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- 5y ago
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- 5y ago
also, relate to this a lot!! i’m not sure when i discovered porn but i know that i did used to watch lesbian porn x amount of years ago. i honestly don’t remember a lot from that point in my life bc it was years ago but i know that i was young and naive. i knew it was lesbian porn (obviously) but i wasn’t watching it bc i was lesbian. i’ve always has crushes on guys and always was attracted to guys. all i knew is how i watching it made me feel. my HOCD started around a year ago and before that, I never worried about me watching lesbian porn and how that could be a “sign that i’m lesbian”. but when it started, i quickly started to worry about it and obsess over the fact that i used to watch it and even worse...i liked it. i kept thinking “omg sophia you used to watch lesbian porn and it turned u on. u liked it. ur lesbian”. my brain launched onto that for so long. i worked at it and with time, it became less sensitive and doesn’t bother me as much. ofc it still does but just not as much haha. some article i read said that we are sexual creatures. obviously. we are sexual beings, so, we are aroused by sexual things like porn. being turned on my gay porn doesn’t make you gay; it makes you human. it’s completely normal. this wasn’t meant to be reassurance, but i hoped this helped a little. i know exactly what you’re going through so if u ever need help just lmk!!
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- 3y ago
I relate to you so much! I used to watch loads of porn including lesbian and liked it. But I stopped for years. I checked porn today and I can’t figure out whether it turned me on or not but I dont want to know, I just want to stop obsessing.
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- 5y ago
Try taking all those labels away. You don’t have to define your sexuality; you can just be you! I find other women attractive and wouldn’t be completely closed off to being intimate with another woman but I’ve only ever dated men. Also, what gets you off, gets you off. That’s why there’s sooooo many types of porn lol it’s not a good judgement as to what you actually want.
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- 5y ago
writing out my thoughts and the things i go through helps me SO much. i feel like that should be a method of therapy in it of itself haha. i find it super helpful to keep a journal/notebook to write your thoughts down in. i started doing that a few months ago and it’s the best decision i’ve made regarding my OCD. every time i feel like i’m making no progress, feeling down on myself, or going through a spurt of anxiety, i look back at my old entries and it’s a quick reminder of how far i’ve come. i also do it as an exposure sometimes!! i keep old topics that used to give me anxiety in the back of my head; knowing that at one point or another those thoughts caused me a lot of anxiety, i subconsciously try not to think about them. so, i look back at my old entries as an exposure. i read about all the things i once worried about and yes, it does make me nervous and yes, those thoughts can quickly come back and make me nervous again but i’m ok with it because i know that i’m making an effort to fully get rid of my HOCD
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- 5y ago
yeah no i get that 100%. i find women attractive as well and i would totally consider maybe trying a threesome or something like that one day . but i don’t feel like i am “actually” bisexual. i get scared that one day i’ll want to fall in love w a women and that makes me upset because i want to be with a man sexually and romantically. but i’m also not disgusted by women in a sexual way either u know? like yeah girls are hot. i don’t necessarily desire to find one to hook up with or have one want me in that way. i desire men and i go out looking for men i want to be with. and i’ve always accepted that i would be down to hook up w a girl for shits and giggles one day but now since HOCD strikes it’s all become such a pain in the ass.
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- 4y ago
can i ask how you identify now?
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- 5y ago
I'm straight but can tell if a man is attractive or not. This made me used to question things, but after being in a few relationships, all with girls, I realized I was straight. Sometimes life can just be confusing. Just because you are attracted to the same sex doesn't mean it defines who you are. You may still be straight and just recognize certain aspects you find attractive in either sex. Also, writing in a word document helps clear my head.
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- 5y ago
thank you so much!! feels good to know one can overcome this!!
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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. 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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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- 13w ago
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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- 11w ago
Sorry long post. Anyone feel like now they’re just in extreme denial. Like when I was little I noticed guys more than girls in movies and was more drawn to them. I remember changing my mindset to switch that. 98%of my life has been straight until recently. I felt drawn to some guys but never thought of it sexually. Always had girl crushes dreams and porn. Now I watch porn and I feel like straight takes longer and then I go and watch gay porn and feel nothing until I tell myself it’s two attractive dudes and love is love and imagine physical sensations and then it hits like suddenly. Like I have to convince myself it’s alright. Then when I try again I can do all that but feel nothing and then straight porn works. Idk if it’s just getting a fix or the first time works with anything or what but it’s confusing. On top of that I’ve felt girl relationships including my wife maybe miss something and a guy maybe matches that feeling that but then I feel like I’d be missing something without a girl or my wife. Idk I’ve had some rough times in life with male figures in my life but idk. I feel like I have to convince myself more and more that I’m straight even more than the first time I dealt with this. Can someone relate? Please
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