Hi, I am 21 year old college student who desperately needs some help.....
Since the age of 13 I have watched Gay Porn regularly, it intrigued me then and it intrigues me now, I also use Snap Chat as a way of looking at explicit pictures and videos. But the problem I face is I literally think about sex with men constantly, like it never switches off. Besides the problem I came to the conclusion in my mind that I was bi sexual with more of a preference for guys. So I began experimenting at the age of 14/15 with guys (I had already had exposure to other boys nude at an extremely young age). So I started experimenting with a guy of the same age (innocent stuff) and after it happened I felt disgusting and horrible. I felt like I never wanted that to happen again and I even stopped watching porn for a short while. But time passed and I began watching porn again and then the urge to get with some one came again too, but I waited till I was 16, as I thought my age caused my previous reaction, so again with the same guy I tried it, but it happened again that feeling of disgust with myself for days I couldn't stop it, it was a complete repeat of the previous time. So I came to the conclusion it was the guys so I searched for someone else and I tried it with someone else and bang the exact same thing, I felt like shit!
Because of this I Stuck to porn for quite some time and then I joined the Snap Chat game in my first year of college and got in touch with a very handsome guy, very down to earth, both of us shared loads in common and so we began seeing each other, but after we got with each other it all came crashing down and I ran because again I hated it. We both still talk from time to time but nothing sexual, surprisingly, the thought of sex with him makes me feel like getting sick. So after this, I began to think maybe I am bi sexual?, I have always "fancied" girls but never had the intense sexual feeling towards them as I have with men. So I decided to experiment with girls, after all that's what you do in college, experiment, right? So I started seeing a girl and I began to really like her, I loved her personality, and we both just clicked, on top of this, I wanted to have sex with her, so I did. I lost my virginity with a girl and the guilt,and depression which had accompanied every previous sexual experience I ever had never came, not a hint of it.
I continued to have sex regularly with this girl and I began watching less porn to the point where I never watched it, I still had thoughts of guys, but no major desire to act on it. This situation led me to believing that I was bi sexual. But my time with this girl came to an end as she moved away to study abroad for a year. I was heartbroken I cried for days, but weeks passed and the heart began to heal, but then it began again, the porn, the constant craving for men, it began to again take over my life to the point there wasn't a man I didn't imagine naked, literally every time I see a guy. I began snap chatting more send nudes of myself in return for nudes of them. I didn't care who they were or what their story was I just wanted to see them naked, it didn't even matter what they looked like. This led to me inviting a guy over to mine where we proceeded to have sex, after the sex he left and I sat in my shower for hours, I felt disgusting, guilty, violated and depressed at a whole new level. But time past and back to the same story, porn, thoughts, and urges. I resisted the urges to meet guys because I never want to feel like that again, but everything else remained the same, the thoughts about every guy I met, the porn, the lot.
After the year the girl returned and we began to meet up again and everything began between us again, and she is now my girlfriend. The reason I have began an official relationship is because I enjoy spending my time with just her and I really do enjoy sex with her.
But I have hit a wall/block/bypass/ I don't know, where these thoughts, porn watching and snap chatting are returning once again, it has got to a point where I feel nothing but sick and depressed as I cannot stop thinking about it and acting on it by watching porn or using Snap chat. It is all I think about, this unsurprisingly has began to effect my relationship with my girlfriend as I am beginning to feel guilty all the time about the situation and my actions.
The major problem is I am having is now is how can I be so in love with her and in fact get turned on by sex with her but have such intense obsessions about men? This has in the past few weeks began to effect the sex with my girlfriend too which has never been a massive issue in the past.
However, I stumbled across an article the other night on HOCD and I completely froze while reading it. It seemed to explain exactly what was happening to me, now I do not want to jump at the term saying that it is what I have, but is there anyone that could help me in saying it is a possibility? I will admit, I am a person with a highly addictive personality, I have mild social anxiety and I over think everything to a crazy amount. So I just want some help in seeing, is HOCD a possible condition I am sufferering from? and if so what should I do? I want to know my sexuality, I feel like if I wasn't obsessing about guys constantly and I could think about it clearly and figure it out, I feel like am bi-sexual, because I am satisfied with sex with my girlfeined and I have a deep emotional connection with her but on the other hand I have an extremeattraction to men with very little emotional deisre to be with a man.
