Anonymous: “I just remembered the scene from "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" where Indiana is supposed to take a Leap of Faith over a wide (and very deep) chasm that he has to cross to save his father's life. His eyes and head tell him it's impossible, but his father lies dying and the Holy Grail across the chasm is the only thing that can save him. So he closes his eyes, puts his foot out in front and falls forward. What was a tense moment ends when his foot immediately hits a hard surface: a bridge that wasn't visible becuse of an optical illusion. He then simply walks across and then throws sand back across the bridge to kill the optical illusion so others may cross. This "I Got Laid" section is my attempt to throw sand back across the chasm for my fellow adult virgins to see that the path is a series of unremarkable steps and no great leap.”
I'm attributing this as anonymous because while it is attributed to a user called "FreeBSD", it is evidently a cut-and-paste job from elsewhere.
The article details how adult male virgins suffer shame from their peers, especially if the virginity continues past their college years, and suffer that shame in silence. (“Because no one, anywhere, ever, would pretend to be a 44-year-old virgin.”) The middle section could have been a good candidate for rejection from ASSM, not that I would know anything about that, but the basic point is that the American writer was a virgin up until he paid for an escort while on a trip to Canada exclusively for the purpose of buying sex. And that sex is really not that big a deal. This article can be read in conjunction with (and almost as a potential case study for) "Involuntary Celibacy: A Life Course Analysis" by Donnelly et al.
