by jr987 » July 26th, 2026, 7:20 am
[quote="justbubly"]Edit- A couple days later, and it's all gone and I can't help feel this is all just a fetish/kink and I'm really not into men at all.[/quote]
Hi Justbubly. I think the "conclusion" you've come to here is something we've all wondered about from time to time, and probably come to the same conclusion--only to be pulled back into our homoerotically inclined selves once the system resets. I've done a lot of reading and thinking on this (as I suspect many of us have), and I've come to see it this way: it is clear that my erotic engine, when it comes to fantasy, private desire, porn consumption, etc., is exclusively homosexual. It is also clear that, in the world, a different part of me emerges: one that thinks women are sexually attractive, and one that probably kind of thinks--at least unconsciously--that being gay would be a problem. I think it's possible that your crippling anxiety, as you describe it, may very well be arising from that unconscious self-directed homophobia. I have often wished, quite fervently, that my IRL self could line up with my private self and just be unqualifiedly homosexual; I would feel much less conflicted--the constant rock in my shoe that separates my erotic self from the rest of the self. (I imagine that's why lots of people listen to these things--trying to get it all lined up.) I doubt that this "problem" will ever be solved, but one thing that is clear to me is that my core homoerotic desire and my outer desire for women are going to have to come to coexist somehow, and I'm sure that (this is true for me, I'm not saying that it is therefore true of you!) this will not happen if I relegate my gay self to the category of a fetish or kink. I think my sexuality is damn complicated, and though I wish it wasn't I am trying hard to see all of it as real and legitimate. (Even as I continue to listen to all the "make me gay" hynosis I can find, because it feels so good....!)