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It makes you more and more hard-shelled, more and more self-entrapped. It makes you unfit for the self-donation that is love. It makes you intimacy-disabled.

And you know this how?

You are certainly free to express your opinion,, but please do not attempt to speak for every human on the planet.

"I am sure that a woman exists who would fall in love with this poor lad, ...[he should] find her instead of getting it on commercially."

I think you're onto something there. There are all kinds of women in this world who can love and give themselves to all kinds of men. I used to work with a guy who, as a young man of 18, had an operation to remove a tumor on his spinal cord: the surgery left him with severe impairment from the waist down.

A dozen years ago, he got married to a lovely and loving lady, and as far as I know they are still happy. Still married, anyhow. I'd never dream of asking what kind of lovemaking they do, but I'm sure they have some sort of physical relations.

This poor lad in the hospice should advertize for a wife. I double-dang-guarantee you he'll find women who are interested.

To teenyelliott: there are some things that are just true of human nature. You can say "I can shoot heroin and not get addicted" but it's not true. You can say, "I can be sexually promiscuous and not become hard-shelled or numb inside, cynical or callous," but that's not true, either. There are certain behaviors which are damaging. They damage you because you are human. You can deny that, but you can't escape it.