Our latest First Person comes from Ginko in a military barracks in Europe, who thinks there are many ways to be a virgin, sexually or otherwise. If you want to tell your story, go to our submission form. We’d love to run it in this blog. Tell us about yourself: I’m 29 and have not [...]
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First Person: Ginkgo “In a military barracks, my solo sex life could use improvement but I have a roommate that never leaves.”
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First Person: Berta “My sex education was completely different from the education American girls go through”
Our latest First Person comes from Berta from Barcelona, who recalls her sex education with fondness and first sexual experience as anti-climactic. If you want to tell your story, go to our submission form. We’d love to run it in this blog. Tell us about yourself: I’m a 22 year old from Barcelona, Spain attending [...]
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First Person: Jasmine “I found out quickly how easy it is to have sex in college”
Our latest First Person comes from Jasmine from California, who re-worked her plans for losing it when she got to college. If you want to tell your story, go to our submission form. We’d love to run it in this blog. Tell us about yourself: I am a 21 year old college student from Northern [...]
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First Person: Casey “This is a horrible thought to have, to feel your one valuable asset is your virginity.”
Our latest First Person comes from Casey from New Jersey, who eventually rejected the value her upbringing placed on virginity. If you want to tell your story, go to our submission form. We’d love to run it in this blog. Tell us about yourself: I’m a 20 year old college student from New Jersey How [...]
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First Person: Allie “Is it so crazy that I want to be in love with the person I have sex with?”
Our latest First Person comes from Allie in California, who wishes that waiting for the right guy didn’t make her seem prudish in the eyes of others. If you want to tell your story, go to our submission form. We’d love to run it in this blog. Tell us about yourself: I’m a 22 year [...]
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First Person: Sasha “I live in a house of sexually active females and I’m ‘The Virgin.’”
Our latest First Person comes from Sasha in California, who explains the reasons for her virginity as threefold. If you want to tell your story, go to our submission form. We’d love to run it in this blog. Tell us about yourself: My age is 20 and I live in California. How do you define [...]
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First Person: Stephanie “I lost my essence of purity…at a gradual rate.”
Our latest First Person comes from Stephanie in Pittsburgh, who believes she lost her virginity over the course of a year. If you want to tell your story, go to our submission form. We’d love to run it in this blog. Tell us about yourself: I am 27 years old, and am in graduate school [...]
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First Person: Miranda “It’s my damn vagina. They can get their own”
Our latest First Person comes from Miranda, who felt her decision to have sex should be hers alone. If you want to tell your story, go to our submission form. We’d love to run it in this blog. Tell us about yourself: A 24 year old from Detroit, Michigan. I work as a home health [...]
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First Person: Cloud Dancing “That first moment you free yourself from the negative messages about sex”
Our latest First Person comes from Cloud Dancing from Olympia, whose definition of virginity pivots pleasure. If you want to tell your story, go to our submission form. We’d love to run it in this blog. Tell us about yourself: I am 37 and from Olympia, WA. I am an “over” graduate student working on [...]
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First Person: Annie “I felt that I couldn’t afford to be “dirtied” by having pre-marital sex”
Our latest First Person comes from Annie from New York, who talks about making and then discarding her purity pledge. If you want to tell your story, go to our submission form. We’d love to run it in this blog. Tell us about yourself: I’m an 18 year old virgin college freshman from New York. [...]
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First Person: Helen “I was 17 when I lost my virginity to a guy that I’d known for less than 24 hours”
Our latest First Person comes from Helen, a US college student who links her first sexual adventures to the sex-positive politics she has now. If you want to tell your story, go to our submission form. We’d love to run it in this blog. Tell us about yourself: I’m a 21-year-old American college student. Thanks [...]
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First Person: Brianna “My friends have been teasing me since I was 14 about my virginity”
Our latest First Person comes from Brianna from Arizona, who’s ok holding onto her virginity for a while. If you want to tell your story, go to our submission form. We’d love to run it in this blog. Tell us about yourself: I’m an 18 year old student studying psychology at Northern Arizona University. How [...]
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First Person: JustAGuy “Sex will not only feel good, but will also affirm my masculinity and self-esteem”
Our latest First Person comes from JustAGuy in California, a doctor who’s re-assessing his virginity on the brink of turning 30. If you want to tell your story, go to our submission form. We’d love to run it in this blog. Tell us about yourself: I’m a twenty-nine year old guy in California and [...]
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First Person: Lola “Now that I’m 24 and still a virgin, my morals have deserted me”
Our latest First Person comes from Lola in New York City, whose patience for the right person is dwindling. If you want to tell your story, go to our submission form. We’d love to run it in this blog. Tell us about yourself: I’m a 24 year old college student from NYC. How do you [...]
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First Person: Cara ” Why is there a vast moral gap between having a penis in your mouth and in your vagina”
Our latest First Person comes from Cara in the UK, who is skeptical about virginity yet still waiting for someone special to lose it with. If you want to tell your story, go to our submission form. We’d love to run it in this blog. Tell us about yourself: I’m an eighteen year old, British [...]
