i just read a thread that shouted "what age did you lose your virginity?". i'm liberal-minded but it is still an epiphany (pardon the sacrilege) for me. why do people have this bloated concern about virginity anyway? why put a deadline on when you oughtta rip it off of your person?

i am a twenty-year-old virgin. sometimes, people think i'm pulling off an innocent, saint-wannabe shtick right smack at their faces upon stating this fact. maybe it's because of the way i freely talk about sex that they kinda assume that i've had it... i don't really know. maybe it helped that when other six-year-olds learned about thumbellina, peter pan and pinocchio, my mom educated me about the anatomical differences of a man and a woman via a rented betamax tape. isn't my mom the coolest? i just love her!

there are a lot of people out there who are still virgins at my age. all of you know, people can be nasty. some make you feel like a loser when you confess having a "clean slate" when it comes to that. what's their so-called edge over you? they get laid a lot, do random tests on the the latest contraceptives, excitedly facilitate a demo of kama sutra's forbidden positions, compare notes... and then? do they consider fornication as one of their callings in life---a social duty, even?

i remember that there was sometime in my very recent youth (about two years back) that i looked at older people with the nagging thought, "this person has had sex already". it was like that thought-drive for a while... funny, now that i reminisce about it.

lesson i want to impart? if you're still a virgin like me and all the people around you are humping like crazy, screw their philosophies about you being a loser. after all, you're not the one conforming to other people's definition of "normal".