losing virginity
Initial sexual experience
Losing virginity refers to a person's first experience of sexual intercourse.
The phrase frames the transition as giving something up rather than gaining experience, though attitudes vary on whether virginity is something lost, given, or simply left behind.
She lost her virginity at seventeen.
What counts as "losing it" depends on how one defines sex—for many, penetrative intercourse; for others, various intimate acts.
- first timeMaiden occurrence
- first loveEarliest romantic attachment
- deflorationLoss of virginity
- pop the cherryLose virginity or begin
- cherryRed stone fruit
innocence · intimacy · awkward · nervous · sweaty palms · bedroom · consent · protection · condom · teenage · high school · hymen · blood · pain · love · trust · partner · experience
- adolescencepuberty, teenager, coming-of-age, growing up, teen
- milestonesgraduation, wedding, birthday, retirement, birth
losing virginityvirginity
Absence of carnal experience
chastity · purity · inexperience · maidenhood · virtue
losing virginityabstinence
Voluntary forgoing of indulgences
celibacy · sexual abstinence · abstaining · chastity · continence
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