curl-6 said:
I don't get to decide my worth as a sexual/romantic partner, that's something that other people dictate based on whether I meet their standards and preferences. |
| VGPolyglot said: Well, I guess it's something that I can't fully understand myself as I'm single, a virgin and am completely fine with my sexual situation at the moment. Sex just isn't on my priority list. |
I don't really feel like I need a sexual relationship to be happy either. What I would want most of all, in this connection, is a romantic friendship. You know, just to have someone to hold hands with, cuddle with, kiss, bring flowers, that sort of thing. I don't feel like I need more than that. Well I don't "need" even that, but there's a desire for it that may be inflated artificially by the culture we live in that stresses the importance of sex and romance so much. I mean every day I go to work they have the store radio playing in the background and every single song is about either sexual appeal or an intimate relationship (successful or otherwise). All day. Every day. Almost every women's magazine cover I pass is about how to look beautiful or please one's presumed-male partner in bed. I could go on but you get the idea. The importance of these things is overstressed by our culture and I think it engineers a level of lonely feeling that one might not have otherwise.
