'It was an unfortunate side effect': MAFS' Matt on why he was still a virgin

If you’ve watched any episodes of Married at First Sight this year, you’ll be acutely aware that husband Matt entered the competition as a virgin.

Much has been made of his sexual inexperience, and the fact that he was a virgin at 29 (now 30), but in never before seen tapes of his audition for the show, video producer Matt explains exactly why he’s shied away from intimacy for so long.

“It was never a conscious choice to still be a virgin at 29,” he says in the tape that was aired on Nine’s Talking Married.

“It was just an unfortunate side effect of walling myself off from any sort of vulnerability, being social and dating”.

Matt is then questioned about why he was applying for the show when he was so guarded, to which he replies, “because it terrifies me”.

“It’s only something I’ve recently learnt that the more something terrifies me the more important it is that I have to do it,” he explains.

“If I can face this, there’s nothing that can hurt me basically.”

Matt was paired with bride Lauren for the experiment, and while things started out promisingly enough for the couple – they even had sex on their honeymoon – things swiftly went downhill from there.

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