Is it pointless to have sex just to say ''you've done it'' ?

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Casual fornication is promoted in almost all media as routine, expected, and common. Often what is not discussed is the benefits of abstinence.

If a person seeks a mate for a life long marriage and to build a family, bringing ignorance and inexperience to the table might seem a deficit. However, the real advantage is that during the first year of marriage the mutual exploration done with kindness, patience, and even humor builds an intimacy that lasts a lifetime.

Jaded athletic proficiency fails to make these deeper connections.

It's not a matter of being able to walk around wearing a t-shirt that says "I've had sex". It's more a matter of wanting the experience plus most of us have an innate, primal urge to do it. Ironically, having sex theoretically costs nothing (the small cost for contraception notwithstanding) whereas so many other supposedly worthwhile activities such as downhill skiing for example, can be quite costly.

The real issue is simply wanting the experience. This is where one encounters a lot of shaming along the lines of "nobody really needs sex so find a more worthwhile goal". I submit that it's worse on an autism site because of the high percentage of asexual, demisexual, or graysexual people who simply don't understand how somebody could desire sexual experience as an end in itself.

Well the other issue is that never having had sex can be blamed on a person lacking the social skills needed to obtain another person's cooperation in that matter, so never having had sex is seen as proof of that person's general inability to get by in the world.

Now I want a shirt that says "It's cheaper than skiing!"

There's nothing wrong with wanting an experience for the sake of sensation and experience, or to be able to say you've done it. That's the basis of true Romanticism. Think of all the things you've done and tried in your life to satiate curiosity or to feel like you're part of the crowd: the books you've read -- just to say you had, the places you went in order to say "I've been there!", and the foods you've tried just because they piqued your interest. It's normal to want sensation and experience so long as it's done in a safe and healthy way. My advice is to go for it, assuming of course the other person consents and you use protection.