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Whether the contact itself is sexual or not... if potential for sexual attraction is there with the person, for me, even non-sexual contact, due to how intimate it can feel, can tend to yield sexual impulses subsequently... for me, those impulses (even in the self gratifying sense) have grown to...

Does intrinsic "value" exist outside of when it suits us to perceive it, or are we all eventually functionalists? The very concept of adaptation implies the latter, therefore, taking the implication as an assumption, no efficacy > no function > no value.

The "college experience" is a house of cards of a social contrivance. People exhibit behavior that never shows before or after, and its manifestation in college is resultant of expectations for what the experience should resemble, not any authentically proactive impulse. I agree with you...

First of all, you're not an idiot... if English isn't your first language and you still use poetically viable and functionally clear expressions like "mother tongue", you're no fool. I feel like self awareness and anxiety make it really hard to adapt moment by moment conversationally, because...

Well, I've joined online communities of various kinds before... but in this case, where there is no niche interest justifying my motive to be here, I can't help but feel especially prejudged. I should make it clear that this is not for presuming others' presumptuousness, but rather because (on...