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I'm struggling with this too. Before I was actually obssessing over being asexual but it went away and now I'm genuinely questioning if I'm somewhere near demisexual. I do experience attraction but I usually feel romantic attraction first and then it comes sexual attraction. However ocd definitely messed up my attraction so it may also be that. It may be it may not. My ocd wants to make me obsess about it but I don't really care right now. When this will be over I'll have my answers
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Of course there is! That’s the OCD. If you were asexual and just not sure, the NEED to know wouldn’t be so strong. You’d just be like “oh I dunno I’m just not that into sex. Oh well.”
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- 5y ago
How was your sex drive and experience with sex before HOCD? My guess is that if you lost your sexuality drive due to OCD, it doesn’t mean you’re asexual. However if you’ve never been interested in or fulfilled by sex, then you could be. The frequency of thinking about and wanting sex doesn’t really matter. We’re all on a spectrum. Some people want it multiple times a day. Others are good with once a month.
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I’ve never had sex I’m only 15
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But I can’t stop thinking about if I’m asexual or not
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Oh! You are definitely just suffering from OCD then. Don’t even worry about if you’re asexual or not. Right now your OCD is going to make it impossible to determine and the more you think about it the more confused you’ll get. Also at your age things like your sex drive are still in development! You actually won’t know until you’re done with puberty and your brain finishes developing and even then, sexuality kind of ebbs and flows throughout your life based on a ton of factors. I’ve had times of wanting it a lot and times of not really paying it much attention. Rule of thumb: if you can’t stop thinking about it that means it’s an obsession. And obsessions never lead to finding some deeper truth. You can’t feel the truth until you stop looking for it.
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Thanks sm!
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It’s just like their is this part of me that has to know though if I am or not?!?
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Exactly I feel the same way as you right now my mind wants me so hard to obsess over all this like it is like trying to push it in my brain but it’s not going to happen and I think I’m just not as anxious about it because I’m just tired of all these thoughts
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I feel the exact same. Like I don’t wanna be asexual I want to find love it just everything scares me. I had pocd then I was having soocd about if I was bi and then I got over that too and during all of this I still had a desire to be in a relationship and kiss someone etc the only thing that I did have through all of this was a fear of intimacy. Ever since I was a young child I’ve been scared of sex but when ever I pleasure myself I do want to and I can imagine it really clearly then after the anxiety kicks back in. So I’m getting over that now And I’m a lot more willing to have sex it’s just now it’s swapped and kissing and going on dates scares me but I still do want a relationship I just don’t think I will find someone who will put up with me because some days il want to be loved and some I will want to be left alone and Icolated and it making me have this while crisis about being asexual because I’m like well all your over friends just go straight into relationships fine why can’t you and idk what to do because I hate labels but I don’t wanna like be in denial of who I am but like I don’t even know who I am I identify as straight and I’m attracted to men but I’m just so scared did relationships
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I’ve had so many moments of clarity with my OCD that I love my boyfriend and I’m beyond willing to go through this to be better and be with him. in the back of mind I’ve in a way known I was at least somewhat sexually attracted to women (I’m a woman) since the start of the ocd it was always like “okay. Fine, but I don’t want to date a girl” I only just realized this after the ocd started, I never really argued with this. my ocd has always revolved around if I’m romantically interested in women and not men. I’ve done so many compulsions through this year and a half and 9 times out of 10 have come to the conclusion that I don’t want to be with a woman romantically. I always end up feeling like I know I love my boyfriend. But the doubts don’t stop about whether I want to spend my life with a woman instead, my heart literally breaks to think of not being with my bf and imagining him with someone else. I don’t want to be with a woman I know deep down somewhere underneath the anxiety that that’s not what I want. It doesn’t feel natural for me, unfulfilling. I want to tell my boyfriend about the possible sexual attraction to women (ik it’s still ocd related) but I’m scared that once I tell him, I’ll realize that I actually do want to be with women and not with him. Ugh I’ve spent hours today ruminating about this after being solid in my commitment with him for a little while, I’m stuck in this loop and idk how to get out right now
