Female • 16 years old • Pittsburgh
You could say I was a good student. He taught me how hard I should tug his hair to make him grin when we kissed, where exactly I should flick my tongue to make his eyes roll back in his head. He showed me how tight of a grip I should use to make his legs tremble. I passed every test.
I showcased my teen lust in my royal blue journal; every detail was documented. On the back cover I kept tally marks of everything that we did in what I thought at the time was a secret code that only I could understand: "BJ, III... HJ, IIIIII... "
I now know that even a six year old would probably be able to figure out my "secret language." But sitting in the backseat of my parents' car I would scribble on the pages, laughing about what my parents would think of me if they knew what I was writing.
"Everything feels so good, I can't wait to find out what sex is going to feel like..." I was ready, I took the prerequisites, it was time for that capstone course.
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I told that journal how perfect it would be. How could it not be? We went to our favorite place to fool around: the duck lake.
It was dark, but we had no blanket to romantically stargaze. Lying on top of a picnic table seemed like the most logical alternative. Where a family ate dinner hours before, I would lose my virginity. He stood off the table while I inched my body as close to the edge as I could. My t-shirt was spread out under me so I wouldn't get splinters in unpleasant places. And then, with a one, two, three and cry of pain it was all over. No pleasure, no fireworks. My journal was going to be seriously disappointed.
"So..," I mumbled awkwardly, "does this mean I'm not a virgin anymore?"
"That is what it means," he said.
That night I lied to my journal. I was too embarrassed to admit even to bound pieces of paper that losing my virginity was the least fun I had all summer. Months of plot development with no climax, pun intended. n°
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Female • 16 years old • South Africa
"They wanted to warn me..."
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Female • 17 years old • Los Angeles
"Under false pretenses, three-thousand miles away from home..."
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Male • 18 years old • National Park
"I was working at a national park during the summer..."
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Female • 17 years old • Econo Lodge
"The plan relied heavily on friends who had the means to rent a room at the local Econo Lodge..."
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Female • 18 years old • Canada
"He was pretty much the coolest guy ever..."
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Female • 16 years old • Acworth
"My next-door neighbor and I played pool for 'points' in high school..."
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Female • 19 years old • Berkeley
"My legs shook with excitement and nervousness..."
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"I was born and raised into a Hasidic community..."
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Female • 16 years old • Woods behind Papa Playground
"We'd spent plenty of time in the woods behind the playground..."
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Female • 22 years old • Dallas, TX
"I was partying with undergrads, and getting drunk was the only fun I felt like having..."
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Female • 17 years old • Mobile, AL
"In southern Alabama, schools teach abstinence..."
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Female • 19 years old • Salt Lake City, UT
"I was in my confused am-I-a-lesbian phase..."
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Female • 16 years old • Austin, TX
"I didn't have any friends — just one acquaintance from orientation..."
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Male • 22 years old • North Carolina
"My wife and I were both virgins when we got engaged at age twenty-two..."
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Male • 18 years old • Suburbs of Philadelphia
"I was the only person who'd ever befriend her before trying to get her into bed..."
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Female • 17 years old • Canada
"It wasn't planned out — nothing was planned out that summer..."
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Female • 21 years old • Syracuse
"At age twenty-one, I set my sights on a six-foot-five-inch ogre..."
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Female • 17 years old • Covina
"In the dark, I listened to his heartbeat..."
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Male • 16 years old • Houston
"The first time we went out ended in handcuffs..."
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Female • 21 years old • Vienna
"I remember the zip of the door, and our naked dash across the dark campground to his tent..."
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Female • 20 years old • Philadelphia
"We wandered around West Philly in the rain, looking for a good place..."
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Female • 19 years old • Riverside
"My statement was met with some applause and a toast, and the mission was on..."
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Female • 15 years old • Ireland
"I was surprisingly adventurous, and he was surprisingly shy..."
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Female • 18 years old • Wongaling Beach, Australia
"I was just discovering this power I had..."
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Female • 15 years old • Vancouver, Canada
"Being a small-town fat girl with mental problems didn't leave me with tremendouslsy high self-esteem..."
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Female • 16 years old • New York
"I looked down, and abruptly stopped laughing..."
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Female • 16 years old • Pittsburgh
"I showcased my lust in my journal; every detail was documented..."
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Female • 17 years old • Canada
"For the first week of camp, he came up to me every night at the end of our shift..."
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Female • 17 years old • Tacoma, Washington
"I think about him even thirty years later..."
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Female • 17 years old • Virginia
"He was the lead singer in a band about to make it any moment..."
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Female • 16 years old • Connecticut
"I'm twenty-two now, and I'm only just starting to accept what happened..."
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Female • 20 years old • Europe
"He came to open the door wearing a sarong, eyes heavy with eyeliner..."
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Female • 21 years old • South Florida
"I had absolutely no intention of leaving college a virgin..."
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Male • 16 years old • North Wales
"I attempted to sound casual and instead emitted something of a squeak..."
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Male • 16 years old • South of France
"Come on then, are we going to shag or what?"
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Female • 16 years old • Iowa
"He didn't go to my school, and he was cute..."
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Male • 17 years old • Massachusetts
"Where this 'expertise' came from, considering I'd never kissed a girl, I don't really know..."
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Male • 23 years old • Tohoku, Japan
"The next day, she called me three times and I was too sketched out to pick up..."
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Female • 17 years old • Pennsylvania
"I zeroed my sights on a bassist..."
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Male • 17 years old • Illinois
"My virginity was auctioned off..."
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