[Shaun J. Russell]

Originally Posted by N. Matheson

One would first have to be able to have sex in order to give up on it.

I mean...the essence of Petrarchism is yearning for an unattainable lover, so whatever your personal circumstances (which are nobody's business but yours), you're thematically well-positioned to write a Petrarchan sonnet sequence.

(Fun fact: after writing 60 sonnets in Delia, which starts to get fairly repetitive after awhile, Samuel Daniel ends his final sonnet in the sequence in the best way possible with the line: "I say no more. I fear I said too much." Truer words were never written.)