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Trying so hard to be straight

Hi guys I think I am bi so i am trying to watch straight films to see if I’m straight so I guess I am watching films to see I find girls attractive.


I apologise is if this sounds really weird but it’s hard for me come out as I just don’t want be gay so I am just gong to act straight and have a girlfriend.


So that nobody’s thinks I’m gay I hope this doesn’t not offend anyone as I have gay friends myself. So I guess i am really conscience that I am gay.

But I also think I am in love with this girl at work.

Reply 1

I do really I hope that I don’t want to offend anyone on here with this post cause I really don’t want to offend anyone. I am tired of living a lie of being straighf so I guess I am gay then and accept it.

Reply 2

Original post by Anonymous
Hi guys I think I am bi so i am trying to watch straight films to see if I’m straight so I guess I am watching films to see I find girls attractive.
I apologise is if this sounds really weird but it’s hard for me come out as I just don’t want be gay so I am just gong to act straight and have a girlfriend.
So that nobody’s thinks I’m gay I hope this doesn’t not offend anyone as I have gay friends myself. So I guess i am really conscience that I am gay.
But I also think I am in love with this girl at work.

i think you just have ocd, dude. you post this every week. check out this article:
https://www.mcleanhospital.org/essential/so-ocd

Reply 3

If youre in love with girls at work then youre not completely gay. It sounds like you want to explore your attraction to men, anyhow, and the only thing that will probably sort those feelings out is actually exploring it.

Reply 4

Original post by Foxehh
If youre in love with girls at work then youre not completely gay. It sounds like you want to explore your attraction to men, anyhow, and the only thing that will probably sort those feelings out is actually exploring it.

But I’m definitely straight and want a girlfriend so I guess I am then I feel I likes but if weirdo just posting this stuff but I just wanted to have some advice but I will try and be straight and see how it goes.

Reply 5

Original post by Ciel.
i think you just have ocd, dude. you post this every week. check out this article:
https://www.mcleanhospital.org/essential/so-ocd

Yeah I keep posting it I Donna guess it’s just a habit to be honest. I don’t why ask people if I’m straight if not as I just like girls as I hope have girlfriend soon in which on all never really happens.

Like I have never had sex with a girl before this probable why I am afraid of Being intimate with a girl I knew my shots with honestly attractive and thought I was I definitely gay.

But that’s why ugh I dunno sorry if I whimig it about to you if when. You seen this post before I really want do identify as straight. In whi I am and I can happy to move on which it seems lying to myself

Reply 6

Original post by Anonymous
Yeah I keep posting it I Donna guess it’s just a habit to be honest. I don’t why ask people if I’m straight if not as I just like girls as I hope have girlfriend soon in which on all never really happens.
Like I have never had sex with a girl before this probable why I am afraid of Being intimate with a girl I knew my shots with honestly attractive and thought I was I definitely gay.
But that’s why ugh I dunno sorry if I whimig it about to you if when. You seen this post before I really want do identify as straight. In whi I am and I can happy to move on which it seems lying to myself

if you're attracted to girls, you're not gay... you could be bi but that's about it

Reply 7

Original post by Ciel.
if you're attracted to girls, you're not gay... you could be bi but that's about it

i mean I’d like to eventually make out with one so I guess this makes me straight then. I’m not sure if I never had a girlfriend before so I have know I idea what I am doing.

But it’s just weird that I am doing gay quizzes too see if am straight or not. I don’t really want to be gay so hopefully I can put this to rest.


And stop posting this because it’s probably annoying everyone on here and my mates are getting tired of it saying you’re not gay stop watching porn.

You will have a girlfriend soon

Reply 8

Original post by Anonymous
But I’m definitely straight and want a girlfriend so I guess I am then I feel I likes but if weirdo just posting this stuff but I just wanted to have some advice but I will try and be straight and see how it goes.

Youre allowed to be open to both. Sexuality is a spectrum more than two definitive options.

