11 “WTF!” Realisations About Sex, Women, and Self-Mastery That Shock Young Men

Eric Thead
13 min readAug 5, 2022

Everyone’s fighting their own battles. But outside of the obviously rough things in life that everyone experiences —sex, relationships, and self-mastery can be areas that cause young men a lot of pain, embarrassment, and shame.

When they’re not doing too great, men don’t tend to stand around the water cooler at work and tell their buddies about this stuff!

If men don’t have any friends they trust to open up to, they tend to congregate on the internet to discuss these things in forums. Or, under an alias on Medium.com…

Here are 11 WTF that shock young men as they learn about themselves and others.

1. Looks only get you so far with women

Growing up watching the best-looking guys get the girls, you naturally believe success with women is all about looks. Improve your looks, improve with women right?

So you dress better, hit the gym, keep your hair looking sharp and you notice your stock picks up. You’re getting attention from girls at last!

But unless you know what you’re doing, you soon realise all being good-looking achieves is it makes it easier to get a chance with women. That’s it.

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