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@Myheadhurts35 Interesting! Yeah I’ve heard that porn use can really be detrimental to SOOCD. I think the thing I’m most concerned with is that, I’ve heard if you go a long time without masturbating, eventually you’ll start to be attracted to way more people than before, even potentially people of your same gender to some degree(?). Not sure if it’s a joke but definitely something that could be triggering for SOOCD people.

@Myheadhurts35 Do you think porn can trigger soocd because that’s how mine started and I have so many questions

@Myheadhurts35 I remember at a young age watching lesbian porn and I was pretty young like 11 but I mean I felt like that was a reasonable age to know at least your sexuality. And I never seeked out looking for this type of porn I just kinda came across it and looked at it I was curious I guess and I didn’t know that I could get gronial responses from this and me being straight I felt bad that my body reacted but deep down I knew I wouldn’t engage in doing what these girls were doing to each other I also felt disgusted in a way just cause it’s so different I had thought while I was watching lesbian porn that “I don’t like this or how could they do this” and certain phots and videos I didn’t want to look at because it was too much for me and I was like “yeah I don’t like that”

@Myheadhurts35 Ik Im ranting but im so desperate to find an answer to this I’ve never met anyone who said they had SOOCD because of this reason. I think my biggest thing about feeling in denial was because I’m straight and at that age you felt like you did wrong and you think watching lesbian porn as a straight girl is wrong and it made me question myself and to a point where I got depressed and severe anxiety. I don’t want to do anything sexual with a female but this convinces me that it plays a part in what my “true” sexuality could be

@jayy02 Hey there, sorry you’re going through so much right now—if it’s any consolation, one of the worst times I experienced SOOCD was actually when I took a naked picture of myself out of boredom and then, upon looking at it again, experienced a groinal response. I was very young haha probably 12 or 13, but yeah either way it definitely brought on the intrusive thoughts. I know it’s not the same as looking at porn but it’s still explicit material I guess, so yeah SOOCD can be brought on by literally so many things—I wouldn’t say what brings it on really matters much in the end.

@yun444g That makes sense I have a hard time with thinking my story or how mine started was way too different but I guess it doesn’t matter how it starts ocd regardless of any theme is ocd

@yun444g And when I was looking at lesbian I didn’t know right away I was have gronial responses just that I had noticed and I tried to control it I guess as a response as a compulsion. I think what made me feel better was thinking that anything that’s sexual can and will arouse you even if it doesn’t apply to what you would really like. I was young and curious about something and for some reason I felt guilty because I felt like it “turned” me not knowing the whole time I was doing compulsions that whole time looking at explicit content

@jayy02 It’s definitely possible for porn to cause hocd. I’ve heard of it loads of times. And like I was told myself… whatever you watched as a child is known as ‘experiencing’ and apparently has been scientifically proven to not determine your sexuality