I don’t know. But a young boy like you can try. I haven’t entered into one since maybe 25 years.
It’s interesting how French speakers use the word since. I understand why, but if you are describing a period of time, you’d say ‘for’. I haven’t been to a nightclub for 25 years, or I haven’t had sex for two months. You use since if you want to say I haven’t been to a nightclub since 1998, or I haven’t had sex since last Christmas.
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Thanks HH, I like improving my English. You are right 
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For me it’s the exact reverse.
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HH is quite right, in French it would be correct to say ‘depuis’ in this context, but in English it’s ‘for’, not ‘since’.
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Similar in other languages - you often hear native German speakers using since in English where they’re thinking of seit but we would say for. When I was first learning German, I often did the reverse - used für when I should have said seit.
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And for us it’s both. We can say Non ho fatto sesso per due anni or Non faccio sesso da due anni.
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