# Loosing Virginity **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 26, 2002, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loosing-virginity/133933 "2002-10-26T01:50:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2002, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loosing-virginity/133933/41 "2002-10-27T11:46:24Z")
We have a forum for people to share the age at which they, personally, lost their virginity. This isn’t it. Does anyone have additional cites to post? Elsewise we can declare this one asked and answered and close the thread. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2002, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loosing-virginity/133933/42 "2002-10-27T16:20:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MeanOldLady \* > \*\*Your hands are much better lovers anyway. Sad, but true. :rolleyes: \*\* Speaking for all women, are ya? ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2002, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loosing-virginity/133933/43 "2002-10-27T17:35:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \* > \*\*24 year old virgin who’s only been kissed ONCE. > > ☹ \*\* > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \* > \*\*Damn, where were you guys when I was in high school? > > ``` > *sigh*** > > ``` It’s an indication of the esteem in which she is held that there hasn’t been a flood of replies offering **Guin** assistance in . . . err . . . “changing her status.” I would say that she should feel flattered, except that she’s earned it. The esteem, that is. James Thurber: “She’s always living in the past. Now she wants to get divorced in the Virgin Islands.” ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2002, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loosing-virginity/133933/44 "2002-10-27T18:21:22Z")
"Let loose the Virgins of Cuteness and wimpy is he who first cries “Hold, Enough!” ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2002, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loosing-virginity/133933/45 "2002-10-28T13:29:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rysdad \* > \*\* > > Speaking for all women, are ya? \*\* Yes… ALL. 100% 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sysop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Sysop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sysop)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2002, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loosing-virginity/133933/46 "2002-10-29T02:52:39Z")
Must have been 8 or 9 at the oldest. The boy next door and the boy next door “experimenting”. His name was David and we had fun in the garage, heh heh heh! To this day, I’m a horny little bastard. Use condoms and lots of lube! ---
**Author:** ![Lilairen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lilairen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lilairen)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2002, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loosing-virginity/133933/47 "2002-10-29T04:53:50Z")
The tricky bit with “average” is that it doesn’t specify whether or not it indicates mean, median, or mode. For the hypothetical case of the ten men and ten women on the island, the range is 0-10, the mean is 1, the median is 0, and the mode is 0. I’d suspect that “median” is the most likely value for “average” being used in the “the average person has had N partners” evaluation, with “mode” being second most likely. The mean value is the least likely to have useful informational content. ---
**Author:** ![Agback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/977dab/32.png) [@Agback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agback)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2002, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loosing-virginity/133933/48 "2002-10-29T05:41:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lilairen \* > **The tricky bit with “average” is that it doesn’t specify whether or not it indicates mean, median, or mode.** Yes it does. It means ‘mean’. Regards, Agback ---
**Author:** ![Lilairen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lilairen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lilairen)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2002, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loosing-virginity/133933/49 "2002-10-29T06:16:47Z")
Given that “average” is frequently used to refer to all three, such pedantry does not provide any useful insight into deciphering statistics. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loosing-virginity/133933.md?page=2)