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  • Losing our virginity…it happens to almost all of us, no matter who we are or where we come from. How did it happen for you? Ever wondered what other people think and feel about this never-to-be-repeated experience? And how much more do we learn as we grow up? I am on a mission to find out. Follow my journey as I collect stories from as wide a selection of British people as possible. From men and women, old and young, gay, straight, Christian, Muslim and Catholic, from the funny and the sad, to the happy and occasionally, the unbelievable. How do I find people to interview? Why do they talk to me? I am in search of the truth. Come and join my adventure.

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June 2007

June 30, 2007

Dazed & confused...

I get a lot of email from male virgins. In fact, I have built up quite a correspondence with a few of them. I can’t help it. This project has been an eye-opener in so many respects but none more so than when it comes to men. Men are the new women. Life isn’t easy for men. I feel for them.

In the dark old days, we all knew where we stood. Gender roles were clear and we knew what parts we were playing in the game of life, but no more! Women, whether we know it or not, hold the cards. Men have to try and guess the suit. And guess. And guess. And guess.

And this is the rub. This is the hard, indecipherable bit that even we women don’t understand. Women can have sex upside down, standing on their heads whilst road-testing a rabbit and plotting their next career move….but we still want a man to be a man. How much of a man remains a mystery. Should you be macho, strong, confident and assured? Or a great cook, a good listener, a shoulder to cry on? Swing too far in one direction and we don’t like you. Too full of yourself, so arrogant, get with the twenty first century Warren Beatty! Stray too close to the shores of metrosexuality and we'll have you down as 'the little brother I never had’. AKA, the man I love to talk to but wouldn’t deem worthy of a shag in a month of Sundays.

My friend Rob chucked a copy of ‘The Game’ by Neil Strauss, at me a while back. ‘Have a read of that’, he said. ‘It’ll give you an idea of what’s going through a man’s mind, especially when it comes to losing virginity’.

It didn’t look good. The story goes something like this: ‘Rolling Stone’ journalist decides to go undercover in the world of ‘pick up’. This is a bona fide community of men who have developed fail-safe techniques with which to pick up women. Anyone can join in - they have boot camps, training manuals and websites. It is very real and very popular. Rolling Stone journalist then gets a taste for his brief. Just a little toooo much. Time elapses and before long, he has morphed into ‘Style’, one of the worlds best loved pick up artists.

I expected to hate this book. I loved it. Couldn’t put it down in fact.

Strauss is easy to like. He’s honest and emotional. He’s the good guy in a sea of grade-A creepiness. But it was the rollercoaster ride into the minds of men that really got me going. The guts gathered and torn to shreds on a daily basis and the crushing disappointment, as each sad and lonely character picks himself up, dusts himself down and throws his tattered ego back into the game. And it is a game. Confidence and chat are everything. Good looks and physique count for very little.

Now, far be it from me to shed light on the negative, but some of your dating disasters are funny. And some of you like to share them. Welcome to the world of Travis, a man on a mission to lose his virginity. This wasn’t technically a ‘date’, but it could be deemed a disaster.

‘I'd like to say that dating has gotten easier and less dramatic. But in reality only the locations, details and type of drama have changed.

Examples? Sure...

An afternoon doctor appointment resulted in a pre-diagnosis of testicular cancer. Fortunately, I was invited to a crawfish boil that evening, so I could decompress with my hosts. I wound up chatting up a woman - which is rare for me if I know nothing about her, to which her friends responded with a ‘distract and extract.’ This is where one friend gets you to turn around by asking a question like, ‘so how do you know, [the hosts]?’ and the woman you were chatting up is quickly swept away…

I was working in the airline industry after 9/11, so we were short-staffed and stressed. As I drove to the clinic for my appointment the next day, I had a mid-term in Organic Chemistry that night that I knew I was going to bomb. Take a guess who was behind the counter when I got there?

Yes.

Would she remember me? Would she see me? And does the receptionist need to yell ‘testicular ultrasound’ loud enough that the Inuit-natives in northern Alaska can hear?

Little did I know that she would be the one taking me out back to the room. Little did I know that she was the radiology tech. And as she walked me to the room, she had this look on her face like she knew me...but couldn’t quite place me.

Considering that all I would be wearing were socks, a gown to my mid-chest, and a strategically placed towel...this was not good. Imagine me playing out the combinations of things that I could do to not look like ‘me from the night before’. Why not keep my baseball cap on? Didn't have it last night. Take off my glasses? Perfect!

Like a squinting, mostly naked guy with a cap over his face isn't going to attract attention. I went with just the glasses.

Now, given the right situation, if we knew each other better...had gone out a bit...and I knew minor details like her last name, I might not have minded her hand being an inch from my genitals. Or the fact that she was using a vibrating wand of sorts. But we didn't know each other better. And I was praying that I could get out of there with a shred of my pride intact.

It was a race against the clock. She kept glancing over at my face, to the point where I wanted to say, ‘shouldn't you be keeping an eye on the screen?’ About two minutes before she was gone, I saw the flash of recognition and a smirk across her face.

F$)%.

I'm sure her and her friends had a good laugh over it. I can laugh about it now, but it didn't happen overnight. It's one of those stories that sounds made up. I wouldn't believe it.

