did your masturbation habits help you figure out your sexual orientation?

Yup. For a while, I convinced myself it was a physical thing. I didn't call it bisexuality though. Not at first at least. I figured my fantasies were just fantasies. It was just a weird thing I liked but would never do. Then when I had a girlfriend and I still did it (this didn't aid in my finding out I was gay, just for the record, we never even kissed) it occurred to me that straight people don't do that. I told myself I was bisexual and everything just made a little bit more sense. Stress I didn't know was there melted away a little and a bit of happiness showed up that I didn't know I didn't have. That's how I figured out I was interested in men. By my second boyfriend, I realized I was only interested in men.

 

no i accidentally saw a porn magazin when i was sexy and i remember my eyes would go to the guys.. lol

 

Sort of, it was more like a "I'll never do it again" kind of thing. Even though I would do it again; hated myself for it too.

 

If that includes porn habits, yes. At first I'd get somewhat aroused by semi-nude/nude guys, and that set off the chain reaction to finding out I was bi.

On fantasy, until I knew I was bi, guys never came into the equation. Bear in mind when I first started thinking about guys, I had only been masturbating for 9 months or so.

 

Um... yes, I think, if I'm understanding the statement correctly...

The first time I masturbated, it was either all thought based (and all about guys) or part-thought based (with encyclopedias providing artwork which helped my mind create fantasies). It was pretty obvious I was gay, even though I didn't accept it. Heh, I actually don't think I've ever seen straight porn, except by accident because someone at a gay porn website mislabeled something...

 

Yeah, it was pretty much how I figured out I was gay.

 

Yes actually, in fact right before I came out it became insanely impulsive. As in I'd masturbate 5, 6, or 7 times a day to it. The funny thing though is that as soon as I came out I, for the most part, stopped watching porn.

 

Well it helped me to realize that I didn't "like" women the way I thought I did/wanted to, but I already knew that I was into guys.

 

It could have been that, I didn't really know the reason at the time.

 

let me prefece this by saying when I joined the internet in the mid-90's, if you mispelled one letter in a web address, you were likely to end up on a porn sight. it didnt matter at all that the web address you were trying to type had no sexual conotations, but it was commonplace to visit 4-5 porn sites without trying or wanting to. I also was coming to sexual maturity at the same time.

I found that I was repulsed by the pornsites that would popup with naked women. it just did not appeal me at all. I have never seen a reason why I should be attracted to breast or vaginas.

when a gay porn site would pop up, or even a straight porn site for women, cause they do exist, even if they are rare, I found that I was stimulated by the male form. I knew i was attracted to guys, but it was years before I made the connection of what gay was, and that I was gay.

 

I used to watch mostly hetero stuff, and almost never any lesbian porn. But I did watch gay porn and yaoi hentai, wich is actually one of the main reasons I started questioning myself in the first place.

 

I used to think while masturbating, guys were just supposed to think about girls (as likewise, guys were just supposed to like girls). Tried that; it only ever worked if there was another male present in the fantasy. At the time, I didn't think too much of it, but in retrospect, I think yeah, it was a help.

 

No. I've never done it before.

 

When I was "straight" not so much masturbating to men but pretending to be the woman.

 

That's pretty much me lol >.<

 

No, because I'm 15 and I still have never masturbated before. lol