Do you embrace your interest, or does it disgusts you?

Good for you! One shouldn't be ashamed of what they like.

Hope so too! Feel free to PM me if you ever want to chat!

I used to be ashamed of such things, but i've since realized if i'm not hurting anyone, why does it matter? That's all I care about now, that i'm not hurting anyone. So I've been working on not being ashamed of it anymore.

That's great! And you're of course exactly right. Porn and hentai isn't the reason for your problems. The relation one has with it is. Once people accept their sexuality and embrace it as a natural part of their being, you'll start feeling a lot better about yourself. It's the negative thoughts about learned shame that destroys peoples mental health.

Definitely agree. So i'm working on it. :)

Most of my friends are into anime and I find usually people who are are cool with talking about hentai to some extent. I definitely don't like go out of my way to bring it up though.
I have some doujins/manga and figures in my apartment as well. I don't keep them hidden really but they're not prominently displayed either. At conventions I always hit up the doujin (or Fakku ❤️) booths to find new stuff and for some bantz with the local perverts. I think it's good to not feel too much shame about sex & masturbation.

I didn't feel all that great about it for a time, but I've been pretty chill with it for a good while now.

I've never felt bad about it. Why waste energy hating yourself over something that literally affects no one.

I fully embrace my love for hentai! Why waste effort into worrying about what other people think about my interests?

I embrace it but I don't openly discuss it with others. You don't talk about your fapping patterns to other people in general anyway, it's none of their business, and it's distasteful and rude to try and shove it down other people's throats.

I have gone through fazes, I'd be fine with it, then hate myself for even having dirty thoughts about the girl I loved as love is "supposed" to be pure. I think a lot of that comes from hang ups we get through social norms. But eventually I came to mostly understand myself, and understand that I was a good person, and that as long as you don't cross any bad lines your fine being you.

I was in the same situation. I felt shame because I viewed porn as dirty and love towards girls "pure". Well, I can tell you those girls are far from pure and so is sexual love. That's how girls keep boys around that think of them as "pure" while they have dirty hard sex with the "bad boys". Let me tell you, no matter how pure and angelic she looks, she's just as sexually dirty and primitive as men. I would tell my former self to snap out of the romantic illusion and just view girls as primitive and dirty as men. Maybe that would save me from the shame and idealism that ended up being all fake and in my head!