# Did I waste a good amount of time by being a virgin?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 29, 2015, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-waste-a-good-amount-of-time-by-being-a-virgin/723822 "2015-06-29T22:58:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-waste-a-good-amount-of-time-by-being-a-virgin/723822/41 "2015-07-01T19:03:56Z")

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> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#):
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> I think you really do burn out something important if you use it all

Use all what?

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**Author:** ![marcdrydock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@marcdrydock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marcdrydock)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-waste-a-good-amount-of-time-by-being-a-virgin/723822/42 "2015-07-02T06:26:40Z")

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> [@msmith537](#):
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> You do realize that no one is going to force you to disclose your virginity status? And by the time they realize why you are so bad at sex, it will be too late since you won’t be a virgin anymore!  
> But yeah. I don’t know what you were doing for the past decade, but I’m going to say “yes”, you probably did waste a good amount of time whatever it was.  
> I feel like there are a lot of “older virgins” these days compared to when I was in my 20s (20 years ago). Probably because 20 years ago, being an anti-social nerd was a pretty lonely and boring life. I suspect that a lot of people grew out of that phase more quickly because the alternative was to just sit at home watching crappy TV. Now with the internet and other tech, introverted nerds have so much crap to entertain themselves with I can see someone waking up at 30 only to realize they spent their entire young adulthood watching anime, playing online roll-playing games and downloading internet porn when. What they should have been doing is getting used to mastering the uncomfortable social activities where they would be developing the skills they would need to meet someone to get it on with.

True, there weren’t as many distractions… I also went to an all boys high school.

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