The cancer, at least, had the decency to turn out negative.

June 28, 2007

Stuck on you...

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Your stories

In a rollercoaster ride of bi-sexual ‘first times’, chastity rings and virginity, we have meandered our way through some richly contrasting life stories recently. For many reasons, I find America a fascinating country, the disparate voices of your stories, just one of them.

I am constantly amazed at the amount of time and energy spent trying to convince young Americans that they don’t want to do what their bodies are impelling them to do at every turn. I am not suggesting that we give into our every whim and desire, just that we are human beings with hormones and needs. To deny them is akin to trying to hold back the tide.

This story illustrates two things. That putting a mental straightjacket on a thirteen-year-old girl is not healthy. Her natural inclination is to grow and change. What may be appropriate at thirteen will not flex to fit her eighteen year old self. It also shows, that left to their own devices, most teenagers are more than capable of making sensible choices for their futures, if only we will allow them.

Would it not be better to make them well-informed choices as well?

Danni from Texas. Born 1982.

The vow to one's father is a bit creepy if you look at it like that. But if you're looking at marriage as a contract to provide for the woman, it makes more sense, as the parents protect and provide until a husband comes along. Archaic to be sure, but true for so many women. As far as the extent of virginity, it's more of a spirit of the law than letter thing. Most girls are of the ‘technical-so-it's-okay’ camp, while I think their parents delude themselves with the idea of chaste
kisses on the porch swing. Technicality is stupid. Either you're going to abstain from things or you should just go ahead and do it.

I'm in my mid-twenties and still have my ring: silver with an open gold heart in the center. I got it at age thirteen from my parents, not as a formal part of one of those programs, but as something they expected
unquestioning obedience in. It was 1995 and would be a couple of years until, ‘True Love Waits’ came in force to the giant Baptist church where I went to school in Texas. Then it seemed like everyone had them. Notthat it made a difference.

At the school I went to through graduation, you got expelled for sex. People had it of course, but it was an easy environment to not be caught up in sex and drugs and drinking. I was in the popular group,
but focused on my studies and didn't care for anyone in the meager selection of boys in our small school. Then I went to an overwhelmingly huge university and defaulted into the group of similar people at my church's college group where it continued to be easy to
not sleep around.

The restrictive environment of church friends and a struggle with depression made it easy not to form attachments or fancy myself in love; rather I was ruthless in faultfinding. The only time I was fun
and approachable was when I was drunk. Then I would wind up pressed up against walls in clubs making out with strangers, suddenly realizing what was happening when I would be pulled away, half-topless by friends or when the guy would want to fuck me right there. That
stopped a couple of years back, and I'm lucky that I never got raped.

Midway through college, I deconstructed my faith and beliefs, finally freeing myself from the shackles of American Evangelical Christianity. But after waiting that long and not being the sort to go after a bunch
of meaningless one-night stand sex, it made sense to wait until I was in a relationship where there was love and respect. I haven't found that yet, but the next real relationship will probably be the one. I want it to be my choice and not a mandate set down (even though it’s with the best intentions) by antiquated groupthink

June 26, 2007

Favourite all time comments about 'The Virginity Project'....

Sweet and creepy.

I like it!

Thank-you Braid, I dig you too.

June 25, 2007

Got the urge to splurge?

You can make it as intimate - or not, as you like. Factual, sexy, funny, tragic, I would love to hear your first time stories. Whatever you consider your first time to be. Remember, ALL names will be changed to protect identity. Email me: katemonroe@yahoo.com

You know you want to.

The second coming...

Welcome back to Caitlin’s story, she of rather brilliant website, Caitlain’s Corner. If straightforward sexual information is what you need, you will find it here. Meanwhile, Friday's post left Caitlin considering why it was that guys liked breasts so much…..right before she encountered her own first pair….

This should brighten up a dreary Monday.

Once again, if you are under 18 years of age, avert les yeux!

Your stories

Caitlain. Born 1985. Lost virginity aged 15.

‘I finally decided to make the next move and began unbuckling Nikki’s jeans. She was wearing a belt that was identical to mine, so it took no time to loosen it and unbutton her jeans. I attempted to slide them down over her ass, but in our current position, this proved to be a little more difficult than I was prepared for. Nikki reached down and pushed her pants down herself and we just laughed. Then Nikki undid my belt and pants, and we both got up and stepped out of our pants. Here we were, both of us standing there in our underwear, with our bodies exposed to each other. This felt incredibly intense, yet very tentative, not unlike the first time I had gone through a similar process with Matt. I pulled Nikki to me once again and we kissed some more, and I suddenly felt Nikki’s hand wandering south toward my pussy. I immediately got chill bumps, and Nikki just laughed. She finally got there and slid her hand between my legs and cupped my pussy – I jerked at the feeling. Nikki asked me if I ever played with myself down there, to which I of course answered “yes, frequently.” “Me, too,” she said, giggling. “Can you make yourself cum?” she asked. “Of course,” I said, not realizing at the time that many girls have problems achieving orgasms through masturbation.

