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Ask Dr. Helen: The 47-Year-Old Virgin

January 23, 2008 - 12:45 am - by Helen Smith
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2008-01-23 06:47:26

I was 27 for my first time, which I honestly thought was never going to happen, since I had managed to go through high school and college without accomplishing much (read: never even rounded first). There are several reasons, but they all tie into the fact that I hated myself very intensely and so I couldn’t even fathom someone being attracted to me.

Of course this self-loathing is wrecking havoc on the first relationship I’ve managed to become a part of, which in all reality shouldn’t have happened. It’s really a fluke of a fluke of a fluke. Anyway, as they say, “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”