"I don't want to hear such things"

One day I was in the student lounge and I was talking with a fellow student about a certain topic. I turned to another student who I shared a class with and I asked him his thoughts on this topic. Through the course of the conversation with the other student, some topic about relationships came up, and so I asked him the question "have you ever had a girlfriend?". This was a perfectly reasonable question. If he didn't want to answer such a question, he could simply have told me "I'm unconformable answering that question". His reaction was completely different. He turned his face away from me and covered his ears. From his facial expression, it appeared that my question put him in a lot of pain. It looked like he had just scarfed down 5 burritos at Taco Bell lathered in Tabasco sauce and was dealing with the aftermath. I thought maybe he just went through a bad breakup and I started feeling really badly until he opened his mouth (he still looked like he was enormous amounts of pain at this point) and this is what he said: "I don't want to hear such things".
I am very unsure as to what that means, as it was a very vague statement, but I assumed that he was trying to say that he was so religious that he didn't want his ears ruined by hearing such a question. It wasn't like I was reading excerpts of 50 Shades of Grey out loud to the poor kid, I simply asked him if he ever had a girlfriend. And even if I was reading excerpts of 50 Shades of Grey to him (which would be very weird), his reaction still wouldn't have been a normal one.
I have discussed sheltering in a previous one of my articles. This poor lad was obviously a victim of sheltering all his life and was just now just seeing experiencing firsthand the great results it achieves. At the ripe age of 20, if the topic of sex, which I didn't even reference, makes you feel uncomfortable, that is a serious problem. I know many VERY VERY religious guys who are normal and the topic doesn't make them cringe. They understand that it is a part of life and actually becomes a mitzvah after you're married. It's not a topic that they sit there shteiging over, but they don't have a seizure if they hear the word sex.
Now, if this boy was honest, and I had asked him the reason he never had a girlfriend, the answer would not be "because I'm too religious for that". The true answer would be "My parents sheltered me all my life which has turned me into a socially not normal person and no matter how hard I tried, I could never get a girlfriend which is why I have no choice other than to use the shidduch dating system; that will hide my social retardedness until after the chupa".
People who are like this often will claim the reason they haven't had a boyfriend/girlfriend in their life is because of "how religious they are". That is complete and utter nonsense. That is a lie. The real reason is that they are socially retarded and have no desire to seek help for their issues. It's not like it is a genetic issue and 'it isn't their fault'. It isn't a genetic issue, and it still isn't their fault; the problem was created by their parents' and those who educated them (teachers and other idiot mentors). The fact is that they are now at an age that they can actually do something about it (the guy in my first example is 20) and yet they convince themselves that they are 'being religious' by not being normal, and therefore continue to live in their delusional world. It's like an alcoholic saying it's okay that I get drunk every day because I'm Chabad. In all of Rabbi Zecharia Wallerstein's useless crud which he spews, he actually has a very good statement and that is "If you need something, you cannot have it". Meaning that if you need to have a Facebook, you shouldn't have it, but if you want it, it's okay in moderation. Actually, that's a bad example because he believes that Facebook is shalosh klipos hatmeios. But you get the point.
I know many religious guys who are normal and who have made the decision to not date until they are ready to get married. That statement doesn't apply to the majority of religious guys outside of the Chabad velt, as most of them would love to have a girlfriend if they could (the Chabad guys who want girlfriends are pretty good about getting them). The guys outside the Chabad velt know that they are socially off because of the way that they are raised and think that no girl would go for them. Well no normal girl would, but they forget that there is a whole crop of equally brainwashed girls out there who are in the same boat as them. There is still hope!