“Have you ever tasted yourself?” she asked. I had tasted myself on my fingers after masturbating and on Matt’s lips after he’d gone down on me, so I answered affirmatively. “Me, too” she said, and then followed it up with, “I’ve always wondered what another girl would taste like.” I had to have blushed, though I doubt that Nikki could tell since it was relatively dark in the room we had commandeered. I told her that, though I’d never given that any thought, I suppose I, too, would be curious as to what another girl’s pussy might taste like. “Well, do you mind if I find out?” Nikki asked. “Oh my gosh,” I hesitated. At that very moment I wanted nothing more than for her to go down on me, my pussy was throbbing with anticipation. At the same time, though, I realized that we were entering uncharted territory and that if someone walked in on us, we would be incredibly embarrassed and I’d never be able to face my friends or anyone else at school afterward. Still, the heat of the moment demanded that I say no. And I did.

Nikki moved her way down my belly, kissing it as she moved southward. She got down onto her knees, and started pulling my panties off. I must have been about thirty shades of red. I could feel my face become flushed, and was glad that she was unable to see me fully. Not that I was embarrassed to be naked, but that I was naked and about to have sex with another girl. Nikki told me to pull my legs back so she could get to my pussy, and I obliged her. Nikki made a comment about how wet I was, and that I must be enjoying myself as much as she was. When her tongue and lips made contact with my pussy, I jerked again, but she didn’t let up one bit. She explored my pussy with the same hesitancy that Matt had exhibited the first time he made his way into the forbidden territory. This, of course, was not unexpected, given that this was her first trip into a pussy from that angle as well. She eventually made contact with my clit, however, and I let out a yelp, and tried to silence it as quickly as it had slipped out. I let out a muffled “Oh, Jesus,” and she responded just as anyone paying attention would be expected to once they’d found the special button that every girl knows as the center of her sexual universe. She spent maybe 30 seconds working my clit with her magical tongue and I sensed that warm tingliness that portends an orgasm, building deep within my being.

Instinctively, I reached down and pulled her face into my crotch even tighter and it seemed as though she intensified what she was doing just that much more. I distinctly remember thinking to myself that she had managed to bring about my orgasm so much faster than Matt had ever been able to, but attributed that to the fact that I knew this was forbidden territory. Still, my orgasm came about with an intensity that I have only rarely experienced, even in my most heated sexual encounters since that night.

It is amazing what someone can do with a talented tongue when it is applied effectively on a clit. In the hands of an appropriate master, the tongue can levy an incredible sensation, not unlike what I expect Nirvana to be like. I continued to pull Nikki’s into me, and I came all over her face as she continued to work her magic with her tongue – so much so that I had to stop her once my orgasm began to subside due to the extremely intense sensations that I was feeling. She stopped using her tongue on me and backed up. I just looked at her and told her that that was *the* most intense orgasm I had ever had. She climbed up on top of me and kissed me – she had my juices all over her face, and I could taste myself on her. She began to grind herself on my leg, and I stopped her. “Wait, I want to try doing that to you,” I told her, not wanting to pass up what at the time seemed like it might be my only opportunity to try something so taboo. She stood up and quickly dropped her panties, and told me that it won’t take much, and laid back on the couch next to me. I got up and moved to my knees, grabbed her knees and lifted them apart, and moved in for what was going to be my first taste of another girl. I, too, noticed how incredibly wet she was, and realized that if I didn’t perform correctly, she might not achieve the same results that I did, and it occurred to me how badly I would feel if that happened. No pressure.

I kissed my way up her leg, similar to what I had done when moving in to give Matt one of my excellent blowjobs, and I could feel her tense up with anticipation. I am not 100% sure that she wasn’t already on her way to the big O, but I knew I was going to do everything in my power to bring her off. I got to her pussy, and could smell the scent of sex. It is hard to characterize it, though I didn’t even attempt to do that then, but it is a musky scent that is unique to a girl’s private regions. I found the scent to be incredibly erotic, and this just made me all the more focused on making sure that Nikki came as powerfully as I did. I moved in and pushed my tongue in between her pussy lips and moved it up to hit her clit. She hollered something unintelligible, and I hoped that she would realize that if she kept that up we might be found out. Still, I attacked her clit with my tongue and lips, alternately sucking and licking it, and within a minute or so, Nikki, too, had her first girl-induced orgasm. Whether or not she’d taken the cue from me, she reached down and pulled my face into her crotch as she began to tense up and climb that mountain that can only be described by the word ‘orgasm’. I pushed my tongue against her clit and moved it in little circles and Nikki began to moan louder and her body began to get incredibly contorted. Finally, it broke loose. I remember thinking to myself how proud I was that I was, apparently, giving her the same intense pleasure that she had imparted into me, and continued to lick her clit until she, too, could take it no longer and pulled her waist back from my face. I pulled back, unsure of what I should do next, but then I remembered that she had kissed me when I was on my way down the other side of my orgasm, so I reciprocated.

