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Old Jan 02, 2014, 10:29 AM
AppalachianAxis AppalachianAxis is offline
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I'll be making my official move out of Mom and Dad's house in about a week. I'm off to room with a good buddy of mine in a fairly big college town. I'm pretty excited about the change, I think it's going to be a lot of fun. But one thing in particular has me a bit nervous. Really nervous, in fact.

For those who don't know, I am severely averse to ever having any kind of sexual contact with someone. Problem is, it's kinda hard to avoid sexystuffs at the age of 21.
I'll try to say this without sounding like some kind of self-obsessed a-hole: I'm a fit, active, and (I've been told) decently attractive. I don't find girls difficult to talk to at all and I try to be funny and nice with them in social situations. The down-side to this is that I consequently get a bit more attention from girls then I would want. It only happened a few times in high school; I'd be getting along with a girl, she'd get a bit too friendly or handsy with me and I'd make up some excuse to get away from her ASAP. And that would be that. It was high school. No biggie.
But this new crowd that I'll soon find myself living around, they're clearly comfortable with sex on a level that you'd probably expect from people my age and in college. Whenever I hang out with them, stories of sexuality, sexual exploits, and sexual joking comes up quite often. I just sort of smile and laugh with the rest of them, never contributing to the conversation.

The thing is, that attention I got in high school, I feel pretty safe in assuming it's going to get worse. Sex is going to be wayyyy more prominent and surround me more than it ever has. I'm going to hang out girls, there are going to be girls in my social outings, the few parties I do go to have always had girls. Inhibited girls, no less.

Fact is, I don't know how to handle sexual advances. I've never really had to deal with them before.

I don't know how I'm going to;

A: Say "no" in such a way so as to not hurt anybody's feelings. Up 'till now, I could always both turn girls away as well as stay on good terms with them. But that's because I wasn't blocking sex itself, just the stuff that leads up to it. People I didn't really know, project partners and the like, who inquired about my relationship status were always a bit shocked when I told them I was still a virgin. Shocked, but somewhat impressed. In high school, it's a virtue. But once we start getting into college age, it's a bit weird.

B: Not arouse suspicion in my friends. No one knows about my predisposition towards sex. But all of my close friend have girlfriends, all of whom are awesome people with whom I get along great. Boys being boys, they talk about the sexual nature of their relationships from time to time. How long am I going to be able to pass unnoticed without ever having had a relationship? Surely they'll try to set me up with some girl or another. Ugh, it's just a big mess.

So, ladies and gentlemen, I appreciate any advice I can get. It'll go a long way towards making my new college life a little less awkward.

Thanks!
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