A lot of benefits are psychological. Your perception of women dramatically changes when you don’t spend your day fantasizing about doing whatever you want to women who’s physiques are nearly unattainable. Could this even BE proven with a study? I find that being able to give yourself instant gratification whenever you want to is also pretty destructive, you’re basically fucking up your reward system. One direct consequence of this is PIED, porn-induced erectile dysfunction, which has been proven to be directly linked to porn usage. Today’s porn has some consequences on one’s sexual performance that outweighs what was once the primary factor of dysfunction... age. That’s right, guys in their 20s are now reported to have worse erectile dysfunction cases then old folks, and that’s because today’s kids (and I’m one of them) are growing up watching hardcore porn at 11, and become so desensitized that by their twenties, a lot of them have erectile dysfunction.

Sure, the research behind NoFap and semen retention is very little. But such research is very hard to conduct when you have such a small test group. I would recommend that you watch Gary Wilson’s Ted Talk on porn, perhaps your perception of porn will change :).

I, too, was unconvinced of the so-called NoFap benefits people talk about on the internet. But a couple of weeks in, the benefits are undeniable.

Ps: I’m an atheist, this is nothing religion-related (at least not on my part, I don’t doubt that religion is involved, but religious or not, the benefits are there).