r/TooAfraidToAsk • • Jun 25 '26

Moderator Post We will not be removing all sexual questions.

621 Upvotes

We've had a few complaint threads, so it seems to be about that time for one of these reminders. Let me be clear: We are not going to ban all sex related questions.

They are firmly within "TooAfraidtoAsk", and always have been. Sex is a fairly taboo topic in a lot of places, and a lot of people have questions about it. (And as an additional reminder, TATA is not only for controversial questions. Nor do we allow question shaming for "googleable" questions). These are not new changes.

We get that not everyone has the same interest in those topics, but it is a core part of the sub. Currently, there are ~5 out of the top 10 posts being sex related. Earlier today, it was 4. Earlier this week, it was 3. It typically fluctuates between ~3-5, usually averaging closer to 3.

If you have particular suggestions (e.g. things that seem ripe for the FAQ), or questions feel free to post them below. No promises, but we're always open for improvements if they're feasible. For a list of common questions we get on this topic (what do we already moderate, has the sub changed?, can i filter posts myself?) see the first stickied comment.


r/TooAfraidToAsk • • May 11 '26

Politics Politics Megathread

30 Upvotes

You know the deal, same as the previous megathreads, which were archived.

The rules:

All top level OP must be questions. This is not a soapbox. If you want to rant or vent, please do it elsewhere. Otherwise, the usual sidebar rules apply (in particular: Rule 1:Be Kind and Rule 3:Be Genuine).

The default sorting is by new to make sure new questions get visibility, but you can change the sorting to top if you want to see the most common/popular questions.


r/TooAfraidToAsk • • 2h ago

Culture & Society Why do people clutch their pearls over who goes into the women's restroom, but laugh about men r*ping other men in prisons? NSFW

85 Upvotes

I don't mean to compare public restrooms to prisons, what I'm trying to make sense of is why is a man "dropping the soap" in prison and being raped by inmates joked about but a trns person using the women's restroom is a mortal sin to some people? Or even a man using the women's restroom if the men's is out-of-order or full. I don't understand this double standard.

I realize women experience sexual violence at a much greater rate than men (~21% and ~3.5%, respectively), but the vast majority of people are not rapists, and rape is no bueno, regardless of sex or gender.


r/TooAfraidToAsk • • 14h ago

Race & Privilege Are there any secret disadvantages for being a specific race that researchers and scientists do not talk about for not sounding racist?

644 Upvotes

r/TooAfraidToAsk • • 10h ago

Sexuality & Gender Why is Japanese porn so popular? NSFW

201 Upvotes

r/TooAfraidToAsk • • 13h ago

Current Events Do we know why RJ Mitte ended his life?

338 Upvotes

I don't really know anything about the actor's life besides the fact that he had cerebral palsy and that he was on Breaking Bad.


r/TooAfraidToAsk • • 8h ago

Body Image/Self-Esteem How do I get stronger so that I can bridal carry my girlfriend as a weaker man 🄲?

96 Upvotes

I’m not very strong, but one of my dreams as a man is to be able to bridal carry my girlfriend as a romantic gesture. Is there any specific workouts I can do to grow strength in efforts to achieve a bridal carry? I’m currently working through some pushups and squats, but I have such weak shoulders that I’m struggling pretty hard, so in the meantime I was wondering what other type of workouts I can do as I strengthen my shoulders.

The thought of me attempting to do one and placing her back down immediately makes me cringe so hard.

Edit: I probably should’ve clarified that my gf is a skinny person, but why are so many people in the comments thinking that my girlfriend is a bigger girl instead of me just being a weaker man? And even if she was a bigger girl i would get stronger to pick her up either way šŸ’ŖšŸ’Ŗ

Edit 2: Hi guys after reading through the comments, here are the exercises ill do:
-Squats
-Zercher squat
-Bulgarian squat
-Curls
-Deadlift
-Kettlebell famers carry
-Chin ups
-Shrugs
-Pushups
-And core/back exercises i get from the internet lol
——Will update every month till the end of the year cya then 🫔


r/TooAfraidToAsk • • 7h ago

Mental Health Am I a loser for putting a sweater on a pillow and filling the arms and wrapping it around myself as if someone were hugging me to sleep?

53 Upvotes

For context i’m 18M and I just feel like i’m drifting through life now. I feel like I don’t have a purpose and any meaningful relationship ends because I get too attached too quickly. I started using the pillow to comfort myself at night which helped me sleep faster but if I actually ever told anyone irl I would feel ashamed


r/TooAfraidToAsk • • 21h ago

Love & Dating How is your ā€œif we are single by 30, we’re getting marriedā€ friend doing?

