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Trying to decide whether to tell my father...

Postby Dita » Tue Nov 18, 2014 1:56 am

I know we all have to deal with this, whether to tell the people closest to us about our addictions. i've never told anyone about my pedophilia and sexual sadism and the thought of my friends and family knowing is so horrifying to me.

Except now my mom and dad know that my problems include sexual addiction but they don't know the specifics.

I also know that my dad has dealt with sexual addiction in his life, he cheated on my mom, and I just found out today that he used to pick up hookers.

I just feel like i need to tell someone close to me, cause I hate being alone in this. it hurts so much. but i'm terrified. I don't want my dad to think less of me or hate me. He was extremely critical growing up, I was emotionally abused by him a lot. But i get tired of him acting like he understands when he has no clue. i WISH the worst of my addiction was picking up hookers..that would be chump change compared to pedophilia and sexual sadism. Not to lessen anyone else's suffering, but you know..

i just need someone to know and understand :(
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Re: Trying to decide whether to tell my father...

Postby YouthRightsRadical » Tue Nov 18, 2014 3:06 am

I wouldn't trust someone who's been abusive in the past with this kind of information. It can be used to hurt you in ways very little other information can.

I fully understand the need to have someone understand, but I would strongly encourage you to avoid handing this information over to anyone you can't trust absolutely.

You won't foster deeper understanding with him if he's already belittling and mistreating you. All you'll do is give him another angle with which to hurt you.

Me, I started small when I tried coming out to people in meatspace. I arranged plausible deniability, and made sure that the person I was coming out to was both trustworthy, and also someone I could cut out of my life if need be. It would be hard on me losing this person, but the risk that they'll turn on you means you have to think about that possibility.

I've been incredibly fortunate in the people I've trusted with this information, and whatever you decide, I wish you nothing but the best.
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Re: Trying to decide whether to tell my father...

Postby Dita » Tue Nov 18, 2014 3:46 am

Yeah that's what I'm scared of :( there has been a few times in my life where I tried to go to him for help but he always ended up hurting me more.

It just sucks..I don't wanna be alone in this but I feel like there's no one in my life that I can tell.


And thank you <3
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Re: Trying to decide whether to tell my father...

Postby platonic » Tue Nov 18, 2014 5:09 am

Your intention is good, but don't share, as it can onl go baddly.
I really get having an attachment to a boy, and sometimes the pressure of it all makes everything feel stressed, but telling people like your parents isnt the way to go.

It seems your parents have a negative track record, but even if they didn't, sharing your fixation on such a taboo (legal issues)topic, would ignite a mess. Remember you can't take back whatever you say.
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Re: Trying to decide whether to tell my father...

Postby skeleton-countess » Tue Nov 18, 2014 6:11 am

I agree with the others. I didn't tell my parents about my paraphilia but they found out about it through other means. Things haven't been the same since. Unfortunately, if your parents react badly, it's hard to cut them out of your life (and you probably wouldn't even want to do that, anyway).

And it will permanently change the way your parents see you. Most parents have high hopes for their children to lead normal, peaceful lives and don't want their child to have a paraphilia. I know this is one of the reasons why my parents reacted so badly - they always had my life very meticulously planned out with hopes for me to have a family and everything that comes with that, so necrophilia wasn't part of their plans.

Take a lot of time to carefully consider whatever you decide to do, since you can't take your decision back once it's made.
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Re: Trying to decide whether to tell my father...

Postby Dita » Tue Nov 18, 2014 7:04 pm

thank you guys for your advice. I think for now i won't tell him even though i want to. my life is already hard enough as it is at the moment and I wouldn't wanna make it worse.

idk i haven't completely decided yet but i'm definitely gonna think about it for a while before i do anything.
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Re: Trying to decide whether to tell my father...

Postby Myotherlife » Thu Nov 20, 2014 6:53 pm

I would definitely NOT reveal any intimate details about your sexuality to anyone besides a sex-positive therapist or a friend or relative in whom you have complete trust. I would especially not reveal anything of this nature to an abusive parent.

Since I was about 13, I have been daily plagued with urophilia and copraphilia with elements of ABDL, not to mention full time wearing of women's panties and using feminine incontinence pads. When I was 19, my mother discovered a very dirty pair of underpants in one of my dresser drawers. She didn't say a thing to me, and may never have told my father, but one direct result was that I was mortified, and within a couple of weeks had joined the navy and was in boot camp.

Not until I was in my 40s did I reveal my fetish for panties both to my wife and to a psychologist. Actually, my wife mentioned my panties to the psychologist, in a couples sessions. I might have been "re-mortified," I knew that my wife was OK with my panty wearing, and I liked and trusted the psychologist.

It took another 25 years for me to tell a psychologist about my other fetishes and paraphilias, and soon after that I told my wife about them (once again, she was not bothered at all by the fetishes and paraphilias, but was concerned about the stress I have gone through throughout my life.