Reply 9

Yeah, I agree with the people above. None of us are psychiatrists but it seems much more like you have intrusive thoughts about the idea of being gay, than any actual attraction to real life men - which sounds like OCD features.

This is something that would be completely reasonable to see a psychiatrist about. Being gay isn't a mental illness (obviously) but having intrusive thoughts and feeling the need to continually reassure yourself about whether you're gay, could well be.

Reply 10

Original post by anosmianAcrimony
Yeah, I agree with the people above. None of us are psychiatrists but it seems much more like you have intrusive thoughts about the idea of being gay, than any actual attraction to real life men - which sounds like OCD features.
This is something that would be completely reasonable to see a psychiatrist about. Being gay isn't a mental illness (obviously) but having intrusive thoughts and feeling the need to continually reassure yourself about whether you're gay, could well be.

I think for now I am just going go with flow when it comes watched the amount of porn I have indulged and I watched gay porn so what nothing to be embarrassed I don’t want have be involved but would like a girlfriend.

So I just need accept who I am and quit lying to myself all I can think about is how girls are attractive so therefore I guess it seems I am straight.
I wonder if this is the same poster who wanted to know if masturbating to straight porn, where there might at times be a penis on screen, made them gay. There’s definitely a familiar tone of “please reassure me”.

Either way, agree with the above. This is more about the fixation with one’s sexuality, rather than just being straight, gay, bi or anywhere in between.

Reply 12

Original post by Admit-One
I wonder if this is the same poster who wanted to know if masturbating to straight porn, where there might at times be a penis on screen, made them gay. There’s definitely a familiar tone of “please reassure me”.
Either way, agree with the above. This is more about the fixation with one’s sexuality, rather than just being straight, gay, bi or anywhere in between.

So is it just more taboo after watching a lot of trans porn even though I just been watching shemale and girl or shemale with guys and girls?
Original post by Anonymous
So is it just more taboo after watching a lot of trans porn even though I just been watching shemale and girl or shemale with guys and girls?


Nothing’s taboo. Watch whatever floats your boat.

Reply 14

Original post by Admit-One
Nothing’s taboo. Watch whatever floats your boat.

Probs shouldn’t off said taboo as maybe it sounded a bit harsh. But I have spoken to people who are gay who are my mates actually.

They said no your not gay and said are you comfortable with a girl or guy and said definitely with a girl.
Original post by Anonymous
Probs shouldn’t off said taboo as maybe it sounded a bit harsh. But I have spoken to people who are gay who are my mates actually.

They said no your not gay and said are you comfortable with a girl or guy and said definitely with a girl.


Yes but those people aren’t you. They don’t get to tell you whether you’re gay or not.

The point above is that no one cares. Maybe you watch some trans porn because you’re straight but still find it hot. Maybe you’re gay or bi but don’t want to act on those desires in real life. It doesn’t make any difference unless you’re making yourself neurotic obsessing over what it means.

Reply 16

Original post by Admit-One
Yes but those people aren’t you. They don’t get to tell you whether you’re gay or not.
The point above is that no one cares. Maybe you watch some trans porn because you’re straight but still find it hot. Maybe you’re gay or bi but don’t want to act on those desires in real life. It doesn’t make any difference unless you’re making yourself neurotic obsessing over what it means.

Probs better off cutting out the porn. I can confirm I’m straight as I like girls and want a girlfriend at some stage in my life.
Original post by Anonymous
I can confirm I’m straight as I like girls and want a girlfriend at some stage in my life.


Neither of those preclude you from being bi, or anywhere in between straight and gay. You also said this 7 days ago (emphasis mine):

Original post by Anonymous
I think I am bi so i am trying to watch straight films to see if I’m straight so I guess I am watching films to see I find girls attractive.

I apologise is if this sounds really weird but it’s hard for me come out as I just don’t want be gay so I am just gong to act straight and have a girlfriend.


It strikes me that you are being very binary about this and and that's making you struggle to fathom why you have interests outside of 100% straight.

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