What led to your sexual awakening? (Please keep this SFW).
Please keep this SFW so I can read from my work computer.
I remember being enamored of Freddie on the Scooby Doo cartoon. He was young and handsome. Yes, my first crush was an animated young man.
When I was awakening, there were no out celebrities other than Elton John, who came out as bisexual at first because it was less controversial. When I was in high school, the late night sitcom Soap had Billy Crystal playing a gay man, and it was revolutionary to me.
Events didn’t line up to allow me to come out, and that’s caused me great anguish over a lifetime.
I’m thrilled that there’s so much healthy representation now. The show Heartstopper was sweet to watch. There are out celebrities all over the place in many different fields. We have marriage equality in many countries.
My trans brothers and sisters face egregious restrictions now, but I have hope things will improve.
What about you? Did you have a crush? Were you agog over a celebrity? Whom did you look at and just know that your desire was more than skin deep? Maybe you remember desiring a person at school.
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Good question. Candidates include Jerry from Tom&Jerry, Bugs Bunny, and Inuyasha.
Being molested – not a happy awakening.
Being a straight cis man, my “awakening” was not dramatic or even of note to anyone but me; nobody else really cared.
There were two incidents in high school where girls demonstrated affection towards me, both were “oh wow” moments.
@janbb I’m sorry if this causes unhappy memories.
@Hawaii_Jake Thanks. Not a problem – I’ve dealt with it extensively. i have many later happier ones.
One fabulous artistic lover in my mid-20’s blew my mind. He used the phrase, ‘Let me worship your body, please.’ He was even turned on by the curve of my back. Good memories.
I turned 18, wanted to go on a date or two. The “sex” didn’t happen until some time later, but the awakening was definitely there.
I think everyone knows, but I recently had a “procedure” done at a hospital for research and not all the data is in yet as far as I know. But what I experienced for the first time was something that I think certainly qualifies, OMG!
I must have been too young to remember and/or it started in kindergarten with Amanda. I refused to eat snack one day because I couldn’t sit next to her.
In first grade, I was lying down and smooching with Kelly, who was the girl next door.
Getting attacked by boys who were supposed to be my friend.
^^^ I guess it was more like my sexual reality.
From this tiny sample, we’ve learned women can have very violent experiences and straight men have very boring awakenings.
First crush feelings were felt in 2nd grade. It was a battle of my feeling for a cute little blonde girl Ann vs my Teacher.
The real awakening occurred in 6th Grade. I vividly recall the Animals House of the Rising Sun on the radio.
@Dutchess_III I asked this question here, because I asked it on a forum for gay men, and the answers were wide. It really depends on the gay man’s age how fraught the awakening was. Older men like me had a rough time of it. It’s a bit easier for younger men. However, homophobia is still rampant in the world, so the awakening means the realization that the individual is somehow doomed. It’s quite depressing.
It was in the darkness of the cupboard under our stairs with the girl next door and was the briefest and most innocent of encounters. We were both very young and after this experience my sexual awakening seemed to sleep for many years but I have not and never will forget that momentary touch in the dark.
Wait. My BFF Chris and I hid under a table in his mom’s bathroom and we kissed. I think we were 8. But calling it sexual in nature would be WAY beyond the pale.
A girl named Susan. Summer camp. I shall say no more.
I don’t kiss and tell. I’ll only say that it involved a pretty girl, we were both 13, and it also involved hiding behind my parents bed and her showing me one of my dad’s Playboys. I was clueless and stupid. I thought that thing was only for taking a whiz. Learned something new that day. I’ll say no more.
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Funny story about that incident above. The girl told me “You can have my chery if you want it”. I thought she was talking about a real chery, and I told her what chery we don’t buy those things. She fell back laughing and I thought she’d lost her marbles. She taught me a lot. As I said I was clueless and naive. And lady jellies forgive me for discussing this in mixed company. Just thought it was funny. And she snd were pretty close anyway. : )
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