Facilitated online support groups.
NoFap’s anonymous support groups will help you stick to your sexual health goals. By attending our weekly calls, you’ll have direct access to the inner circle of the most dedicated community members. We’re available to anyone who is looking to establish healthier sexual habits, including those seeking to recover from porn addiction, porn overuse, and non-porn compulsive sexual behavior. Our website has been online since 2011, and thousands of people have joined NoFap Groups since we launched them over four years ago. We look forward to meeting you!
What to expect:
Small Measurable Goals
Peer facilitators encourage participants to not only abstain from porn, but to pursue beneficial habits.
Reliable Accountability
Many peer-organized accountability groups just aren't reliable. Rain or shine, we'll be there at the scheduled time.
Experienced Facilitators
We've been running peer support groups for years. All facilitators have personal experience with porn addiction.
Frequent Communication
We meet every week. You can also keep in touch with your accountability group in between calls using a live text chat app.
Safety
All participants remain anonymous. You choose your level of participation by talking, texting, or just listening in.
Acceptance
You will be among a group of peers in a shame-free environment. In our group sessions, you can truly be yourself.
How do the weekly group calls work?
Join using your computer or phone.
You may attend our accountability calls from anywhere in the world. You will be provided both a phone number to call in or a URL to connect online.
Let your group know how you're doing.
The group facilitator will ensure that everybody who wants to has a chance to share updates about their sexual health goals via voice or live text chat.
Connect and set goals for next time.
We might go through an exercise, offer each other support, discuss a particular subject, or have an open discussion. At the end, we set goals for the next week.
Calls vary depending on various factors, such as attendance, current events, & holidays. Sometimes, we focus on one particular exercise or topic about recovery, while other times, we host an open discussion.
Ready to join?
Large podcast-style calls. Get support, ask questions, or just listen, Thursdays 10am and 8pm ET
$25 $20Maximum of 35 people per group. Individual attention, we track your progress.
$50 $40Maximum of just 12 people per group. The most individual attention.
150 $120Weekly Drop-In Call
Attendance Varies
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Large, podcast-style calls
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Get support, ask questions, or just listen
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Thursdays at 10 am and 8 pm ET
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Access to one session per week
Accountability Group
Maximum of 35 People Per Group
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Access to a weekly accountability group
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More individual attention
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We track your progress
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Access to private forum group
Small Accountability Group
Maximum of Just 12 People Per Group
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Access to a small accountability group
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The most individual attention
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We track your progress
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Access to private forum group
Meet the Team
Alex
Alex has led hundreds of recovery peer support meetings since 2013.
Matt
Matt has worked as our community manager since 2016.
Trained Facilitators
NoFap team members, such as website moderators and administrators, facilitate our peer support group calls.
Frequently Asked Questions
Drop-in support calls are less organized and have more attendees – although attendance varies every week. A dozen people might show up – or a hundred. Some people like to just listen in, while others like to actively participate by either talking or chatting in the chatroom. The amount of personal attention that you can get depends on how many people are in the call; however, many people appreciate simply listening in similar to a live talk show-style podcast. These calls can be quite lively, are often attended by NoFap founder Alex Rhodes, and we share behind-the-scenes information about the website, news, and recovery advice. Sometimes we invite special guests such as therapists or recovery personalities. Everybody has the option to check-in via the live chat – and we bring on people live to share their stories and to ask questions. While these aren’t the same level of accountability as our accountability group calls, many people find it beneficial to have somewhere to show up to every week to focus on recovery.
Accountability group calls are focused on holding you accountable for reaching your goals. With accountability calls, call facilitators track your goals and progression on a weekly basis. Since attendance is capped and the same set of people attend every week, there is a far greater amount of individual attention – whereas in the drop-in support calls, call facilitators are unlikely to be familiar with your situation. In between weekly sessions, you can communicate with your fellow group members in a private forum hosted on NoFap’s main forums.
Drop-In Support calls are currently at 10 am and 8 pm ET (Eastern Time, same as New York City) on Thursdays. We will likely add more time slots in the future.
Accountability Group calls are more varied. They occur at various times throughout the week. Most calls start sometime between 8 am – 8 pm ET. If you are from another time zone, please check to make sure that the time range works for your schedule before signing up. Here is a handy time zone conversion site. Within one week, you will be matched to a group that fits your time availability. If you have an especially busy schedule, you might want to contact us before signing up.
Our currently-available time slots for accountability groups are as follows:
- Tuesdays at 8 pm ET
- Wednesdays at 10 am ET
- Wednesdays at 4 pm ET
- Wednesdays at 8 pm ET
- Thursdays at 12 pm ET
- Thursdays at 4 pm ET
- Saturdays at 11 am ET
If none of these time slots work for you, email us or keep checking back for new openings!
NoFap is a secular recovery website. However, people from many religions around the world, or of no religion at all, utilize our website. We approach the issue from a science-based perspective. If you are personally religious, we are happy to have you and you are welcome to share your personal story, but our calls are not faith-based and call facilitators won’t be able to get into religious text discussions with you!
