Can Homosexuals turn themselves on?

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Can Homosexuals turn themselves on?

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I was just wondering this yesterday. It seems to me that if a gay man is turnedon by other men, his own body might turn him on. I can't speak professionally, but I can't help wondering.
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i dont know, but most of them probably not. it would be similar to being turned on by a sibling or even your twin. and since most people are not turned on by family members i doubt that homos are turned on by themselves. of course verilon or einhänder could answer this question more accurately.
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Methinks this is a +1 thread for him. As evidence, look at http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic.php?t=10143 .
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ArmorPierce wrote:Methinks this is a +1 thread for him. As evidence, look at http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic.php?t=10143 .
probably. it´s still an interesting question though.
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Um...no

Trust me I do NOT turn myself on
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Aww whats wrong Aly? Don't like yourself? lol

I know I can get myself hard with various thoughts.. of myself. :3
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um....Disturbing. Generaly I can turn myself on with thoughts of OTHERS, I personally do not find myself that attractive, nor...*shudder*
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Does add a new meaning to "Go fuck yourself". but no i've never found myself attractive thats why i was amazed when a sexy guy like Einy, who is hung like fecking redwood, said i was cute.
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Seriously, Setzer, you've never masturbated? And if so, does that mean you're gay?
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Darth Pounder wrote:Does add a new meaning to "Go fuck yourself". but no i've never found myself attractive thats why i was amazed when a sexy guy like Einy, who is hung like fecking redwood, said i was cute.
YES! I can and do get turned on by my own body to answer that question.
WTF? How do you know I'm hung besides my statement in the Organ size thread-- oh yeah I sent you that naked pic. Oops my bad... BTW thank you for the compliments.







You really think I'm that sexy?...

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Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:
You really think I'm that sexy?...

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*ego swells to mammoth proportions usually only seen in Hollywood*
I'm sure that aint all thats swelling :lol:
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I, also, am narcisistic in every sense of the word. I love myself, and often! :D
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Frank Hipper wrote:I, also, am narcisistic in every sense of the word. I love myself, and often! :D
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So the gay guys in this forum has some kind of sub-culture of a black trade going around that I was just made aware through a slip of the tongue.
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Wha? What are you talking about? Black trade? WHA?
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ArmorPierce wrote:So the gay guys in this forum has some kind of sub-culture of a black trade going around that I was just made aware through a slip of the tongue.
No, we dont exchange porn over IM or anything.....No we dont do that, I swear, I swear on my...Mothers grave..... :wink:
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Re: Can Homosexuals turn themselves on?

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Setzer wrote:I was just wondering this yesterday. It seems to me that if a gay man is turnedon by other men, his own body might turn him on. I can't speak professionally, but I can't help wondering.
Yes, it's possible, it's called Narcissism. Straight men also can have it. Maybe women, I'm not sure.

I don't think sexual orientation has anything to do with it.
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Its also called being sexy. :P You dont have to be narcissistic to think youre sexy or to want to suck your dick. You just have to be horny!
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I don't think the incest taboo would apply, because it seems you have to have grown up around a person in order for the taboo to work (there was some study somewhere that said siblings separated at birth were just as likely to be attacted to each other as to anyone else, while unrelated children raised in the same house had some form of the incest taboo). Since you don't count as "someone else", you wouldn't feel the same sort of revulsion looking at yourself in the mirror as you would with, say, your brother.

That being said, I could be talking out of my ass. Since I'm into chicks, it's a moot point for me anyway.
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Just to add something here; I have heard the term 'narcissexual' tossed about by psychologists before. I believe that there is a mental or emotional condition that causes people to fall in love with themselves, or to prefer only self-sexual-gratification to the company of others.
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RedImperator wrote:I don't think the incest taboo would apply, because it seems you have to have grown up around a person in order for the taboo to work (there was some study somewhere that said siblings separated at birth were just as likely to be attacted to each other as to anyone else, while unrelated children raised in the same house had some form of the incest taboo).
Now, I might be talking about rodents here - a year later all my sociobiology is smushed up in my head - but I think that it works both ways - unrelated people who grew up together are unattracted to each other, but so are sibligs raised separately - it's a pheromone thing.

There's definitely a hormone that women only find sexy if it's produced by a version of that gene they don't have - i.e. produced by someone probably unrelated. however, the detection of this is thrown off by hormones, so anyone who met their girl while she was on the Pill, Beware! - when you decide to try for kids she might stop fancying you!
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Alyrium Denryle wrote:
ArmorPierce wrote:So the gay guys in this forum has some kind of sub-culture of a black trade going around that I was just made aware through a slip of the tongue.
No, we dont exchange porn over IM or anything.....No we dont do that, I swear, I swear on my...Mothers grave..... :wink:
No no nothing like that me and Einy just swaped pics over MSN thats all, Damn sexy pic too.
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Now, I might be talking about rodents here - a year later all my sociobiology is smushed up in my head - but I think that it works both ways - unrelated people who grew up together are unattracted to each other, but so are sibligs raised separately - it's a pheromone thing.
Which explains why so many people end up screwing their siblings, oh wait.. :)
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