You said at one point that you felt “known.” I think that’s maybe the heart of all of this. I also think it might be what people are seeking, whether they are aware of it on any level at all, or not. Being seen and understood by someone (or many someones).
Your Penis Isn’t a Secret
The most easily identifiable source of inherited shame and fear came from role models. There were zero men in my real life from age 0-20 who ever dressed in a way that indicated they possessed anything beyond flushly sanded Ken doll parts down there. They talked about their dicks or would grab or adjust themselves occasionally. But it was all just billowing fabrics and cargo pockets.
Story Time: Tim and Al, Awesome Sex Great Job
In “Tim and Al,” the first of the series, and today’s Story Time story, the titular gentlemen have a work accident that ends in some physical exploration of bodies, terse denials of interest, and sets the stage for each of them to want more during their upcoming ice fishing trip.
Book Report: “The Genius Guide to Penis Pride” by Dick Johnson
After this post about ways to stoke Penis Pride, someone pointed me toward a book that seemed like it might be right up my ally. “The Genius Guide to Penis Pride” is available all over the internet as both a physical book and an easy to download ebook/Kindle book published by Xlibris.
5 Keys to Reduce Shame and Amp Up Penis Pride
Viewing your own penis as a key to connection with others is the crux of learning to be proud of it. Because it holds so much potential and so much power for you. Even if you never meet another penis in real life to share arousal and generate friction and pleasure together, you are part of something larger than you, and are accepted into it wholly, just as you are.
Practicing these steps, and making intentional time to take your clothes off and touch and stimulate your genitals is how you learn to love them. They bring only joy and pleasure into your world, no matter their size or shape.
Uncomfortable Asks: Should you buy a teenager a Fleshlight?
My philosophy has long been that Fleshlight should send every American youth one of their products the very day they turn 18, just like Gillette does with razors. I think it would solve a whole host of issues and problems, and create a lifelong customer loyalty, the likes of which no sex toy brand has ever seen before. You win that 18 year old penis over, and that penis’s owner is gonna be buying Fleshlight brand products for the rest of their ejaculating life.