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So, I’m 23 and I still haven’t had sex. 

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I didn’t have anything to lose.

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The idea that a girl might possibly enjoy sex wasn’t a concept that was ever spoken about in the secondary school playground; it was always reluctantly avoided within the awkward walls that hosted those dreadful sex-ed classes.

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“Girls care so much more than guys. Guys do care, at least I did, but it wasn’t something I beat myself up for like they seemed to do.”

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“I dated a guy for four years. When I was finally ready for him to be my first, he blurted out that he had slept with a woman at his work. I’ve been scarred ever since.”

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if you aren’t ready to go any further than hand holding or a kiss, you don’t have to.

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I hurt him because I couldn’t love him back, no matter how strong his love was.

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I had been thinking that by the time I finally did lose my virginity, it would have become this big deal because I’d gone so long without sex.