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Previous First Times

• Female • 16 years old • South Africa
  "They wanted to warn me..."
• Female • 17 years old • Los Angeles
  "Under false pretenses, three-thousand miles away from home..."
• Male • 18 years old • National Park
  "I was working at a national park during the summer..."
• 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..."
• Female • 18 years old • Canada
  "He was pretty much the coolest guy ever..."
• Female • 16 years old • Acworth
  "My next-door neighbor and I played pool for 'points' in high school..."
• Female • 19 years old • Berkeley
  "My legs shook with excitement and nervousness..."
• Male • 19 years old • Brooklyn, NY
  "I was born and raised into a Hasidic community..."
• Female • 16 years old • Woods behind Papa Playground
  "We'd spent plenty of time in the woods behind the playground..."
• Female • 22 years old • Dallas, TX
  "I was partying with undergrads, and getting drunk was the only fun I felt like having..."
• Female • 17 years old • Mobile, AL
  "In southern Alabama, schools teach abstinence..."
• Female • 19 years old • Salt Lake City, UT
  "I was in my confused am-I-a-lesbian phase..."
• Female • 16 years old • Austin, TX
  "I didn't have any friends — just one acquaintance from orientation..."
• Male • 22 years old • North Carolina
  "My wife and I were both virgins when we got engaged at age twenty-two..."
• Male • 18 years old • Suburbs of Philadelphia
  "I was the only person who'd ever befriend her before trying to get her into bed..."
• Female • 17 years old • Canada
  "It wasn't planned out — nothing was planned out that summer..."
• Female • 21 years old • Syracuse
  "At age twenty-one, I set my sights on a six-foot-five-inch ogre..."
• Female • 17 years old • Covina
  "In the dark, I listened to his heartbeat..."
• Male • 16 years old • Houston
  "The first time we went out ended in handcuffs..."
• Female • 21 years old • Vienna
  "I remember the zip of the door, and our naked dash across the dark campground to his tent..."
• Female • 20 years old • Philadelphia
  "We wandered around West Philly in the rain, looking for a good place..."
• Female • 19 years old • Riverside
  "My statement was met with some applause and a toast, and the mission was on..."
• Female • 15 years old • Ireland
  "I was surprisingly adventurous, and he was surprisingly shy..."
• Female • 18 years old • Wongaling Beach, Australia
  "I was just discovering this power I had..."
• Female • 15 years old • Vancouver, Canada
  "Being a small-town fat girl with mental problems didn't leave me with tremendouslsy high self-esteem..."
• Female • 16 years old • New York
  "I looked down, and abruptly stopped laughing..."
• Female • 16 years old • Pittsburgh
  "I showcased my lust in my journal; every detail was documented..."
• Female • 17 years old • Canada
  "For the first week of camp, he came up to me every night at the end of our shift..."
• Female • 17 years old • Tacoma, Washington
  "I think about him even thirty years later..."
• Female • 17 years old • Virginia
  "He was the lead singer in a band about to make it any moment..."
• Female • 16 years old • Connecticut
  "I'm twenty-two now, and I'm only just starting to accept what happened..."
• Female • 20 years old • Europe
  "He came to open the door wearing a sarong, eyes heavy with eyeliner..."
• Female • 21 years old • South Florida
  "I had absolutely no intention of leaving college a virgin..."
• Male • 16 years old • North Wales
  "I attempted to sound casual and instead emitted something of a squeak..."
• Male • 16 years old • South of France
  "Come on then, are we going to shag or what?"
• Female • 16 years old • Iowa
  "He didn't go to my school, and he was cute..."
• Male • 17 years old • Massachusetts
  "Where this 'expertise' came from, considering I'd never kissed a girl, I don't really know..."
• Male • 23 years old • Tohoku, Japan
  "The next day, she called me three times and I was too sketched out to pick up..."
• Female • 17 years old • Pennsylvania
  "I zeroed my sights on a bassist..."
• Male • 17 years old • Illinois
  "My virginity was auctioned off..."