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NoFap is a website and community forum that serves as a support group for those who wish to give up pornography and masturbation.{{cite news|last1=Cowell|first1=Tom|date=September 17, 2013|title=No fapping, please, it's making us ill|work=The Telegraph|publisher=Telegraph Media Group|location=London, England|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/10288240/No-fapping-please-its-making-us-ill.html|url-status=live|access-date=May 22, 2015|quote=So why are men doing it, and what happens when they do? 'Why' can be answered two ways: some see a medical problem in chronic masturbation, others a spiritual one.|archive-date=June 10, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150610065915/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/10288240/No-fapping-please-its-making-us-ill.html}}{{cite news|last1=McMahon|first1=Tamsin|date=January 20, 2014|title=Will quitting porn improve your life?: A growing 'NoFap' movement of young men are saying no to porn and masturbation|work=Maclean's|publisher=Rogers Media|location=Toronto, Canada|url=http://www.macleans.ca/society/life/can-swearing-off-porn-improve-your-life/|url-status=live|access-date=May 22, 2015|quote=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.|archive-date=May 2, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150502065939/http://www.macleans.ca/society/life/can-swearing-off-porn-improve-your-life/}}{{Cite journal|last1=Imhoff|first1=Roland|last2=Zimmer|first2=Felix|date=April 30, 2020|title=Men's Reasons to Abstain from Masturbation May Not Reflect the Conviction of 'reboot' Websites|journal=Archives of Sexual Behavior|language=en|volume=49|issue=5|pages=1429–1430|doi=10.1007/s10508-020-01722-x|pmid=32356083|pmc=7300076|issn=0004-0002|quote=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. In motivating the study, we pointed to existing discourses around the topic and cited different protagonists within this debate (e.g., the Web sites 'nofap.org' and 'rebootnation.org').|doi-access=free}} Its name comes from the slang term fap, referring to male masturbation.{{cite journal |last=Burnett |first=Scott |date=May 2021 |title=The Battle for 'NoFap': Myths, Masculinity, and the Meaning of Masturbation Abstention |editor1-last=Barber |editor1-first=Kristen |editor2-last=Bridges |editor2-first=Tristan |editor3-last=Nelson |editor3-first=Joseph Derrick |journal=Men and Masculinities |volume=25 |issue=3 |publisher=SAGE Publications |pages=477–496 |doi=10.1177/1097184X211018256 |doi-access=free |issn=1552-6828 |lccn=98659253 |oclc=321242407 |s2cid=236603234 }} While reasons for this abstinence vary by individual, the main motivation cited is attempting to overcome addiction to pornography,{{efn|Though the term 'addiction' is frequently used, a pornography addiction is not an addiction in the true sense of a brain disorder, and is instead more congruent with a behavioral addiction. Addiction to pornography, behavioral or not, is not recognised as a legitimate medical diagnosis.}}{{cite journal|last1=Weir|first1=Kirsten |title=Is pornography addictive? |url=http://www.apa.org/monitor/2014/04/pornography.aspx|url-status=dead|journal=Monitor on Psychology |date=April 2014 |volume=45 |issue=4 |page=46 |issn=1529-4978 |oclc=612512821 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140405232028/http://www.apa.org/monitor/2014/04/pornography.aspx |archive-date=April 5, 2014}}{{cite book|editor-first=Glyn Hudson |editor-last=Allez |title=Sexual Diversity and Sexual Offending: Research, Assessment, and Clinical Treatment in Psychosexual Therapy|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MXnAAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA161 |date=June 4, 2014 |publisher=Karnac Books |isbn=978-1-78181-368-3 |page=161 |chapter=Chapter Ten. The pleasure, the power, and the perils of Internet pornography |access-date=April 27, 2019}} or other compulsive sexual behaviours.{{cite web |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/NoFap/|website=Reddit |access-date=May 16, 2021 |title=NoFap|location="About community" section |quote=A porn addiction and compulsive sexual behavior recovery peer support forum.}}{{cite web |title=NoFap Website |url=https://nofap.com/ |website=NoFap |access-date=May 16, 2021 |location=Second line (after slogan) |quote=NoFap™ is a secular community-centered sexual health platform designed to help you overcome porn addiction, porn overuse, and compulsive sexual behavior. We're here to help you quit or reduce porn use, improve your relationships, and reach your sexual health goals.}} Other reasons for abstinence include religious and moral reasons, self-improvement, and physical beliefs that are not supported by medical science.{{cite web |title=What to know about the possible benefits of NoFap|url=https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/nofap-benefits#when-to-see-a-doctor|website=Medical News Today|date=September 29, 2020}}

The group's views and efforts to combat pornography addiction have been criticized as simplistic, outdated, and incorrect by neuroscientists, psychologists, and other medical professionals.{{cite book|last1=Coon|first1=Dennis|last2=Mitterer|first2=John O.|title=Introduction to Psychology: Gateways to Mind and Behavior|edition=14|chapter=11. Gender and Sexuality|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-4jCBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA363|year=2014|publisher=Cengage Learning|isbn=978-1-305-54500-7|page=363|quote=Is there any way that masturbation can cause harm? Seventy years ago, a child might have been told that masturbation would cause insanity, acne, sterility, or other such nonsense. 'Self-abuse,' as it was then called, has enjoyed a long and unfortunate history of religious and medical disapproval (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 sex,' masturbation remains the safest sex of all.|access-date=January 7, 2017|archive-date=June 14, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200614044901/https://books.google.com/books?id=-4jCBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA363|url-status=live}} The purported science behind the group's activities is said to come from anti-porn activist Gary Wilson,{{cite journal | last=Hartmann | first=Marlene | title=The totalizing meritocracy of heterosex: Subjectivity in NoFap | journal=Sexualities | publisher=SAGE Publications | volume=24 | issue=3 | date=June 28, 2020 | issn=1363-4607 | doi=10.1177/1363460720932387 | pages=409–430 | s2cid=225765798 | quote=The most influential account of the causal relationship between PMO and the emergence of masturbatory subjectivity, which I mainly refer to in the following, is given by Gary Wilson ... Nevertheless, Wilson's talk is of vital importance to NoFap.| doi-access=free }} "an Oregon man with no scientific training or background, who has made a career peddling pseudoscience."

