"This is where you miss out being without knowledge of God's Scriptures."

That is a possibility I can't fully dismiss. That might happen if we let it.

Aw shucks, thanks! I have my moments.

Sounds reasonable to me.

Basically, that's more or less it. Our culture puts waaaaaaay too much emphasis on sex, jmst waaaaay too much. We shouldn't feel ashamed if we don't want to participate in a broken system.

"If you are not comfortable with it, but want to be, then some personal reflection (and possibly professional help if needed) can do wonders. Take it as slowly as you need to, it's not a race."

Well, that's the issue isn't it?

More or less, yeah.

Why? What's the matter with being yourself?

Ah, understood.

"well, I was born with a hedgehog instead of a vagina, and it's hard to find guys who are into that."

"There's no special word for people who haven't driven a car or skydived or whatever, so I think it's kind of ridiculous that not having had sex gets to be some sort of identity label."

Some additional advice and virtual pats on the back from a guy who didn't lose his virginity until 30:

Oh they most certainly would if they could. Animals are no more noble or not than we are. And that's because we are animals.

Apologies but I think this cliched depiction of the male-female dichotomy is depressing and sabotaging.

Cool.

Well ignoring the silly hair looks like, personally I think that Gozilla, the old school Godzilla is awesome and if a feature length movie came out that look this clip I cited, I'd see it in a heartbeat.

Missing my point though. If the technology gap is large enough, if the ETIs want this world, there's nothing we can do to stop them from taking it.

So I fully agree that needs to be changed. I hope to, in some small way, make the world better for for generations of nerds (both girls and boys) yet to come into existence. So that for them, school won't be as painful an experience as it was for me and generations prior.