NoFapper

English

Etymology

From NoFap +‎ -er.

Noun

NoFapper (plural NoFappers)

1. A member of the website and community forum NoFap, serving as as a support group for those who wish to give up pornography and masturbation; one who avoids masturbation.
   • 2017, Matt Fradd, The Porn Myth: Exposing the Reality Behind the Fantasy of Pornography, Ignatius Press, →ISBN:

     About 64 percent of NoFappers had developed tastes for porn that had become extreme or deviant.

   • 2019, Sara Pascoe, Sex Power Money, Faber & Faber, →ISBN:

     Is porn making us unhealthy too? That’s certainly the opinion of NoFappers and some feminists, but their approaches differ.

   • 2021, Lisa Sugiura, The Incel Rebellion: The Rise of the Manosphere and the Virtual War Against Women, Emerald Publishing Limited, →ISBN:

     Reference is also made to groups such as Tradcons and NoFappers in the manosphere. […] NoFappers are men seeking to abstain from pornography and masturbation because they believe that this will enable them to preserve testosterone and achieve greater sexual power and enlightenment.

   • 2021, Nina Power, What Do Men Want?: Masculinity and Its Discontents, Allen Lane, →ISBN:

     NoFappers speak about ‘rebooting’ their brains – that is to say, resetting or recalibrating their sexual desire back to its ‘factory setting’.

   • 2022, Jacob Johanssen, Fantasy, Online Misogyny and the Manosphere: Male Bodies of Dis/Inhibition (Psychoanalysis and Popular Culture), Routledge, →ISBN:

     NoFappers continuously encourage each other and demand that their activities are sublimated into more productive activities, so that the energy can be retained.

   • 2022, Joshua Neves, Aleena Chia, Susanna Paasonen, Ravi Sundaram, Technopharmacology, University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN:

     Journalist Katie Bishop (2019) further explains that “there is also a consensus among many NoFappers (who often brand themselves ‘Fapstronauts’) that refraining from masturbation can lead to ‘superpowers,’ ranging from increased energy and confidence to commanding respect from peers or curing social anxiety.”