{{as of|2024|01|06|df=US|post=,}} the NoFap online community had more than 350,000 registered members.{{Cite web |title=NoFap® |url=https://www.nofap.com/forum/index.php |access-date=January 6, 2024 |website=NoFap® |language=en-US}}

Founding

NoFap was founded in June 2011 by Pittsburgh web developer Alexander Rhodes after reading a thread on Reddit about a 2003 study,{{cite web|title=TIL when men don't masturbate for 7 days their testosterone levels increase by 145.7%. • r/todayilearned|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/i514e/til_when_men_dont_masturbate_for_7_days_their/|website=Reddit|date=June 21, 2011 |access-date=May 2, 2022}} (which was retracted in 2021 due to overlap with another published article in Chinese),{{cite journal | last1=Jiang | first1=Ming | last2=Jiang | first2=Xin | last3=Zou | first3=Qiang | last4=Shen | first4=Jin-wen | title=Retraction Note to: A research on the relationship between ejaculation and serum testosterone level in men | journal=Journal of Zhejiang University Science A | publisher=Zhejiang University Press | date=December 10, 2021 | issn=1673-565X | doi=10.1631/jzus.2003.r236 | page=| s2cid=245084121 | doi-access=free }} which claimed that men who refrain from masturbation for seven days experience a 145.7% spike in testosterone levels on the seventh day. This was featured on the front page of a popular forum on Reddit. The website states that some NoFap participants aim to "improve their interpersonal relationships", do a "challenge of willpower – to seize control of your sexuality and turn it into superpowers", but always with the goal of being able to "abstain from PMO (porn/masturbation/orgasm)."{{cite news|last1=Love|first1=Dylan|title=Inside NoFap, The Reddit Community For People Who Want To Be 'Masters Of Their Domain'|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-nofap-2013-11|date=November 28, 2013|work=Business Insider|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190709211326/https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-nofap-2013-11|archive-date=July 9, 2019|access-date=August 3, 2019}} The expression fap is an onomatopoeic Internet slang term for male masturbation that first appeared in the 1999 web comic Sexy Losers to indicate the sound of a male character masturbating.

While the website is most commonly associated with men seeking to quit porn and reduce masturbation, there are a minority of females who are users of the website as well, who are nicknamed "Femstronauts"; Alexander Rhodes has estimated that five percent of participants are women. Rhodes appears in the documentary written and directed by Nicholas Tana called Sticky: A (Self) Love Story, in which he discusses his findings and his opinions about masturbation.{{Cite web |url=http://www.fandango.com/movie-trailer/sticky:aselflovestory-trailer/189754 |title=Sticky: A (Self) Love Story: Trailer 1 |access-date=June 7, 2017 |archive-date=February 3, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190203041806/https://www.fandango.com/movie-trailer/sticky:aselflovestory-trailer/189754 |url-status=live }} After this, Rhodes created NoFap as a subreddit forum community on Reddit. The endeavour is sometimes referred to as "fapstinence".{{cite news |last1=Gander |first1=Kashmira |title=A man who gave up masturbation for 700 days says it gave him superpowers |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/love-sex/masturbation-giving-up-effects-life-changes-reddit-nofap-men-say-it-gave-them-superpowers-a7345466.html |access-date=April 4, 2020 |work=The Independent |date=October 5, 2016 |language=en |archive-date=July 9, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190709211300/https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/love-sex/masturbation-giving-up-effects-life-changes-reddit-nofap-men-say-it-gave-them-superpowers-a7345466.html |url-status=live }}{{cite web | first=Christopher John | last=Treacy | title=The Grumpy Ghey: The Fap Flap | website=The Public | date=May 24, 2017 | url=http://www.dailypublic.com/articles/05242017/grumpy-ghey-fap-flap | access-date=July 13, 2020 | archive-date=July 9, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190709211304/http://www.dailypublic.com/articles/05242017/grumpy-ghey-fap-flap | url-status=live }}

=NoFap.com=

Users on NoFap's subreddit more than tripled in number in two years, leading Rhodes to build an off-Reddit forum at NoFap.com.{{cite web|last1=Eck|first1=Ian|title=The Men Who Would Not Wank|url=http://www.modernluxury.com/san-francisco/story/the-men-who-would-not-wank|publisher=San Francisco Magazine|access-date=June 27, 2015|archive-date=March 2, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170302091539/http://www.modernluxury.com/san-francisco/story/the-men-who-would-not-wank|url-status=live}} NoFap.com is the sister website of the Reddit-hosted NoFap community.{{cite web|last1=Israelsen-Hartley|first1=Sara|title=Adolescent addiction: When pornography strikes early|url=http://national.deseretnews.com/article/802/Adolescent-addiction-When-pornography-strikes-early.html#dSAGkxAvOUUqlXqB.99 |work=Deseret News |location=Salt Lake City, UT |access-date=June 27, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150623170058/http://national.deseretnews.com/article/802/adolescent-addiction-when-pornography-strikes-early.html#dSAGkxAvOUUqlXqB.99|archive-date=June 23, 2015|url-status=dead}}

