Esoteric7
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The virgin: He has never known touch, intimacy, or what it feels like to be desired.
Former sexhaver on dry spell: This guy had a taste of sex, relationships, validation, but lost it. Now he’s trapped in the same darkness . . . but he remembers the light.
The blindness analogy:
The virgin is like a man born blind. He has never seen a sunset, a face, or a color. His pain is the pain of absence, a undefined ache for something he can’t fully conceptualise.
The sexhaver saw the world in full color, the deep blue of the ocean, the green of a forest, the face of someone he loved . . . and then went blind.
So, who suffers more?
The former sexhaver being worse:
He knows exactly what he's lost. Every day of his dry spell is torture because he has a reference point. He remembers the weight of a body next to his, the confidence that came with validation, the social proof of having a woman. His current loneliness is amplified a thousand times by the ghost of his past success. He is like a king who has been dethroned, and now has to live as a peasant.
The virgin being worse:
The sexhaver has proof he was once desirable. He has memories that serve as evidence: “I am capable of being loved.” The virgin has no such proof. His entire existence is a question mark. He has no proof he is even capable of being desired. The sexhaver's pain is one of nostalgia, but the virgin is a peasant who has never even seen the castle, let alone been inside.
So, is it worse to have never had anything, or to have had everything and lost it?
Or are they the same: Hell is hell, whether you’ve seen heaven or not.
Former sexhaver on dry spell: This guy had a taste of sex, relationships, validation, but lost it. Now he’s trapped in the same darkness . . . but he remembers the light.
The blindness analogy:
The virgin is like a man born blind. He has never seen a sunset, a face, or a color. His pain is the pain of absence, a undefined ache for something he can’t fully conceptualise.
The sexhaver saw the world in full color, the deep blue of the ocean, the green of a forest, the face of someone he loved . . . and then went blind.
So, who suffers more?
The former sexhaver being worse:
He knows exactly what he's lost. Every day of his dry spell is torture because he has a reference point. He remembers the weight of a body next to his, the confidence that came with validation, the social proof of having a woman. His current loneliness is amplified a thousand times by the ghost of his past success. He is like a king who has been dethroned, and now has to live as a peasant.
The virgin being worse:
The sexhaver has proof he was once desirable. He has memories that serve as evidence: “I am capable of being loved.” The virgin has no such proof. His entire existence is a question mark. He has no proof he is even capable of being desired. The sexhaver's pain is one of nostalgia, but the virgin is a peasant who has never even seen the castle, let alone been inside.
So, is it worse to have never had anything, or to have had everything and lost it?
Or are they the same: Hell is hell, whether you’ve seen heaven or not.





