So hate society sometimes

Like everything out there is so vicious it has yo be sexual, controversial, insane and every media out there wants to push that into our minds by force. I can't watch a movie or a show without to having sexual stuff in it, lgbtq, murder, etc which are things that trigger me so much and make me confused of what it makes me feel. I think that it can somehow change people's minds by repeateadly watching it they start wiring neural pathways to react to those things in certain ways or in the long run becoming desensitized by it thus scaling to more shocking stuff to be able to feel joy or pleasure out of what they're watching. Sometimes I don't even know what is the thing that arouses me in some sexual stuff that I stumble upon by mistake on media it sucks so much.

Nutellalover

Date posted: 2y

Finally! Someone said it! I thought it was just me…

NMRTHGHTS

Date posted: 2y

I thought I was the only one too, I never talk about it much around my friends because they give me the weirdo staring they see all that as natural even though I keep secrets they've told me and I know from first hand that they struggle with some stuff that could have its root cause in what they abuse or consume daily. Watching tiktok is like bombarding your mind with varied stuff of all kinds and most of them trash imagine its effects on people and more on young ones that use it the most

ReadyForImpr...

Date posted: 2y

So, you're kind of describing ERP. For the triggers you have, you'll ultimately expose yourself to them (starting small, of course) and slowly working your way up to more distressing triggers. You become less distressed because your brain basically habituates/gets bored of it and accepts it for what it is without judgement. (Note that the other purpose of ERP is to learn that we can tolerate discomfort and anxiety that will decrease without us doing anything or fixing it) I agree that some movies and shows have gratuitous content that not everyone wants to see, that's ok. But aside from the extreme, what you're describing is part of life... the human experience. With ERP, we learn that we don't have to consume all content, but we don't have to avoid things with *totally normal* things (sexual content, LGBTQ+ content) because there's nothing wrong with it.

NMRTHGHTS

Date posted: 2y

@ReadyForImprovement yeah I get that but the point in my post is not because it is normalized by society it should be considered correct.

ReadyForImpr...

Date posted: 2y

@Grm2 That's an opinion. But sex and sexuality and gender are natural and accepted, so you can't avoid it. The violence is a different story.

NMRTHGHTS

Date posted: 2y

@ReadyForImprovement Of course, anything we could share here is an opinion. Each one will decide what's "normal" and accurate for their life, even if it's majorly accepted by society doesn't make it normal because if we fall in that area we could say that even violence is normal and accepted. In which case it doesn't make your statements correct neither mine.

Anonymousssssss

Date posted: 24w

Can someone please offer words of advice :(

Why are things so real the first time they’re in my mind and then when I think about it later it’s easier for me to be like wtf?? I was watching a movie earlier and the young girl had developed more in the chest area than the last movie and I felt the desire to check her out so I did. Then later I let myself imagine her having sex and I liked it. But now looking back I’m like ew. The boys in the movie have also developed as the movie went on and I couldn’t help but think that in their real life they’ve probably woken up to boners and s*men and stuff. And looking back it’s just ugh. Idk if it’s sexual relevance but I genuinely let myself indulge in these thoughts and groinal responses and I remember thinking to myself I don’t want to be attracted to little kids and how do I stop myself (everyone has attractive qualities so in younger boys I see man like qualities). Idk I need help. I wouldn’t type this out if I truly believe I was messed up but I’m still scared

niu

Date posted: 18w

SOCD, Real Event, porn

I never read someone talk about this so I wanted to know if it applies to anyone as well. For context: I deal with ROCD and SOCD but I do identify as straight and am in a (happy) relationship with a man. What often triggers me is memories about childhood and adolescences about having the groinal toward nudity in porn or music videos. Because I can’t deny having watched other things than straight porn and experimenting with porn I simply can’t stop trying to figure out what that might have meant and if i deep down have actually a other sexual orientation than the one that I feel comfortable identifying with. I only hear people talking about random triggers but never the REAL memory of arousal to pornography and so on.

FoxMan

Date posted: 6w

Can porn screw up your groinal response/arousal?

(TRIGGER WARNING) To go more in depth with my question, can porn misconstrue or contort your grown up response and arousal, causing you to feel things to stuff you do not find pleasing? The reason I’m asking this is because something happened just now that is bothering me. I was on TikTok and I saw a video where a girl was explaining how her father SA’ed her. It was really hard for me to even get through the video and I kept pausing throughout because of how shocking it was. However, I noticed that I kept feeling groinal responses along with unwanted imaginations of what she was saying. I know, people typically kind of imagine stories in their head when someone else is telling them said stories, but I felt movement and it was bothering me because it did not match how I’ve felt about what I was hearing. Of course, I had to ignore the intrusive thoughts, but it was really hard for me to watch the whole video and I still have not watched it through. I felt like I was fighting with myself, however, when I think about it right now, I feel nothing. I know I probably should stop doing that because checking is only going to make the rumination worse, but I just wanted to see if porn could be a factor in this as I have struggled with pornography addiction as I was exposed to it around six or seven years old all the way up to now being 24.

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