I agree with your point on not worrying about partnered sex yet, it's impossible to predict now how I'll feel in a situation like that if it occurs.

Thank you for the discussion and advice, I'll keep up the trying new things :)

I'm going to guess you meant to say "even if that pleasure isn't explicitly sexual" from the context of the paragraph on physical pleasure - if so, maybe warm water or radiant heat on my skin like sunlight or a fire? I do find some kinds of touch by others to be relaxing but "by other...

Hi Sam, yeah, I'd be happy to elaborate! You are correct that this is not an issue of repulsion but rather frustration from feeling limited. Perhaps it's also partially confusion: there are things I clearly find sexually interesting, why don't they do anything physically? What I mean by mental arous...

(I think my answer got eaten when I tried to submit it so hopefully this doesn't double post-) Thank you for your reply and the welcome, Latha :) In that case, I wonder if there even is more I can do. The "identifying other topics" that I mentioned was pretty much what you described - figu...

So, I have a fetish-related question, and I'm fairly sure this actually is one and not just a kink/preference: my arousal is linked to an object that has nothing to do with sex, and this has been the case since childhood (back when I didn't yet understand what the "weird but funny feeling that ...