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Cold and numb?

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richard_Grey_Area

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Hello.
My friend told me that humans have nerve endings in their lips and that they feel pleasure when kissing. I thought that this was only a psychological pleasure since I did not feel anything (well, very seldom, and only with people I loved, but that was psychological, not physical). When I discovered this I started touching my lips but I felt nothing.

My friend told me that I was doing it wrong because I am supposed to want to kiss someone before it feels good.

I touched my lips again but I though of someone who's lips I wanted to touch (I don't want to kiss anyone) when I pretended I was touching someone else's lips it felt different, mildly pleasant, I have not experienced this sensation before.

I theorise that if I practised this I could increase my capacity to feel pleasure, but I have no reason to do this, if the need arose to kiss someone, it would serve my purposes better to practice my technique, not improve how the activity make me feel. If I could overcome the disgust I feel at kissing, I could practice this.

But I don't think it will benefit me much.

Do you feel cold and numb, to activities which bring others pleasure do nothing for you?

Do you do things others do for pleasure (sometimes even selfishly) because you love someone even though you get no physical pleasure out of these things?

Have you ever kissed someone or engaged in sexual activities with them just to see if you could, like it was some kind of achievement - you gained nothing physically or psychologically from it but you wanted to see if you could do it?

Have you ever been intimate with someone and maybe even enjoyed it, but you suddenly felt angry, disgusted and hateful and you worried you'd hurt the person, so you had to stop?

How often to you cut yourself off from relationships or just preserve the appearance of a relationship - because it is too much trouble not to, you might attract unwanted attention alone or hurt someone who loves you and you feel you can't love back in the same way - fake pleasure, fake love, fake desire or just not bother with connecting with people?

Do you feel broken? Like there is something wrong with you?

Does 'true love' really fix this or is it impossible for some people?

I'm interested to know how it is with people.
 
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I'm late in responding, but thought that I would give a short little answer anyway, even though I'm rather inexperienced.

Yes, it's true that the lips have lots of nerve endings, and depending on context they can respond differently. Your lips are actually a bit more sensitive than your fingertips, which is fun to test out with feeling leaf textures or temperature on your face!

I have not personally wanted to go experiment with others -- it's intimidating and frightening, to me. I'd have to really trust them before I thought about anything like that.

But, I have felt that broken feeling before, and that distance and inability to connect before. I was severely depressed at the time. I've gotten a lot better :)



If you happen to see this, it's been a while since you posted this -- do you think anything has changed for you?
 
Groan, this guy again. @littleoc, I know you mean well, but don't try to bring this guy back to the forums. This dude basically accused every man on the site of being an abusive pig.
We're well off without him here.
 
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