you boys can keep your virgins give me hot old women in high heels with asses that forgot to get old.

In this characteristically provocative line, Bukowski rejects youthful “purity” and the status games around sexual conquest, instead celebrating desire that is seasoned, unapologetic, and outside conventional ideals. The contrast between “virgins” and “hot old women” functions as a rebuke to romanticized innocence and a preference for experience, confidence, and bodily reality. The crude diction and comic exaggeration (“asses that forgot to get old”) are part of his persona: a working-class, anti-sentimental voice that uses shock to puncture respectability. Read less as literal prescription than as a performance of contrarian taste, it underscores Bukowski’s recurring themes of aging, lust, and disdain for social pretenses.