Hugh van Kylenburg

So that was always my own ego.

And early on in my stand-up career,

every time I got on stage was really trying to get beyond it.

I mean, this is true.

I lost my virginity in a brothel at the age of 22, but I was so scared before that that I was going to be a loser in life that whenever I got the opportunity to have sex, I would bottle it because I was just like, it was like, oh, no, I'm not worthy or I'm not pretty enough to ever have sex with anyone.

So I had girlfriends who I just could not have sex with.

which is weird, I know, but men don't really talk about it that much.

Self-fulfilling prophecy of like, yeah, I don't deserve this.

Yeah, yeah.

So when I was 22, a friend of mine who is no longer alive –

said to me, I was in Perth.

I was still a virgin before I moved to Perth.

And no one else knew that.

I was the only one who knew it because there was girls I should have had sex with and I said I had, but I hadn't.

And they'd never told my secret.

I'd started talking about it, actually.

I already started talking about it.

So I'd sort of given up that part of my ego.

And this guy said to me, we're going to go to a brothel.

I said, mate, this is impossible.