That was my first thought too, but I don't see why that would be categorized as a 'harrowing experience.'
>Before World War II, if a young man wanted sex, he had two basic options: marriage or a brothel. So in the 1930s, one in five American men lost his virginity to a prostitute.
https://abcnews.go.com/2020/superfreakonomics-prostitutions-...