I definitely agree that I need to be a bit more tactful and less probing. Unless he brings it up again I don't think I should pursue it, cause there's not really a good way to do so, I don't think.

A friend of mine mentioned that the last time he had sex with his girlfriend, he didn't use a condom. I don't think that she's on any other kind of birth control and that they've been doing much to keep themselves STI-free. It seems like not using condoms wasn't really a one-time thing for them, and...

I think I was on paroxetine by the time I started getting these troubles, but I've tried a few SSRIs. I might be going off them soon, so that might be changing something.

I've been on various SSRIs for a while, and I've been noticing that I've been having trouble coming even though I don't feel like I have a very abnormal sex drive and I have a pretty easy time becoming erect and pre-ejaculating when masturbating. Is this most likely caused by the effects of SSRIs or...

I'd say that one of the (limited) things that's been bringing me passion is music. I've been thinking of going deeper into it, possibly singing some songs or doing some lyrics writing, especially during weekends when I don't have much to do.

Thanks for all of the articles! After having read them, it seems like what's most likely going on is an overall complicated, ambiguous relationship to positive emotions, not just pleasure or sexual arousal. I'd classify it as a bit of a "detachment" that makes it pretty hard for me to unde...

I am interested in what you're saying about a less genital-focused sexual view (do you have any materials on that subject?), but I feel like there is to some extent a larger issue. Independent of whatever my sexual activity is, I don't really have the underpinnings of emotional arousal that can make...

I mean, privacy really isn't all of it. Even when I both have enough time and enough privacy that neither are really an issue, I still have trouble with masturbation. I think that though I have a "conscious" desire, I don't really have an "emotional" backbone for that. I guess I ...

Anxiety is probably a bit more of a general mental health thing, so I'll talk about privacy. Neither my bathroom nor bedroom door has a lock, though my mom(who I live alone with) probably won't enter the bathroom unannounced, though that's something that she will most likely enter my room without a ...

Thanks for your response! Yeah, it seems like I have a pretty easy time experiencing things that are physiologically arousing, but there's a lot of psychological problem in regards to anxiety, privacy problems, etc. I have no problem getting erect, usually through being naked, touching myself, or re...

So I've found that cis guys are pretty much expected to have a inherent intuitive concept of self-pleasure that I, to some extent, don't seem to really have. I'm 15, and though I know how to give myself an erection, but I don't really know where arousal or pleasure goes from there. I haven't reached...