Yeah anxiety sucks ass. Speaking from personal and recent experience my suggestion is ACT (or CBT) therapy if that’s an option for you.

I think this is a + use case for AI. It’s in the “Not like that” realm of use cases

Dan and Jordan are so soothing.

The taboo is starring/oggling or catcalling a stranger. If you look people in the eyes/face and don’t linger then no one is going to care except people who would have been a bother in any case.

Seems you have a plan. Good luck!

Ooh that doesn’t sound nice, you shouldn’t be hurting yourself.

I’m suggesting you learn [train yourself] to be in the presence of women comfortably without even having to worry about getting an erection. It makes it a lot easier to get to know women.

But if you want a men’s only gym there’s plenty of hole-in-the-wall places called “Iron Pounders” or something like that. At-home weights are also widely available.

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Just like any other emotion arousal is a response to a thought. It’s a wave of experience that’s washing over you. That part you can control but it’s less important here. The important part is the thought triggering the arousal. When you are in a situation where you think you can experience sexual outcomes (even if just fantasy) you’re likely to trigger your arousal response and pop a boner. These thoughts can also be tied to set and setting. You probably trained yourself not to have erections around family or in places with social stigma around it like most public places. So you have to recognize that you’re having a thought of sexualization, then you can reframe the setting as an inappropriate one for sexual arousal.

In the moment you can respond with deep breathing meditation if that helps. Focus on your breathing and think about the thought and (paradoxically) feel the feelings the thought brings. You’re doing two things. 1. You’re changing your learned response by doing something other than sexualizing a random stranger or sand (which ironically, being silica, is technically rock hard). 2. You’re learning how to recognize the thought, emotion and mechanics of it’s development to better manipulate it.

It’s not like it’s quick and easy, it can take a while and some effort, but not being a pest nor feeling guilty about contributing to women’s daily difficulty is imo worth it. Not only does this make you a better more approachable person in public but learning about your own arousal can make you last longer (if that’s an issue) and have better, more intense and rewarding sex/pleasure. Win win imo!

Kilt suggestions?

You can learn self-control.

I remember growing up that everyone knew what Marxism is and had a thoroughly developed class consciousness. Everyone was capable of developing a critique of capital. He might be onto something. It explains why America has such strong labor, free universal healthcare, and no bourgeoisie.

MAGA isn’t strictly excluded.

Please don’t insult the unhoused by comparing them to this shithead.

Porn was by all measures irrelevant at worst to any problems I’ve had in my romantic life. I can point to specific sexual content which was genuinely beneficial.

I don’t know why my early education on sex/pleasure for me and future partners had to be from an old lady on a porn site. I’m glad i had that so early on because no one else was teaching it.

Full depth pockets are for men and terrorists ig

3-6 months, just self cut for the first time. Longer hair, don’t know what to call the style. Like a bob with the back 80% heavily layered and the front hair being the longest (a bit past my chin).

If you have two mirrors you can hang one on a door for an adjustable side view.

That’s a great midrange/budget rig!

Looking at OP’s link it’s still twice the cost though, and given their gaming requirements it may be overkill.

I would agree if space, portability, and modularity aren’t factors then your build is a very good suggestion.

Edit: I’m looking at a different Amazon than you probably, i didn’t think of that when i commented.

Windows 10 will still be usable after support ends. Security is the only concern, and not that big of one if you regularly back up. It may be a good idea dual boot with Linux on a separate drive while you hammer out the issues with whatever distro.

I personally think anything with plasma 6 will fit for interface coming from windows. Some sort of distro like Ubuntu or Debian that commonly has pre-packages in the wild would make sense.

While microsoft also plays in the quarter to quarter economic BS they still have long term planning.

It’s precisely because they have a monopoly on enterprise class software that they could pull this off. That’s why the shift in euro-gov agencies to linux is such a big deal.

MS already has updates as a “free” service and windows insider which requires a paid azure sub which means they already use the threat of “security risks” to force companies to subscribe to azure, which is in effect equivalent to a sub to the OS.

I’m suggesting that they’re going to do what they’ve said they want to do. Just maybe on the longer term or in a novel way.

The biggest motivation they have to keep individual licenses OTP is it gets people used to the ecosystem (customer capture) and they’re massively profiting on all of your that data.