Originally Posted by
MyNameIsTerry
But that's my point, Dave, groinal responses are documented in sexually intrusive thoughts. Therefore they don't point to being attracted when you know you aren't. That part of the brain is upstream and responds to stimulus and people having these themes often mistake it for real attraction.
As Beatroon has shown, there is a major difference between sexually intrusive thoughts and real attraction, and she is backed up by OCD experts in this.
It worries me that some point towards these things as being other than likely OCD because my experience of people worrying about such things is that they will take what people say to imply they must be what they fear. It's clear the OP is falling into that trap.
There is a real misconception here too that this OCD is a permanent disorder, children often experience this and grow out of it. I had some OCD periods for a couple of weeks at a time in childhood but then I never experienced real OCD until my mid thirties and only because of a med.
There could be stresses that when taken away, this all subsides, so we don't need to think of long term disorders at this point. But having said this, there is obvious anxiety going on.
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I think as far as society changing, that's a long time ago and parents don't always know what their kids get up to. I'm 41 and kids this age we seeing each other and even sleeping together before my teen days.
But as far as the thread goes - Admin were asked to review it and they ruled it was acceptable. Continuing to express any disappointment in their decision is something that should be done direct, we all need to remember this and we can choose to ignore the thread if we don't approve.