Physicists tend to go through puberty at university, when they stop being ostracised as brainy swots and meet other nerds with the same hangups. Even by physicist standards, the friends in my year at University of Queensland were a bit slow.

Of course, I shouldn't talk—I ended up being the slowest of the lot...

March of the Virgins

See the innocent procession:
Unalloyed and virgin pure.
Each would make a null confession;
Each is looking for the cure.

Though espousing fornication
In an abstract kind of way,
Each has let the application
Suffer a pronouced delay.

Notwithstanding erudition
Has its place as most things do,
They won't change their sad condition
While liaisons are so few.

Though they know two are required
For all procreative sport,
I don't think they have enquired
Where the ladies can be caught.

No amount of analyzing
On the finer points of sin
Can replace some womanizing
Trading all that virtue in.