This for sure makes it into my personal list of the ten strangest threads I've ever read. Until a moment ago, I thought it had been started as a satire. Now I can see that is not so. Anyway, I can't see that it will do any harm if I throw in my two cents: I am a 57 y/o bachelor who has long ago given up on any real aspirations to mate with anyone. It has occurred to me that if I hadn't involved myself in love affairs during my youth, and beyond that, I would have saved myself a lot of grief and also maybe done other interesting things with the energy and attention thusly saved. Still and all, if I imagine a life, even including now, without attraction to women, such a world looks to me bleak and drab indeed. I think that the whole idea and experience of beauty of all kinds is mixed in with sexual attraction. I certainly do not judge the OP, nor did I judge that trek-y cult that had themselves castrated (and then killed themselves). I just think, giving the subject due reflexion, that it is just as well I wasn't throwing people out of bed when they were kind enough to get in there in the first place.