Careful with your wording, FRiend, because in the old days men who called themselves “confirmed bachelors” were really just fags.
Not that I think you are a fag. No offense intended.
Yeah, someone else told me that, too. I’m now straight and single. And here I thought “bachelor” was a benign term.
I’ve been around since the old days, and I’ve never thought of “confirmed bachelor” or “spinster”, as code words for homosexuals. For example, I recall, both C.S. Lewis and his brother, were confirmed bachelors, until Lewis married his wife, whom he initially married so she could remain in England, but fell in love with her after they married. I read his autobiography, and he touched on homosexual behavior in boarding school, but affirmed he never indulged in it, or felt any interest in it, himself. I don’t think he was lying. Some people really are sort of asexual, or some are too socially awkward to get involved with anyone.