Life has been better for me since revealing my secrets, but only because I revealed them to people I respected, or in the case of my wife a person who I loved and respected, and have always had love and respect from her in turn. If I had ever told my mom more about my sexuality, it would simply have hurt her because she would have blamed herself, and possibly started praying for my soul. My dad? I would have either gotten a stern sermon from him. He might even have disinherited me, not that I would have lost much! He came close to disinheriting my sister because she had an affair. Neither my mother nor my father had any understanding of human sexuality, and both of them were psychologically abusive, my mother in a way that failed to teach me that just being her "good boy" would not do much to prepare me for life, my father in a way that taught me that he was superior to me in all ways. Both my parents believed that any kind of sex outside of married sex in the missionary position was sinful.

Bottom line: It's vital to keep sexual secrets to yourself, sharing them only in forums like with or with people you implicitly trust.

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-- Thu Nov 20, 2014 6:53 pm --

I would definitely NOT reveal any intimate details about your sexuality to anyone besides a sex-positive therapist or a friend or relative in whom you have complete trust. I would especially not reveal anything of this nature to an abusive parent.

Since I was about 13, I have been daily plagued with urophilia and copraphilia with elements of ABDL, not to mention full time wearing of women's panties and using feminine incontinence pads. When I was 19, my mother discovered a very dirty pair of underpants in one of my dresser drawers. She didn't say a thing to me, and may never have told my father, but one direct result was that I was mortified, and within a couple of weeks had joined the navy and was in boot camp.

Not until I was in my 40s did I reveal my fetish for panties both to my wife and to a psychologist. Actually, my wife mentioned my panties to the psychologist, in a couples sessions. I might have been "re-mortified," I knew that my wife was OK with my panty wearing, and I liked and trusted the psychologist.

It took another 25 years for me to tell a psychologist about my other fetishes and paraphilias, and soon after that I told my wife about them (once again, she was not bothered at all by the fetishes and paraphilias, but was concerned about the stress I have gone through throughout my life.

Life has been better for me since revealing my secrets, but only because I revealed them to people I respected, or in the case of my wife a person who I loved and respected, and have always had love and respect from her in turn. If I had ever told my mom more about my sexuality, it would simply have hurt her because she would have blamed herself, and possibly started praying for my soul. My dad? I would have either gotten a stern sermon from him. He might even have disinherited me, not that I would have lost much! He came close to disinheriting my sister because she had an affair. Neither my mother nor my father had any understanding of human sexuality, and both of them were psychologically abusive, my mother in a way that failed to teach me that just being her "good boy" would not do much to prepare me for life, my father in a way that taught me that he was superior to me in all ways. Both my parents believed that any kind of sex outside of married sex in the missionary position was sinful.

Bottom line: It's vital to keep sexual secrets to yourself, sharing them only in forums like with or with people you implicitly trust.

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Re: Trying to decide whether to tell my father...

Postby rainbowstar » Fri Nov 21, 2014 6:28 pm

Dita wrote: i've never told anyone about my pedophilia and sexual sadism

I just hope you don't mix these two.
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Re: Trying to decide whether to tell my father...

Postby Dita » Fri Nov 21, 2014 7:03 pm

Myotherlife..

So I'm on my phone cause my wifi got turned off, and it sucks cause it's harder to write a long reply on my phone but I'll try my hardest... Sorry if it's all over the place.



That's awesome that your wife is so caring and supportive. You have a keeper there ;) I do worry about my future husband not understanding. That's a huge fear of mine.

I have told a few different therapists who I liked and trusted about my sexual sadism/pedophilia but most of them I felt like that didn't care enough to really help. My therapist now though is awesome and I like him a lot and trust him. Although I'm feeling really discouraged right now because he found me a sexual addiction place to go to but the lady hasn't called back, and my therapist called her twice telling her to call back. I'm just so annoyed and frustrated, I feel like nothing ever works out.

Also I am working on talking to the bishop of my church about it but I'm scared. I don't trust people in my church right now, but I feel like that's what I need to do, but I'm scared of getting kicked out.

And yeah..my dad would probably react in the same way yours did, unfortunately :( I mean it depends, he's so bipolar. But I guess I shouldn't take the chance. I actually ended up telling my step cousin everything, because we're really close and I've always told him everything. He just told me to go to church and pray and find God and I didn't really feel any sort of relief by telling him.

-- Fri Nov 21, 2014 12:06 pm --

rainbowstar wrote:
Dita wrote: i've never told anyone about my pedophilia and sexual sadism

I just hope you don't mix these two.



In my fantasies..unfortunately they do. :(
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Re: Trying to decide whether to tell my father...

Postby Rinkusu » Fri Nov 21, 2014 11:03 pm

Dita wrote:
rainbowstar wrote:
Dita wrote: i've never told anyone about my pedophilia and sexual sadism

I just hope you don't mix these two.



In my fantasies..unfortunately they do. :(


Try to ignore rainbowstar. Aint nothing wrong with sadistic fantasies. :wink:
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