S.e.x isn't all that

So, I was at swing club on Monday night and we were joking a little about my birthday, and same way or another (I don't remember the details) we (by "we" I mean "the other people there") got to the point where someone said something to the effect of "so you didn't do it." I responded by saying since I've never done "it" before, in particular I didn't have s.e.x on my birthday. One g.i.r.l immediately said "I'm sorry" and another guy started consoling me, explaining that he hadn't lost his virginity until he was 28. I couldn't believe it (and found it really sad); I was being consoled for this dastardly mark on my character of being a virgin. It was kind of cool to be able to say, "Well, I have no intentions of having s.e.x before I'm married, I'm fine with being a virgin. It's not like I haven't been a position where I could have had s.e.x (at least, potentially so--does that grammatically make sense, through all my negatives and prepositions?), but as much as I think I would enjoy s.e.x (duh), I'm not going to do it before I'm married." Of course, the obligatory response I got was, "Well, then get married already," but I found it a little depressing that I was viewed almost not complete because I was a virgin. Part of me wants everyone to see me and say "wow, he's confident and in control in who he is without s.e.x (or some other way I can boost my ego), maybe he's onto something, but that's probably unrealistic. And I've known this viewpoint is common (spend a day in my office; heck, spend an hour in my office--that'll be enough), especially in a city like Bloomington, but it's still sad to come face to face with it.

Ok, I've kind of run out of steam, and I don't really know where I'm going with this, or if there's a conclusion, or how much wood a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood (or even what a woodchuck is, for that matter), so I'll probably stop soon.

In fact, I'll conclude with the quote of the night: "Umm, I bid one dollar, Bob."

Note: I apologize for the use of periods. Apparently, Cybersitter doesn't like the words s.e.x or g.i.r.l, and so deletes them during the submission process. I haven't figured out a way to fix that yet, seeing as I don't have the password to look at the settings...