As my lips met Nikki’s, we shared a very passionate, lingering kiss, savoring each other’s juices and smells. All the time I was thinking to myself that I hoped this was not the last time I ever got the opportunity to do this. I had enjoyed the tastes, the smells, the sounds, the *feeling* of having had such an intimate encounter with another girl. Perhaps the naughtiness of it made it so much more intense than it might otherwise have been, but I didn’t care. I had enjoyed it, and I was pretty sure Nikki had as well. Both of us just laid there for the next couple of minutes, I was wondering what we were going to do next. Nikki put her arms around me and held me, and I just luxuriated in the moment, unaware of anything else going on anywhere else on the planet.

“Did you enjoy that?” I asked. Nikki just laughed out loud and said, “what do you think, silly? Oh, my god!” I just lay there for a moment. “What do we do now,” I asked. Nikki replied that she didn’t know, and wondered what I suggested. I said we should probably get dressed in case someone wandered in, but secretly thought to myself that if someone were to enter the room with two girls sitting alone in the dark, they could only think one thing. We began discussing how we were going to handle the “situation,” such as it was. This obviously changed our relationship, but how, we just couldn’t figure out. Though we didn’t bring up the subject of being girlfriends, Nikki did tell me that she had often daydreamed about being with me, in a platonic sort of way, during a couple of classes that we had together. She told me that she’d thought I was very pretty and liked the way I interacted with people, and wanted to be like that herself. I thanked her and told her that I didn’t know of anything I did differently than anyone else to the best of my knowledge, I was just being me. I told her that I had noticed her; but that she seemed so quiet that it never occurred to me that she was anything other than the shy, reserved type. We spent a good bit of time just talking, and occasionally sharing a kiss or two before we decided that we needed to get out of there.

As we put our clothes back on, we discussed the fact that we couldn’t tell anyone about what we had just done; it would be a secret only we would share. At that time, I was sure that I would never tell another living soul about what had just happened, while at the same time, hoping that I got the opportunity to do it again with either Nikki or another girl at some point. As I situated myself, I reached out and put my hands on Nikki’s face, and pulled her closer to me, and kissed her passionately again. She didn’t hesitate and kissed me back just as passionately. We spent another ten minutes making out, I could not believe how sexually charged it made me. I wanted to go another round, but knew that we would be missed if we stayed gone much longer. I told Nikki that she needed to go out first and I would follow shortly so that we didn’t appear to have been gone for the same amount of time to the same place. Nikki went to the bathroom next door to the room we were using and went back down to the party.

After she left and headed back, I went into the bathroom, sat down and cried, and thought about the meaning of all that I had just experienced. I was conflicted between the feelings that I had just experienced and the fear that I might be a lesbian. I had read various articles on the Internet about lesbians and knew that there was a stigma attached to that, not unlike what being a gay male engendered. At the time, of course, I was not aware of all of the ramifications of what had just transpired would bring about in my life. I knew, however, that I enjoyed the sex more with Nikki than I had with Matt, and wondered to myself if was going to be forced to just have sexual relations with guys in the future. I remember thinking to myself specifically that, if I could, I would have sex with both girls and guys in the future if the situations presented themselves, and wondered if I would ever get to ‘experiment’ with Nikki again. I spent a lot of time over the succeeding weeks thinking about what I had experienced.

I went back downstairs and rejoined the party. Nikki was talking with several other people and when she glanced my way, she smiled with a huge grin for which only I knew the full meaning. I wondered to myself if we were supposed to act friendly toward each other, or if that would be too obvious. I was completely unsure of what I was expected to do next. If it had been a guy, this would never have occurred in the first place, so I was at a total loss as to how to react. This was different, obviously, if for no other reason than the other half of the equation was a girl, and to the best of my knowledge, there were no two-girl relationships in my school. I certainly didn’t want to be the first and be the subject of all of the ridicule that would invite.

As midnight approached, most everyone was pairing off to have someone to kiss at the entrance of the New Year. One of the guys asked Nikki if she was going to kiss me, and she said she would if I would let her. Of course, I jumped at the chance inside, but I wanted to mask my enthusiasm outwardly and said I would let her give me a quick kiss on the lips. At the stroke of midnight, Nikki looked at me and grinned and kissed me dead on the mouth. Again, lots of hoots and hollers from the partygoers. This time, however, we just mashed lips in a sort of awkward kiss that left everyone, including me, somewhat disappointed.

As the party wound down in the wee hours of the morning, I entered the New Year completely unsure about where I was headed, what I was to become, how I felt about Nikki, sex with guys, sex with girls, and everything in between. I wanted so bad to be able to hold Nikki, call her mine and be able to enjoy her, but I was unsure if I felt that way simply because of the physical feelings I had as a result of our sexual encounter, or if there was more to it. I didn’t know if we would get back to school and Nikki would ignore me and pretend nothing happened, or if we would become close friends. I had trouble sleeping that night, replaying the entire episode in my head, and trying to determine the various scenarios that might play out over the next few weeks and months.’


June 23, 2007

A golden opportunity?

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All is quiet on the western front and….ohhh…what’s this?

It looks like a virginity related news story…..and indeed it is. This is from yesterday’s Guardian. Have a read. It’s the story of sixteen-year-old Lydia Playfoot, a young woman who was prevented from wearing a ‘purity ring’ by her school.