Membership

=Demographics=

A 2014 internet survey found that 99% of NoFap followers are male,{{Cite web|url=http://www.reddit.com/r/NoFap/comments/1zt8z7/the_rnofap_survey_results_and_breakdown/|title=The r/NoFap Survey Results and Breakdown!|date=March 7, 2014}}{{Unreliable source?|date=April 2023|reason=This is a random Reddit poll, falls under WP:UGC}}{{cite journal|last=Zimmer|first=F.|author2=Imhoff, R.|date=March 4, 2020|title=Abstinence from Masturbation and Hypersexuality|url= https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10508-019-01623-8.pdf|journal=Archives of Sexual Behavior|volume=49|issue=4|pages=1333–1343|doi=10.1007/s10508-019-01623-8|pmid=32130561|pmc=7145784|quote=As visible from zero-order correlations and multiple linear regression, motivation for abstinence was mostly associated with attitudinal correlates, specifically the perception of masturbation as unhealthy. While there were associations with hypersexuality, no significant correlation with behavioral markers such as maximum number of orgasms was found. Higher abstinence motivation was related to a higher perceived impact of masturbation, conservatism, and religiosity and to lower trust in science. We argue that research on abstinence from masturbation can enrich the understanding of whether and how average frequencies of healthy behavior are pathologized.|archive-date=May 20, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200520121318/https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10508-019-01623-8.pdf|url-status=live}} although Rhodes said that women are also a part of NoFap.{{cite web |last1=Blair |first1=Leonardo |title=Christians Find Help for Porn, Masturbation Addiction Through 'NoFap' Community Started on Reddit by 24-Y-O Web Developer |url=http://www.christianpost.com/news/christians-find-help-for-porn-masturbation-addiction-through-nofap-community-started-on-reddit-by-24-y-o-web-developer-110061/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160930185021/http://www.christianpost.com/news/christians-find-help-for-porn-masturbation-addiction-through-nofap-community-started-on-reddit-by-24-y-o-web-developer-110061/ |archive-date=September 30, 2016 |access-date=June 10, 2015 |website=The Christian Post|date=December 4, 2013 }} The membership of NoFap ranges from atheists, like founder Rhodes, to fundamentalist Christians.{{cite web|last1=McMurry|first1=Evan|title=9 hilarious ways the religious right tried to eradicate masturbation|url=http://www.salon.com/2014/03/13/9_hilarious_ways_the_religious_right_tried_to_eradicate_masturbation/|website=Salon.com |access-date=June 27, 2015|date=March 13, 2014|archive-date=March 25, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170325171611/http://www.salon.com/2014/03/13/9_hilarious_ways_the_religious_right_tried_to_eradicate_masturbation/|url-status=live}} However, Rhodes has publicly solicited and received funding from religious groups.{{cite journal |last= Watson|first=Brian|date= 2020|title=The New Censorship: Anti-sexuality Groups and Library Freedom|journal= Journal of Intellectual Freedom and Privacy|volume=4|issue=4|pages=19–28|doi=10.5860/jifp.v4i4.7177|hdl=2022/25773|s2cid=238069109|hdl-access=free}} The users of the website call themselves "Fapstronauts."{{cite news |last1=Hall |first1=Lex |date=December 26, 2016 |title=Internet porn abounds but 'no fappers' rise to the occasion |url=https://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/review/internet-porn-abounds-but-no-fappers-rise-to-the-occasion/news-story/67c474a806d07014042a08f5814aabe6 |url-access=subscription |work=The Australian |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201102223359/https://www.theaustralian.com.au/subscribe/news/1/?sourceCode=TAWEB_WRE170_a&dest=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theaustralian.com.au%2Farts%2Freview%2Finternet-porn-abounds-but-no-fappers-rise-to-the-occasion%2Fnews-story%2F67c474a806d07014042a08f5814aabe6&memtype=anonymous&mode=premium&nk=eeb2905ac74ea1754646851dbb3f93d0-1604356439 |archive-date=November 2, 2020 |url-status=dead |access-date=April 4, 2020}}{{cite news|last1=McMahon|first1=Tamsin|title=Will quitting porn improve your life?|url=https://www.macleans.ca/society/life/can-swearing-off-porn-improve-your-life/ |work=Maclean's|date=January 20, 2014|access-date=April 4, 2020|archive-date=July 9, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190709211305/https://www.macleans.ca/society/life/can-swearing-off-porn-improve-your-life/|url-status=live}} Some correspondents have nicknamed NoFap's community members "NoFappers",{{cite web | last=Murphy | first=Jack | title=NoFap: Why A Growing Number Of Males Are Refusing To Masturbate | website=Neon Nettle | date=January 1, 2019 | url=https://neonnettle.com/features/423-nofap-why-a-growing-number-of-males-are-refusing-to-masturbate | access-date=July 13, 2020 }} "fapstinent",{{cite journal | last1=Taylor | first1=Kris | last2=Jackson | first2=Sue | s2cid=149306706 | title='I want that power back': Discourses of masculinity within an online pornography abstinence forum | journal=Sexualities | publisher=SAGE Publications | volume=21 | issue=4 | date=January 30, 2018 | issn=1363-4607 | doi=10.1177/1363460717740248 | pages=621–639| hdl=2292/41827 | hdl-access=free }} or "no-fappers".{{Cite web |first=Kastalia |last=Medrano |date=November 13, 2017 |title=Can not masturbating for a month give you 'superpowers?' The men doing No Nut November sure hope so |url=https://www.newsweek.com/nofap-masturbation-sex-abstinence-reddit-subreddit-no-fap-november-709746 |website=Newsweek|access-date=February 2, 2019|archive-date=December 5, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191205013454/https://www.newsweek.com/nofap-masturbation-sex-abstinence-reddit-subreddit-no-fap-november-709746|url-status=live}} Some self-described porn addicts seek out NoFap for help, while others join the website for the challenge or to improve their lives and interpersonal relationships.

