adult male virgins with normal desires have become the freaks, weirdos and expendables
High time you get this: not all news is about you. Obsessing about how everything compares to your situation is only going to hurt you more.
by current standards many people today would have called him a loser
The thing is, he didn't live under our standards. It makes no sense to judge him by the expectations of a culture he never knew.
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