Sex Questions Megathread: I got herpes from my grandma

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BB2K: Oct 9, 2012

Arc Hammer posted:

Could it also be an attraction thing? Like there's enough physical attraction to get the blood flowing for an erection but not enough to sustain any heightened feeling?

No, just jerk off less

# ? Jan 28, 2023 05:04

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# ? May 19, 2024 18:53

kalel: Jun 19, 2012

Arc Hammer posted:

Could it also be an attraction thing? Like there's enough physical attraction to get the blood flowing for an erection but not enough to sustain any heightened feeling?

does a picture of her arouse you? if so you're probably fine physically. it just takes some getting used to.

source: my complete rear end. but that's what people say and it makes logical sense to me, that arousal could be contaminated by uncomfortablility in a new situation

# ? Jan 28, 2023 05:32

PittTheElder: Feb 13, 2012; Yes, it's like a lava lamp.

whydirt posted:

Without knowing more of your health status and history, the default answer is going to be stop jacking off so much because you�ve desensitized your dick

This was my first thought too

# ? Jan 28, 2023 05:52

KillHour: Oct 28, 2007

Arc Hammer posted:

Could it also be an attraction thing? Like there's enough physical attraction to get the blood flowing for an erection but not enough to sustain any heightened feeling?

No but also why are you having sex with people you aren't sure you're attracted to?

# ? Jan 28, 2023 09:10

BB2K: Oct 9, 2012

KillHour posted:

No but also why are you having sex with people you aren't sure you're attracted to?

After 7 years you take what you can get

# ? Jan 28, 2023 09:21

Arc Hammer: Mar 4, 2013; Got any deathsticks?

KillHour posted:

No but also why are you having sex with people you aren't sure you're attracted to?

Because they're nice people and sex can be a way to gauge attraction? Never know until you try kind of deal.

# ? Jan 28, 2023 21:22

Xand_Man: Mar 2, 2004; If what you say is true
Wutang might be dangerous

Anti-depressants and their ilk can play havoc on sexual response as well but yeah collect more data points

# ? Jan 28, 2023 21:30

Violet_Sky: Dec 5, 2011; Fun Shoe

Xand_Man posted:

Anti-depressants and their ilk can play havoc on sexual response as well but yeah collect more data points

I was gonna say this. I don't have a dick but I've felt similar things down there that OP mentioned. SSRIs do be like that.

# ? Jan 29, 2023 17:20

Bar Ran Dun: Jan 22, 2006

Covid can gently caress up your poo poo too, both by vascular / blood flow and in other ways. Have you had covid recently?

# ? Jan 29, 2023 17:36

kalel: Jun 19, 2012

Bar Ran Dun posted:

Covid can gently caress up your poo poo too, both by vascular / blood flow and in other ways. Have you had covid recently?

oh drat

# ? Jan 29, 2023 18:03

necrobobsledder: Mar 21, 2005; Lay down your soul to the gods rock 'n roll; Nap Ghost

If you're able to get off fine with masturbation the issue is likely not physiological but psychological / interpersonal. Literally not feeling anything doesn't make sense physiologically unless there's some serious difference between gap / girth going on or something like numbing happening

With anecdata of N=2 though can say that even after the 4 year mark you should still feel uh... something. Maybe not be comfortable enough to finish but something is probably going to be there even with a condom and some desensitization lube involved.

And yeah, COVID is an rear end in a top hat. Why I'm still masking and pretending like it's 2020 still. I've got enough problems, long-haul COVID doesn't need to be one of them.

# ? Jan 30, 2023 18:45

Hyperlynx: Sep 13, 2015

necrobobsledder posted:

If you're able to get off fine with masturbation the issue is likely not physiological but psychological / interpersonal. Literally not feeling anything doesn't make sense physiologically unless there's some serious difference between gap / girth going on or something like numbing happening

Completely not true.

If you habitually grip too hard when jacking off, you desensitise your dick. Even moreso if you don't use lube. That's why so many people are saying "jack off less". Try that, and see if things improve.

It's come up again and again and again in this thread.

# ? Jan 30, 2023 23:13

Hats Wouldnt Fly: Feb 9, 2010; .
Redfont is my hero.

Not to start a whole thing but are there any actual expert sources that dicks break if you use them too much? What mechanism is at play? Is it being suggested that dicks are getting callused because I think people would notice that. Is "your dick is desensitized" code for you watch too much porn and have unrealistic expectations?

What's the science behind broke dicks?

# ? Jan 31, 2023 06:48

stringless: Dec 28, 2005; keyboard ⌨️ cowboy

Hats Wouldnt Fly posted:

What's the science behind broke dicks?

Microplastics

# ? Jan 31, 2023 07:16

mllaneza: Apr 28, 2007; Veteran, Bermuda Triangle Expeditionary Force, 1993-1952

Hats Wouldnt Fly posted:

Not to start a whole thing but are there any actual expert sources that dicks break if you use them too much? What mechanism is at play? Is it being suggested that dicks are getting callused because I think people would notice that. Is "your dick is desensitized" code for you watch too much porn and have unrealistic expectations?

What's the science behind broke dicks?

They don't break from overuse, but the "death grip" technique of masturbation can reduce your sensitivity. No calluses, just watching porn doesn't do anything, it's accustoming yourself to a form of sensation you just don't get with a partner.

# ? Jan 31, 2023 08:34

Hyperlynx: Sep 13, 2015

They also unbreak if you ease up.

