How do I forgive myself?

Leave her alone. That was a self fulfilling prophecy combined with self sabotage combined with sexual harassment.

That’s gonna stick with her for a long time.

It doesn’t feel like this until you’re older, but sex and attraction are not that important. It’s our monkey brain (the first emotional reaction we have to subconsciously measure things, stemming from our evolution) telling us ‘beautiful, mate with them’

Don’t listen to the monkey brain.

Women are beautiful. They are also as complicated and varied as you. Different problems, different experiences that shaped them, different desires, but equally as full of life.

Your thoughts aren’t that perverse, they’re natural, just keep them to yourself unless they WANT to hear it - which is almost never, they’ll let you know.

The wrong thing to do is to keep digging deeper and deeper into your perverse thoughts. They’ll always want to one up the last one. Everyone wants to have sex all the time but only men are culturally allowed to actually do that stuff usually, just jerk off before you make any horny-decisions and that will clear your head.

Hormones settle down in peoples early 20s I believe. The pre frontal cortex (the part of the brain that controls impulse control and planning ahead and delaying gratification) is developed by 25 or so.

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