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And now I'm running out of money. I've been seeing different escorts every week for the last 5 months. At first when I started, it felt really good because I was finally having sex. But now, I'm in despair and really a wreck.

Every time I would have sex with an escort, the feelings of loneliness and sexual frustration would go away for a week. During that week, it would feel like I don't even need a girl in my life because I'm satisfied sexually and thus love and a relationship don't matter. I felt like a man who is just satisfied with sex and nothing else. The neediness would go away. That's why I did it. It was working and for the first time in my life I had a consistant feeling of well being, happiness, satisfaction, and this allowed me to focus on being social, working, and on my hobbies.

But I always knew it would be temporary because I can't sustain this lifestyle financially. Plus, I was always worried of getting an STD. Thus I decided I would stop back in June. But every time I tried to stop, that neediness and sexual frustration would come back, and I would get really horny, and then I would call an escort. Now it's November and I HAVE to stop because I'm literally running out of savings.

I don't know what to do. I have to masterbate 3 times a day so that I can concentrate on something and stop thinking about sex and women, and even then its hard. What's worse is that it's not just sexual frustration; full-blown pangings for intimacy, companionship, love, and a relationship from a girl are also killing me.

Why don't I just get a girlfriend? For one, I am unemployed right now (makes financial matters much worse). Two, I was very religious in highschool and college and thus avoided girls and so now I have very little game. I'm agnostic now, but because of my religious conditioning, it's really hard for me to "seduce" a girl. When it comes to the topic of relationships, my head is a total jumble. Sometimes I think I should just get an arranged marriage with a totally hot girl from a third world country so that I can just have somebody to consistently fresia. Othertimes, I have a strong urge to meet someone who could be my soulmate. I go from extreme to extreme in my thinking. I also at times feel very unattractive -- though people often say I am handsome I'm only 5'7 and I'm pretty laid back and not assertive. I constantly fear I will never sexually attract a girl that I find attractive. It's a very painful fear and makes the whole dating thing a thousand times harder.

I see a therapist for all this and it's helping but not as much as I hoped. I've also read many self-help books and dating books. They've helped me cope but the problem remains unsolved. I fear I may be falling into depression because of all this plus my unemployment. I've been trying to apply to graduate school and deadlines for that are very soon but I just can't focus. I'm constantly thinking about how I will never get laid and never find someone to love me and how I'm going to be sexually frustrated and thus I'll never be able to achieve my career goals either. The thing is, I'm a really intelligent person and have a lot of goals in life and I try really hard at things -- It's just this whole problem is killing me and sapping my life force and I don't know when it's ever going to end.

Before I started seeing escorts regularly, I was in love with this girl who is a "good girl" -- very religious and sweet and similar to me in a lot of ways. I would have dreams about her every week. I started to talk to her and at the same time read a lot of books about winning a girl's heart so I would know how to court her. I felt like maybe she liked me too but in the end it was unrequited love and my heart just broke and died. I lost my religious faith. I became bitter and angry. I had some money in the bank, and so ******* really hot escorts was the only way I could feel good about myself and in control of my world. But now that has to end, and I don't know what I'm going to do. I'm totally and utterly lost.

Thank you for reading this overly long post and for whatever kindness you can give me.





 
How old are you? As you've found out this is dangerous behaviour. It seems what you are discovering is the lack of emotional connection. Yeah great, you're having sex with random strangers where there are zero emotions connected to it. Wham, bam, thank you ma'am. You're better off sticking to masturbating several times a day. I hope you use some kind of lube cause dude you're going to do some damage if you don't.

You should see a professional, a sex therapist who can help you through your addiction.

Find a hobby that you can do to help expend that pent up energy you have. A healthier outlet.

Oh and welcome to the forums
 
i think i understand that sexual closeness or romantic closeness is different than a closeness with a friend. I've often felt empty if i didn't have the former in my life. So i guess on some level I understand...maybe...


but, this is self-destructive. I'm not sure if you realize this. It's like filling the need within you with alcohol and slowly destroying your liver (your capacity to empathize with others by numbing yourself to something which is supposed to be bonding and also risking STDs and ruining your reputation and risking possible jail time).


I don't htink you've admitted to yourself that this is an emotional need of yours. I don't htink you are able to turn off this need, though you wish you could. You can't, you have to fulfill it, but i wish in a way that was less destructive for you.

You might be becoming situationally depressed since your efforts haven't seemed to have been paying off for you.

I reccomend you stop compulsively mastrubating, since it seems to just be exacerbating the problem.

To all the guys waiting for the perfect woman to have sex with. Heed this guy's story. No girl is perfect.
 
