong.” In an age when people are urged to practice “safer rough sex,” masturbation remains the safest sex of all. Watson, Brian (2020). “The New Censorship: Anti-sexuality Groups and Library Freedom”. Journal of Intellectual Freedom and Privacy. 4 (4). doi:10.5860/jifp.v4i4.7177. hdl:2022/25773 . Teks tersedia di bawah Lisensi Atribusi-BerbagiSerupa Creative Commons; ketentuan tambahan mungkin berlaku. Lihat Ketentuan Penggunaan untuk rincian lebih lanjut.
