You here to learn the finer points of :The art of attraction, goals, humor.
All those things are relevant before after and during, but sex is a basic human need from which all those things are tied too, and in the event of a serious long term sexless relationship, those things would become irrelevant without the intimacy and closeness of a sexual relationship. We are very sexual creatures; becoming more attractive, having goals and being funny are driven by a subconscious urge to attract a woman/mate, whether you realize it or not. You do those things to 'impress'. It's pretty cut and dried.
I'm not ripping you for abstaining. Its just hard for me to understand. Why become more appealing to women, when that will only put you in situations that are going to tempt you? It just seems like its defeating your purpose. I have friends that are abstaining for sex for many reasons, and I respect that and I'm not saying that you can't have a relationship without sex, because you can, but there is usually an understanding of sex at some point.
But with the crazy talk and percentages about pregnancy and STD's. It sounds like one of those homers from the Health Department came to your school and scared to **** out of you with statistics. JMO though. I dont have a problem with you abstaining, its just kind of odd that you would pick this community to join, and choose to be a virgin when thats the opposite thinking of almost every member here.
Its like you have worked for a whole summer, bought a nice car. But your not going to drive it because 7% of car wrecks end with fatalities...
Anyway...good luck to you man, Your alot braver than me, I know I couldn't do it. I hope you dont have to find out that alot of women will go elsewhere to fulfill those needs if you aren't prepared to give it to them at some point.