Yes and we encourage it. What you choose to reveal is entirely up to you. Asking us to refer to you by your NoFap username is completely acceptable. We also recommend not sharing personal information about yourself that could be used to identify you, such as your job, where you live, etc, if you have concerns about anonymity.
You can opt to use text-chat only – every call has a chat room that the facilitator will monitor. You may connect using your voice or even video (through your computer webcam or phone camera) – it’s up to you. In any case, we still recommend that you withhold personally identifiable information.
Anybody who is 18 years or older who is looking to establish healthier sexual habits or recover from porn overuse, porn addiction, or other compulsive sexual behavior. Our groups community is mostly comprised of men in their 20s through 70s.
We hold you accountable – but there’s only so much that we can do. You are responsible for showing up to the calls. From there, our facilitator and the community will encourage you to reach your sexual health goals. But similar to how a personal trainer actually can’t do the exercises for you, we can only show you the path – it’s up to you to walk it. So the answer is, yes, we will hold you accountable and we keep track of your progress (for accountability group calls, not drop-in support calls) , but you need to show up to the calls and participate!
There are benefits to each. Some people find that having more people in the group is motivating, while others find the deeper camaraderie of a smaller group to be more motivational. There is less individual attention given in big groups, which is ideal for busy people who require just a quick check-in. Some people prefer to sit in and benefit silently from the recovery atmosphere, while not actively participating themselves. In this case, big groups are a better option. The choice between big or small groups is up to you and the experience that you want to have.
A trained facilitator runs and maintains the flow of the meetings. These are recovering porn addicts who are NoFap team members, such as moderators or site administrators.
Any phone or a computer. You can dial-in or connect via the Zoom meeting software on your computer (Windows, Linux, and Mac), iOS, or Android device. If you can read this web page and sign up for the membership, you have the ability to attend the calls.
For now, all calls are in English and hosted by team members based in the United States. Anyone from any country is invited to attend, but we highly recommend a conversational fluency in English to listen, participate, or live text chat.
For drop-in support and regular accountability group calls, you are completely welcome to attend and just listen. And our text-chat option allows you to communicate live with the NoFap team and group members without actually speaking. Many people prefer to do this, instead of talk. However, note that the quality of your experience and the support you receive will depend to a degree on the relationships you build with the team and your fellow group members, so we encourage you to contribute as much as you feel comfortable doing, even if just through text chat. For small accountability groups, we request that everybody actively participate.
Generally yes. Keep in mind that the group facilitators are similar to you, though, and cannot provide you medical or mental healthcare. They do, however, have personal experience with porn addiction (and sometimes compulsive sexual behavior too) and can share what has worked (and not worked) for them, along with giving you general guidance based on NoFap’s best practices.
For drop-in support calls, you will receive an email after signing up asking you to select which drop-in session you’ll be attending every week. After you make your selection, you will receive another email with the Zoom Webinar link to join. Note that these links change every month and we send these new links at the beginning of every month via email.
For accountability groups, after signing up, within minutes you will receive a survey in your email box (if you don’t see anything, check your spam folder!). The survey will ask you some basic questions about yourself and which times that you are available. It may take up to a week to match you into an accountability group, but in the meantime, you will be provided links to attend drop-in support calls.
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“The Fine Print”
- This is a monthly membership that is automatically billed until canceled. While we do not provide refunds for this service, you may cancel your membership by opening up a support ticket to avoid future billing. Please let us know that you would like to leave the community at least seven days prior to renewal to give us ample opportunity to complete the exiting process.
- Support call and accountability group availability varies. We reserve the right to close enrollment at any time. If you are looking to join, we recommend signing up quickly after enrollment periods open, as we are unable to take on any new members until more slots become available. If accountability groups are closed, you may join the waitlist to be alerted whenever they open up again.
- All attendees must agree to our User Agreement and Call Rules prior to signing up. Our rules are designed to foster a civil group dynamic that helps everyone reach their goals. We’ve never yet had to deny anyone access, but NoFap reserves the right to cancel an individual’s membership if they repeatedly disrupt meetings and disregard facilitator direction.
- This is not mental healthcare or therapy. Group leaders are peer facilitators. They are, in general, similar to you – enthusiastic recovering addicts who want to help provide a supportive atmosphere for attendees to provide mutual encouragement – not professionally licensed therapists. We strongly recommend that you see a therapist in conjunction with attending our accountability group calls. If you are experiencing suicidal or violent thoughts, seek help from a hotline or emergency services immediately.
- We take the privacy of our members very seriously. Recording calls or publicly disclosing personal information about others discovered during calls is strictly prohibited. However, while we can guarantee that we won’t disclose your personal information to other parties (outside of very limited circumstances, outlined in the User Agreement), we cannot make that guarantee on behalf of other call attendees. As such, we encourage an atmosphere of anonymity – so please don’t reveal personal information about yourself, such as your full name, during calls.
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