Your longest bout of celibacy...

I can relate completely.

lessee I’m still a virgin (hurray for catholic dogma actually working!). my friend wants to have sex with me and I kinda want to have sex with him but uh yeah he has a girlfriend. he’s baaaaad.


They/I certainly can.

Me too, i should start a new thread about that.

for me its a mixture of things.

  1. a serious inferiority complex in issues of interpersonal sexuality. I don’t feel inferior to people in general, just that i am not good enough for a sexual relationship with a woman.

  2. I am shy. I don’t like approaching strangers and looking for excuses to talk about things i don’t find interesting. Due to my shyness i also have no social network (no social network & no way of meeting new people = no people at all to pick from).

  3. I’ve always believed that this culture kindof has an ‘american pie’ perspective to male/female sexuality, where the women are bratty attention-addicts who get annoyed when men approach them and the men are pathetic & lose control of their minds when any woman shows any interest in them. The idea of being seen/feeling like a sucker who will do anything for a piece of poon (no matter how bitchy, selfish or whiny the owner is) and who will end up being verbally abused for attempting to do so isn’t something i am willing to put up with/risk.

Shit, i know chubby single mothers who make $6 an hour who get hit on 10 times when they go out in a club. The idea of being seen as/feeling like ‘desperate sucker number 11 for a strange woman to use as a tool to boost her self esteem’ isn’t something i look forward too doing.
Those are probably the main reasons.

Yes i have issues, thanks for noticing

Nearly 3 years. Hated every second of it. And it’s getting worse.

I’ve also seen them. And then it hits me, no matter what I might think, they must still be more attractive than I am.

Which sucks.

Trust me, if it were a sheer matter of will - than I would not be in the situation I’m in now.

6 years–by choice for the first 5, by circumstance and inertia for the last year (or so)… and ambivilent about it.