There's only one way to find out. But here's some anecdotal evidence from escortcels suggesting it's real:
"An article that's well worth reading:
https://www.theguardian.com/comment...t-of-confidence-and-i-organised-the-encounter
“When he later admitted, “This has been the best day of my life,” I knew I’d done the right thing. My son is keen on a second visit, but I told him that he’ll have to save up for it himself. Hopefully he will find a girlfriend one day and learn to enjoy sex in a loving relationship. Whatever happens, I will remain forever grateful to Anna for the gift of confidence she has given my son.” - mother of an autistic 21 year old"
https://www.poeticous.com/charles-bukowski/society-should-realize
“Jesus, buddy, what the hell were ya doin’ in there?”
“Fuckin’,” I told the gentleman and walked down the hall and down the steps and stood outside in the road and lit one of those sweet Mexican cigarettes in the moonlight.
Liberated and human again for a mere $3, I loved the night, Mexico and myself. - Charles Bukowski"
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The Gospel of Ascension
The term “ascension” is religious in essence, echoing the conquest of a mountain, entering the Kingdom of Valhalla and the Ascension of Christ. It equates passionate sex to a divine event, marking elevation from the terrestrial to the celestial. It implies that virginity and aromanticism are fallen states, equivalent to purgatory or hell, with sexual initiation transforming the male from a lower to a higher being: subhuman to human, boy to man, man to God.
The much-maligned woman is the gatekeeper, judge and jailer in this Passion Play: both the source of man's damnation and, potentially, his redemption after years or decades of suffering, a priestess whose flesh absolves sin.
Within this nominally nihilistic and materialistic philosophical framework, mutually desired sex is heaven. Ascension is felt to be the embodied refutation of fatalistic biological nihilism; the omnipresent whisper in the core of our being that it's over, that it never even began, that life is ultimately just a sick, meaningless joke.
Insofar as it's metaphysical, it is a Pagan inversion of traditional Christian morality: sex and desire are divine, celibacy and repression, evil. It is a deeply romantic concept: paid sex isn't considered ascension, only being freely desired counts. It’s proof that you are real: not just in the eyes of the world, but in the arms of one who could have chosen anyone else.
It is a variant of The Hero's Journey, although again an inversion of the classical concept. Sex is not temptation to be avoided or the reward after the journey: it is the journey's destination. The woman's willing embrace is not a test or a trap but The Promised Land, The Holy Grail, Destiny. In this erotic apotheosis the incel joins the Pantheon of Heroes, re-connecting him to the primordial chain of being.
Ascension isn't primarily about external validation: it's an ontological transformation, the fulfilment of a long-denied birthright, a spiritual resurrection. A leap of faith to overcome the spectres of the past; the pervading fear that one is irredeemable, numb, broken. A rebirth not just in the eyes of others but in the mirror of one's soul; crossing the veil from unloved to loved, the silencing of doubt, a cataclysmic event which obliterates the line between reality and ultimate fantasy.
The symbolic feminine; simultaneously feared, hated, worshipped and craved, is no longer a projection or a void. She is present, embodied and with you, Aphrodite incarnate. No longer myth or metaphor but breath, skin, salvation…"