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First Person: MM “It can be weird to be a late bloomer. Despite my late virginity, I have a high sex drive”"
Our latest First Person comes from MM in Virginia, a self-described “late bloomer” whose first sexual encounter was less fun than the bubble bath she took afterwards. But she loved the year of discoveries that came after. If you want to tell your story, go to our submission form. We’d love to run it in [...]
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First Person: Tony “I’ll go down in history as the guy who couldn’t get laid”
Our latest First Person comes from Tony from California who’s had financial ups and downs and once lost everything but his virginity. If you want to tell your story, go to our submission form. We’d love to run it in this blog. Tell us about yourself: I am a 42 year-old virgin from Orange County [...]
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First Person: Senka “I’ve been taught that a man will find you disgusting if you aren’t a virgin”
Our latest First Person comes from Senka in Utah, a budding feminist who’s says she’s afraid of sex, partly because she doesn’t feel ready (which is pretty natural), but also because of all the slut-shaming she’s heard (which is pretty shitty). We hope all our readers can send a whole bunch of support her way! [...]
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Fisrt Person: NHAB “I never thought I would be a 30-year-old virgin. I thought it would “just happen.”‘
Our latest First Person comes from NHAB from the Western US who hasn’t had much luck meeting potential boyfriends, despite some obvious awesomeness. If you want to tell your story, go to our submission form. We’d love to run it in this blog. Tell us about yourself: I am a stylish and independent heterosexual woman [...]
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First Person: Matthew “Was my status as a virgin a significant factor in my breakups?”
Our latest First Person comes from Matthew from Maryland who’s been in two relationships with women who were also virgins. If you want to tell your story, go to our submission form. We’d love to run it in this blog. Tell us about yourself: I’m a 25 year old male virgin living in Maryland. I’m [...]
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First Person: Sarah “I don’t agree with my mother that the doctor took my virginity when I got a pap smear.”
Our latest First Person comes from Sarah from Newfoundland. She’s 26 now, but this tale of doctors, mothers and pap smears happened when she was a couple months shy of 17. If you want to tell your story, go to our submission form. We’d love to run it in this blog. Tell us about yourself: [...]
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First Person: Maddy “I was kind of desperate to lose it. I felt an insane pressure to be a person who had sex”
Our latest First Person comes from Maddy from Australia who wises she had listened to her mother’s advice. If you want to tell your story, go to our submission form. We’d love to run it in this blog. Tell us about yourself: I’m 20 years old and from Australia How do you define virginity? A [...]
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First Person: SPN “I thought I’d be really embarrassed about someone touching me down there”
Our latest First Person comes from SPN in England, who’s now able to tick off the bases thanks to everything she learned from fan fiction! If you want to tell your story, go to our submission form. We’d love to run it in this blog. Tell us about yourself: I’m a 21 year old university [...]
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First Person: Anna “We were hoping it would ‘happen naturally,’ but we ended up planning it out like a military operation”
Our latest First Person comes from Anna from North Carolina, who talks about losing her virginity twice – to a man and then to a woman. The second time was better, but she was also more comfortable with sex. If you want to tell your story, go to our submission form. We’d love to run [...]
First Person S. R.: “I was thinking it was some magical moment (**Spoiler alert!! It’s not!!**)”
Our latest First Person comes from S. R. from Charlotte, NC, who talks about her New Year’s plans, which came a bit early. If you want to tell your story, go to our submission form. We’d love to run it in this blog! Tell us about yourself: I’m a 25-year-old administrative assistant for a construction [...]
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First Person Update: Ferrette “Finally, going out of my mind with desire, I decided to give in to what I wanted.”
Our latest First Person comes from Ferette, who originally wrote a First Person in 2010 where she said she was ‘losing my virginity in slow motion. To me, throwing off your virginity isn’t like smashing a window, but ascending a flight of stairs.” She recently contacted us with an inspiring update (complete with German Chocolate [...]
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First Person: F. “Losing my virginity, especially to another virgin, was not very pleasurable”
Our latest First Person comes from F. from Grand rapids, MI, who discusses the different shades of virginity. If you want to tell your story, go to our submission form. We’d love to run it in this blog! Tell us about yourself: I am an 18-year-old female sociology student at Aquinas College. It is catholic—I [...]
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[Older Virgin Week] The guys who don’t participate in the bravado are looked upon as unmanly, gay or inexperienced.
Cable has Shark Week, we have Older Virgin Week! In honor of V-Day, by which we mean Virgin Day, all this week we’re reposting some of our favorite older-virginity-related stories. This post originally ran in December 2009. Share your biggest older virgin myths here. From time to time, we run a First Person culled from [...]
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First Person: Belle “I will wait to have sex until the man who will be my husband makes his intentions clear”
Our latest First Person comes from Belle who is looking forward to enjoying sex, but only with the person she’ll marry. If you want to tell your story, go to our submission form. We’d love to run it in this blog! Tell us about yourself: I am 22 and ready to be married. Not to [...]
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[Older Virgin Week] First Person: Allie “When I Decided Not To Be A Virgin”
Cable has Shark Week, we have Older Virgin Week! In honor of V-Day, by which we mean Virgin Day, all this week we’re reposting some of our favorite older-virginity-related stories. This post originally ran in October 2010. Share your biggest older virgin myths here. This week’s First Person originally ran on the blog Happy Bodies. [...]
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