I like to believe that I'm a fairly socially competent person. I have friends in real life, I talk to people in person on a regular basis, I don't have any social anxiety or autism diagnoses... yet I have never gone on a date in my life.
At first I attributed this lack of action to being gay and not coming out until I was eighteen. However, as most TV shows have demonstrated, gay teenagers immediately meet their true love shortly after coming out, whom just happens to be the one other openly gay person at school. Unfortunately, this did not happen.
In a couple of weeks I'm moving into the heart of the gay-borhood so ideally I will have more opportunities to meet people. I've never been a "casual encounter" kind of person, so I'm not exactly sure what I'm expecting to happen. I feel like I'm going to go into a bar, and after five minutes of conversation they're just going to ask, "so can I put it in now?" Chances are I'm just internalizing the stereotypes regarding gay people, but all the gay friends I have sure love perpetuating the idea that sex is everything...