I’m a 47-year-old virgin and here’s why I’m terrified by intimate

One man says he is still a virgin at the age of 47 after being “petrified” to be intimate with anyone.

Andrew Brookman says he has always been “timid” and has fought with harassment at school.

His parents divorced when he was 10 years old, who prompted his fair to be social, getting into a relationship or being intimate with anyone, he claims.

Andrew did not want to go through arguments and had a “fear of life”, so he felt he would be on his own. “

He says his fear also stemmed from the oppression of his sexuality and homophobia that he saw at the time he was growing.

Porn became his “only exit” and reference to sex and Andrew says he fought with an addiction to see him up to two hours a night every day when he was in his 30s.

Now he has begun to open up for his sexuality and is no longer ashamed to be a 47-year-old Virgin.

He thinks they can relate to them to the new show of Channel 4, “Virgin Island” – Unique course in intimacy to help them overcome the faars that are holding them back.

Andrew, a cleaner from Wales, said: “I’ve never been in a relationship.

“Looking at other people divorced – and seeing arguments give me fear of being social and intimate.

“I didn’t want to go through all of them.

“Better to be yourself.

“You feel a feeling of shame [being a virgin].

“Not to be confident, without self -esteem and not appreciating myself and reprinting for sex I was encouraged to seek therapy because I was peeled to become intimate with anyone.

“I am not ashamed to be a virgin in 47.”

Andrew fought to grow and always felt he was “different”.

He said: “I have always been timid and calm.

“I’ve always been scared, I’ve always been exciting.

“I was harassed at school.

“I was different. I was weird.”

As a young man he “fantasized the girl” but did not know how to advance further.

He said, “I wanted to move forward, but I couldn’t because of my faith.”

At the age of 16, Andrew realized that he was withdrawn from men and gays, but he was felt that he would open his second sexuality to homophobia in society at the time.

He said: “Fear grew.

“I entered the closet.”

In the late 20s he had therapy and was put into counter-delegations, but Andrew still fought to pass his fair.

He also treated a porn addiction in his 30s when he took his place – who saw him watch porn gay every night.

Andrew said: “It was my only exit.

“It was my only way to feel sex and see sex.

“I wanted to do it too. I was jealous of them [the porn stars].

“I was married who couldn’t have sex privately.”

Now he has begun to leave his walls by writing a book called “the colors of a rare bird”.

He says writing how he feels down has helped him overcome shame and he has volunteered for the first time with his local pride.

Andrew says he does not like that people will laugh at others who are virgins.

He said: “It’s not funny.

“So far I have to be open homosexual – I have to be in a relationship.

“I am not afraid to admit it now [that he’s a virgin]. “