=Beliefs=

The advocacy of NoFap can be summarized as "90 days of abstinence from porn, masturbation, and orgasms." A study of anti-porn attitudes among Polish Internet users found that "Despite the suggestive name, the official goal of the NoFap movement is not to encourage complete abstinence from masturbation, but to support internet users in the process of refraining from accessing pornographic materials and achieving various wellbeing goals related to sexual health", and this understanding of NoFap's mission is also acknowledged by other critical sources. After abstaining from porn and masturbation for a period of time, some of NoFap's users claim to experience various improvements in physical and mental health. Some NoFap users say their brains were warped by porn, at the expense of real relationships.

NoFap hosts a wide variety of different opinions on sexual health, and supports users with various goals as long as they are trying to improve their sexual health.{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-40382766 |title=The online groups of men who avoid masturbation |last=Subedar |first=Anisa |date=June 24, 2017 |publisher=BBC |access-date=September 23, 2017 |quote=NoFap' is an organisation that supports its users regardless of what their goals might be as long as they're trying to improve their sexual health and live their sexual habits in a way that they want to," he says, pointing out that abstinence is not the ultimate aim of all participants. "We don't have a unified goal. Some people want to masturbate some people don't want to masturbate – it hosts a wide variety of people with different viewpoints. |work=BBC News |archive-date=September 24, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170924094054/http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-40382766 |url-status=live }}

Some of the group's beliefs cite the work of Gary Wilson, an anti-pornography activist who has no medical or scientific training. Wilson's work is pseudoscientific.

The NoFap forums are rife with antisemitic posts and conspiracy theories. They accuse Jews and the Illuminati of unleashing porn in order "to undermine white men". NoFappers think that quitting porn is a "magic pill" solution to various problems.

=Political and religious motivation=

According to various sources, the overwhelming majority of all websites and YouTube channels devoted to anti-masturbation and anti-porn addiction propaganda, channels, and websites supporting NoFap are owned by far-right, religious fundamentalists, and conservatives who are biblical inerrantists, and also are entirely political in nature.{{cite web | last=Ley | first=David J. | author-link=David J. Ley | title=Is One Sexual Behavior Triggering Certain Groups? | website=Psychology Today | date=October 27, 2018 | url=https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/women-who-stray/201810/is-one-sexual-behavior-triggering-certain-groups | access-date=January 12, 2022}} The NoFap community is sometimes viewed to be a part of the manosphere{{snd}}online groups credited with propagating misogyny.{{cite journal |last1=Hen |first1=Xiaoting |author2=Yin, Chenjun |date=2022 |title=Mapping the manosphere. Categorization of reactionary masculinity discourses in digital environment |url=https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2021.1998185 |journal=Feminist Media Studies |volume=37 |issue=5 |pages=1923–1940 |doi=10.1080/14680777.2021.1998185 |s2cid=247464779|url-access=subscription }}{{cite web |last=Oliveri |first=Alice |date=July 27, 2018 |title=Il marketing del rimorchio |url=https://thevision.com/cultura/rimorchio-marketing/ |access-date=July 13, 2020 |website=The Vision |language=it}}

Psychologists, MDs, and social scientists noticed that the traditional Christian obsession with combating sexual activities, including masturbation,{{cite book |author-last=Mbuwayesango |author-first=Dora R. |year=2016 |origyear=2015 |chapter=Part III: The Bible and Bodies – Sex and Sexuality in Biblical Narrative |editor-last=Fewell |editor-first=Danna N. |editor-link=Danna Nolan Fewell |title=The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Narrative |location=Oxford and New York |publisher=Oxford University Press |pages=456–465 |doi=10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199967728.013.39 |isbn=9780199967728 |lccn=2015033360 |s2cid=146505567}}{{cite journal |last=Gnuse |first=Robert K. |date=May 2015 |title=Seven Gay Texts: Biblical Passages Used to Condemn Homosexuality |journal=Biblical Theology Bulletin |publisher=SAGE Publications on behalf of Biblical Theology Bulletin Inc. |volume=45 |issue=2 |pages=68–87 |doi=10.1177/0146107915577097 |issn=1945-7596 |s2cid=170127256}}{{cite book |last=Sauer |first=Michelle M. |year=2015 |chapter=The Unexpected Actuality: 'Deviance' and Transgression |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U8mBCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA74 |title=Gender in Medieval Culture |location=London |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |pages=74–78 |doi=10.5040/9781474210683.ch-003 |isbn=978-1-4411-2160-8}}{{cite book |author-last=Frontain |author-first=Raymond-Jean |year=2003 |chapter=Introduction |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7nVq0BLfVT4C&pg=PA1 |editor-last=Frontain |editor-first=Raymond-Jean |title=Reclaiming the Sacred: The Bible in Gay and Lesbian Culture |location=New York and London |publisher=Harrington Park Press |edition=2nd |pages=1–24, 53, 55 |isbn=9781560233558 |lccn=2002068889}}{{cite book |author1-last=Palmer |author1-first=Randall |author2-last=Winner |author2-first=Lauren F. |year=2005 |origyear=2002 |chapter=Protestants and Homosexuality |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hMVH6upbI9QC&pg=PA149 |title=Protestantism in America |location=New York |publisher=Columbia University Press |series=Columbia Contemporary American Religion Series |pages=149–178 |isbn=9780231111317 |lccn=2002023859}} is unhealthy and unwholesome. This also applies to secular advocacy of anti-pornography and anti-masturbation,{{cite journal |last1=Nelson |first1=Kimberly M. |last2=Rothman |first2=Emily F. |date=February 2020 |title=Should Public Health Professionals Consider Pornography a Public Health Crisis? |editor-last=Morabia |editor-first=Alfredo |editor-link=Alfredo Morabia |journal=American Journal of Public Health |publisher=American Public Health Association |volume=110 |issue=2 |pages=151–153 |doi=10.2105/AJPH.2019.305498 |doi-access=free |issn=1541-0048 |pmc=6951382 |pmid=31913670 |s2cid=210121251}}{{cite book |last=Rothman |first=Emily F. |year=2021 |chapter=Pornography as a US Public Health Problem |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M30_EAAAQBAJ |title=Pornography and Public Health |pages=1–15 |location=Oxford and New York |publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/oso/9780190075477.003.0001 |isbn=9780190075477 |lccn=2021013439}} including 16 US states' legislatures which have declared that pornography is a "public health crisis".{{cite web | first=Mattie | last=Quinn | title=Is Porn a Public Health Crisis? 16 States Say Yes. | website=Governing | date=July 17, 2019 | url=https://www.governing.com/archive/gov-pornography-public-health-crisis-states.html | access-date=January 12, 2022}}

