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Contents:
- HOW DO I KNOW I’M NOT REALLY GAY/STRAIGHT?
- AM I GAY IF I HAVE SAME SEX FANTASI?
- FEELG GUILTY ABOUT "GAY THOUGHTS"
- MEET THE STRAIGHT MEN WHO ARE TERRIFIED THEY ARE GAY
- 'HOMOSEXUAL OCD': STRAIGHT MEN WHO SPECT THEY ARE GAY
- WHY SOME STRAIGHT PEOPLE MIGHT HAVE GAY SEX
- PEOPLE WHO ARE GAY, LBIAN OR BI HAVE MORE MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE E PROBLEMS, SURVEY FDS
HOW DO I KNOW I’M NOT REALLY GAY/STRAIGHT?
Is 'Homosexual OCD' - the fear of beg gay, spe beg straight - jt ternalised homophobia, or a ser psychologil disorr? * straight with gay thoughts *
Currently sufferg om OCD (Obssive Compulsive Disorr)Recurrg unwanted or tsive thoughts about your own sexualyConstantly reassurg yourself that you are straightAvoidg people of your same genr due to anxiety or unwanted fears that you might be gayWorryg that you might be sendg out “signals” that will make others thk you are gayHomosexual thoughts are repulsive to you, rather than arogFeelg no attractn to your same sexRepeatg an actn bee you worry that you might have done somethg a way that mak others thk you are gay (example: a man repeatedly gets up and ss down on a chair bee he worri that he tak a seat a way that looks too feme). Homosexual thoughts are enjoyable and/or arog to the person, even if they hi their sexual orientatn om others or are ashamed of Havg had past sexual experienc wh those of their same genrPreferrg to date or have sexual enunters wh people of their same genr stead of wh those of the oppose sexOften, people who are gay report havg felt differently than their same-sex peers at an early age.
A person sufferg om this sub-type of OCD nstantly doubts their sexual orientatn:A straight person worri whether they might actually be gay even though they haven’t doubted their sexual orientatn the pastThey might worry that homosexualy is “tchg”They may thk that talkg wh a gay person will make them act out by triggerg their own latent homosexual tennci.
Where a tly gay person obtas happs and relief the act of revealg their homosexual orientatn, HOCD people who e out ntue to doubt their wh tradnal OCD, people who are affected by this ternalized homophobia engage ruals to help them alleviate their anxiety and prove to themselv that they are tly straight. They might also perform washg ruals if they are around a gay person, may act overtly to assure themselv of their sexual orientatn, or may even blatantly act out agast gay people orr to prove they are straight. Addnally, HOCD sufferers might avoid physil ntact or beg alone wh gay people and may even rry this behavr to shunng same-sex public rtrooms or not eatg public se the food was prepared by a gay person.
AM I GAY IF I HAVE SAME SEX FANTASI?
If they don’t, they may unsel the person to help them accept their homosexualy which will only aggravate the person’s HOCD more rmatn and help wh HOCD ’s symptoms the Delray Beach, FL area, please ntact Dr. The term has been updated to be more sensive, clive, and a straight person’s fear of beg gay is a mon prentatn of the ndn, obssns and pulsns around sexual inty n affect anyone of any genr or sexual orientatn.
FEELG GUILTY ABOUT "GAY THOUGHTS"
The same thg n happen the other way around: a gay person wh SO-OCD n velop a fear of beg straight, wh “straight thoughts” or fears of straight thoughts.
MEET THE STRAIGHT MEN WHO ARE TERRIFIED THEY ARE GAY
Unrwood was groomed and reward for beg straight, as are all of , and if he me out as gay would not likely have been reward the same way his environment.
LGBT children and youth are lured to heterosexual/cisgenr pliance by heterosexism, cisgenrism, and homophobia, groomed om childhood by our parents, teachers, neighbors, relign, and even movi and TV. Most gay people have been enormoly, if not nscly, trmatized by the social prsure they felt to intify and behave as a heterosexual, even though such prsure is not classified as sexual abe by experts the field. In orr to have doubts about one’s sexual inty, a sufferer need not ever have had a homo- or heterosexual experience, or any type of sexual experience at all.
'HOMOSEXUAL OCD': STRAIGHT MEN WHO SPECT THEY ARE GAY
” Some people’s doubts are further plited by havg such experienc as hearg other people talkg or lookg their directn and thkg that the people mt be analyzg their behavr or appearance and talkg about them – discsg how they mt be gay (or straight).
Let’s face , gay people have always been an opprsed mory wh our culture, and to sudnly thk of beg this posn, and to be stigmatized this way, n be ighteng. I have sometim wonred if those who experience the most distrs om such thoughts as the do so bee they were raised wh more strongly homophobic or anti-gay attus to beg wh, or if is simply bee one’s sexualy n be such a basic doubt. Lookg at attractive men or women, or pictur of them, or readg sexually oriented lerature or pornography (hetero- or homosexual), to see if they are sexually excg.
WHY SOME STRAIGHT PEOPLE MIGHT HAVE GAY SEX
The flip si of this is when they look at thgs havg to do wh sex of an oppose orientatn and then feel aroed some way, which they then nclu to mean that they liked , which means that they are gay (or straight). Makg a seri of three-mute tap that based on the wrgs gradually suggt more and more that you are gay, and listeng to them several tim a day changg them when they no longer bother you).
PEOPLE WHO ARE GAY, LBIAN OR BI HAVE MORE MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE E PROBLEMS, SURVEY FDS
Scientists are not yet sure exactly what someone to be lbian, gay, bisexual, or straight, but recent rearch shows that there are blogil factors place before birth that fluence people’s sexual orientatn.
So when you are sayg "foc on the more submissive aspects of " and referencg the prev post where someone suggted this was more about beg submissive than about beg gay, n you elaborate on that? The obssns n take the form of doubt, for example, a heterosexual male fearg they are gay, or vice versa, a gay man fearg that he is potsYou nnot be diagnosed wh HOCD as is not rerd as a distct disorr DMS-5.
It is a label ed to scribe a particular set of obssns and pulsns relatg to sexual has nothg to do wh prejudice or homophobia—the obssns related to a fear that long-standg sexual inty has name is misleadg; homosexual OCD.