Porn makes me straight and that worries me

Perhaps lighten up on labels and just date people who you feel attracted to, regardless of their gender. (And give up porn, that's not helping you navigate all this.)

 

Sounds like the opposite of HOCD. I would think it would be a good idea to research HOCD and just swap the genders. It's actually pretty common for people of any orientation to gravitate towards an opposite orientation with satiation. I would check out YBOP's HOCD articles - you may find some insight there.

 

I see that you're quite sure that you're gay, but what if, and that's a big 'if', your homosexuality comes from your addiction? It's a common thing here. Don't worry, I'm not negating it, but porn is a really nasty thing that can mess with our sexuality and being so young is still a bit too early to decide for sure (hormones and stuff). Sexuality is something that will define your future life and important choices.

That's why my advice is as follows: get rid of PMO. Then, you'll be 100% sure that you're gay and there will be no issues with that. Also, you'll be much, much happier. You'll start living again, actually.

I also think that you should give another chance to Christianity, or at least the way it sees porn and masturbation. It's sad that you resigned because of being a gay. It must have been hard for you.

Get rid of PMO and good luck.

 

No... no... He stated his position clearly in the last three sentences of his post very obviously.
As you would keep your hands out of your pants, keep your religious dogma out of this community.

 

Is there an official rule on this forum, that religious people are not allowed to state their opinions?

 

Do you believe being 17 years old is enough to have a final decision on such an important topic in life?
And that there doesn't exist any person in the whole world ( about 7,830,908,623 people ) who might know something that you don't?
Sounds pretty arrogant to me. Did you ever consider pride might be one of the sources of your issues in life?

 

Keep your atheist pretentiousness out of this world.

@OP: whatever orientation you are or aren't, stay away from PMO, like the other folk said. It doesn't have much to do with Christianity. Oversexualisation is rejected by pretty much every religion out there, and not only religion, but also atheist individuals such as myself.

Either way, just chill about your sexuality as such. Think about more important things in life: do you really want to give up having (your genetically own) children in the future? Yes, producing them involves sex, but sex is just the beginning and then there's the whole life ahead of you. Nobody will force you (or even try to excessively convince you) to have children, but just ask yourself if this is something you really are ready to give up on for the sake of your sexual preferences (which, as you can see, are malleable to some extent anyway).

 

You are a jerk and jerks like YOU don't belong in this community... He didn't judge him for being gay but you did judge him of being religious and judged him for being religious, maybe if you were religious you'd believe in loving one another and treating others with respect, he stated an Idea, a MAYBE statement that could very well be true. What's wrong with anyone (religious/gay/atheist) having an opinion? It's you that is in the wrong trying to silence a group of people.

 

this. Don’t focus on the sex part b/c that’s where this doubt and confusion are coming from. You need to connect with people and let attraction grow naturally. Find someone you have an interest in and start there. The opposite of addiction is connection—beginconnwctung. And come up with a plan to stop fapping and porn.

 

WTF????

 

To each their own, but weren't Anton LeVey's last words, "I wasted my life."?

 

I don't really want to write too much about the sort of religious discussion here. But as a theologian I see a lot of misunderstandings in regard to the meaning of certain keywords/concepts. + whatever you lable as "christian" is just one of many perspectives out there..

But BTT I'm not sure if "reversing" HOCD refelcts the situation, because HOCD feed from the thrill/anxiety induced by the stimulus, because of being taboo/not aligned with ones own orientation. (Similar mechanism in extreme hardcore pornography, that would be seen as disgusing before/after the addiction. Because porn seems to be expansive in quality and quantity of the stimulus (I might add that quality is not seen as good, but rather strong))