The American Psychiatric Association had by then already dismissed such moral panic ("political stunt") in DSM-5 (published in 2013), and DSM-5-TR, published in March 2022, does not recognize a diagnosis of sexual addiction (which would include internet pornography viewing).{{cite book | last=Martinez-Gilliard | first=Erin | title=Sex, Social Justice, and Intimacy in Mental Health Practice: Incorporating Sexual Health in Approaches to Wellness | publisher=Taylor & Francis | year=2023 | isbn=978-1-000-84578-5 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y1yqEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT113 | access-date=March 5, 2023 | page=unpaginated | quote='Sex addiction' is also referred to as a diagnosis or presenting problem. Sex addiction is not a diagnosis in the DSM-5-TR and identified as Compulsive Sexual Behavior in the ICD-11 rather than an issue of addiction.}}{{cite book | author=American Psychiatric Association | title=Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-5-TR(tm)) | publisher=American Psychiatric Association Publishing | series=G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series | year=2022 | isbn=978-0-89042-576-3 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PIGizgEACAAJ | chapter=Conditions for Further Study | page=916 | quote=Excessive use of the Internet not involving playing of online games (e.g., excessive use of social media, such as Facebook; viewing pornography online) is not considered analogous to Internet gaming disorder, and future research on other excessive uses of the Internet would need to follow similar guidelines as suggested herein. Excessive gambling online may qualify for a separate diagnosis of gambling disorder.}}{{cite book | author=American Psychiatric Association | title=Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-5-TR(tm)) | publisher=American Psychiatric Association Publishing | series=G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series | year=2022 | isbn=978-0-89042-576-3 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PIGizgEACAAJ | chapter=Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders | page=543 | quote=In addition to the substance-related disorders, this chapter also includes gambling disorder, reflecting evidence that gambling behaviors activate reward systems similar to those activated by drugs of abuse and that produce some behavioral symptoms that appear comparable to those produced by the substance use disorders. Other excessive behavioral patterns, such as Internet gaming (see 'Conditions for Further Study'), have also been described, but the research on these and other behavioral syndromes is less clear. Thus, groups of repetitive behaviors, sometimes termed "behavioral addictions" (with subcategories such as 'sex addiction,' 'exercise addiction,' and 'shopping addiction'), are not included because there is insufficient peer-reviewed evidence to establish the diagnostic criteria and course descriptions needed to identify these behaviors as mental disorders.}} Neither ICD-10, nor ICD-11 recognize sex addiction or porn addiction as a valid diagnosis.

Reception

{{further|Masturbation#Health effects{{!}}Health effects of masturbation|Effects of pornography}}

Therapist Paula Hall for The Huffington Post was asked about NoFap claims of "physical health benefits mentioned including renewed energy, greater focus, concentration, and better sleep" and responded "there is little medical evidence for any of these changes".{{cite web|last1=Galager|first1=Sophie|title=The Rise Of NoFap: Why Young Men Are Quitting Masturbation The NoFap community has grown alongside the rise in internet porn – but is it helping anyone?|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/why-are-young-men-stopping-themselves-masturbating_uk_5d2f0f49e4b0a873f6449ff8 |website=HuffPost UK |date=August 19, 2019|access-date=April 21, 2020|archive-date=November 2, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201102223359/https://consent.yahoo.com/v2/collectConsent?sessionId=2_cc-session_510eaf20-1c2e-4bcc-89a9-49d2dfb53812|url-status=live}} Therapist Robert Weiss for The Huffington Post sees NoFap as part of a tech backlash.{{cite web|last1=Weiss|first1=Robert|title=Is 'No Fap' Movement Start of Tech Backlash?|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-weiss/no-fap-movement_b_3302874.html |website=HuffPost |access-date=June 27, 2015|date=May 19, 2013|archive-date=March 15, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160315204550/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-weiss/no-fap-movement_b_3302874.html|url-status=live}} The endeavor has also been criticized as generating embarrassing side effects such as prolonged or unwanted erections in men or an excessive libido.{{cite journal|last1=Harrison|first1=Alexandra|title=Nudge, Don't Thrust: The Application of Behavioral Law and Economics to America's Porn Addiction|journal=Texas Review of Law and Politics|volume=19|date=2014|page=337|url=https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/trlp19&div=18&id=&page=|access-date=November 2, 2020|archive-date=July 13, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200713214157/https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals%252Ftrlp19&div=18&id=&page=|url-status=live}} Psychologist David J. Ley wrote: "I'm not in opposition to them, but I do think their ideas are simplistic, naive and promote a sad, reductionistic and distorted view of male sexuality and masculinity".{{cite web|url=https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/women-who-stray/201503/the-nofap-phenomenon|title=The NoFap Phenomenon|last1=Ley|first1=David|website=Psychology Today|access-date=June 10, 2015|archive-date=March 4, 2015|archive-url=https://archive.today/20150304190158/https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/women-who-stray/201503/the-nofap-phenomenon|url-status=live}} Ley criticizes NoFap supporters as amateurs who are using "bad data" and "extrapolations on weak science to argue that porn has a disproportionate effect on the brain" and claim that porn use causes erectile dysfunction. Ley has stated that the website is a continuation of the anti-masturbation movements from the past, such as Swiss doctor Samuel Tissot's 18th-century claims that masturbation was an illness that "weakened the male spirit" and led to immorality; American doctor Benjamin Rush, who claimed that masturbation caused blindness; and W.K. Kellogg, who developed corn flakes as part of his anti-masturbation efforts.

