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  • ElectricFeel
    Junior Member
    • Jun 2012
    • 6

    Can't get turned on?

    As much as I feel "frustrated" and have been exploring with masturbation, I can't help but feel I don't actually get turned on. I try watching porn, reading erotic stories, etc, but nothing helps! I'm almost worried it might be a problem. I feel in the mood but nothing seems to keep me interested, despite me wanting to be interested. What can I do?

    I'm having the most trouble with using my fingers with masturbation. That doesn't seem to turn me on at all, and sometimes I don't always have my vibrator handy, which leaves me frustrated. But even with this, I still can't get turned on.

    UGH, what can I do?
  • DreamP346
    • Oct 2011
    • 2053

    When you say you can't get turned on, are you saying you don't desire sex or that you can't get physicially aroused, because those are 2 different things. When you use the vibrator, do you orgasm? Is it that you don't get pleasure from sex?
    Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose - Kris Kristofferson and Fred Foster (sung by Janis Joplin)

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    • jns
      Assistant Admin
      • Mar 2010
      • 8398

      You have to examine what gets you turned on as individual things and as combinations. Be introspective about yourself in your journey of exploration.
      I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
      ...
      Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?

      From a speech by Patrick Henry on March 23, 1775 at St. John's Church, Richmond, Virginia

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