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‘I want sex with every man I meet…’

LIVING WITH ‘PURE O’

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LILITH Swann is delighted that Channel 4 has produced a “sensitive and sensible” programme about Pure O.

Because she suffers from that form of compulsive thinking – and hers takes the form of obsessing she’s a NYMPHOMANI­AC!

The 31- year- old designer from Shoreditch in east London said: “It began when I was about 16.

“Fleeting thoughts about having sex with random men grew and grew. In my mind, I could see myself having sex with men. Not just ordinary sex either.

“It was dirty, extreme sex. Bondage, anal and stuff like that.

“I could meet a random man and imagine his cock was right in front of me, spunking into my face and hair. I’d imagine licking the hot spunk from his bellend.

“There would be a physical reaction. My panties would get wet as my pussy got excited. There were times that I acted on my thoughts and for a while I was quite promiscuou­s.

“But it got worse and worse and I was fantasisin­g about every man I met. Fantasisin­g is probably the wrong word. The images were clear in my head.

“Images of men ripping off my panties with their teeth and plunging their hard cocks into my arse. It was clear I needed help.”

Lilith explained: “It is important to distinguis­h Pure O from a singular fleeting thought. All humans have unwanted thoughts.

“What distinguis­hes Pure O from a fleeting unwanted thought is the anxiety that comes with these thoughts.

“I just can’t get them out of my head.”

Lilith went to a private shrink after her GP failed to diagnose her condition.

She said: “My doctor basically told me to pull myself together and stop dwelling on these thoughts. Well, that’s impossible for someone with Pure O. That’s the point!

“I went on the internet and found out about the condition. Then I went to a therapist who specialise­s in Pure O treatment.

“I’ve still got it and still have these thoughts but the counsellin­g has given me ways to cope with them and, crucially, not act on them.”

Pure Obsessiona­l OCD ( Pure O) is a version of the disorder in which an individual reports having obsessions without outwardly observable compulsion­s.

The obsessions often come as intrusive, unwanted, inappropri­ate thoughts, impulses or mental images.

The compulsion­s for Pure O mainly exist in the form of mental rumination and reassuranc­e seeking.

Intrusive thoughts and images tend to coalesce around specific themes – including sexual themes.

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