his sugar plum lips - Gabbie Robinson

Losing My Virginity over a Period of Four Months

by Anonymous

Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow

At least, that’s what they all say. I suppose if used in certain contexts – a lover, a friend, a family member, even a childhood pet – this years-old cliché is true. However, if what you’re parting with is your hymen, and that parting isn’t going so well, let me tell you: parting is a goddamn relief.

Losing your virginity entails a lot of parting. First, there’s parting your legs. These logistics are fairly simple, taught to us through splits in gymnastics class, the basic physical education crab walk, and the lunges your mom does to “exercise” around the house. Then there’s what your abstinence-only sex education classes teach you: when you have sex you part with your innocence, your childhood and possibly your significant other. I parted with my innocence and my childhood when I found out Santa Claus didn’t exist, and I’m pretty sure nothing – not even sex – could bring me any lower than the first Christmas we didn’t put out reindeer food. As for the relationship aspect, I was two-and-a-half years into a relationship and we were going strong. Lastly, there was the most difficult part:

Parting with Your Hymen

The way people describe a hymen pushes it away from reality and more into a fantastical category. Before I actually parted with my hymen, I would have believed in unicorns before believing in this basic piece of my anatomy. First, there’s the common phrase “popping the cherry.” Connoisseurs of sex use this phrase to make it sound…I don’t even know, but to me it just makes it all the more confusing. First of all, do you really “pop” a cherry? I have eaten many a cherry in my day and it seems more of a squish than a pop when I crunch it between my molars. Then of course there’s “breaking” your hymen. Now, instead of a cherry shoved between the walls of my vagina there is a piece of glass that will shatter when a penis touches it. No thank you. Not to mentioning the fact that some girls are told that tampons, riding a horse, or gymnastics will cause them to no longer be