A question, TT, since you raise an issue I've been wondering about:
Is it abnormal to wait?
Not if you've decided that that's what's right for you. (Just don't expect everyone else to decide that it must also be right for them. You'll be in for a vast disappointment. Then again, I know that you would never have any such expectation.)
There have been opportunities where I could have availed myself a "horny" person, and never have, even though I'm a virgin myself. Is it possible for one to become so used to saying no or being denied that they don't even consider the options on the table? I'm trying not to derail the thread or anything, I'm just curious.
I think it's like the story about the man who refused help from his neighbours who offered to help him escape from the oncoming flood, on the basis that God would save him. When he drowned and asked God why he hadn't done so, God said, "I sent you a car, a boat and a helicopter - what else do you want?"
That's a roundabout way of saying that yes, it's possible that you could be so intent on denying yourself that the perfect woman for you could come up and proposition you, and you would refuse her without even getting to know her because you were "saving it". The problem is that she was the one you were saving it for, and you missed the opportunity.
I'm not saying that you have to jump into bed with anyone and everyone who smiles at you in the hope that they're "the one". (That's what I spent over ten years doing... and yet only had about seven or eight partners in all that time. I wasn't exactly in demand.) But it's not necessarily a bad thing to allow yourself to be open to the possibility that the woman of your dreams may not show up in exactly the form you had hoped.
Heck, if you'd said to me ten years ago that today I'd be dating someone who was born two months after I graduated from high school, who lives a thousand miles away and whom I would meet via a member of this message board, I'd have laughed at you. But I found myself in a situation where I was presented with the opportunity to take a chance, I took it, and today I'm very happy.