Hey, don't worry about it, mrgreenxxx--I'm 40 years old and I'm a virgin--no big thing! Hang onto your virginity for as long as possible--once you lose it, it's gone for good!
i think a lot of people worry about it so much because they feel like we have to loose it by a certain age. there seems to sometimes be a pressure there. im not saying you guys specifically do but in general. like everyone said, it's not really a huge deal. to be honest if i had lost it at 22 rather than 18 i think it would've been 10x more amazing
Sex isn't that important. As a nearly 24 year old virgin, I can say that I rarely get down about not having sex and if I have to wait until i am 30, say, I really don't mind. I have lots of other activities that make me happy.
I'm 18 and a virgin but I just think that at 40 you waited to long, you only live once. But there's a record of this guy who died a virgin because he was to busy working in the 17th century. I hope no one end up like him. Yeah I figured that
If you reach my age and you're still a virgin, then you may have a good reason to start being depressed about it. It totally baffles me when people in their late teens who are still virgins get depressed about it and think there's something wrong with them... there's something deeply wrong with our society when kids have it pushed into their heads that sex is the be all and end all. I get depressed about being a virgin, but that's because I'm in my mid-thirties, and I know that in all probability, I'll stay a virgin all my life. Although I get more depressed over the reasons why I'm still a virgin rather than actually being a virgin itself. When you get to my age and you've never even been kissed it is a bit soul destroying...
So many ways we make ourselves suffer! Virgin-suffering, sexually-active suffering, romantic suffering, breakup suffering... I have had worse suffering since I lost my virginity than I ever suffered from having it. Don't be to eager to cross that magic threshold.
Like I stated in my above post, it's more the reasons why I've never experienced intimacy that make me feel horrible, rather than the lack of intimacy itself. And that most certainly wasn't/isn't a suffering I inflicted on myself. I would agree that generally though, a lot of people who are virgins, especially young people, get needlessly worked up and depressed over it.
Well, a lot of people who are virgins have posted in this thread since the OP. I thought you were addressing all the depressed virgins in the thread. Sorry. lol
The same principles hold true. Whenever someone says "I don't like [x]" what they really mean is "I don't like what [x] fans in me." The thing we always suffer from is the subjective sensation. When one says "I don't like being a virgin" what you really mean is "I don't like what being a virgin brings up within me." Same thing with whatever condition/circumstance makes you suffer. Even if the condition/circumstance was beyond your control, what you truly object to is the subjective sensation of suffering that it causes within your consciousness. Beyond that, I can only say that the sense of loneliness and suffering that comes from being an older virgin is not necessarily worse than the loneliness and torment and suffering of being a sexually-active person suffering through the trials of the dating scene, relationships, etc. We always suffer. We are predisposed to impose suffering on ourselves.
I'm not sure exactly what you mean by that... Well, I think when most people say it, it's a very straight and literal thing. For me, it's much more than just being a virgin itself. That's merely a symptom of a far greater hardship. Within the whole context of the issue, being a virgin by itself is a far lesser issue, and of lesser significance in terms of my overall problems. Perhaps so, but that still doesn't exactly make the suffering "self-inflicted". I never attempt to speak on other's behalf, only myself. I cannot relate to people who are sexually active/have experienced intimacy who are suffering through trials of the dating scene/relationships etc. I can't pretend to know how that feels, so that's something I can't make any comment on. So I can't say whether that suffering is any greater, lesser, or just the same as my own. Just the same as people who have not experienced the reasons for my suffering and loneliness can't say how bad it feels. You can't really fully understand or comprehend other's suffering, unless you have yourself gone through it. Is it better to have loved and lost than to have never experienced love at all? That is a question I cannot answer, as I have never seen it through the eyes of a person in the former category. I can state categorically that at least elements of my suffering were not self imposed. Of course, suffering can be self imposed, but that is far, far, from being an absolute. Plenty of humans and animals are going through suffering which is not self-imposed. Most things in life are not that black and white, or straightforward. And pain/suffering is one of those things.
Sex is awesome. There's nothing wrong with being a virgin, but to those who said sex is over rated...sex is great. I waited until I was 19 to have sex, and I don't regret that for one second. I didn't have sex until I was ready, and if you're ready at 20, 30, 40, it doesn't matter how long it takes. No shame in that.
My penis has been in one vagina, it's good. But it wasn't something i needed to rush into, i'm single now and get urges to have sex but it's nothing too bad. Just like craving a hamburger or something; find other things to occupy your time, the girl will come into your life soon enough, as long as you stop worrying about it