Dallas Bragg tells gay men feeling sexually broken that recovery is possible. He argues that porn, social media, and figures like Dan Savage impose narratives that hide what you actually want. The path forward: map your arousal template, the personal triggers that work for you, and rewrite your sexual script from there.
So if you're listening and you've thought to yourself, I'm sexually broken or I'm damaged goods, I hear that a lot. There's repair available. The issue is, where do you go? You know, where do we go as gay men to learn about sexuality? Do we go to pornography? Do we go to social media? Do we go to Dan Savage? I don't know. You know, like, where do we go to learn about sexuality? And the word arousal template, You know, I mean, it's like speaking another language sometimes when I use that word. And it was something so new to me only probably, I don't know, a year and a half ago, 2 years. No one ever said that to me. So there's a lot here that you can learn, that you can have a resurgence of hope. And it's not only rediscovering your sexuality. A lot of you listening never discovered it. You know, it was put on you, right? Your sexuality was put on you by all these external forces. This can give you an opportunity to create, to write, to start over. It's a clean slate. Like, you're in charge now of your sexuality, and Dr. Fawcett can help, can help do that. And start mapping it out.