=Research concerning NoFap forums and followers=

NoFap appears to oppose science. Their website includes legal warnings that scientists are prohibited from conducting research on them, and they have threatened to sue scientists who do.{{cite journal | last1= Gałuszka | first1=Damian | title=Anti-porn attitudes among Polish Internet users. An initial research | journal=Psychologia Wychowawcza | date= 2020 }}

A 2021 qualitative study found that NoFap's approach to pornography appears to be harmful. Specifically, the scientists studied "members of the online NoFap/PornFree self-help communities" and concluded "commitment to abstinence, framed by the notions of recovery and relapse, was found to be a major factor for maintaining distress."{{cite journal | last1=Chasioti | first1=Dimitra | last2=Binnie | first2 = James | title=Exploring the Etiological Pathways of Problematic Pornography Use in NoFap/PornFree Rebooting Communities: A Critical Narrative Analysis of Internet Forum Data | journal=Archives of Sexual Behavior | date= 2021 | volume=50 | issue=5 | pages=2227–2243 | doi=10.1007/s10508-021-01930-z | pmid=34143364 | pmc=8275519 | doi-access=free }} A 2021 research article concluded with a warning, saying that "the mythical articulations that emerge from contestations over concepts like NoFap have the potential to galvanize young men into horrific, real-world violence."

A 2020 study found that while NoFap claimed to be science-based, the more that NoFap followers believed that they should abstain from masturbation, the more they also reported "lower trust in science". Social psychologists Taylor and Jackson, who analyzed the content of NoFap forums, concluded in their study that some NoFap participants not only rejected pornography, but also radical feminist critiques of pornography. They also stated that members of NoFap frequently utilized and redeployed familiar hegemonic masculine views (e.g. men as dominant seekers of pleasure and women as the 'natural' suppliers of this pleasure), in turn reproducing societal expectations of gendered sexual dominance and submission. Another 2020 study stated that the forum represents itself as a source of medical information, which seems to discourage members from seeking actual medical advice and instead encourages self-diagnosis.{{cite journal | last1=von Sydow | first1=Vincent | title=NoFap. Sexuellt frustrerade mannens räddning?: En kritisk studie om maskulinitet och mäns frivilliga avståndstagande från pornografi och masturbation i forumet Nofap. com | journal=Center for Gender Studies | publisher=Uppsala university | date= 2020 }}

A 2020 study analysing discourse on pornography, published in the journal Social Forces, stated regarding NoFap: "These claims do not necessarily come from scientific experts. Instead, we find that newspaper articles draw from a variety of professionals who are not scientists" and that "Rhodes is quoted repeatedly reflecting that he was 'addicted to internet porn' and shares the personal consequences." They conclude "journalists and political actors are overextending scientific findings to advance their media markets and political agendas" in support of gender and sexual norms.{{cite journal | last1=Burke | first1=Kelsy | last2=MillerMacPhee | first2=Alice | title=Constructing Pornography Addiction's Harms in Science, News Media, and Politics | journal=Social Forces | publisher=Oxford University Press (OUP) | date=April 24, 2020 | issn=0037-7732 | doi=10.1093/sf/soaa035 }}

A 2020 paper stated that NoFap appears to have been specifically targeted by far-right groups, writing, "the struggle for the 'remasculinization' of white men by overcoming porn (addiction) had to be an antisemitic one: a fight against 'Jewish pornography' and 'Jewish filth,' in which other current anti-porn actors such as NoFap should join".{{cite journal| last =Kerl|first =Kristoff| title ='Oppression by Orgasm': Pornography and Antisemitism in Far-Right Discourses in the United States Since the 1970s| journal =Studies in American Jewish Literature|volume =39|issue =1|pages = 117–138|date =2020|doi =10.5325/studamerjewilite.39.1.0117|s2cid =216218638|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/751598|url-access =subscription}} Cultural studies scholar Simon Strick stated regarding NoFap that a "racist culture war...was already implied in the call to join the 'movement' by becoming abstinent". The chapter continues, "NoFap present themselves as a search for non-toxic and progressive gender roles, even as they partake in gendered and racialized narratives that are no less violent".{{Cite book |last=Strick |first=Simon |date=2019 |chapter=Right-Wing World-Building: Affect and Sexuality in the 'Alternative Right' |editor1=Jurgen Gebhardt |editor2=Heike Paul |editor3=Ursula Prutsch |title=The Comeback of Populism: Transatlantic Perspectives |series=Publikationen der Bayerischen Amerika-Akademie, Band 21 (volume 21) |location=Heidelberg |publisher=Universitätsverlag Winter |isbn=9783825346355 |oclc=1112228506}} A paper in 2021 which analysed a large corpus of Tweets about NoFap found subject positions linked to myths including anti-feminist and anti-Semitic themes.{{Cite journal |last=Burnett |first=Scott |date=August 2022 |title=The Battle for "NoFap": Myths, Masculinity, and the Meaning of Masturbation Abstention |journal=Men and Masculinities |language=en |volume=25 |issue=3 |pages=477–496 |doi=10.1177/1097184X211018256 |issn=1097-184X|doi-access=free }}

