I'm enough of a degenerate that I encounter these 'my entire identity is my retarded fetish and it's 100% the most important thing about me' people regularly.
You can't really move through the communities of discerning perverts without encountering them - they are a tiny minority, probably like 2%, and they're the absolute worst. Problem behavior is a constant with them, and they create roughly 50% all the drama and bullshit.
I despise them.
They're not merely pervs, there's something fundamentally, psychologically wrong with them that goes way, way beyond simply experiencing sexual arousal from weird stimuli.
This guy's theory that its all after-effects of child abuse is probably more right than wrong.
Only any therapeutic affects are basically nil. It's all enabling. These groups encourage each other to descend into their fetishes neuroses and if one of them starts to make any meaningful change for the better they pull him or her back down like they're all crabs in a bucket.
And ofc there's the ones who try to convert people into their crazy as we saw in that askmen thread yesterday.
It's all as much sad as it is sickening. Loads of mentally screwed up, miserable people out there trying to spread the misery around.
They were never really meant to "fix" anything, just make you feel better about yourself. The first "echo chambers". Yes, they should be more like, say, AA/NA, where you're finding new "friends" who also want to fix their problem, but they didn't usually turn out that way,
I'm enough of a degenerate that I encounter these 'my entire identity is my retarded fetish and it's 100% the most important thing about me' people regularly.
You can't really move through the communities of discerning perverts without encountering them - they are a tiny minority, probably like 2%, and they're the absolute worst. Problem behavior is a constant with them, and they create roughly 50% all the drama and bullshit.
I despise them.
They're not merely pervs, there's something fundamentally, psychologically wrong with them that goes way, way beyond simply experiencing sexual arousal from weird stimuli.
This guy's theory that its all after-effects of child abuse is probably more right than wrong.
As someone who has been out of the dating pool for more then a decade it was fun to watch.
"Let it all hang out" used to be a well-used phrase when I was young. This started to be expressed through "group therapy" sessions ...
The internet has become one big group therapy session.
Only any therapeutic affects are basically nil. It's all enabling. These groups encourage each other to descend into their
fetishesneuroses and if one of them starts to make any meaningful change for the better they pull him or her back down like they're all crabs in a bucket.And ofc there's the ones who try to convert people into their crazy as we saw in that askmen thread yesterday.
It's all as much sad as it is sickening. Loads of mentally screwed up, miserable people out there trying to spread the misery around.
It's always what group therapy really was, frankly.
I'll take your word for it. Not being blithe. Never been to group therapy so I have 0 idea as to how it works.
They were never really meant to "fix" anything, just make you feel better about yourself. The first "echo chambers". Yes, they should be more like, say, AA/NA, where you're finding new "friends" who also want to fix their problem, but they didn't usually turn out that way,