Veils, crucifix’s and purity rings, its all very topical, that’s for sure. For me, the question that leaps off the page and begs to be asked is, what do British teenagers think about ‘The Silver Ring Thing?’ Will they buy it? Are they queuing up to join? Are you a teenager? If so, what do you think about ‘The Silver Ring Thing?’

There has been much discussion on these pages about virginity of the ‘non-chosen’ variety. Actively deciding to keep your virginity is another matter altogether. What constitutes virginity anyway under the dictates of ‘The Silver Ring Thing’? Is it a complete and total abstinence from any sexual activity at all? Or just what we would commonly consider to be the technical loss of virginity i.e. the first instance of penetrative sex? British or American, I would love to hear any opinions you have on these matters.

Please send a carrier pigeon or email me: katemonroe@yahoo.com

Remember, all names will be changed to protect identity.

June 22, 2007

You only live twice....

Your stories

Virginity is not always the ‘one-off, never to be repeated moment’ it is so often billed to be. Virginity can be lost more than once, sometimes in stages, and in some cases, regained and lost again at a later date, (more on this another time!).

In Caitlin’s case, it was a two-step process. Once with a boy and once with a girl. I will let her explain to you, in two steps, because her story is detailed, why the loss of her virginity with a girl was ‘the watershed moment of my life thus far’.
And frankly, if you are under 18 years of age, you might want to shut your eyes or log out at this point, because this story is very sweet, its very powerful and its also very sexy.

Hold onto your horses.

Caitlain. Born 1985. Lost virginty aged 15.

‘Many people have asked me over the past couple of years what my first experience with another girl was like. Although I've hinted at some things here and there, and told many in private some of what you are about to read, I've never really talked about it publicly. If you know anything about this, you know how intense this experience was for me - so much so that I consider it the watershed moment in my life thus far. The experience literally defines me to this day.

For those of you who know what my girlfriend’s name is, she is represented by ‘Nikki’ here, (and no, it's not the Nikki with the web site! lol). Matt was my boyfriend who I had moved away from about two months earlier, so at the time of this event, I was unattached. ‘Nikki’ and I remained very close friends after this experience, and since May 2005, we've been an official couple. We'd both had boyfriends and this was our first committed relationship with another female.

Obviously, this is written in language I am comfortable using today. I don't know that I recall thinking about what happened in the exact terms that I use here for the most part, though the feelings I embrace here are most certainly the ones that went through my head at that time. Some of it will sound silly, but the thought processes of a fifteen year old are not the most rational to begin with. At the time, I was already very comfortable with my sexuality and had already had sex with Matt. However, up to this point, I'd not even given the first thought to having sex with another girl.

Those of you that know me also know that I rarely allow myself to become vulnerable. Writing this out was a huge step for me, because I am revealing my own personal and intimate thoughts about what I went through for the very first time, something you rarely see from me. I've finally reached a point where I feel comfortable revealing what happened (with my girlfriend’s blessing). Most of you who know me see me as the one who initiates stuff, but here you'll see how that was not always the case.

Anyway, I hope it sheds some light on things for you.

Ever since Matt had left, I had been feeling kind of down, and was terribly excited when I was invited to a New Year’s Eve party that was being held at a friend’s house a few blocks down. My parents were concerned, though, that there’d be some drinking going on. I told them I was sure there wouldn’t be, even though I knew some of the people there would likely be imbibing to one extent or the other, simply because they felt like it was okay to do so given the nature of the party. Oddly enough, that was to be the least of my concerns this evening.

My parents dropped me off in front of the house, which was decorated with balloons and other party decorations. There were quite a few people there already, most of whom I knew only casually. There were a handful of people I considered good friends, though, so I spent much of the evening chatting, drinking soda and snacking with them. Someone suggested we play some kind of game, and being the group of teenagers that we were, we of course had to put some suggestive fun into it. Someone suggested a game of Truth or Dare, and most everyone seemed to acquiesce to that. A few people, apparently knowing how these games usually transpire, found other things to do. Of course, not wanting to be a party-pooper, I jumped right in. I was given a Truth to tell whether or not I had smoked anything before. I hadn’t, so I told the truth.

I had answered a couple more truth questions and I got hit again. This time I was dared to french kiss another girl for 10 seconds. That girl turned out to be Nicole, or Nikki, a girl who had been in several of my classes, and had been to the first pool party I had, but had otherwise drawn relatively little notice from me at school. Although initially hesitant, Nikki agreed to do it just so the guys wouldn’t win a point. I wasn’t really excited about it, but at the same time, I wasn’t bothered by the fact that I was going to be kissing another girl – it just seemed different. Nikki was very pretty, a lean brunette with an extremely nice body, a dark tan not unlike mine, and dressed impeccably. I just assumed that she would have been as tentative as I was about kissing another girl, but she didn’t appear to be the least bit phased by the dare. Everyone started saying things like, “make it a real kiss,” “don’t cheat and just touch lips,” and “she won’t do it.” I wasn’t sure which “she” they were referring to, but a dare was a dare as far as I was concerned. I went over to where Nikki was standing and we both grinned a huge grin as I leaned in to kiss her.

