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Is it just me, or has there been a ton of “how to make it work with a woman as a gay guy” posts lately?

I’ve seen a lot of these on Reddit lately, and it feels like LLM content mining. Sure, such questions do come up and are valid, but at this frequency?

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u/Ok-Mycologist-3829 — 11 days ago
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How old are you, and what are your age limits in dating?

ex) I'm 21. Lower limit is 20 years old and upper is 23.

Curious what other people's margins are.

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u/Turbulent_Warning952 — 11 days ago
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Trousers slipping down/shirt riding up

Bros, I have a question - are you into it when a guy's boxers or crack show by accident?

I have loved these moments for as long as I can remember - bonus if it is a nice guy and you just see his boxers or crack showing by accident when he sits down, like you know something you shouldn't (not in a creepy way).

I'll be totally honest, I want to hear stories (sorry) of other people and about whether they are into it too and what taught them it. Just curious if others feel the same and what causes that!

Come on then...

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u/Helpful_Magician6839 — 11 days ago
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I hate my life.

I have nothing to look forward to. I'm always depressed. Always end up feeling depressed, even with therapy and my trying to make it work, it never does. I opened up the a bunch of acquaintances from a softball league I'm part of, i was vulnerable, even though they said they cared I just know without a doubt that when i see them again it will be like nothing happened. Let's face the facts I am not a person worth fighting for. I'm not someone that can make connection. I'm just one of those people that will just exist. Maybe I'll get lucky and die from a terminal disease very soon.

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u/Beginning_Camera_355 — 10 days ago
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My mistake.

I’m M28 and I have been on grindr off and on. I recently downloaded tinder because I was thinking maybe it’s time to get in a relationship again but it never worked out. 2 months ago I was in a new city for the weekend I was thinking about having a hookup there. I went on tinder and found this guy he was looking for a long term relationship and partially so was I. I wanted to get in a relationship so I could stop having hookups which only give me short term gratification.. we went out for a date and at the end of the date I invited him back to my hotel room where we did in fact got very intimate. I’m looking back at it now maybe this was our first mistake. We spent two whole days together and I had to go back to my city which was 3 hours away. We decided that we wanted to make this work because it wasn’t that far and we stayed in touch. A few days later back in my hometown I realized how hard a long distance relationship was as and I wanted to end it because I’ve never been in one but he said he has been in a few and he wanted us to try. I ended up saying yes to this but I found myself so lonely at time. When I was waiting almost the whole day for a text or call. I know he was busy but I couldn’t help myself to feel this way. About a month later I kept trying to ask him to be exclusive but he never gave me a straight answer so I believed we weren’t. I saw him again later in the “relationship” i put quotes because he didn’t want to call it a relationship he said we were just seeing each other. When I saw him that weekend we spent another two whole days together and we were having a lot of sex which he was initiating. I kept on saying things like “isn’t this what boyfriends do?” And I still couldn’t get a straight answer. I went back after the weekend. There was another trip I had preplanned a solo trip before I had even met him and on this trip I did want to have fun and live my life. However he stated that he wanted to come on this trip, I said ok but he ended up not going because he had work. On the trip I tried to keep contact. I wasnt hooking up in this period, however I did look on tinder and put my status as looking for friends just to see who was out there as I said I was on this trip solo I wouldn’t have s*x witch anyone other any thing. On the trip I had called him on day because I was feeling a little lonely. I ending up saying I love him but he said he didn’t want to do this on the phone and told me we’ve only seen each other four days in person and we were just seeing each other. I was confused looking back he was right but I was so hurt and trying to understand why he was so upset. The call ended and I went to sleep and woke up sad and lonely. I texted him when I woke up since we are just seeing each other I don’t want you to kiss me and have s*x in the way we do. He texted me we need to talk but he said when I got back from the trip. I was so mad. This is were it gets bad and I see my faults. We barely talked for a few days while I was on this trip and my loneliness was worse. I ended up getting back on Grindr and did have a hook up one night. When I got back we talked and he said he saw my tinder activity and I tried to explain it. I didn’t think we were even exclusive yet and I was just looking on there not to do what he thought I was doing. He ended up finding about the Grindr encounter because I didn’t want to lie to him. I feel terrible I told him I did it out of anger because I didn’t know why he was angry at me that night. He won’t talk to me now and I understand why. I really didn’t mean to hurt him I just wasn’t the person I wanted to be for him. I was in transition in being a person who wanted a serious realationship. I ended up deleting Grindr after this.
I hurt him and I have to live with it.

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u/firefoxx4 — 10 days ago
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How do I know if he likes me but has internalized homophobia or is still unsure about his feelings? (perhaps im his gay/bi awakening)

Hi my people xx

so my friend and I‘ve been friends for like 3 years and i liked him ever since. our convos were/are very deep and you know all my other friends told me „regular friends dont text/talk like that“ and like „there is definetly more than just friendship“. and im not out the closet for him so he thinks im striaght (even tho its super obvious that i like him). so i wanted to ask how do i know if he likes me but is unsure, or has internalized homophobia due to his religion etc.

\[some information: he shows me the side of him he doesnt show anyone. at school he was very distant towards me (cause i was with my girls) but online we were like texting and yk. he doesnt have an explanation why he likes me or „chose“ me to show me THAT side of him. and we just started hanging out this year because he didnt like going out with me bc he had a stomache ache all the time before we hung out (perhaps butterflies 👀). but now we hang out so dw bout that. one time he even ate a strawberry out of my hand. and he doesnt treat his other friends like me he breadcrumbs me most of the time (i know its bad but not THAT bad yk, he‘s an avoidant im used to it) and one time as we were outside i was drunk and i asked him why he treated me different than the others and he said „i dont know“ but i persisted and he said „its because no one sees me like you“ and then he started crying. last meetup he even cried so so much he only showed that side to his ex girlfriend from 3 years ago.\]

soo yeah if you have more questions about him ask me but yeah how can i know if he‘s dl or is just scared and unsure yk. thank youuu xx

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u/Agile-Illustrator583 — 11 days ago