What are false attractions like for everyone else? Here’s how mine go, they’re either groinal responses which are normal and I try not to give TOO much meaning to, but the one that fucks me up the most is when, I see a girl and I get a sensation in my stomach kinda like butterflies when you have a crush, but then I start panicking, they’re just sensations just bc I have no desire to be intimate with them or anything, but it’s tingling sensations throughout my body and stuff too and that drives me crazy. Ik my brain is doing a false alarm thing just bc it’s just a sensation and if I did have a crush I would know ?. But yeah that’s how mine are.

Brookenoel

Date posted: 6y

@Prole trust me I’ve been there. It doesn’t add up with me either. I’ve been naturally boy crazy my whole life but my ocd says I forced feelings for boys. For awhile I couldn’t enjoy sex either but now that I’m a bit better I have moments where I can be super into my boyfriend even if it’s for like 5 minutes only

mktropeano

Date posted: 6y

mine are exactly like that too. drives me crazy

lexnot

Date posted: 6y

Mine are like that as well but my brain also tells me I want to do stuff with them or I picture it. Really annoying honestly...

Prole

Date posted: 6y

I hope you either find this funny or not too inappropriate. My scrotum and man parts kinda tingles and I just get flooded with super gay thoughts. They give me distress at first. But lately they are just there and kinda give me back door distress because I don't feel distress from before.

Brookenoel

Date posted: 6y

@Prole haha you’re fine! I never know what it’s like for men so that’s very interesting

Prole

Date posted: 6y

It just sucks, I think it stems from the fact that I had a former gay friend (he always tried to coerce me into doing gay stuff in hindsight) but pretty much when the friend group found out they stopped talking to him. I tried to be his friend for a while, but he kept trying to make me do gay stuff and molested a friend of mine. I fear losing my friends because of that and fear that he coerced me.

Brookenoel

Date posted: 6y

@Prole I’m so sorry, that’s not right, if he wanted to experiment he should have done it with someone who was into it. I have no idea what prompted mine for sure. I think it was porn addiction as a child? Ik it’s crazy but yeah, and to make it worse it was gay/lesbian porn ?

Prole

Date posted: 6y

Yeah I experimented with it several times, which led me to the conclusion it's possible I'm like a 1 on the Kinsey scale. The HOCD tells me I'm full and that I'll lose all my friends and family because of it. It doesn't line up with my history though, as I've loved girls my whole life and still really want a girlfriend. It doesn't help that I haven't had a long term relationship and the only time I had sex I couldn't finish, but I'm still convinced I'm straight. Now I can't even look at porn any more, I tried not pmoing and haven't for a while but now I lost all attraction

Prole

Date posted: 6y

I just feel like I placed the ultimate trust in the gay friend and in return he only wanted to solicit me, which really damaged my trust and sense of self

Anonymous

Date posted: 18w

Will groinals go away with acceptance

I keep getting these groinal responses when I think about kids or see one and it's really distressing, I only just learned that OCD can make you feel that and it's not actually attraction but it's so hard to remember that and I've seen people talking about accepting uncertainty but I'm so scared to think "maybe it's attraction maybe it's not" instead of "no it's not attraction that's disgusting" and idk what to do

katr :,)

Date posted: 17w

Pocd is so hard 😭

Ughhhhhh it feels like I can’t tell between false attraction or attractive 😭 :/ idk I just saw some pics of joji and artist that makes music when he was younger (it was a post on insta) and on one of them I thought oh he looks cute here, but no I’m like omg but idk in what way tho but it felt like not false attraction like I thought or meant it in another way and I. Felt that and then kinda freaked out bc idk if it’s weird and then I felt groinals and *sigh*

POCD

Faker6532

Date posted: 15w

Tingling or arousal sensations?

Does anyone else when they have the thoughts, they feel against it, but they still get arousal or tenglings sensations in the groinal area? Because this is what I experienced today and I feel like crap. This is going to be very triggering for a lot of you, but there are a lot of times that I notice things from kids. For example, there is a thirteen year old kid who looks very developed for her age, and I take notice of (and this already sounds creepy to me) her chest. Today with my thoughts, I imagined as if I were touching it, and although I usually "no no or "I don't want to do that", she is a kid, etc., I still get responses in my groinal area, and It felt very real. Even now, I feel as though I am faking it, even though I groan 😮‍💨 from it, and feel as though I am a fraud. Does anyone relate?

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