But for now I am just so lost in my own mind with what this is and I am pleading for help. I welcome all opinions. Ryan
Since the age of 13 I have watched Gay Porn regularly, it intrigued me then and it intrigues me now, I also use Snap Chat as a way of looking at explicit pictures and videos. But the problem I face is I literally think about sex with men constantly, like it never switches off. Besides the problem I came to the conclusion in my mind that I was bi sexual with more of a preference for guys. So I began experimenting at the age of 14/15 with guys (I had already had exposure to other boys nude at an extremely young age). So I started experimenting with a guy of the same age (innocent stuff) and after it happened I felt disgusting and horrible. I felt like I never wanted that to happen again and I even stopped watching porn for a short while. But time passed and I began watching porn again and then the urge to get with some one came again too, but I waited till I was 16, as I thought my age caused my previous reaction, so again with the same guy I tried it, but it happened again that feeling of disgust with myself for days I couldn't stop it, it was a complete repeat of the previous time. So I came to the conclusion it was the guys so I searched for someone else and I tried it with someone else and bang the exact same thing, I felt like shit!
Because of this I Stuck to porn for quite some time and then I joined the Snap Chat game in my first year of college and got in touch with a very handsome guy, very down to earth, both of us shared loads in common and so we began seeing each other, but after we got with each other it all came crashing down and I ran because again I hated it. We both still talk from time to time but nothing sexual, surprisingly, the thought of sex with him makes me feel like getting sick. So after this, I began to think maybe I am bi sexual?, I have always "fancied" girls but never had the intense sexual feeling towards them as I have with men. So I decided to experiment with girls, after all that's what you do in college, experiment, right? So I started seeing a girl and I began to really like her, I loved her personality, and we both just clicked, on top of this, I wanted to have sex with her, so I did. I lost my virginity with a girl and the guilt,and depression which had accompanied every previous sexual experience I ever had never came, not a hint of it.
I continued to have sex regularly with this girl and I began watching less porn to the point where I never watched it, I still had thoughts of guys, but no major desire to act on it. This situation led me to believing that I was bi sexual. But my time with this girl came to an end as she moved away to study abroad for a year. I was heartbroken I cried for days, but weeks passed and the heart began to heal, but then it began again, the porn, the constant craving for men, it began to again take over my life to the point there wasn't a man I didn't imagine naked, literally every time I see a guy. I began snap chatting more send nudes of myself in return for nudes of them. I didn't care who they were or what their story was I just wanted to see them naked, it didn't even matter what they looked like. This led to me inviting a guy over to mine where we proceeded to have sex, after the sex he left and I sat in my shower for hours, I felt disgusting, guilty, violated and depressed at a whole new level. But time past and back to the same story, porn, thoughts, and urges. I resisted the urges to meet guys because I never want to feel like that again, but everything else remained the same, the thoughts about every guy I met, the porn, the lot.
After the year the girl returned and we began to meet up again and everything began between us again, and she is now my girlfriend. The reason I have began an official relationship is because I enjoy spending my time with just her and I really do enjoy sex with her.
But I have hit a wall/block/bypass/ I don't know, where these thoughts, porn watching and snap chatting are returning once again, it has got to a point where I feel nothing but sick and depressed as I cannot stop thinking about it and acting on it by watching porn or using Snap chat. It is all I think about, this unsurprisingly has began to effect my relationship with my girlfriend as I am beginning to feel guilty all the time about the situation and my actions.
The major problem is I am having is now is how can I be so in love with her and in fact get turned on by sex with her but have such intense obsessions about men? This has in the past few weeks began to effect the sex with my girlfriend too which has never been a massive issue in the past.
However, I stumbled across an article the other night on HOCD and I completely froze while reading it. It seemed to explain exactly what was happening to me, now I do not want to jump at the term saying that it is what I have, but is there anyone that could help me in saying it is a possibility? I will admit, I am a person with a highly addictive personality, I have mild social anxiety and I over think everything to a crazy amount. So I just want some help in seeing, is HOCD a possible condition I am sufferering from? and if so what should I do? I want to know my sexuality, I feel like if I wasn't obsessing about guys constantly and I could think about it clearly and figure it out, I feel like am bi-sexual, because I am satisfied with sex with my girlfeined and I have a deep emotional connection with her but on the other hand I have an extremeattraction to men with very little emotional deisre to be with a man.
But for now I am just so lost in my own mind with what this is and I am pleading for help. I welcome all opinions. Ryan
I have highlighted a phrase that stood out to me: "I over think everything to a crazy amount". The type of person you are, in this respect, feeds into a HOCD mind set.
As I understand it, a person with this condition is constantly testing and questioning their sexuality.
This might be how things started for you.
This is what needs healing and has caused our addiction, so we need to fully recover by abstaining from all sexual activity (even with your eyes) for the next few months. If you can do so, you will be on the way to recovery. 
How interesting that you should remember this from such an early age! 