As our lips made contact, everyone started hooting and hollering of course, even the girls! I decided to get a little playful with it and kind of pulled back a little bit and let my tongue play across her lips. I guess she sensed what I was doing and reciprocated with her tongue. I reached up and put my hand on the back of her head and kissed her just like I had done my boyfriend not two months earlier, and Nikki kissed me back just as passionately, and everyone went crazy. I definitely felt a spark during that kiss – it was hard to characterize for me because I’d never felt anything like it before. As we broke off the kiss, one of the guys said, “That is the fucking hottest thing I have ever seen in my life.” Everyone seemed to enjoy the little show, and I have to admit that I felt a little flustered when we were done. Everyone was still talking about the kiss over the next couple of rounds and everyone kept saying that if I got picked again, they were going to dare me to kiss Nikki again. The game ended rather shortly thereafter, though, as some other people showed up and distracted everyone.

Once we were finished with the game, Nikki had gone outside. I followed her, and when I approached her she got a big grin on her face. I asked her what she thought about our kiss. She expressed a little bit of embarrassment, but said that she thought it was incredibly hot, and that she’d never kissed another girl before. I told her that I hadn’t either, but I sure hoped it wouldn’t be the last time, and giggled. Nikki looked at me and asked if I really meant that. I told her that I most certainly did. Nikki then told me that she, too, though our kiss was very erotic, and wanted to know if I would kiss her again. I must have gotten a shocked look on my face, because she apologized for apparently taking my words the wrong way. I explained to her that she did not need to apologize; I was simply caught off guard. I told her I didn’t think it would be a good idea to kiss again right here where everyone could see us, and suggested we find a quiet place that we could go try it again. We both giggled and went off into the huge house to find a room not being used.

We made our way upstairs to what appeared to be a guest bedroom, and we shut the door as we walked in. I was as nervous as I had ever been about anything in my life up to that point, but the feeling I had experienced whilst kissing Nikki the first time had had a powerful effect on me, and I was determined to explore it a little further. As we shut the door, I pulled Nikki by her shirt to me and our lips met once again. The feelings I experienced were electrifying – not so much because I was kissing someone, but because I was kissing another girl and I knew that it was taboo. I was caught up in the tremendous sensations of enjoying the taste of Nikki’s lips, (bubblegum-flavored lip gloss), the softness of her touch that was unlike what I had experienced with Matt, and the sweet smell of Nikki’s perfume. Perhaps the best word to use might be intoxicating, for that is a very accurate characterization of how I felt. We kissed for quite a few minutes, just playfully teasing each other’s lips and tongues. I wasn’t quite sure what to do next.

Nikki put her arms around my waist and drew me closer, as if that were possible, and proceeded to kiss me down my cheek, to my neck and then lightly nibbled on my ear. I thought to myself, “Oh, my god, what is she doing?” I suppose she sensed some hesitation on my part, because she stopped and asked me if I wanted her to go any farther. I asked her what she had in mind, and she said if we kissed each other, we might as well spend a little bit of time playing around, if I felt like doing that. I asked her if she had any problems fooling around with another girl, and she laughed. She said she’d just kissed me passionately, so she couldn’t understand why I would think she’d have a problem fooling around a little more than we already had. She said she knew that some girls in our school had done stuff with other girls, and that she was curious as to what it would be like. I wasn’t sure how to react, because this had come as a surprise to me that what she was saying might be true.

I asked Nikki, “What do you do to a girl?” To which she responded that she didn’t know, we’d have to play with it and see what happened. She pulled me closer to her and kissed me again, darting her tongue into my mouth. I gave in and responded in kind with my tongue. Nikki started to move her hands under my sweater and I got weak in the knees, so weak that I had to sit down. We sat on a couch-like piece of furniture and resumed making out, and Nikki started going under my sweater again. This time I just let her. Her hands were incredibly soft as the glided around my waist and up my back. I followed suit and proceeded to mimic her actions. She moaned lightly and asked me to take her sweater off, which I did. I then unzipped her bustier and took it off, exposing her tits to me, she wasn’t wearing a bra. This was the first time I had ever seen a girl’s breasts in a sexual situation, obviously, and was taken aback by the look of them for a few minutes. I regained my composure and took off my shirt, then reached around and unhooked my bra and let it fall to the floor. Nikki reached over and grabbed my tits with her hands, and I did likewise to hers. She moved her mouth down to my chest and took my right nipple in her mouth and sucked it for a few seconds, followed by licking it, and then moving over to the other one to lick it as well. After she’d done that for a few seconds, I pulled her face back up to mine and kissed her again, and then moved my face down to her chest and repeated what she’d done to me. The sensation of sucking another girl’s tits was incredible. There was more mass there to pull into my mouth than there had been with Matt, so it felt different to be able to actually suck on a breast. I teased her by lightly biting on her nipples, for which she moaned lightly. I thought to myself, this is fun – I see why guys like doing it.'

To be continued.......

June 20, 2007

Post me a secret..

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I love this website.

Postsecret is living proof that the simplest ideas are the best.
Post a secret.

It is that straightforward.

If you have never checked it out, I suggest you do so at your earliest convenience.

Postsecret reflects much of what I enjoy about my work here at the Virginity Project. There is so much that we want to say…that we don’t. And it doesn’t have to be hilariously funny, or desperately sad. It is the minutae of life that can make us smile or sigh.

