I dated women my entire life. Looking back, they were all batshit crazy. That's not to say that all women are. However, if you were to take my personal experience only, you would reach no other possible conclusion.
I'd say that it's been about 8 or 9 years since I've dated, but I'm not complaining, at all. I do not miss waking up one random day and the person you just spent the last 3 months with, living on cloud 9, decides to take on the persona of the complete opposite of everything you knew them to be, and in turn, causes problems where they otherwise would not have existed. I certainly do not miss this same scenario happening time and time again, like a twisted, real-life version of Groundhog Day.
Fast forward a few years, I had lost a parent, moved in with some family, and was really to myself, for the most part.
Now, this will seem very odd in its randomness at this point in the story, but it is relevant later. For whatever reason, I found myself contemplating purchasing a fucking machine. Of course, I had full intentions of it being used on myself. I will say that I have always been a curious person, and not just in a sexual sense. This curiousness was totally sexual, though!
Coincidentally, I was able to find one that a couple was selling locally. They had purchased it, but never got around to using it.
Wait....am I saying I bought a used sex toy? I mean, I wasn't buying the dildo attachments that someone else previously owned. Gross. Unless they're shoving moving gears and metal parts inside themselves, then it was no different than buying a computer part from someone on Craigslist.
Well, to say that I "took it for a spin" is the understatement of a lifetime! I have been "loving myself" very often over the past 6 or 7 years that I've owned it.