476 Upvotes

r/TooAfraidToAsk • • 36m ago

Sexuality & Gender Why do so many of my straight friends ask hint at hooking up? NSFW

• Upvotes

I'm a lesbian in a open relationship with my girlfriend (we love a good threesome) and we have both had on multiple occasions had our straight friends ask to join us for the night but still swear by they are straight?


r/TooAfraidToAsk • • 19h ago

Sex Cum too fast as a girl? NSFW

295 Upvotes

I masturbate while watching porn and usually finish too fast, within 10 to 30 seconds. Immediately after finishing, I lose all desire to continue. Can someone explain this to me and tell me how to fix it?


r/TooAfraidToAsk • • 4h ago

Other Do crinkle-cut potato chips taste different than regular chips or am I crazy?

13 Upvotes

I was having a discussion with my wife about how I don't buy Ruffles potato chips because when I tried them as a child I didn't like the taste. She tried to convince me that the cut is the only difference in the chip but I could swear that Ruffles had a different flavor profile than a basic cut. So today after over 30 years I tried a different brand of crinkle cut chips and I still think I taste a difference between a regular cut potato chip, am I just nuts?


r/TooAfraidToAsk • • 14h ago

Sex Why is virginity (especially in men) frowned upon? NSFW

83 Upvotes

It seems like "virgin" or "incel" is the worst thing you can call a man nowadays. Why? A lot of people, both men and women, are not dating or having sex as much as they used to. So why is there such a stigma against somebody (though, let's face it, usually a man) being a virgin?


r/TooAfraidToAsk • • 7h ago

Climate & Environment Why has climate change accelerated significantly worse specifically in the last 10 years?

15 Upvotes

In the last 10 years, there has been more events of catastrophic disasters like the Nepal landslide, hurricanes Milton and Helene, Hurricane Harvey, the catastrophic ice loss in the Arctic, severe flooding, and a severe drought in the American West.

Why specifically since 2016 has climate change been so severe? I genuinely don't see that much disaster news from before 2016 that has the effects as hard hitting as the disasters of today.


r/TooAfraidToAsk • • 51m ago

Culture & Society Is it okay for people to get irritated easily and raise their voice at you as a result?

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r/TooAfraidToAsk • • 13h ago

Culture & Society Why do people use the juice box 🧃 emoji in their comments?

43 Upvotes

I know the juice box means Jewish people, but all over Instagram, I see people commenting the juice box emoji and essentially blaming Jewish people for like anything possible. Sometimes there's no words/comment other than the juice box emoji like "🧃🧃". Like I just saw a post that talks about how there isn't proper evidence that processed food are directly harmful to health, due to studies not taking into account other factors such as calorie count, exercise habits, smoking habits, stuff like that. (This Reddit post is not about the processed food claim, that's another can of worms). But I see someone comment " You mean the 🧃🧃owners of the companies that produce the processed foods didn't find themselves guilty for adverse health effects?!?! Wow!! What a revelation!!" I mean what do Jewish people have anything to do with that post?

EDIT: Yes I'm aware juice box means Jews as mentioned in my post originally, it was more so wondering what are the thoughts behind people who comment these? And obviously course it's anti semitic, but is there no reasoning or logic (flawed logic) behind their comments? I'm more so wondering what their thought process is? Or is there literally zero thought process? And before y'all twist my words, I am not an antisemitic nor am I looking for a reason to hate Jewish people, I am just curious as to what "feeds" the mind of a anti semitic to just comment the juice box emoji on Instagram posts that have nothin to do with Jewish people.


r/TooAfraidToAsk • • 1d ago

Sexuality & Gender Does whacking off daily make you last longer with a lady or does it cause you to finish quicker? NSFW

455 Upvotes

No actual experience here with frequent masturbation and love making combined but the stuff I’ve read is that it doesn’t help you last longer. I’m wondering if anyone can give me real life information…not that I’m trying to cut back but in the case I do have a reason…


r/TooAfraidToAsk • • 10h ago

Habits & Lifestyle Why do people who've had plastic surgery on the face almost end up looking the same?