NoFap supporters are "known for vitriolically attacking female scholars not sharing their view".{{cite book|first1=Susanna|last1=Paasonen|first2=Feona|last2=Attwood|first3=Alan|last3=McKee|first4=John|last4=Mercer|first5=Clarissa|last5=Smith|title=Objectification: On the Difference between Sex and Sexism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H2r0DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT10|date=August 12, 2020|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-429-53424-9|page=81|access-date=August 25, 2020|archive-date=November 2, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201102223403/https://books.google.com/books?id=H2r0DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT10|url-status=live}} Sociologist Kelsy Burke stated that "Rhodes and a small staff manage NoFap.com and its brand full time".{{cite news|url=https://slate.com/human-interest/2020/05/men-quitting-masturbation-nofap-dangers.html|title=Sinning Like a Man Evangelical porn addiction groups show the truth about men who are obsessed with quitting masturbation.|last1=Burke|first1=Kelsey|newspaper=Slate|access-date=May 18, 2020|date=May 18, 2020|archive-date=May 19, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200519033443/https://slate.com/human-interest/2020/05/men-quitting-masturbation-nofap-dangers.html|url-status=live}} She states, "There is no scientific evidence that supports the idea of these superpowers. Yet hundreds of thousands of NoFap users insist they experience them." She critiques similar gender problems in groups including NoFap, stating, "The scientific and spiritual gets muddled together as participants reinforce damaging gender stereotypes—those of hypersexual, biologically ravenous men who are simply "wired differently" than women. Women whose sexuality exists only in relation to male desire...porn addiction recovery reproduces the worst lessons of porn itself." NoFap forums are described by a 2020 paper as a place where "men's sexual entitlement to women was left unquestioned".{{cite journal |last= Meenagh|first= Joni|date= 2020|title='She doesn't think that happens': When heterosexual men say no to sex |journal=Sexualities|volume= 24|issue= 3|pages= 322–340|doi=10.1177/1363460720936460 | issn=1363-4607 |s2cid= 225524217}}

Claims of the semen retention community as well as those of the NoFap community are among the least accurate in respect to men's health.{{cite journal | last1=Dubin | first1=Justin M. | last2=Aguiar | first2=Jonathan A. | last3=Lin | first3=Jasmine S. | last4=Greenberg | first4=Daniel R. | last5=Keeter | first5=Mary Kate | last6=Fantus | first6=Richard J. | last7=Pham | first7=Minh N. | last8=Hudnall | first8=Matthew T. | last9=Bennett | first9=Nelson E. | last10=Brannigan | first10=Robert E. | last11=Halpern | first11=Joshua A. | title=The broad reach and inaccuracy of men's health information on social media: analysis of TikTok and Instagram | journal=International Journal of Impotence Research | publisher=Springer Science and Business Media LLC | date=November 19, 2022 | volume=36 | issue=3 | pages=256–260 | issn=0955-9930 | doi=10.1038/s41443-022-00645-6 | pmid=36402921 | pmc=9676765 | s2cid=253707767 }}

The medical orthodoxy attributes the sufferance of NoFap users to various mental disorders, rather than caused by PMO (porn, masturbation, orgasm).{{cite journal | last1=Prause | first1=Nicole | last2=Binnie | first2=James | title=Iatrogenic effects of Reboot/NoFap on public health: A preregistered survey study | journal=Sexualities | publisher=SAGE Publications | date=February 22, 2023 | issn=1363-4607 | doi=10.1177/13634607231157070 | page=136346072311570| s2cid=257172274 | url=https://openresearch.lsbu.ac.uk/download/af044dbeb36aefcdb593641a18267139b810bb745d21ca4e8881f5e40472d2e8/1373447/Submission_Sexualities_12.13.2022.pdf }}{{cite web | first=Urja | last=Kalyani | title=NoFap Forums: Study Finds Participants Facing 'Suicidal' Tendencies, Other Mental Health Problems | website=Medical Daily | date=March 3, 2023 | url=https://www.medicaldaily.com/nofap-forums-study-finds-participants-facing-suicidal-tendencies-other-mental-468321 | access-date=March 4, 2023}} Prause and Binnie note that the NoFap forums are overloaded with conspiracy theories seeking to explain this away.

=Journalistic descriptions of NoFap=

Several journalists have criticized NoFap.{{cite web|last1=Singal|first1=Jesse|title=Why We're Scared of Masturbation|url=https://nymag.com/scienceofus/2014/08/why-were-scared-of-masturbation.html|publisher=NY Mag|access-date=June 10, 2015|date=August 4, 2014|archive-date=June 29, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150629004749/http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2014/08/why-were-scared-of-masturbation.html|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/kanye-west-porn-masturbation-nofap-incels-fringe-right|title=KANYE WEST IS A NOFAP HERO|last1=Klee|first1=Miles|newspaper=Mel Magazine|access-date=October 24, 2019|date=October 24, 2019|archive-date=April 10, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200410202919/https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/kanye-west-porn-masturbation-nofap-incels-fringe-right|url-status=live}} Some of them report that the forums were filled with misogyny, stating that "there is a darker side to NoFap. Among the reams of Reddit discussions and YouTube videos, a fundamentally misogynistic rhetoric regularly emerges",{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/sep/09/whats-causing-women-to-join-the-nofap-movement|title=What's causing women to join the NoFap movement?|last1=Bishop|first1=Kate|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=September 9, 2019|date=September 9, 2019|archive-date=September 9, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190909061616/https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/sep/09/whats-causing-women-to-join-the-nofap-movement|url-status=live}} and that "the NoFap community has become linked to wider sexism and misogyny, reducing women to sexual objects to be attained or abstained from and shaming sexually active women."{{cite news|url=https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/social-media/2018/11/no-nut-november-insidious-internet-challenge-encouraging-men-not|title=No Nut November: the insidious internet challenge encouraging men not to masturbate|last1=Manavis|first1=Sarah|newspaper=The New Statesman|access-date=November 13, 2018|date=November 13, 2018|archive-date=November 13, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181113223221/https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/social-media/2018/11/no-nut-november-insidious-internet-challenge-encouraging-men-not|url-status=live}} NoFap followers have posted videos on YouTube that regularly feature anti-homosexual and anti-woman values, such as "stop being a little bitch" demands. A New York Times story by Rob Kuznia expressed concern about white supremacists promoting the belief that pornography is a conspiracy of Judaism.{{cite web|last1=Kuznia|first1=Rob|title=Among Some Hate Groups, Porn Is Viewed as a Conspiracy|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/07/us/hate-groups-porn-conspiracy.html|work=The New York Times|access-date=June 7, 2019|date=June 7, 2019|archive-date=June 9, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190609090230/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/07/us/hate-groups-porn-conspiracy.html|url-status=live}} Scientist Shane Kraus, PhD, speaking to CNET describes there is "no scholarship" supporting the Reboot claims of NoFap.{{cite news|url=https://www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/porn-addiction-is-ruining-lives-but-scientists-arent-convinced-its-real/|title=Porn addiction is ruining lives, but scientists aren't convinced it's real|last1=Van Boom|first1=Daniel|newspaper=CNET|access-date=December 2, 2020|date=December 1, 2020}}