Go to a psychiatrist to prescribe you anti-depressants or neuroleptics. Your sexual appetite will disappear. Problem solved.
 
iris said:
Go to a psychiatrist to prescribe you anti-depressants or neuroleptics. Your sexual appetite you'll disappear. Problem solved.

will disappear*

Just felt like correcting as that typo sounded crueler as intended probably :cool:
 
Polar said:
iris said:
Go to a psychiatrist to prescribe you anti-depressants or neuroleptics. Your sexual appetite you'll disappear. Problem solved.

will disappear*

Just felt like correcting as that typo sounded crueler as intended probably :cool:
I corrected that typo. My bad. Thanks Polar. :)


 
Sorry, but I don't think you really 'need' a therapist. I understand why some would say that, though. There are couples that have sex 3 times a day. Do they need therapists too? lol... Of course I'm not a psychologist, so what I say here isn't backed up with any sort of knowledge or education. I'm just saying what I think, and I think that you're one of those men with high testosterone levels.
*I, personally, have never been one that wanted to engage an escort or prostitute, nor be interested in sports sex. I know that it could be a temporary fix, but definitely not a long-term solution. Having said that, I can tell you that I've been married & divorced 3 times, and have had as many girlfriends 10 fold. If anyone has had as many relationships as I, they will understand it when I say that it has cost me thousands & thousands of dollars. I often wonder if I would've been better off by utilizing a prostitutes' services, and eliminated all the head trips & emotional stuff. Oh well, I suppose I'll never know.
* Just waiting for the next potential person to come into my life. It's not the many times that I've had relationships that bothers me, but the ending that's hard. It's like I'm stuck in limbo or something. Keep spanking, my friend!
 
I think you do need a therapist. It sounds like you are at the very least, bordering on sex addiction, simply for the fact that you have drained all your savings on sex.

I got into escorting for similar reasons. 99% of the sex I have had for free was so, so empty maybe even past empty and right into emotionally draining for me, because after the initial rush of sex, I would feel so, so so low, and used, and empty. Getting paid almost gave value to my sexual experiences, almost. The problem is the risk of stds (I already have 2 that will never go away, luckily not HIV or hep B), and the risk of being raped/beaten/kidnapped/murdered.

For other reasons, and this, I am pretty sure I have a sexual addiction, and especially so because I go very long periods of no sex, after acting out (I havnt had sex since I quit being an escort, and that was years ago).

I am going to start looking into sex therapists. I am so sick and tired of feeling and being this way.
 
septicemia said:
the risk of being raped/beaten/kidnapped/murdered.

lots of serial killers target your segment of society thinking no one cares about prostitutes/escorts and if one goes missing no one will notice or put the manpower into figuring out what happened...

dangerous job. :(
 
I'm 24 for the fellow that asked my age.

SophiaGrace said:
i think i understand that sexual closeness or romantic closeness is different than a closeness with a friend. I've often felt empty if i didn't have the former in my life. So i guess on some level I understand...maybe...

but, this is self-destructive. I'm not sure if you realize this. It's like filling the need within you with alcohol and slowly destroying your liver (your capacity to empathize with others by numbing yourself to something which is supposed to be bonding and also risking STDs and ruining your reputation and risking possible jail time).

I don't realize the extent of its destructiveness. I've spent over $8000 on escorts in the last year. I don't know if I have an STD or not -- I certainly don't have any symptoms, but often STDs don't display them. I used to hold women in high esteem but now I really don't. I've objectified women but I feel the guys who women are attracted to sexually seem to do this.

I've always been a very good and kind person. In college I devoted a lot of my time to charitable causes. I'm never mean or unkind to anyone, and I'm always helpful and willing to listen. Lately though, I've decided to fresia all that and care about myself and my well being only. I'm still kind to people, but to be honest, now I don't care about anyone but myself.

There is a saying: "no good deed goes unpunished." That's how I felt my life was before. I was a very good person, did very well academically, treated women with respect, but all I got was rejection from women. And I didn't just like women for their looks, I always looked at other things, like character, personality, and shared interests. Despite the women I pursued being similar to me in these areas, I got rejected again and again. I've never been in a sexual relationship and it hurts.

I am very bitter about this. I blame God. He made this world as messed up as it is, where people like me who try so sincerely to be good suffer while people who are ******** and psychopaths get to enjoy everything. I never asked for much. I just wanted a girl who could be my best friend and satisfy my sexual needs. I never asked to be rich, or for power, or for anything. In fact, I would often pray to God that just take away the suffering caused by it, just give me some peace, and I'll be patient. But God wouldn't even do that for me, despite how faithful I was and how much I prayed and did good deeds. fresia God.

I don't htink you've admitted to yourself that this is an emotional need of yours. I don't htink you are able to turn off this need, though you wish you could. You can't, you have to fulfill it, but i wish in a way that was less destructive for you.

My therapist said this too. The problem is, it's a long haul for me till I am settled enough to be boyfriend material since I am unemployed. I don't even know where I'll be living, in fact, for the next six months. I don't have the confidence to approach a girl because of this uncertainty. In the past, I've asked girls out, but I've always had a job at the time. I know I can do it, despite that I am naturally shy I took a lot of risks to expand my comfort zone, and thus I know I'm capable of asking a girl out. Maybe not a random stranger, but someone I know or someone on a dating site. But my situation doesn't let me do anything with confidence, and when you don't have confidence, you are messed in the dating game as a guy.