18 Upvotes

For example, look at celebrities who've undergone some type of facial plastic surgery. They almost always end looking like they've all gone to the same doctor because their faces kinda look the same


r/TooAfraidToAsk • • 2h ago

Sexuality & Gender Is everyday normal? NSFW

3 Upvotes

I never thought about sex much, I didn't touch myself. I was taught you're not supposed to, so didn't. Something happened and it changed me. I suddenly think about sex all the time, I feel this urge to touch myself. It's everyday now. I feel like this is not normal but I'm not sure what to do. I don't want to go to the doctor because I am embarrassed by how I feel.


r/TooAfraidToAsk • • 16h ago

Sex Are most hookups happening because of alcohol? Why do I see most of those stories starting with 'we were drinking'? NSFW

56 Upvotes

r/TooAfraidToAsk • • 1h ago

Work Is there a subreddit where there are job posts specifically for NSFW content? NSFW

• Upvotes

I've got a lot of experience in nsfw content. I illustrate porn and edit videos of porn. I could say I'm really good at it too.


r/TooAfraidToAsk • • 19h ago

Love & Dating How can I F23 communicate that my partner M26 isn’t being disrespected as a man?

69 Upvotes

So for context my partner and i have been together for quite a while and as such we have grown to develop new boundaries and discover nee things we might have to change within each other. However my partner has this have where he feels the needs to label everything he doesn’t like as disrespect but i don’t know how to tell him it isn’t. For example i communicated that i have to go to the chiropractor a few weeks ago (it was my first time going and me and the chiropractor has no previous conversations) to which an argument started (from now i don’t remember how) but in the argument he procceees to tell me that going to the chiropractor is disrespectful to him as man. I post a friend specifically a male and he isn’t in any suggestive clothing or position it was him at graduation i posted it and said happy birthday(written exactly like that with their name added) my partner responded with the same line as before. Another example is when he went out and bought a cake and he told me about it seeing as i hadn’t heard from him the day i had asked him if he had got something to eat to which he got upset and said i disrespected him i asked why the argument was then switched about me being insensitive If i call my family member sweetheart that’s also disrespectful to him because i call him that And when i say it’s not disrespectful the line in response is usually ā€œYou can’t tell me what i find and don’t find disrespectfulā€ which is true
but im struggling to communicate that there’s a difference between disliking something and something being disrespectful with him I even offered that he say he might not like it rather than saying it’s disrespectful but that lead to another argument with him saying he’s not a bitch and if he keeps listening to what i ask id turn him into a woman. Sometime his justification is that i’m not a man so i wouldn’t understand and that it’s just a man thing. If im in the wrong any advice on how to correct it would be much appreciated!


r/TooAfraidToAsk • • 1d ago

Media Why do billionaires keep making money? What's their motivation? Couldn't they just stay at home?

186 Upvotes

Why do rich people always want more and more money? I'm talking more about ultra rich. Those who have billions and billions or hundreds of million. When is it ever enough for them and why the answer is never? I just don't get it. I get it wanting to have a comfortable life and enough to basically live never thinking about money. But some of them have enough for generations to come and still want more. Why?? I feel like at some point it doesn't even bring any more joy and they still want it. I just don't get it, seems so boring too

I mean if you ask most people around us, if you get super rich, millionaire, billionaire, they would just want to travel the world, sit on the couch, play games, spend time with loved ones, roam around, explore the places because this is from an individualistic perspective. Because after you die, you leave everything behind. So I don't see any point going for more and more.

I know some people may be naturally very competitive, but then I find it should be some sort of mental illness where you are not satisfied with life at any point.


r/TooAfraidToAsk • • 7h ago

Health/Medical I am HORRIFIED of my adams apple being damaged and I have thoughts of it being hurt or damagedwhich is causing me so much discomfort, it's hindering my ability to focus in school. How do I stop having these thoughts and how can I feel comfortable again?

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r/TooAfraidToAsk • • 13h ago

Other I didn't report a leak in my kitchen sink years ago and now the counter has rotted.. am I going to get kicked out?

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I live in Ontario, Canada.

The sink had a little leak during covid when no one was doing repairs. Since then, I have gone down a really horrible mental health spiral and a lot of things fell to the wayside.. I have no excuse, and am really begging for people not to judge. My anxiety about this issue has gotten enormous and the issue just kept getting worse, I kept avoiding it, and now feel like I have completely screwed myself. The faucet moves around because the wood has all rotted. Under the sink, the paint has like peeled open. I don't see it even leaking water anymore (it used to leak around the faucet base). There was a bit of mold there that I have cleaned.

I have talked to my therapist about this and she says I just need to deal with it, but I have lived in this apartment for 20 years and will triple my rent if I move anywhere else and am terrified that i will get kicked. My therapist said hopefully they will just charge me for the fix, and at least I could keep my home.

The thought of dealing with this issue sends me into tears constantly and I know I need to just bite the bullet and get it fixed but I am absolutely terrified.

EDIT: If I say that I "didn't notice", is that something that is believable when my faucet literally can be moved so far because it's so rotted? I literally have it held on with duct tape rn