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The truth is that jerking myself off was infinitely more pleasurable than having sex with women

Discussion in 'Compulsive Sexual Behavior' started by ultrafabber, Aug 14, 2019.

  1. ultrafabber

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    I guess it took me very long to finally accept that, but really, that is the truth. I think this is something many more PMO addicts struggle with but they repress it because it's quite a shameful thing and honestly it makes you doubt your sexual attraction.

    Yes, i don't care how many would say it's ridiculous, it really isn't, it's just very difficult to accept. When you prefer STROKING dick to penetrating a woman, you can't really say you're straight. You're not technically gay either cause you're thinking of women, but then again, cognition only goes so far. That's like saying you are straight because you fantasize about women when having sex with a goat. I guess technically you're straight but you're also a zoophile.

    It's the same way with masturbation - you think about women but what you're really doing is stroking dick while sexually aroused. That's anything BUT straight.

    So yes, i was infinitely more aroused when watching porn and masturbating (stroking dick) than i was when i was with real women. I was infinitely more relaxed when i was stroking dick than i was with real women. With real women i felt strong anxiety, with stroking dick i felt no anxiety. I had infinitely better orgasms when i was stroking dick than i had with women. I didn't really feel an orgasm with women, more like a release like a sneeze. Ultimately, i felt infinitely more pleasure when i was stroking dick than i felt when i was with a woman.

    When i look at a real woman, i have no wiring that tells me "she gives you (sexual) pleasure". I do not associate any woman body part with "(sexual)pleasure". All my (sexual) pleasure wiring is "stroking dick"

    It is only fair to say i preferred stroking dick to being with a woman. That's why i'm saying that it is very uncomfortable to say i wasn't really straight to begin with but rather (at least partly) gay.

    What would be the primary characteristics of a gay person? Lack of attraction/pleasure when having sex with the opposite sex and no revulsion towards own sex. "No revulsion" that later transforms to pleasure.
     
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  2. Headspace

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    This makes sense.
    Nevertheless, I feel this doesn't have to be the necessary conclusion.

    It could also be that you conditioned yourself to being isolated while sexually active. You, your body parts and your PC, alone in your little room. It could be that it is not so much about sexual orientation but about being with someone else in the first place.

    How straight or gay is masturbation? You are stroking dick, as you say, but you are still stroking your dick, not someone else's. This could make a difference.
    Isn't "lack of attraction/pleasure" and "no revulsion" pretty much the same thing? It looks like you are not feeling anything for anybody, except your own body parts. If this would be an actual sexual orientation you could call it 'autosexual' (from 'autoerotic'). But of course it is not really an orientation, but a symptom of your autoerotic behavior, stimulated by porn, coping by using PMO.

    In the end, you have to know for yourself. But to me it sounds like you are not really "feeling gay" so far. I hope I could give you a useful different perspective. In the beginning of my recovery, I questioned my sexual orientation as well, but no, a girl's body (and mind, of course) stayed what I desired.
     
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  3. ultrafabber

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    This is something i discussed here: https://www.nofap.com/forum/index.p...icially-endorse-auto-fellatio-as-well.242870/

    Masturbation is as gay as auto fellatio, they are both a form of masturbation. One is by hand, one is by mouth. Most people will agree that sucking your penis to completion is quite gay, so then so is stroking it to completion.

    No, revulsion implies aversion. Most of the sex stuff are not pleasurable at first and some imply aversion. In another topic i explained this. Revulsion kills pleasure, it snaps you out of it. So for example if you are sexually aroused and something happens that you find revulsive (let's say the toilet drainage busts and a horrible smell comes your way), you will lose sexual arousal and interest. But some people won't, and some will even enjoy it. They are called scatophiles.

    So the first step is to turn revulsion to indifference. Indifference happens when you're neither feeling disgust nor pleasure. This is where the second step begins to happen. Since you're not feeling disgust and keep doing that behavior that is also pleasurable, you will start feeling pleasure along with the behavior. This is called classical conditioning and it's a fundamental fact in biology. Classical conditioning also works on removing revulsion.

    For example, when i was a teenager i was very revulsed by my own semen. I would not even want to touch it. I'd ejaculate directly in the sink or in a tissue. Over time, with the descent into pmo addiction, there was a very slippery slope on what i was revulsed of. I first started ejaculating in my hand in the shower because of convenience (it would get too sticky otherwise). A few years down the line i'd cum in my foreskin, then i'd cum on my belly. At some point, very deep in my addiction, i'd say when i was at my worst, i came on my neck a couple of times. Then, a few months down the line, i came (involuntarily) on my face and on my mouth. The first time it was weird but then i wasn't THAT bothered with it. I didn't enjoy it, but i was like, meh. Had this happened a few years ago, i would've been completely disgusted. Had this happened when i was a teenager, i would've been mortified and close to throwing up.

