Talking about first sex should not be virgin territory
FEW events are as highly anticipated as losing your virginity, and yet few are as frequently disastrous. People blithely assume they will know what to do and how to do it, and that it will be amazing. We rarely talk about losing our virginity. The traditional definition of ‘losing it’ — the insertion of the penis into the vagina — seems quaint. There are many ways to skin a cat, as Kate Monro, author of Losing It: How We Popped Our Cherry Over The Last 80 Years, learned.
The experiences of her 50 interviewees span 68 years, from 1940 to 2008. Edna, at 91 the oldest, was 25 in 1940: “I was frightened on my wedding night, and when I saw how he looked, I laughed. I’d never seen anything so funny.”