And that is what I love most about your stories, the small details that speak volumes about your lives. The little things that indicate so much about your surroundings, your thoughts and your feelings. We forget about the simple stuff.

To this end, tommorow I have decided to stop and smell the roses for a day. Literally.

I am going on a family day out to look at roses. Perhaps I have the urge to commune with nature. Maybe its because it’s the summer solstice. Either way, as before, the pleasure is always in the details, not the facts.

June 18, 2007

'Too old to care' - A 100% true story about virginity

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Your stories.

Sometimes I like your stories because they are funny. Sometimes I like them because they express a universal truth, something that we all think, but very few of us can actually say. Occasionally, I just like the details in your stories. This is one of those.

Skateboards, immobilizing pleasure, malevolent mothers and trampy bitches. You couldn’t make it up.

But as this un-named fifty-year-old American male says, ‘I swear on my painful years of chastity, it is 100% true’.

An American man. Born 1957. Lost virginity aged 24.

God, this is my first home computer and I can't believe all the crap on the Internet. The most disturbing part is all the porn sites. Okay, some of those people are just plain desperate and need money. But what they are acting out cannot be beneficial psychologically. Can interrupting coitus and ejaculating on a girl's face while talking in a hateful way be healthy? A long time ago, they made porno’s about people who actually liked each other. Now, I'm not on a mission and I just got back from two years overseas where you could buy all the cheap young prostitutes you can dream of, by the hour, by the week, or anything you like. But I have some serious masculine sensitivity issues and the idea of exploiting desperate females is too upsetting.

Hey, the best orgasm I ever had was from lying down on a skateboard. Total warm, itchy, immobilizing pleasure, spreading from head to toe - mind blowing! I discovered this by accident when I was about eight years old and couldn't even ejaculate. So orgasm is indeed separate from reproduction. I didn't tell anybody about what I could do with that skateboard, even after I crashed into a car.

Okay, so what about my first time?

I found out young that I loved kissing with a girl named *Jody and we tried to experiment further but didn't have any idea what we were doing and stopped after we nearly got caught by her older sister. I ended up being shy and defensive because my parents were very abusive psychotics who fucked around like assholes when they were young and then spent the next twenty-five years making us feel miserable about it. I say psychotic because my father was very good at getting things he wanted and enjoyed the shallowness of it all. He was well liked but for him, sex was something you could get like a pack of cigarettes. My mother was a malevolent because she loved sex too much for her own good. They both died from substance abuse, which they kept a secret for years.

In college, I fooled around with a number of worldly, trampy bitches who made fun of my virginity. I could have had any number of college girls but was afraid that I would end up liking sex too much for my own good but at the same time, I didn't want to graduate from college being a virgin. Anyway, this one girl, *Dana, really did have an attraction to me but for totally neurotic reasons. She was this class of girl who screws a million times and then wishes she could have virginity back. She didn't know that I had her number.

So it went like this: I started hanging around with her at the Sorority house and initiated the whole thing. Unlike other girls, she was a lousy kisser which was a death sentence for anything long term. We kept this up and then she showed me what can only described as the world's best blowjob. This was so good, it was scary. I mean, like, WOW! It was good! She would nurse and suck and stroke up to a point where I would writhe and moan and explode without warning and then go totally limp while she swallowed every last drop. She wasn't very responsive otherwise and thus I became more interested in the blowjob. She couldn't cum no matter how many different ways I kissed her vagina. I mean, you know you have a problem when you spend a half an hour licking, kissing, and swishing a girl’s minoral flap and nothing happens. I was getting bored and feeling devalued.

Then one night she jumped my bones and we fucked. ‘Gee’, I thought, ‘I'm having sex!’ It was a nice feeling. I started moaning, and came inside her. Girls didn't shave in those days and I like bush! We did it again and I came inside her again. I never even considered a rubber because I liked cumming inside a girl. I knew it was bad but I couldn't help it. It's an animal thing. After graduation, we separated for eight weeks and then got back together again. She lived with her parents and she would call me when they were away and I would stay over. Again, more sex with no rubbers. When I was in graduate school I finally put a stop to this bullshit and she got all pissed off. Virgins aren't supposed to dump girls, even when they tell them to blow off midterms.

I went back to my defensive and solitary ways and had a disastrous career as an insurance scientist. The sharks in the insurance business ate me for lunch. Now that I am old, I am glad that I didn't do anything sexually disastrous. I would have benefited from a happy marriage and I met a lot of women who seemed to sense that. Although they never expressed it in a loving way. Women can be very perceptive and my favorite sexual fantasy was always being with a woman who loves me because she needs to get pregnant. Ouch! Once the babies start arriving, the sex comes to an end.

Well, I hoped you like my story and I swear on my painful years of chastity, it is 100% true.’


Do you have a story of virginity loss that you would like to post on 'The Virginity Project'?
Funny, happy, sad or erotic, they are all worth telling. Email me at: katemonroe@yahoo.com
*Remember, all names will be changed to protect your identity.

June 16, 2007

Learning to fly...

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Ninety pence for twenty minutes?

You must be joking, I thought, as I drove in, and promptly out, of an NCP car park in West London.

