Hi everyone!

I'm new to this site, and am really excited to have found such an awesome resource and community available. Can't wait to make my mark here as well, in time. But after a lot of reading (newbie guides/FAQs/etc) and exhaustive archive searching, there's still an unanswered (and admittedly-subjective) question nagging at me. I'd like to pose it to the board now. How young do you feel is
too young to monger?
I'm obviously not asking out of abstract curiosity. I'm 22 years old, and am thinking about taking some 'extra time' for myself in San Jose on my next trip down there,

. My spanish is slightly-more than passable, and I've spent time in both Peru and Costa Rica before. My part-time IT job allows me a lot of flexibility (in fact I'd probably be working remotely from my laptop while down in CR), so I have the means ($$) to handle a week or two trip down there. Some flights are pitifully cheap.
I've had two 'real' relationsihps in my 22 years, the longer of which (3yrs) I broke off last spring. Since then.. no sex.. and no real desire to get back into the dating scene, for a number of reasons. I know a year isn't long and I could probably find someone again if I tried hard enough, but this mongering stuff seems, to my naieve eyes, just too fun to pass up! You only live once, right?
According to some of the more recent polls on CRT, there's a pretty clear age spread amongst members here. Men over 40, and especially 50, dominate the distribution. It seems that only
10% of mongerers are under the age of 30. (
poll 1,
poll 2,
poll 3)
Which leads back to my question... how young is too young to get into this game? Should I be out amongst my peers and saving this mongering shit for 20 years from now? Is it psychologically unehalthy to be mongering at 22??? Might it spell trouble for future relationships? Or could it loosen me up with women even more, and make my future relationships even better?
Forgive me if this post comes off as rambling. But I found a quote in one of those aforementioned links that really struck me. Someone said:
Quote:
"I could not imagine being in my early twenties and trying to handle CR."
Why would that be??? Is it inherently dangerous? Are the dark sides of this hobby too rough for some to handle?
Also, with my babyface, am I going to continually be drowning in confused/judgemental/patronizing/creepy looks from the other men around, or from the MP owners, or from the girls themselves? Or instead, is youth an asset one can use as a competitive advantage in pulling in the cutest ones there?
I'm eager to hear your informed opinions on any of what I've mentioned.

Thanks for reading!!!
