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Sexual tastes/urges and habits vs. identity and sexuality
That is not my position.RiverBlue said:
If understand your position,
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Yes. That doesn't make people awful for engaging in either. That doesn't mean I loathe people. I might consider drinking lead paint is bad and unnatural, that doesn't mean I detest lead paint.RiverBlue said:
I just question the implication you draw from this that homosexuality and/or masturbation are unnatural
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No, the idea that your passions (of any kind but particularly around sex) equate with your identity is largely a modern, freudian idea. That any try to restrain or transmute (of any kind not just same sex) is 'repression'.RiverBlue said:
If you are looking to these "time tested excellent religions and philosophies" as support for your argument that homosexuality is unnatural,
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To me that's favor saying 'hey you're drinking, well that's you, swallow more'- where does that lead?
The first important doubt is who do you want to be? Many famous athletes for example tell you they still hate to get out of bed and prepare -they 'feel' like laying in a w
If you grew up on internet porn watching all kinds of porn and getting hooked on screen sex, you may not respond much to sex with a real person. This can cause substantial confusion. Interestingly, those who quit internet porn often experience the return of their normal attractions, whatever they may be. In short, don’t assume you’re “asexual” until you’ve unhooked from porn for a few months. Today’s porn is so potent that it is causing abnormally low libido for partnered sex in many users (Relevant study: Sexual Fantasy and Masturbation Among Asexual Individuals: An In-Depth Exploration, 2017).
Empirical support or porn use affecting sexuality?
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My porn addiction had escalated to the point where I was using 2-4 times a morning, I had intermittent delayed ejaculation problems, and my sexual interests morphed (I thought I was bisexual when I am actually gay… haha the contrary of what usually happens I know). I knew I had to cease completely. I peruse The Power of Habits and then Your Brain on Porn, and that was all I needed.
I knew from the beginning I wanted to distinctly separate porn and masturbation from my mindset. For eight years I had almost exclusively masturbated to porn, and so I wanted to make using porn and masturbating two separate deeds in my mind. I decided to start a 90 day reboot that involved no porn, internet or otherwise, but I would be allowed to jerk off whenever I wanted (the first few weeks I would bar myself in the bathroom with no devices around just to be safe).
One thing that was crazy to me was how much my libido dropped at first. I got no erections at all for the first three days, which was insane to me since I had always considered myself (and still do) to be hypersexual (just in terms of hormones and genetics). That was a big subscribe to me that I was doing the right thing.
For the first
Let me start off by saying that I’ve been masturbating to porn for 8 years. Either it was once a day, twice a day, or more. I was one of those people that escalated to more and more extreme things. I’ve masturbated to gay things within the last limited years, and it was only until two months ago my mind asked itself, “Am I gay?” This caused a lot of anxiety and OCD to happen. I still have this, but not to the degree I used to acquire it.
If anyone’s experiencing something like this, my best tip would be to quit porn. I’ve fought off the anxiety by doing the thing that made me the most anxious; telling myself that I was gay. I forced myself to sit down and think about same-sex attracted sexual thoughts. And yes, they aroused me a lot for the first week. But, in these recent 3 weeks, I’ve noticed these thoughts own become a LOT LESS arousing. I can still acquire aroused by them, but it takes effort. If you’re confused about who you are, you should ask yourself, “Did I ever have these feelings before watching porn?” As I recline here typing this, a little anxiety is hitting me. But a several weeks ago it was incredibly bad.
I’d advise anyone who̵
Can porn addiction cause you to have HOCD and sex encounters you regret?
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do you agree that more extreme stuff releases more dopamine? can you look at things from that perspective, with porn addiction its not about sexual orientation or choice its about creating more anxiety and watching, or when having sex, doing more extreme stuff to keep the engine going. its simple as that, what you do does not matter. its distinct for everyone. bsdm, sm, femdom, lesbians and other genres loleekes mentioned never interested me but for example cheating videos change my brain upside down and release every dopamine there is. so you need to get yourself out of the picture when you think about this because there are lots of different examples. i dont think majority of addicts find homosexual or cheating porn arousing. this is just one example we are not talking about majority or general escalation in porn. when you enter porn addiction, you enter the world of chasing dopamine hit through artficially arousing yourself, you become desensitized to normal arousal and whats beyond normal has nothing to do with your natural orientation or preference.