ehh… How YOU doin’? 
26 yr old virgin here too…
I was 15 when I lost it. However, I have sex only on a limited basis now, despite having a few ftf (friends that f*ck). The fear of pregnancy–even when you’re using protection–is a great deterrent. 
How are we defining virginity here? Or sex, for that matter?
You lot reassure me rather (asa 20 yr old recently ex-virgin).
Assuming I define ‘sex’ as ‘orgasm in company’ (not perfect, but fairly close)
Help! My virginity’s gotten loose again! It’s running all over the clean carpet!
How has this thread stayed in GQ so long?
There is just no telling what is typical, because the statistics are based on self-reporting, and people lie, particularly when it comes to sexual matters.
Here is proof on that point:
There have been many, many studies reporting how many sexual partners the “average” man or woman in America has had. It appears invariably to be found that American men have been with a higher number of women on average than American women have been with men. Typically a report will “find” that a man has been with seven to nine women while a woman has been with only two to four men.
The problem with this is that the number of men and women in America is, very roughly, about equal. There are 1.0-something-something women for every 1 man. That means that even if men are much, much more promiscuous on average than women, the true average number of partners for men and women has to be about the same, unless a whole lot of men are going out of country for a good many of their sexual encounters.
Think of it this way: suppose that ten men and ten women are dropped off on an uninhabited island. When they are left there all of these people are virgins. A year later they are picked up off of the island, and it is found that nine of the women are still virgins. The tenth woman, on the other hand, has been very, very friendly, and has had sex with each of the ten men.
How many women, on average, has the typical man been with? Obviously, the answer is “one”, since each of the then ten men had sex with the same woman, and only that woman.
But how many men, on average, has the typical woman been with? One woman was with ten men. Nine women were with zero men. To find an average, we add a ten and nine zeros, and then divide by ten. The answer is “one”; each woman “on average” has been with one man, just as each man on average was with one woman.
The averages are exactly the same. If we were to greatly enlarge the sample so that we are dealing, say, with 100 million men and 100 million and ten thousand women, the average results for men and women would still come out to be nearly the same, regardless of what individual people were actually doing.
How then, do the numbers in reports vary so significantly? Because people lie. Maybe women understate the number of men they’ve been with. Maybe men overstate the number of women they have been with (no kidding: would any man do that?). Maybe a bit of both is happening.
In any event, a lot of people are lying. And if they lie about how many people they’ve had sex with, some might even lie about when they had sex for the first time–or if they have even had sex for the first time yet.
Two final observations:
First: If you are willing to take advice from an anonymous writer on the Internet, if you are fifteen and still a virgin, don’t worry about it in the slightest. I was past 30; no kidding, I hadn’t been in love with someone who loved me back and didn’t have religious scruples that got in the way until then. In the meantime I did not turn gay, become impotent for life or join a religious cult. I’m in my 40s now.
Second: It wasn’t until I lost my virginity that the phrase “lose virginity” made sense to me. After all, it is not like you can misplace it and look for it behind the refrigerator. I lost it when I was ready, and when I was ready, it was like losing an stupid-looking red and green tie I got for Christmas; I said “hey: let’s lose this thing”. Until you are ready to lose it, it doesn’t matter what age you are.
I lost mine when I was 17, in a graveyard, at night, on top of a crypt, with my highschool sweetheart. She turned out to be one of the biggest mistakes of my life…(hrmmm wonder why).
I had more sex in college than a porn star.
I’m 25 now and am married with one child on the way. I met her in college during a play.
Damn, I was 12.
Rock on virginites.
My wife told me about a weight-and-nutrition course she took. The teacher told 'em not to speak of “losing” weight. “When you lose something,” she said, “you’re likely to find it again.” Obviously, this is not true about virginity, so perhaps losing, or loosing is not the right word. The pro-abstinence folks would like to have you think that becoming sexually active is a loss. I never thought so.
Okay then, how about this: When was your first sexual encounter? I mean this in terms of any type of genital contact with another person meant to lead to orgasm. Is that defined enough for you?
Well, if only one of us orgasmed, is one of us a virgin? If so, is it the orgasmer or the orgasmee?
Well strictly speaking, I was 7:eek: , but it really happened when I was 21:D . I stop having sex two years ago at the old age of 39. :eek: 
First sexual encounter was at age 8 with the girl next door. I don’t remember exactly what we did, but genitals were involved.
I ran into her years later and she turned out to be a hottie! The big V-Card took me 20 long years to lose.
Damn, where were you guys when I was in high school?
sigh
Of course slipster, you’re assuming the studies are referring to heterosexuals only.
There might be women with children who are still virgins if having an orgasm is a requirement for losing one’s virginity. I think by the first minute of penetration you both can consider yourself “deflowered.”
Better to save it for someone you really want than to get the first person who you can to get rid of it. Take a cold shower Spanky and settle down, it will eventually come to you.
Yep , heard that line from a virgin once.
If you don’t want your virginity to be loose you need to tighten up your nuts.