Is it normal to feel aroused by thoughts of others' death or pain?

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As long as I can remember, I have actually soothed myself to sleep at night by the thought of anonymous (not people I know, that makes me feel awful to think about like anyone else) people dying willingly or hurting themselves willingly and as I've grown older I've started to think it's actually a feeling of arousal, though when I'm actually in the moment I've not felt these feelings. It's just in that period between sleeping and waking.

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  • crion
    10 years ago | pl

    I imagine some truly fucking awful things to get off, and even when I'm not masturbating, I'm constantly thinking of heinous torture or genocide, necrophilia, cannibalism, incest, rape, murder, REDRUM, etc. Call it the product of an overactive imagination and a shitty, hateful childhood.

    For me, your inability to put real people into your fantasy convinces me it's normal. People without names or faces or some relevance to your life aren't supposed to trigger intense emotion. It's why nobody cares when they hear about 5,000 people getting killed on the other side of the world, but choke up when their annoying neighbor gets killed in a car crash.

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    • alittleconfused
      10 years ago | pl

      Hi,

      This is an interesting comment. I was quite unsure whether others have felt the same way about this, and it makes me feel very uncomfortable as I've always considered myself relatively empathetic/moral and yet I've never been capable of telling people about this (my greatest secret, I think) in person. Hence why I posted it on an anonymous internet forum :S

      It is interesting that you seem to consider it a product of your childhood (virtual cookies :/) as well as your imagination . I don't really know whether mine was truly awful or not, but I wish I could give some reason to why I find these sadistic thoughts comforting (again, anonymous cries for advice on internet forums >.< )

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