Sometimes understanding why helps us stop. Sometimes asking for other people's story helps us find our own path out of addiction. But sometimes extensive discussion about our compulsions, and asking for other people's stories, is a way of acting out.
It's... odd, in a way I don't quite have the words for yet, thinking of these lonely men talking to other lonely men, pretending to be women. Men buying into the porn fantasy so hard, they are willing to perpetuate the myths themselves. Women don't act like porn depicts, they don't want to, but male demand for that behavior is so high they provide the supply as well. It's such a disconnect from reality.
I don't think acting like a "girl," or a very masculine interpretation of a hypersexualized "girl," is necessarily for the male attention. I think it's performative, wanting to believe in the fantasy of that hypersexualized "girl," and the attention is just affirmation that you're doing a convincing job of it. The attention is reinforcement of the fantasy. Some men write erotica from a female perspective as well, they don't require the live feedback to enjoy it.
It's not real, obviously. It's just reinforcing wrong beliefs about how women experience desire. But there is something exciting, and I don't know what, about pretending a person like the one you pretend to be exists out there. She doesn't. You're getting off to something that doesn't exist, and there's something pathetic about that.
Well, I know it's pathetic...but does your judgments help? Well, I think you are just pretending to be better than me or better than people that do similar things.