I want someone to see this because the internet isn’t giving me answers for once? But at the same time putting this out where people can see is embarrassing, yet I can’t even really ask someone because I have no one to talk about this, so I hope maybe posing my questions to a general audience might get me some answers.
So I’m at this really shitty point of my life where I haven’t dated for over a year now, and I refuse to do so because I feel like I need to figure out what’s going on with me before I involve another human being in my shitty headspace. But at the same time I can’t figure out what’s going on because I don’t have any answers and I feel like I’m not asking the right questions, and I can’t even be honest about my feelings because I’m ashamed and disgusted by my own human nature. Like. I can’t even be honest to myself about how I feel about anything sexual. I’m at this constantly fluctuating point where some days I really want sex and I’m so sexually frustrated and oddly aroused and others the thought of sex makes me so anxious and nervous and sick I can’t understand how I could ever want it. And then while this whole debate is going on in my head, I just keep telling myself, “Why does it matter? Sex isn’t a big deal. You don’t need it to survive. Stop being gross and thinking about it so much, there are so many more important things to be thinking about.”, thus invalidating my want to try and understand how I feel. And it’s dumb and stupid and pointless, but I feel like even though it’s a waste of time and irrelevant, I do need to figure out how I feel about sex and all that jazz.
Which is where I get lost. Am I pan? Am I ace? What am I? Why does it matter? It matters because I want an easy to read label to put out there to attract a future mate who I might hopefully feel sexual arousal for. Which in itself is asking a lot. I’m trying to think really hard if I’ve ever felt sexual arousal for an actual person, and I’m not sure if I have. Does this mean I might as well throw myself on the asexual bandwagon and doom myself to a life of celibacy?(and before you go telling me I’m all wrong and I have no idea about asexuality, this statement above was just a jab at the stereotype that asexuals are all like 40 year old virgins who can’t get laid. I know they’re not. Trust me) Because I feel like so often, if I did take the plunge to label myself as asexual, I would miss out on the majority of sexual encounters that I might actually enjoy. I’ve felt arousal. Hell, I’ve dabbled here and there, I have my fair share of kinks, and yes, I’ll admit, I’ve masturbated. Oh wow, big shocker, so gross, who would have guessed how nasty I am? Everyone probably, tbh. But do I want sex? Maybe. Does thinking about the actual mechanics of sex gross me out? Yeah. Does genitalia gross me out? Yes. So how am I supposed to get rid of all of this sexual frustration if I’ve got all of these barriers?
Also, a little more honesty hour here: I’ve had sex, and I’ve messed around a bit, but always afterwards I feel scared. And that’s another damper on the whole “I want to start a relationship” thing. I mean, it makes me a total dick to have sex and then every time my brain starts working and there isn’t that cloud of “hey this feels pretty good” I panic and run away or back out or cut all contact. Like. Wow. That puts me in total asshole city and I know it. I am completely aware. But how am I supposed to get over that? Why do I freak out after everything? Why can’t it just be good, and stay good? What’s really the problem here is my brain and me overthinking things, that’s it. I can’t just fucking enjoy something, I have to ruin it for myself and others. Is that why I panic? Is it some big scheme of self-sabotage, something I’ve been known to do my entire life?
I don’t know what to do. I don’t have any answers. I still have so many more questions, secret fears that something is wrong with me because I’m just not satisfied by certain things, and a shit ton of stuff I can’t tell anyone and haven’t even said here because I just feel like a disgusting fuck up for even having these problems.
Ugh, rant done for now. Writing this out didn’t help me at all.