Gay me
by Fred Penzel, PhD
This article was initially published in the Winter 2007 edition of the OCD Newsletter.
OCD, as we know, is largely about experiencing grave and unrelenting doubt. It can cause you to doubt even the most basic things about yourself – even your sexual orientation. A 1998 analyze published in the Journal of Sex Research set up that among a team of 171 college students, 84% reported the occurrence of sexual intrusive thoughts (Byers, et al. 1998). In order to acquire doubts about one’s sexual identity, a sufferer depend on not ever have had a homo- or heterosexual experience, or any type of sexual experience at all. I have observed this symptom in juvenile children, adolescents, and adults as well. Interestingly Swedo, et al., 1989, found that approximately 4% of children with OCD experience obsessions concerned with forbidden offensive or perverse sexual thoughts.
Although doubts about one’s control sexual identity might look pretty straightforward as a symptom, there are actually a number of variations. The most obvious develop is where a sufferer experiences the thought that they might be of a different sexual orientation than they formerly believed. If the su
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In this personal essay, J
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I’ve been internet dating online since I came out at 19. At that time, online virtual dating was the primary option for gay men to meet other gay men. There may be more options available now, but I still find it to be my go-to dating method.
My preference for the online dating pool may be because my social circles don’t deliver me into contact with an abundance of unattached gay men, or because it’s interesting to join people who are outside my everyday experience. It is, as they tell, what it is.
The debut of www.meetmindful.com—a website that promotes mindful dating—is exciting. I wonder, though, if what we are being mindful about will be unseal to wide interpretation. To me, mindfulness means organism aware of and engaged in the Universe and respecting its laws, and in improving oneself in harmony with those laws. To others, “mindful” may mean something different. The meeting of these minds, though, starts with a profile.
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