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Psuedomorrow, I was older than you when I lost my virginity, and I'm glad I waited for the right guy in the right situation. It was... well, the moment was magical, even if the sex was a little awkward.
I'm not sure why our culture puts such emphasis on losing one's virginity. I think it probably has to do with our culture's push for us to grow up so fast. By that, of course, I don't mean in that our 5 year olds are working at the factory. I mean naivety is frowned upon. Innocence is considered a weakness. I remember how completely stupid I felt, at age 11, for not knowing what "jizz" was. Why the fuck should an 11 year old girl know what jizz is? I knew what sperm was, from science books I'd read, but I wasn't familiar with the slang terms and for that I was laughed at. The push to lose your virginity before you're 16 is, I think, related to that.
It's strange, isn't it? Our parents are doing everything they can to give us a real childhood. That's fashionable right now, so I'm making a generalization. They don't make their kids work until they're 18, they buy them things, they "go easy" on them, in a way their parents never did. With this parental push towards having a childhood, is our generation's hatred of naivety just another rebellion? If so, it's a pretty fucking lame one.
*edit* I pretty much typed as I thought, so I apologize if it rambles on.
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A SPIDER sewed at night
Without a light
Upon an arc of white.
If ruff it was of dame
Or shroud of gnome,
Himself, himself inform.
Of immortality
His strategy
Was physiognomy.
--Emily Dickinson
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