Certain discoveries should be kept for later in life, when they might hurt less.
You know already that there is good sex and bad sex. Naturally, you prefer good sex to bad sex. But also, being young, you think that even so, all things considered, taking the rough with the smooth, bad sex is better than no sex at all. And sometimes better than masturbation; though sometimes not.
— The Only Story (Julian Barnes), Loc. 1808–11