Age lose your virginity

Please refresh the page and retry. A ccording to the National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyle, the biggest regret that Brits have about their first time, is that it happened too soon. When I think about my teenage years, the thing I feel most resentful about apart from having to come of age while low rise jeans were fashionable is how is how we were taught to think about virginity. Every book, magazine and PSHE lesson I attended between the ages of 12 and 18 had the same message: Your virginity is precious. Your first time has to be perfect. Did it stop our teenage fumblings?

What is it? What's it like? Who is having it? And more often than not, what's a 'normal' age to have it?

Losing your virginity is a unique experience. It can be hard to know just what to expect. What will it feel like, when should you do it, and how can you stay safe during your first time? The words "virginity" and "sex" mean different things to different people, regardless of whether they have sex with people of the same or different genders. Whatever definition people use, many feel anxious about having sex for the first time.

Skip navigation! Story from Sex. From American Pie to Blockers , there are plenty of teen comedies about students trying to lose their virginities before graduating high school. Watching these movies, you might think that starting college without having had sex is something really strange and unusual. According to the CDC , the average age at which American women first have penis-in-vagina sex is