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לדברי אליזבת בראון, מדעני המוח הטילו ספק בחלק מטענותיהם של קהילת NoFap.{{הערה|1=Brown, Elizabeth. "Neuroscientists Challenge Myths About Men and Porn". Reason.com. [http://reason.com/blog/2015/03/18/study-says-porn-isnt-making-men-impotent#.c4asnx:FoMn]}} פסיכולוג אחד, דייויד לי, כתב: "איני מתנגד להם, אבל אני חושב שהרעיונות שלהם הם פשטניים, תמימים ומקדמים השקפה עצובה, רדוקציוניסטית ומעוותת של מיניות גברית וה[[גבריות]]".{{הערה|1=Ley, David. "The NoFap Phenomenon". Psychology Today. [https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/women-who-stray/201503/the-nofap-phenomenon]}} הסוציולוגים קריס טיילור וסו ג'קסון ניתחו את התוכן של הפורומים של NoFap ומצאו כי הם מקצינים את הגבריות ובעל קונוטציה מיזוגינית (שנאת נשים).{{הערה|1=Taylor, Kris (2018). "'I want that power back': Discourses of masculinity within an online pornography abstinence forum". [https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1363460717740248]]}}

המאמץ זכה לביקורת גם מפני שהוא גורם לתופעות לוואי מביכות, כגון [[זקפה]] ממושכת או בלתי רצויה או [[ליבידו]] מופרז.{{הערה|1=Harrison, Alexandra (2014). Nudge, Don't Thrust: The Application of Behavioral Law and Economics to America's Porn Addiction [https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/trlp19&div=18&id=&page=]}}

הקונצנזוס הרפואי הוא שלא נגרם נזק מ[[אוננות]] רגילה.{{הערה|1=Coon, Dennis; Mitterer, John O. (2014). "11. Gender and Sexuality". Introduction to Psychology: Gateways to Mind and Behavior (14 ed.). Cengage Learning. p. 363. ISBN 978-1-305-54500-7. 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.[https://books.google.co.il/books?id=-4jCBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA363&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false]}}{{הערה|1=Sigel, Lisa Z. (Summer 2004). "Masturbation: The History of the Great Terror by Jean Stengers; Ann Van Neck; Kathryn Hoffmann". Journal of Social History. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 37 (4): 1065–1066. doi:10.1353/jsh.2004.0065. ISSN 0022-4529. JSTOR 3790078. Stengers and Van Neck follow the illness to its fairly abrupt demise; they liken the shift to finally seeing the emperor without clothes as doctors began to doubt masturbation as a cause of illness at the turn of the twentieth century. Once doubt set in, scientists began to accumulate statistics about the practice, finding that a large minority and then a large majority of people masturbated. The implications were clear: if most people masturbated and did not experience insanity, debility, and early death, then masturbation could not be held accountable to the etiology that had been assigned it. Masturbation quickly lost its hold over the medical community, and parents followed in making masturbation an ordinary part of first childhood and then human sexuality.[https://doi.org/10.1353%2Fjsh.2004.0065]}} האגודה הרפואית האמריקנית הכריזה על אוננות כנורמלית על סמך קונצנזוס ב-1972. אוננות אינה גורעת אנרגיה מגופו של הגבר{{הערה| 1= "Masturbation: Questions and Answers" (PDF). McKinley Health Center University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[https://web.archive.org/web/20151228181238/http://www.mckinley.illinois.edu/Handouts/pdfs/masturbation.pdf]}} ואינה גורמת ל[[שפיכה מוקדמת]].{{הערה|1=Strassberg, Donald S.; Mackaronis, Julia E.; Perelman, Michael A. (2015). "Sexual dysfunctions". In Blaney, Paul H.; Krueger, Robert F.; Millon, Theodore. Oxford textbook of psychopathology (Third ed.). NY: Oxford University Press. pp. 441–442. [https://books.google.co.il/books?id=VoEZBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA442&lpg=PA442&dq=editions:n7U-Dq0ClTsC&hl=nl&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false]}}