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Idk what else to title this. I was watching a film cooper video cuz why not and he mentioned smthn about wall paper customization and icons and stuff and I just kinda had a groinal response followed by the memory of me having my first crush on a woman (my friend at the time) that helped me figure out that I’m bi and I felt kinda intensely for her but that’s cuz a) it was new and b) we were kinda on again off again friends who haven’t spoken in a few years now and I’m over her entirely. It was toxic I think. She was too much like the person who bullied me in elementary school (they were friends as well so my mom made me cut her off which is. Fair. Made me really sad but eh that’s life) I saw her at prom cuz someone brought her. It was nice to see her but yeah that was it. And now I’m mentally comparing what I felt for women in the past (idk intense crush, listening to a lot of gay songs (think she by dodie) dressing semi masc cuz funky, we had nicknames for each other despite not dating or anything) to men (less intense crush but still big crush, I’ve only dated and kissed men so sparks rhere) and now I’m just slightly nauseous and worried that I don’t like men as much as I like women but I think that’s normal for any bi person? To have different levels of attraction to different genders? Idk I feel gross and icky now like I shouldn’t even be thinking about it or her cuz I have a bf. And I do look fondly upon it, now I’m nervous cuz I got more excited about her calling me a specific nickname than I do from my bf calling me honey even at the beginning? Honey felt more traditional and I love it but we do switch around nicknames and it’s always nice, not many butterflies anymore, and sometimes I get anxious when he does lately, if it’s a nickname in Portuguese. Or if he called me a shortened version of my name. What does that mean? I’m nervous now. I was doing half decently today now I’m nauseous again. I’m worried that cuz I liked the nicknames she and I had that means I don’t like the ones my bf and I have and that I just don’t like him or men cuz I’ve been feeling off around him. But I love when he calls me honey, it still feels good when he does it now but no butterflies. Idk what’s wrong with me. Is it even ocd at this point. Even if I do like women slightly more it doesn’t erase that I love my bf. I’m worried I’m leaning too much towards women tho and I’m a lesbian. Idk if my bi cycle is cycling or if I’m just a lesbian entirely cuz I don’t feel much when my bf takes off his shirt, sex feels different, and things feel stale and slow. But maybe that’s cuz I’m checking and comparing. Now I’m anxious fuck. I’m trying not to think about her idk why. I’m worried I still find her attractive or am attracted to her or smthn. She’s in my city. I didn’t care before but now I do. Or if I think about her I’ll think about other women and will only want to have sec with women which not really tbh. I wanna be able to enjoy sec with my bf. It just hasn’t felt right lately cuz I’ve been so depressed and obsessive. I wasn’t obsessing much last night when we had sex but it still didn’t feel passionate. It didn’t feel uncomfortable but I thought it’d be more? Idk. I know it’s normal to not feel him inside me cuz the vagina isn’t very nerved up compared to the clitoris but it felt like more the motions. But tbh. I needed it. Idk I wanted to have sex and it was a nice stress relief. I just didn’t feel butterflies which kinda bummed me out but we’ve been having sex since august so that’s normal. Idk. I haven’t been able to fantasize about sex. The fact that I’m bi makes all of this so confusing. Cuz yes hypothetically I can enjoy the thought of sex with a woman. But I don’t want to rn cuz I’m dating a man. And I can’t fantasize about sex with him cuz I’m getting intrusive thoughts about my friends and I having sex. I have this urge to watch porn cuz it’s been a while but I’m not going to. I’ve cut down a lot on masturbation. Partially cuz this partially cuz I wanna do things with my bf (when I’m mentally ok) but jow my brain is saying “Oo you think all these women are so hot you’re gonna go feral blah blah blah” and yes women are hot but I don’t wanna have sex with a woman. Idk saying women are hot doesn’t bring me anxiety but the thought of sex with one or leaving my bf and saying I’m a lesbian bother me. Cuz I know it’s not true. I love him I know that. I’d be happy if we stayed together. I wouldn’t regret a thing honestly. I like having sex with him. Idc if it’s not like porn or the movies. As long as I’m being pleasured and he’s being pleasured we’re good. That’s what sex is about. I think the loss of butterflies is normal cuz the excitement of like (sorry tmi) fingering and oral eventually wears off right? But still feels good. I don’t feel as excited about intimacy anymore cuz we have done it so often but it still feels nice. But my brain perceives that as me not liking sex with men and therefore I’m gay. No I just don’t feel the need to jump his bones every single time I see him?? Idk the friend thing is bothering me. Idk if I feel any joy behind it. The groinal response really really throws my perception off
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I’m 25 and never ever thought this before my soocd relapse. I have a bf of 5 years. Never been a high libido kinda girl. Don’t get me wrong I do get turned on by my bf but not like every day you know? - That had always been in the back of my head, is this normal and ok? But my ocd has latched onto the most scariest what if EVER. My brain is now saying How do you know you won’t prefer to sleep and kiss girls if you haven’t tried it: and it’s that unknown that is scaring the shit out of me. I DONT AND NEVER HAVE wanted to sleep / kiss a girl. But now my intrusive thoughts is all I think about!!! I don’t want I don’t want I don’t want??? So why does my brain think BUT WHAT IF??? I know ocd thrives off uncertainty which is why I think this is happening? But I don’t wanna find out or work it out because all I want is to be with my bf and marry him!! Is this just the epitome of OCD?
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