templnite;652878 said:
I don't want any ego-battles with anybody, or anything like that.
I think the reality is that there are a lot of men who have a tremendous amount of pain around this issue, and it is a situation in which we can support one another, to great effect.
I think arguments or competition among people who are hurting is very counter-productive, and I do not want to participate in such a thing, because I don't believe that anybody is better off for it, in the long-run.
Also, I think acromegaly is right, in that it's very important to think quite hard about why you would want to do something like sexual enhancement, and the only acceptable answer is that you understand that no matter how "big" you make your-self, it is the process that you must enjoy, and the internal changes being a person of action will bring, not the external changes.
In fact, after writing the original letters, and starting down a new road, I have realized that low self-esteem is not
EVER changed by creating different external circumstances, but by deciding to design your life, and being involved in the action, with each external development being consciously paired w/ internal enhancement, as well.
When I look at a lot of the ideas about competition, and trying to be "bigger" than another person, rather than asking how great
you can be, especially in areas of masculinity, I realize that engaging in these has just been my own lack of self-worth playing itself out, and that the most effective way to live is to view your life as a celebration of the very act of being alive, and not to chase your tail, but to cultivate and share your-self with the world, as scary as that may be.
I believe that other people have similar pain, and I have begun to see it in a lot of areas, now that I have started to admit (to my-self, and to others) how much I have been hurting.
Good luck,
Adam