You might be becoming situationally depressed since your efforts haven't seemed to have been paying off for you.

Yes. The last year have been the hardest of my life. I put a lot of effort into so many things and didn't get a solution from them. I put a lot of effort into my job, into that girl I mentioned, into working on my confidence, self-esteem, image, into being happier, into loving myself, into many other things. I've suffered so many setbacks, at least getting to have sex with beautiful escorts was something I always looked forward to and gave me a thrill that made life worth living and made the rest of my life seem okay.

I recommend you stop compulsively mastrubating, since it seems to just be exacerbating the problem.

But what do I do instead? After masterbating for the second time in a day, I get a window of about 8 hours in which sex doesn't bother me as much, though I will still think about wanting a relationship and non-sexual intimacy. In that window I can finally concentrate and get something done.
 
Hey Cowboy.

I think you need to realise that as much sexual pleasure as these escorts can offer, it's not real. And sex with no kind of emotional attachment is simple physical gratification - nothing more.

It's dangerous to involve yourself too much in anything detached from reality, this is no exception. If you're burning through all your cash like that and it's a weekly thing, I think perhaps you need to seek help of some kind.

I know what it's like to really feel kind of...isolated? Even sexually frustrated. It's not pleasant.

However, I don't think simply trying to get rid of that feeling temporarily is the way forward. I think you'd be better off trying to sort out your financial situation and getting a real partner who sleeps with you out of love, not out of cold cash.

Of course, that is easier said than done. But I wish you luck and can only advise you really to kick the "habit". Good luck!
 
I don't judge you for what you've done but I feel as though you are walking down a path where you are losing your ability to connect with others and your ability to empathize with others. I don't know why this scares me.

I guess you are saying that "why be good if I don't get what I want."

I don't know. It's just that, if you keep feeding your black dog (the part of you that becomes more and more numb) what will you become and will you hurt others? Will you in the end get what you want out of life?

btw could you take that 8000 dollars and pay for a semester of my college plz? :p


have you tried christian singles groups? It's a thought.

btw i think what you have done is like the guy version of a girl going on craigslist and finding a hot guy to sleep with. It's kind of weird to think that a guy has to pay for this while a girl just has to make an ad on there and BAM. guys lining up. :/

Our society is weird.
 
I recommend you stop compulsively mastrubating, since it seems to just be exacerbating the problem.
But what do I do instead? After masterbating for the second time in a day, I get a window of about 8 hours in which sex doesn't bother me as much, though I will still think about wanting a relationship and non-sexual intimacy. In that window I can finally concentrate and get something done.

I think Kamya may have given you the answer in posts # 8 & 9 of this thread. Anyway, $8000 could've bought you quite a bit of sex therapy, eh?
I wish you the best with this most complex situation, Cowboy.
 
gnome3 said:
I recommend you stop compulsively mastrubating, since it seems to just be exacerbating the problem.
But what do I do instead? After masterbating for the second time in a day, I get a window of about 8 hours in which sex doesn't bother me as much, though I will still think about wanting a relationship and non-sexual intimacy. In that window I can finally concentrate and get something done.

I think Kamya may have given you the answer in posts # 8 & 9 of this thread. Anyway, $8000 could've bought you quite a bit of sex therapy, eh?
I wish you the best with this most complex situation, Cowboy.
Tried to quit masterbation many times when I was religious, since it is a sin. Longest I went was 60 days. In fact, trying to quit masterbating really messed me up because I was repressing all that energy. It would be better if I masterbated once every 2 days. I'm trying to do it at a healthy amount but sometimes I have no control.
 
Buy a male chastity device (the bird cage or any other device that cant be easily broken if you try to break it) and give the key to someone. At the same time either give them $1000 dollars or give them a check for $1000. Tell them that you will take the key back in 6 months. If you take the key back before 6 months is up then they get to keep the money/ cash the check. If you wait 6 months then you get your money back.

You don't have to tell them what the key is for. Make sure you give it to someone that is actually going to be a dick and take your money if you fail.
 
Hi-
I think it's great that you're seeing a therapist. You sound articulate and you have some insight into what's going on. So I do think you can get through this and the grey skies will lift. It will take time, though.
If you're worried about your employment status and where you're going to live, getting into a relationship isn't going to solve your problems. Give yourself a break, man - it's the Great Recession and there's plenty of good people who are out of work through no fault of their own. Maybe take a break for a minute from women until things start getting better for you.
I don't see any problem with masturbation. You're not hurting anyone by doing this and if it helps you expend some energy, I see no problem with it. (I don't believe in a god, so I don't think it's a sin, either. But that's just my opinion :) ) You can still be a good person and masturbate.
Good luck & do keep us posted on how you're doing-

Teresa
 

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