Rotars wrote:@synthetic
That's assuring. For a moment I had sucum to the stigma and thought I was a total freak...
Cheers
Nah, I suspect the only reason the majority of guys that age don't have one is most just don't have the money. There's a lot of expenses at that time in life. First you need to start providing your own housing: rent/mortgage, furniture, appliances and everything else, insurance- you need to buy everything you need all at once plus start paying to maintain it and it takes a lot or money. On top of that most people don't have a large income at that age (if any at all). Finally, a lot people go to college, which means huge debt and little or no income due to lack of time. The end result is most people are perpetually broke and indebted until they get much older.
If not for money I suspect 20's would be, by FAR, the biggest demographic on the forum. Less people are likely married at that age (yeah, yeah, I know, bring on the sexless marriage comments, but even so having a wife who's stingy with sex is still different from having nobody at all) and the need for lots of sex is often at it's most desperate and frantic.
If anyone your age thinks you're a freak they're most likely just jealous they don't have one too, even if they secretly won't even admit it to themselves.
That being said, there's no need to permanently write off girls forever. There's a trap in life that's very easy to fall into, and it's how a lot of prejudices are formed. I'll use some analogies containing unpopular sentiments that are these days not particularly widely held to so as to make the point seem more obvious.
Say you grew up in the old days in the south when things were really racist and you were black. Say your dad got beat up for talking back to a white guy, your brother got put in jail for a crime he didn't commit, and your cousin got hung by the Klan so you've come to believe white people are a bunch of devils. OR, say you live in the inner city and are white, and your parents house got repeatedly broken into, you got mugged on the street, and your sister got raped; all the perpetrators being black and now you think black people are a bunch of animals. In both scenarios, the sum total of your life experience points to a specific conclusion. In a way, people who think like that can almost hardly be faulted since that's what life has taught them- even if what they believe is obviously not true. What are you supposed to do? Take someone's word for it that everything you know is wrong? But if you're clever, you can realize that life's experiences will not necessarily teach you everything there is to learn. You can realize that people are people, some are rotten but many are ok, and everyone is their own person, regardless of what kind of grouping you assign them.
You see this kinda thing happen A LOT concerning men and women. Perhaps especially on this forum. Whether bad luck or bad decisions there are going to be guys who have a long string of terrible (sometimes REALLY terrible) experiences with women. If nothing else, odds alone dictate that it will happen to a few. And a larger percentage of them than others will find their way here- that only makes sense. However somewhere there's a girl around your age who's a total sweetheart. Maybe she's even fed up with other guys. Maybe you'll run into her sometime.
Getting a doll can really help take off a lot of stress, pressure, and desperation. Going much further, you can find a lot of happiness and contentment with them. Especially if you develop feelings for her. Even so though, that doesn't mean you have to completely shut out any other possibility. Doesn't hurt to keep your eyes open, that's all I'm saying. You might even find it easier to deal with girls when you know that, if things go south, you have a beautiful doll waiting for you at home. Or at least you will be less likely to make fairly obviously poor choices out of desperation, again, because you have a beautiful doll waiting for you at home. Keeping your options open doesn't mean you have to exercise said option. No, it's just what it is: an option. No need to take it off the table. Enjoy your doll and see where life takes you. Who knows where you'll end up?
In any case though, congradulations on the purchase! If you haven't yet, you should do some learning about TPE care and maintenence. It's a fairly extensive subject around here. There's plenty of other useful information hanging around too. This whole place is a vast library of knowledge you can scaresly find anywhere else.
Congrats!