I guess I'm just a bit naive, or something, but I've never really figured out (after 71 years!) why "virginity" is so highly rated. I know about the hymen thing, I guess, but the fact that a penis is inserted into a vagina seems pretty small potatoes in the greater scheme of things. I was a "virgin" until I was 23 and married, but I had had very intense sexual encounters with several women. One in particular was my steady girlfriend in our last two years of high school, and while we never had intercourse (which was a no-no in her Roman Catholic faith, of course), we both had intense orgasms on many occasions. I had been bamboozled by society's definition of virginity, and assumed for many years that I had been a virgin until my honeymoon, but I now realize that I was just operating under a fiction. I just don't see why penile penetration of a vagina qualifies as a life-altering experience. In fact, I can tell you that the sex I was enjoying with my steady girlfriend was far more fulfilling and intense than my early experiences with vaginal sex.

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