Should governments criminalise shaming of singles/virgins?

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I was born weird. My mother was born weird. Her father was born weird. I must have inherited some sort of gene that messed up socialising for me. I act weird because that is my natural instinct. The only way that I can not act weird is to be programmed like a robot. I cannot help if I am socially awkward.

And if this is the only problem, what explains those who are not awkward and get shamed for being virgins, like those two acquaintances of mine?

I’m certainly weird.

I got rid of the creepy vibe when I expressed other interests besides “finding a girlfriend.”

Im a little laid back. Some girls like the quiet types.

Kind of strange to have everyone doubting me when these issues are the main reason why I joined this forum in the first place.

If I wanted to be berated for no reason, I would just attend a local meetup instead of posting here.

This sounds a lot like, "I have never heard of this, nor has it happened to me--therefore, it does not exist." This is a fallacy.

I have not lived long-term (decades) in a place where people are NOT treated like sh*t for being virgins at older ages. Does that mean that places where people are less judgemental of adult virginity do not exist?

Whoever really thinks that I made everything up, and that I joined this forum because I somehow imagined all of this in my head like a schizophrenic, then why not just ignore my posts if they bother so much? If someone's thread is not pertinent to me, I just ignore it. Not sure what the point is of posting here how I am like this or that or that I am making things up.

You’re a virgin. Big s**t.

Now do something about it.

Prove those suckers wrong.

It is not the primary conversation. It is just one of many topics, but one that causes a lot of judgement. In the past, when I was too naïve and gullible and answered honestly when asked during the course of a casual conversation, people, both male and female, would find out. Gossip spreads fast.

Right now and one of my changes for the new year is that I am starting anew and basically all social circles that I had insofar I will leave, i.e. not interact with anyone from the past again. Only will talk to new people at social gatherings. And will be much more vigilant about people asking me questions and selective in information that I give out.

So essentially, other than a very few trusted ones, I will have close to zero friends and acquaintances in person.

But who would want to gossip about a young man being a virgin? I know you say that wherever you're from has this absurd virgin-shaming culture, but that still sounds too far-fetched. I'm not saying you made this up, but I think you are overthinking this and it's becoming an obsession. When you meet new people and they ask you if you're a virgin (because apparently that's all everybody cares about in your area) just tell them you're not a virgin and be done with it.

Gossip is gossip. I certainly do not understand it, because I myself do not do it. People gossip about all sorts of stuff. Like when someone breaks up with their partner, people gossip about it and laugh behind the person's back. Or if someone got a new job. Just whatever happens, people will gossip, spread it around their acquaintances and friends, make either positive or negative comments. Usually negative, though.

One of those acquaintances also had the same as I did, people gossiped within circles about his virginity. Not until I had already felt the negative consequences, such as beration or laughter or whatever, of revealing too much information, I told him, perhaps he should not tell, or at least not tell certain people since I noticed that they were serial gossipers.

It is like the topic of race, around 90%+ of people whom I meet ask me within the first few minutes of meeting me what my ethnic background is, racial breakdown of my parents and grandparents, and if I were really born here. People are obsessed with race, so they ask me this, especially because I am visibly mixed-race. Whatever I answer will end up as gossip.

What would they gossip about? That you're mixed-race? What do they say when they gossip?

How is being mixed-race going to affect your reputation? I bet there are other mixed-race people in your "circle of friends."

I'm sure, even if they're not mixed-race, that there's something "gossip-able" about them. Like maybe they have "skeletons in the closet" or something like that.

You hang out with some weird people......

Dude, I live in small-town South Carolina and nobody cares here if you're mixed-race.

People ask stuff to start conversations.

Anxious questioning and consultation of the electronic Oracle Stone isn't going to do you much good in real-life.

I do not know why, but often I have been told that I do not "look like an American" and they often doubt that I am telling the truth that I really was born here. "People who look like you are not born here" and similar comments. Although, people who tell me this are usually people who moved here from somewhere else.

There was one acquaintance from Staten Island that I had. He was a tech worker and came to San Francisco for IT work. He was just two months older than I am (he was born in August 1989, myself in October 1989), so almost exactly my age. He asked me, every blasted time that we met each week at meetup, two questions: 1) about my relationship and sex life, and 2) about my racial background and my parents' and grandparents' ethnicities, nationalities, plus where they were born. Each time I used to change the subject, and we would talk about something else. This continuned for over a year. However, at one point he got annoyed and said that my dodging the questions makes him even more curious and insistent about knowing about those two areas of my personal life. I just said, I am not answering those questions. Some of my other acquaintances in this social circle apparently must have heard about this, since they made comments about how I refuse to answer questions.

I have since over a year ago stopped talking to him plus the others in that social circle.