It was hot and I was on my way to an interview. Knowing this interviewee as I do, (which is not a lot, but enough to know that he can talk the hind leg off a donkey), I knew that this was a price I could not afford. I settled on a meter. Better to have a time limit, I thought. That way I will focus my concentration and get the information I need, quickly and concisely. As I parked up, I clocked a small cat with a large spangly collar saunter by. That cat looks like it knows where it’s going, I thought.

I checked my hair and grabbed my bag. My interviewee lives in a basement. It wasn’t hard to find. Music burst from the open window and through the protective bars of a basement flat. As I walked up the garden path, a lady was squatting low to the ground. A huge dark coloured bird hopped around the garden in an ungainly manner. ‘It’s a chick’, she said. ‘It hasn’t learnt to fly yet’. It was the size of a puppy. Whatever it was, she did tell me the name but I forget now, it seemed unperturbed by my presence as I descended stone stairs, towards the sound of music.

I knew he wouldn’t be able to hear me so I peeped through the window. Through the gloom, I could just about make out a pair of white pants doing the vacuuming, the limbs concealed by the sooty darkness. That’s nice, I thought, he’s tidying up before I arrive. I knocked loudly on the window and held my breath. The Hoover stopped. ‘Hold on a minute’, the voice chimed from within.

A minute later, the door opened and there he stood. Tommy the rock star. His eyes blinking in the sun as I thought I saw a flicker of surprise cross his face. It was mutual. In a flash, I realised that for the duration of our entire encounter in Holland Park gardens last weekend, he had never once taken his sunglasses off. I had no idea what he looked like until now.

Pretty, is the answer. Too pretty to be a man. And very, very tall.

It dawned on me that he had forgotten our appointment, and it seemed, even who I was at all.

‘Er, yes,’ he confirmed when I asked, ‘I had actually’.

Shit. I’ve just fed my last five pounds into a meter. I didn’t say that, but I thought it. ‘Do you still want to do the interview?’ I asked, crossing my fingers behind my back and hoping that he did.

‘Sure’, he said, and invited me to step into his labyrinth. All basement flats are dark but this one is especially so. Windows were involved but very few of them were open. ‘I’ve just got up’, he said.

It was 4pm.

Like the bird attempting to take flight in his garden, he hopped around his flat, simultaneously fashioning tobacco into cigarettes and making cups of tea. I took my surroundings in. Sheepskin, tapes, discs, papers, ashtrays, books and a large black duvet strewn across the living room floor. It made a nice sofa as I sat down to unpack my bits and pieces.

The moment arrived and he unfolded his six-foot-something jean-clad frame and arranged it rather gracefully over the arms of the sofa. He fixed me with large brown eyes.

‘Don’t worry’, I said. ‘I won’t ask you to freestyle for the next sixty minutes. I’ve got lots of questions’, reminding myself of my trusty red Renault 5 parked outside, next to the ticking clock of the meter.

People respond in so many different ways. Some appreciate a list of questions and will answer only what you ask. Other’s can tell a story in a Robert Altman-esque stream of consciousness that requires little prompting. Just like the stories themselves, everyone is different. But I don’t think ‘worry’ was on this boy’s mind as he took a deep breath and began to talk. He could have free-styled for three and a half weeks if I’d have asked him too. The thing was, that not all of it was relevant. We went to lots of interesting places, Russia, China White’s, we took drugs, of course, (metaphorically speaking, I assure you), and we woke up, battered and slightly confused in a strip joint somewhere in downtown LA. But we didn’t spend nearly enough time discussing the loss of his erstwhile virginity.

Why didn’t you stop and point him in the right direction? I hear you ask. Easy question to ask. Harder question to answer. I don’t know. In all the time that I have spent interviewing people, two of them have foxed the f**k out of me. Tommy was one of them.

The other was a charming gent in his sixties who runs a unique gallery space in town. He was my first interview. My ‘first time’, even. So I could forgive myself, I thought as he told me the best story ever about virginity loss and then proceeded to tell me pretty much everything else that had ever happened to him in his life. Don’t get me wrong, it was fascinating. It could be another book, I thought, as he took me to meet Jimi Hendrix, alongside mods and rockers, purple hearts, American soldiers and lord knows what else. I hadn’t the heart, or the wherewithal to stop him.

+Sigh+, as my religious correspondent sometimes writes in his emails.

An interview is a funny old thing. You always want to ask the best questions, the ones that will garner you the best response, and therefore produce the most compelling story, but sometimes, like the frustration of first sex, you can’t always get there. I tried. I changed the subject, (when I could get a word in edgeways), I pushed forwards, I eased backwards, but the boy was sharp. He knew exactly where he wanted to go, and it wasn’t my way.

Such is life. The clock stopped ticking and I had to go. It hadn’t been a waste of time. You always learn new stuff, even if you’re not sure you’re gonna use it. Make sure there’s plenty of money in the metre, in fact, leave the motor at home.

Tommy the rock star and I stood outside, guarding the car and chatting, before I said goodbye. The bird was nowhere to be seen. Learnt to take flight perhaps? Or off to meet its fate with the spangly-collared-cat?

The former, I hoped.