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by siphon » Wed Apr 16, 2014 11:35 am
ive been wondering, does anyone feel Paraphilia pride?
ive been struggling with weather or not i should take pride in what makes me different, i dont act on it, but it's still apart of me and in some ways i feel like im a stronger person because of what ive been through.
how do you feel about it?
this is meant for all the Paraphilias XD were all in the same boat XD
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by Endymion » Wed Apr 16, 2014 11:49 am
Maybe a little. I'm certainly not ashamed of it. Perhaps I'm mistaking moderate pride with a general sense of pleasure at being able to find certain individuals beautiful in a way that goes beyond how others might find them beautiful. By this I don't mean 'normal appreciation + sexual feelings'; rather it's about the romantic side of things.
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by siphon » Wed Apr 16, 2014 12:03 pm
that makes sense, it's really no different from gay pride right?
they are proud of who they are and how they feel no matter what people think
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by HowardCL » Wed Apr 16, 2014 6:00 pm
I am proud to be a Pedophile but I am not proud of the fact that I have acted on those desires with children. I used to feel such strong guilt for being a pedophile but these days I really don't feel guilty for being a pedophile and mostly feel guilt for the children that I have hurt over the years.
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by sprooglestrewft » Wed Apr 16, 2014 8:15 pm
Yes I am proud of it. Of course I don't mean that I view pedophilia as an accomplishment, but I view it with mostly pleasure even if that pleasure is bittersweet.
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by YouthRightsRadical » Thu Apr 17, 2014 4:42 am
I did, in fact, have T-shirts made. Admittedly, it was partially to screw with the head of a creep who'd attached himself to my circle of friends, and eventually had to be driven off with threats of police action, but my shirt with the GLogo on it is a part of my regular rotation. (So much so, that the dye is fading, and I'm going to need to replace it soon.)
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by KevinG31 » Thu Apr 17, 2014 4:43 am
This is an interesting topic. I wouldn't call what I feel as "pride" but I do feel fortunate that my paraphilia is there to protect me from feeling too badly about myself. Because I have a masochism/humiliation paraphilia when I fail at something in the real world the fact that I'm aroused by being humiliated makes those defeats less painful.
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by Endymion » Thu Apr 17, 2014 10:02 am
KevinG31 wrote:This is an interesting topic. I wouldn't call what I feel as "pride" but I do feel fortunate that my paraphilia is there to protect me from feeling too badly about myself. Because I have a masochism/humiliation paraphilia when I fail at something in the real world the fact that I'm aroused by being humiliated makes those defeats less painful.
Bonus! Succeed at interview = celebrate with a w*nk. Fail at interview = celebrate with a w*nk.
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by siphon » Fri Apr 18, 2014 8:45 am
well the lgbt people can have pride and were not that different from them, maybe it's just hard to see past all the oppression
KevinG31 wrote:This is an interesting topic. I wouldn't call what I feel as "pride" but I do feel fortunate that my paraphilia is there to protect me from feeling too badly about myself. Because I have a masochism/humiliation paraphilia when I fail at something in the real world the fact that I'm aroused by being humiliated makes those defeats less painful.
i can see how that would help, i wold take pride in that

YouthRightsRadical wrote:I did, in fact, have T-shirts made.
what did the t-shirt say on it?
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by Exiled. » Fri Apr 18, 2014 8:59 am
I personally go back and forth between pride and shame but that probably has to do with my bipolar disorder...
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