Der Spiegel reported that some NoFap adherents also belong to groups with members who have been connected to hate crimes and terrorist murders, arguing that there is a general potential for radicalization within the manosphere.{{cite web | last1=Rosenbach | first1=Marcel | last2=Müller | first2=Ann-Katrin | last3=Höfner | first3=Roman | last4=Baumgärtner | first4=Maik | last5=Spiegel | first5=Der | title=Hatred Against Women: The Dark World of Extremist Misogyny | website=DER SPIEGEL | date=March 10, 2021 | url=https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/from-digital-hate-to-analog-violence-the-dark-world-of-extremist-misogyny-a-832ed3cb-21d1-4e84-8c28-089365e91a83 | access-date=March 25, 2021}}

NPR published an article that states that the NoFap forum is rife with racist, misogynistic and violent posts.{{cite news |publisher=NPR |title=Masturbation abstinence is popular online. Doctors and therapists are worried |date=February 3, 2024 |first=Lisa|last=Hagen |url=https://www.npr.org/2026/01/01/1198916105/mens-health-masturbation-abstinence | access-date=13 August 2024}}

Litigation

NoFap has been involved in legal actions filed or threatened by its founder, Alexander Rhodes. After threatening two scientists with litigation, the scientists published a letter defending the need to be allowed to criticize NoFap: "As [NoFap] operate in the public sphere, however, we deem it not only as legitimate but necessary to acknowledge and cite them as one prominent voice in the debate around masturbation abstinence—everything else would be an unjustifiable muting of their stand."{{cite journal |last= Imhoff|first=Roland |date=2020 |title= Men's Reasons to Abstain from Masturbation May Not Reflect the Conviction of "reboot" Websites|journal=Archives of Sexual Behavior|volume=49 |issue=5 |pages=1429–1430 |doi= 10.1007/s10508-020-01722-x|pmid=32356083 |pmc=7300076 }} NoFap threatened to sue The Spectator for writing about their association with far-right groups.{{cite web | last=McDonald | first=Matt | title='NoFap' distance themselves from the Proud Boys | website=The Spectator | url=https://spectator.us/nofap-proud-boys/ | access-date=August 5, 2020 | archive-date=August 4, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200804191918/https://spectator.us/nofap-proud-boys/ | url-status=live }}

Alexander Rhodes sued his own mother because she accused NoFap of getting involved with extremist organizations.

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In 2017, an Independent article called "Inside the Community of Men Who Have Given Up Porn" noted that an alternative subreddit, /r/pornfree, is different from 'NoFap' as members abstain from pornography but not necessarily masturbation.{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/love-sex/porn-free-men-community-give-up-sex-videos-masturbation-reddit-pornfree-a7713841.html|title=Inside the community of men who have given up porn|last=Hosie|first=Rachel|date=May 3, 2017|website=The Independent|access-date=February 20, 2018|archive-date=February 20, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180220212512/http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/love-sex/porn-free-men-community-give-up-sex-videos-masturbation-reddit-pornfree-a7713841.html|url-status=live}} Another Independent article, from 2018, described /r/pornfree as less 'extreme' compared to /r/nofap.{{cite web | last=Hosie | first=Rachel | title=Man deletes 18 terabyte porn collection to try and end his addiction | website=The Independent | date=August 15, 2017 | url=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/porn-addiction-man-delete-18-terabyte-sex-videos-collection-to-help-a7893991.html | access-date=July 13, 2020 | archive-date=January 31, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200131161306/https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/porn-addiction-man-delete-18-terabyte-sex-videos-collection-to-help-a7893991.html | url-status=live }}

A study of NoFap reddit users found that NoFap members were most likely to also be members of TheRedPill, seduction, and similar men's rights and pick up artist Reddit groups.{{cite journal|last= Khan|first= Abeer|date= 2020|title= Reddit Mining to Understand Gendered Movements|journal= EDBT/ICDT Workshops|url= http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2578/DARLIAP3.pdf|access-date= August 25, 2020|archive-date= September 18, 2020|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200918202000/http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2578/DARLIAP3.pdf|url-status= live}} Another study reported a similar pattern that NoFap Reddit members also were likely to be supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump.{{Cite book |last=Massachs |first=Joan |date=2020 |chapter=Roots of Trumpism: Homophily and Social Feedback in Donald Trump Support on Reddit |title=WebSci '20: Proceedings of the 12th ACM Conference on Web Science |url=https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3394231 |url-access=subscription |format=July 6–10, 2020, Southampton, UK |location=New York |publisher=Association for Computing Machinery |pages=49–58 |arxiv=2005.01790 |doi=10.1145/3394231.3397894 |isbn=9781450379892 |oclc=1381938796 |s2cid=218502169}}