geasu wrote:If anxiety masturbating to gay porn can cause orgasm then why does it not seem to do the same with straight if I'm using the same anxious thoughts
You're not going to get the same reaction out of looking at straight porn because it's truly not the thing causing your anxiety.
I honestly don't think testing tells you anything. You could convince yourself of nearly anything by doing testing.
In my opinion and experience, with OCD the only way to know is to let it go. Once you've let this fixation go and stopped worrying about it for like a year, then you'll have the clarity to look at it and the answer will be obvious. It sounds impossible to do when you're the one in it, but you won't be able to discern the truth from where you are right now.
As an example, for a long time I was fixated on if I had an STD or not. I got tested like 20 times to be sure I didn't, and would question if I had it from all sorts of everyday things. To someone else, they wouldn't understand why I'd even worry about it. But to me, my brain could NOT stop ruminating on the subject and I felt like I couldn't relax or enjoy my life with this doubt gnawing at me constantly.
In the end, STD tests, getting reassurance online from medical professionals and reassuring myself only made it worse. The only thing that got me out of it was drawing a hard line; saying I wasn't going to check if I had it for a year,
and was going to accept there was a chance that I did have it. This caused a lot of anxiety initially, but then I slowly stopped ruminating on the matter. Eventually my brain rewired itself not to get anxiety reactions on the subject and by the time the year was up I could look at it clearly and see that further checking was just harmful to me mentally and unnecessary.
You can't see the solution to the problem while you're still in the problem. Clarity comes from time and distance.
(It also comes from living a healthy lifestyle too which affects how you think a lot: exercise, eating well, supplements -magnesium, vitamin D, and watch for no folic acid except for methylated folate in vitamins as this can spike anxiety)
For someone on the outside like me, it's the same thing where I look at this and I don't understand why it's bothering you so much. Life is so short does it even matter if you're gay, straight or bisexual? Should it ever cause you any anxiety whatsoever or be ruining your life?
In my opinion, I think you should decide to accept that you don't know the answer for certain right now and stop doing any ruminating or checking OF ANY KIND for a long period of time. Don't be afraid to date women in the interim too. I very strongly suspect this is OCD and that if you were actually gay it wouldn't be something you were testing for, it would just be something you inherently know. I think this is the best way to ultimately know the answer and rewire your brain so you don't live in fear of it and constantly ruminate on the matter.