# ? Jan 31, 2023 12:16

BlankSystemDaemon: Mar 13, 2009

You know how, if you eat spicy food a lot, you eventually get to a point where you need to make your food even more spicy?
It's that, but with your penis.

# ? Jan 31, 2023 13:34

Zil: Jun 4, 2011; Satanically Summoned Citrus

BlankSystemDaemon posted:

You know how, if you eat spicy food a lot, you eventually get to a point where you need to make your food even more spicy?
It's that, but with your penis.

Please don't put spicy food on your penis.

# ? Jan 31, 2023 13:41

whydirt: Apr 18, 2001; Gaz Posting Brigade

*taps on thread title*

# ? Jan 31, 2023 13:58

Jedit: Dec 10, 2011; Proudly supporting vanilla legends 1994-2014

whydirt posted:

*taps on thread title*

I don't think that "Do not use Dave's Insanity Sauce as a sexual lubricant" is outwith the purview of this thread.

# ? Jan 31, 2023 17:03

Grassy Knowles: Apr 4, 2003; "The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"

I�ve definitely eaten daves insanity and forgot to brush before going down on a partner. I felt terrible but I bet they felt worse.

# ? Jan 31, 2023 17:28

Lead out in cuffs: Sep 18, 2012; "That's right. We've evolved."

"I can see that. Cool mutations."

Grassy Knowles posted:

I’ve definitely eaten daves insanity and forgot to brush before going down on a partner. I felt terrible but I bet they felt worse.

Title text/post combo.

# ? Feb 1, 2023 03:22

necrobobsledder: Mar 21, 2005; Lay down your soul to the gods rock 'n roll; Nap Ghost

Hyperlynx posted:

If you habitually grip too hard when jacking off, you desensitise your dick. Even moreso if you don't use lube. That's why so many people are saying "jack off less". Try that, and see if things improve.

I count the well-known death grip issue under psychological factors personally but if it's actually changing your physiology or body chemistry that's kinda wild and something that I'd like to read more about given it could apply to all sorts of other forms of stimulation and entertainment.

Hats Wouldnt Fly posted:

What's the science behind broke dicks?

Dr Huberman at Stanford has said that neurologically with enough porn consumption your brain will have trouble responding as much to actually having sex compared to watching others do it and become conditioned to respond to that instead. He never qualified it with any form of quantity (probably because it would likely vary so much from person to person it's meaningless to try to measure) but I do trust him on neurology at least and he's quite well accredited in it.

# ? Feb 1, 2023 04:13

After The War: Apr 12, 2005; to all of my Architects
let me be traitor

Until we get OP's Masturbation Report (please wank hard enough to go through the carbons), we're just going to be shooting blanks here.

# ? Feb 1, 2023 14:43

RFC2324: Jun 7, 2012; http 418

You build up a psychological tolerance to basically any stimulus over time and repetition. Look at everyone heres response to our old friend, Kirk.

Anyone who tries to deny that psychological factors cause physiological response(or inhibit it) is a moron who should be summarily ignored.

# ? Feb 1, 2023 18:12

Ensign Expendable: Nov 11, 2008; Lager beer is proof that god loves us; Pillbug

After The War posted:

Until we get OP's Masturbation Report (please wank hard enough to go through the carbons), we're just going to be shooting blanks here.

This kind of rigid bureaucracy really rubs me the wrong way.

# ? Feb 1, 2023 19:39

kalel: Jun 19, 2012

After The War posted:

Until we get OP's Masturbation Report (please wank hard enough to go through the carbons), we're just going to be shooting blanks here.

Ensign Expendable posted:

This kind of rigid bureaucracy really rubs me the wrong way.

lol

# ? Feb 1, 2023 20:03

Shine: Feb 26, 2007; No Muscles For The Majority

# ? Feb 2, 2023 10:52

RFC2324: Jun 7, 2012; http 418

I thought the problem was op being all out of cum?

# ? Feb 2, 2023 18:35

SpaceViking: Sep 2, 2011; Who put the stars in the sky? Coyote will say he did it himself, and it is not a lie.

RFC2324 posted:

I thought the problem was op being all out of cum?

I'm all out of cum, I'm so lost without you
I know you were right believing for so long
I'm all out of cum, what am I without you?
I can't be too late to say shut the gently caress up about your dick

# ? Feb 3, 2023 04:23

MrMojok: Jan 28, 2011

You never actually run out of cum.

# ? Feb 3, 2023 04:38

TheMightyHandful: Dec 8, 2008

Nobody�s ever tried

# ? Feb 3, 2023 12:16

whydirt: Apr 18, 2001; Gaz Posting Brigade

Better eat what you make just to be safe!

Recycling is fundamental

# ? Feb 3, 2023 13:00

After The War: Apr 12, 2005; to all of my Architects
let me be traitor

TheMightyHandful posted:

Nobody’s ever tried

Definitely gave it my best shot as a teenager.

# ? Feb 3, 2023 16:29

Hats Wouldnt Fly: Feb 9, 2010; .
Redfont is my hero.

RFC2324 posted:

You build up a psychological tolerance to basically any stimulus over time and repetition. Look at everyone heres response to our old friend, Kirk.

Anyone who tries to deny that psychological factors cause physiological response(or inhibit it) is a moron who should be summarily ignored.

Sorry about your broke dick

# ? Feb 3, 2023 16:30