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Constantly questioning sexuality. My story. Could use help

Discussion in 'LGBT Later in Life' started by AnomJB, Mar 2, 2015.

  1. AnomJB

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    I already made a similar post in a different section of the forum but i feel like maybe some older folk who have been through a lot more could help out.
    I'm 25 years old, always identified as straight. When i was really young(elementary school) i experimented with both sexes but always had crushes on girls and continued lusting for girls through middle school. Going into high school i became very depressed due to self esteem issues/anxiety/depression and other factors. My relationship with parents and home life was pretty terrible growing up (alcoholism) Anyways, in high school i honestly don't remember crushing on any specific girls but i was extremely shy and remember feeling inadequate. When i was 17 in my senior year i had my first love and lost my virginity to her. We broke up 2 years later and i found my second girlfriend whom i dated for 2 years as well. In the middle of the second relationship i guess you can say blossom'd and got a lot of attention from the opposite sex(something i never had) so i basically took it to the head like most horny males would do. I am not exactly proud of my actions but i went on to have sexual relations with A LOT of females after this point. I know you're all probably thinking "whats the problem here?" so i'l get to it.
    I started watching porn at a very young age, gonna say 9 or 10. I watched basically everything(straight,incest,shemale,solo,gay) up until i was 23 which is when all the questioning started. I woke up one morning after a night of drinking and there was a link for shemale and gay porn on my computer that for w.e reason sent me into a panic attack and i haven't been the same since. Before this point i never even considered me being gay or bisexual despite my porn use. Of course i was able to tell if a man was good looking or admire his physique but anyone who says they can't is a liar. I was also a personal trainer as well so that was a given. Every since this day my life has honestly been a living hell of constant anxiety and questioning. My confidence and demeanor changed, mind feels constantly foggy, and libido is shot. I notice when my overall well being is up the anxiety and questioning isn't as severe but that is very rare. I'm sure there is a lot i'm missing but i don't want to go on forever. Any thoughts?
     
  2. Coffee Guy

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    It doesn't make you gay if you have watched gay porn. I watch what I guess might be called soft porn?, just regular guys who have filmed themselves masturbating. I fantasize about them cuming in my mouth, are you doing something like that?
     
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    Ok gay porn is great but I'm quite sure that it does not make you gay trust me I been in to men way before the gay porn
     
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    I've watched guys masturbate as well but I cant say I've ever fantasized about a man cumming in my mouth.
     
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    Well I have
     
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    Want my advice? Quit the porn.

    By porn I mean everything related to you seeing pixels of naked women/men. Abstain yourself from artificial stimuli or sex for a while and see how your mind clears up. I've realized how much porn has fucked up with my head, from objectifying women to making me question my own sexuality.

    But I've started seeing clearer now. All this porn watching and fapping got me to expect the same in the real world when nothing about porn is real.

    Meditate, get some new hobbies, take cold showers, stop the negative self talk in your head if you do have the tendency to do so, spend your time learning something new rather than trying to get an answer of a question that you will never find. Only if you leave nature take its course will you get your answer.

    If that's not enough, get a journal and write down your thoughts, see how you feel about those thoughts, which thought is pleasurable compared to which ones are distressing. If you find your same sex thoughts to be distressing and your opposite sex thoughts to be pleasurable, you get an idea of which sex you prefer. Make sure not to judge the thoughts though, suppression is the opposite of being mindful and if you suppress, they'll just come right back at you.
     
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    I haven't watched gay porn since the questioning started but i have continued hetero porn and sex. Porn aside, it's like my anxiety is on full throttle from the moment i wake up to the moment i go to sleep. I have come across things like HOCD that i was skeptical about because i don't want to just diagnosis myself with something as serious as obsessive compulsive disorder BUT i have suffered with extreme anxiety my entire life. I always thought people were talking about me or out to get me. I would obsess over very minute things although i cant really say i had a compulsion.. To me HOCD and denial are so closely related anyway which causes even more questioning. I am also ashamed to say that over the past year i have become a regular at asian massage parlors. This makes me wonder if i am trying to run from my feelings by sex with strangers or if i am just an extremely lost individual.
     
  8. Coffee Guy

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    I know it can be tough questioning your sexuality. I was denying gay, and doing gay; that is how confused I was. Based on what you have said, you are not looking for sex, or having sex with a man, you are just asking yourself a normal question.
     
  9. offmychest

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    bro i think you need to calm down. i mean, you are the cat's meow, the women slayer, the girls love you and the men want to be you. you never mentioned being into any guys at the gym, crushing on them. wishing you could ask one of your clients on a date. i mean not be blunt but is your lil dumbbell getting stiff when you see these hot guys at the gym? are you wanking off to the thought of them. if not, then you're not into guys like that. sure maybe you have some shemale fantasies. i'm not sure. only you know. but you DEFINITELY know. whether you want to admit it to yourself or not, that's another story and noone here is going to be able to force that out of you. i think you have this thought of "oopps i stepped into the gay pond and now i can never turn back". life is not like that. if you were a vegan and never had a craving for meat. and you tried meat once and loved it. does that mean you have to end your vegan diet? no. ok, you slipped up once. had the meat ( no pun intended). go back to vegan diet and chill. but if you are craving meat now, then maybe you need to incorporate that into your diet if that is what you want to try. my point is, you define you, no one acdtion or any set of actions. you define what you want.
     
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    I never had these thoughts prior to my panic attack 2 years ago. It came on suddenly hasn't stopped since. Id be at the gym now or anywhere for that matter and literally have to ask myself about every male that walks by. I have thoughts like "do i wanna fuck him" or "do i wanna rip his clothes off" as for seeing another man naked this is extremely uncomfortable for me but i almost feel like its even more so if its on a tv or computer screen... As for arousal , i feel something in my groin that feels like arousal but its coupled with high anxiety. This also doesn't help bc like i said i watched gay porn so seeing a man naked on tv is the same thing in that sense.

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    Sorry i know noone is a trained professional here but i also wanna add that the more i think about things, its as if sex has become a mission to reach more and better. Id be super turned on by a chick but as soon as we have sex a few times im ready for the next. Same thing for porn in sense, like id search for the most authentic taboo incest i could find and then that wasnt enough so id hit shemale and have to browsers open at the same time. I ask myself even if i DID have gay sex and like it( which right now just doesnt seem like something id truly enjoy) , would it end up being the same way for me? Would that go on to not be enough? Im just talking outloud at this point
     
  11. Coffee Guy

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    If in your mind you don't enjoy the idea, maybe you should just forget about it? Sometimes when a straight guy tries gay sex, even if it is just getting a blowjob, serious misunderstandings may occur, and maybe it would have been best if it had never happened.
     
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    If the cold showers, don't work, you could also try self-flagellation.

    Gosh AnomJB, you're confusing me and so I can imagine how confused you feel. I think you should sort this out with a therapist. I guess it goes without saying that hardly anyone is purely straight or gay. So you've become aware of some gay interest, doesn't mean you've entered the dark side.
     
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    sorry bout that lol.. It's been a constant anxious thought from the second i wake up to the second i go to sleep for over 2 years now so confused is an understatement. I know i am the only one who can come up with an answer at this point but easier said than done. Appreciate the suggestions
     
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    Hey there. You sound like you may really have HOCD.

    I've had some experience with that and a lot of what you describe is textbook -- particularly the anxiety and the sudden onset of the thoughts.

    It may be worth talking to someone who specializes in obsessive thoughts. If you haven't already found it, check out this article: OCDOnline.com

    The psychologist who wrote it is in NYC.