    The term autoerotic makes no sense tbh, the object of arousal is still a penis or a vagina. The most straight forward argument is a realistic dildo... is that what would one call "autoerotic"? You can't say that because the "penis" is external.

    This is the discussion on having sex with a very realistic robot (like Arnold in Terminator I). Is stroking his dick not gay because it's a robot? No... it's gay. Is it autosexual because it's just yourself? No.. Then you can start breaking down this robot and repeat the two questions. If you remove the head, is it not gay? What if you remove the arms and legs too? What if you leave anything but the pelvis and the penis? What if you remove the pelvis too and there's only the penis left? In all situations, you can't argue it's not gay.

    The problem is that it goes both ways. It's not just a habituation of penis to hand, but also of hand to penis. This is something i want to write a different topic on but i'll describe it briefly here

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    This weird image is a "sensory homunculus". It is a render of how sensitive your body parts are and how much % they contribute to the brain when it comes to environment interpretation and integration of the environment. The hands are, by far the most sensitive, and that's normal.

    The problem is that when you use your hand to masturbate, the overwhelming stimuli is of stroking dick, not dick getting stroked. Respecting proportions, it's almost a 10:1 ratio.

    I covered some of the other stuff you wrote in the answer to @Headspace

    While i understand some of the ideas presented here may seem unreasonable, i think that over time people will get to understand them.

    If anything, what i hope all people get from this topic is that it is indeed very possible and actually very likely that a pmo addict literally finds stroking dick much more pleasurable than real sex.
     
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  4. Headspace

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    First of all, I am not writing you to discuss principles of what is gay and what isn't, but to help you 'rewire' your sexuality. In the end, a gay person is a guy who will fall in love with another guy. I believe sexual orientation is less about the fantasies and fetishes in your mind but about love and affection, about the relationships you enter with actual people.

    I would still insist that there is a difference between touching your own dick, a dildo/robot and another human being's one.
    I would say that if you stroke your own dick, it is more the subject of arousal than the object. When I masturbate, I usually get aroused either by my fantasies or by looking at porn, but not by staring at my own dick in the mirror or by getting amazed how erected it is.

    If you masturbate, you have a feeling both in your hand and in your dick.
    If you stroke a dildo/robot, it is only you who feel the dildo/robot in your hand.
    If you stroke another guy's dick, it is you who feel the dick in your hand and the other guy who feels your hand around his dick. You are not only receiving, but also giving pleasure.

    These are differences which can't be ignored. Real sex involves (may be even is) a form of communication. Masturbation or using a dildo/robot always remains a monologue, in that sense.
    Again: stroking his own dick. And probably more because of the feeling in his dick than the feeling in his hand. In fact, however, he is used to always have both simultaneously; he is conditioned to associate the feeling in his dick with the feeling in his hand. During real sex, the feeling in his hand is lacking, which might feel weird at first and be one reason he won't enjoy it.
    But originally, it is the feeling in his dick which comes first. You wouldn't have started regular masturbation if you had only had a dildo or another guy's dick instead of your own one, would you?
     
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  5. ultrafabber

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    We can't have a thorough conversation if that is not covered.

    Yes, but it's not "autosexual", even if by definition it would be. There's no such thing as autosexuality as far as the object is concerned. The arousal is directed to an organ - a penis or a vagina. On masturbation, the arousal is directed to a penis, even if cognitively it's directed to a vagina. It's the example with having sex with the goat.

    Well we all do that or like to think that. But if you look at the sensory homunculus, the hands provide much more stimuli than the penis. The ratio is severely skewed, i said it's something like 10:1. So while you like to think you're having sex with a vagina, your brain perceives it overwhelmingly as stroking a dick. What makes things even worse is that the hand is a very bad representation of a real vagina while your penis is a 100% accurate representation of real penis, so at the end of the line the signal of "stroking dick" is much, much more stronger AND accurate than "penetrating a woman" is.

    Well, yes, that's what makes it both gay and straight, but the ratio of gay:straight is very skewed, like i mentioned in the previous paragraph.

    Well, initially, yes. But more precisely it's that it's a feeling of pleasure. Yes, the pleasure happens because your dick is stroked, but the problem is that you're also doing an action that you associate with sexual pleasure and arousal - stroking dick. When we factor in the sensory input of the "sensory homunculus", it's stroking dick that is the primary input for sexual pleasure, not getting stroked.
     
  6. Headspace

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    I mostly stay by what I just said, so I don't have much to add anymore. Just one thing.
    Regardless of what the homunculus tells you: During real sex (with penetration), hands do not play much of a role. At least you do not use them to stroke anything, but mostly to hold your partner, to caress at best. It could be that from masturbating a lot you condition yourself on receiving pleasure from stroking. We can definitely agree that stroking plays a role there. Its absence may feel like something is missing. But this just isn't the natural state. You really just starting masturbating because your partner always was missing. Your hand originally was a surrogate for a vagina.
     
