Re:The 33-year-old virgin: Life without sex is only torturou...
by haberdash on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @11:00PM
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Yes, I agree with you. I doubted anyone would read that much into it, despite the plain existential angst as a backdrop.
The conflation of normal and normative reaches into Wittgensteinian territory, but normative is normal. Hell, even the good end of a bell curve can be seen as a bad thing.
That's strongly correlated with age. Below a certain age it is expected that you are a virgin, then there is a gray area and then above a certain age it is expected that your not.
Because we define 'normal' as 'what everybody does' being an outlier in this is perceived as negative, as if there is something wrong with you. That does not mean there is (or isn't), it just means that's how it will be perceived, it's a strike against that only gets stronger as you age.