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  7. ultrafabber

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    Well, during sex hands do play a vital role - they let you know you're touching a woman/partner (and not yourself)

    Yes, that definitely. I always said that, to me, real sex felt "weird" and that masturbation felt more "real"

    Well yes, but the partner is actually a man in this case, even if one thinks of a woman, it's the goat sex case all over again. And you end up fulfilling the function of a woman... stroking or manipulating a dick.
     
  8. What makes things even worse is that the hand is a very bad representation of a real vagina while your penis is a 100% accurate representation of real penis, so at the end of the line the signal of "stroking dick" is much, much more stronger AND accurate than "penetrating a woman" is.

    So, uh, buy a Fleshlight and hands-free mount already?
     
  9. Davidphd1866

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    @ultrafabber : I admire your ability to think deeply about these topics. I truly enjoy reading what you have to say. There is REAL philosophy behind the topic of masturbation, and you are helping to bring it to light. THANK YOU.
     
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  10. Trying358

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    I think this only tells you that there's a *possibility* that you're gay -- that would be one, but only one, reason for not being sexually attracted to real women. There are other possibilities as well, e.g., fetishes and other paraphilias. The only way to know for sure is to try, since as you're finding out porn isn't a reliable guide to real sex. So I would experiment -- it's important to your happiness.

    The other thing is that you may have a psychological issue that is making you uncomfortable with physical sex. This something you have to explore with a psychologist. You might for example have had a mother who didn't bond properly with you as an infant. Such issues can often be resolved in therapy.
     
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    Masturbation equals absolute control.

    Sex with a partner...not necessarily. But if even if you find a partner that will allow you absolute control, it still takes time to find that partner and building that relationship.

    Immediate gratification plays a central role here as well, obviously.

    The being gay conclusion is simply not a logical conclusion. Unless you are gay or think you might be for other reasons.
     
  12. fapequalsdeath

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    I find it hard to believe, but ok if yu say so. multiple women is more stimulating than one.
     
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    I also am not buying this theory at all.

    To say that every PMO addict is gay?

    What about all the vets that recovered and now are married to women?
     
  14. ultrafabber

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    Gay is not something you "are", its a preference that comes and goes. For a pmo addict who does not have a gf/wife, so who has no real sex, but who masturbates regularly, especially to porn with both women AND men, the preference (or habituation) for gay stuff/ penis is accentuated. For such a person, sexual pleasure is associated more with stroking dick, as the hands have priority and higher dominance in the brain.

    Thank you, im glad to help at least some people, the ones that can keep an open mind about masturbation. I can understand though why so many are very defensive about it.
     
  15. Trying358

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    In some people it is, twin studies show that there's a strong genetic component. Coming and going sounds more like bi.
     
  16. ultrafabber

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    No, there is no strong genetic component at all.
     
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    I'm afraid I have to disagree. Indeed, the first gay genes have been found:

    https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/10/giant-study-links-dna-variants-same-sex-behavior
    https://www.newscientist.com/articl...w-gay-genes-tell-us-about-sexual-orientation/

    It is true that environmental factors play a role, though, some of them apparently in the womb (see 2D:4D ratio). It may be that it's genetic in some and not in others, or it could be that certain genes "set the stage" for homosexuality.

    Homosexuality and other sexual variations are also more common in autistic people, and autism is known to be largely genetic:
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29159906
     
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    So you know whats wrong
     
  19. Davidphd1866

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    Unfortunately, I think these links show more that gayness is a "defect" rather than a "gay gene". Where are the "straight" genes? Where are the bisexual genese? Where are the lesbian genes?

    Mind you, it is not ME calling a gay person defective. Rather, I am simply evaluating what the so-called studies are really telling us.

    What I will offer as my opinion, and why I think Ultrafabber has some great points, is that soooooooo many of us masturbation addicts want to blame something besides ourselves for our nasty habit. Where is the "masturbator's gene"? There isn't one. And we know it.
     
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    I think it could well be a defect, but we just don't know. I can think of lots of genes that are evolutionary compromises since they both benefit and take away. The sickle cell gene, forex, which can cause sickle cell anemia, but protects against malaria. I have a gene or genes like that myself, since I'm a mild Aspie. It's recently discovered that these genes are associated with high intelligence. So they give and they take. And one of the things that these particular genes do is make us more likely to have one or another sexual or gender variation.

    Not sure about a masturbation gene. Some people are more highly sexed than others, have more testosterone, etc. We Aspies tend to be hypersexual and I'm no exception.

    Not making excuses here -- I've gone 14 days now (why is my counter stuck on 13?), so it's my choice to do without -- but I think some of us are more prone to porn addiction than others, just as with drugs and food, etc. I'm not even sure that masturbation is bad in the absence of porn -- I think it's the porn that makes it excessive. But I'm not really sure since I was looking at dirty pictures from the time I started. It seems to me though that on the brief occasions when I've been without the frequency of masturbation plummeted.
     
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