Whats it like to have sex for the first time?

Yikes!!!

Please, for the love of Venus, use a condom every time. Every time until you are in a committed relationship where your partner (if it is a female) is on reliable birth control or until you wish to become a parent.

Pretty much what everyone else said. Don’t put too much pressure on her to have an orgasm, as if she’s a virgin and hasn’t masturbated to orgasm, she won’t have a clue how to do it and might feel badly about that.

Heck, I’m 34 and I still don’t have them from intercourse. :slight_smile: But that doesn’t stop me from trying (with a committed partner, condom and/or birthcontrol of course).

What Anahita said.

Except the bit about the orgasms.

Just in order you can avoid my own mistakes :

  1. I was expecting the event since my girlfriend was living in another city and her visit was planned. So, for some stupid reason I forgot (maybe expecting a more pleasant first expericence, or to make sure I would really be “ready”, or because I wanted to refrain myself in her honor), I didn’t masturbate during the two preceding weeks (an activity that of course I usually indulged in at least once /day). The obvious result was that I lasted…perhaps some seconds.
  2. Worst error : I felt so terrible after this failure that I didn’t dare to go on and try again, and put an end to the “session”, totally ashamed. As plenty of posters told you, it’s quite common for a first time, and I should have went on playing and trying again some moments later.
    And it works both ways. Whatever could happen, and regardless how disatrous your first experience could be, don’t let nor yourself, nor your partner feel bad about it.

By, the way, I have been very dissapointed by my first experiences, which were waaaayyyyyyy less pleasurable than I expected them to be. So, as pointed out by many posters, don’t expect too much.
And of course, forget the advice given by I can’t remember whom about not wearing a condom. Indeed, it’s less pleasurable with one, but it’s just not worth the risks, obviously. Wait until you’re in a commited relationship, as advised by anahita.

We didn’t use a condom the first time, but we were both clear as far as anything communicable, and I was on the pill anyway, so we were safe there (or as safe as is possible, since I’m damn near obsessive about taking those). However, if you have even the tiniest doubt, USE ONE. Besides, if you’re really quick, it might slow you down a bit. There were times when I wanted to use one just to be an extra bit of anti-pregnancy insurance, and he was fine with that.

And I would strongly advise waiting until you have a committed relationship. We’d been dating and spending a LOT of time together for two months before we went all the way, and that time included a bit of mostly-unclothed fooling around during the couple of weeks before we Did It. We were very good friends by that point. Lust is fun, but friendship is almost more important, IMO.

The first time? “Ouch…ouch…owie…” Not his fault, and he was very gentle, but I was very relieved that he came quickly. It wasn’t awful by any means but it wasn’t great by any stretch of the imagination. The first few times were distinctly uncomfortable but after that it went fine.

He’d have been willing to wait a lot longer if I’d wanted to before we did the deed, but I didn’t want to. If it’s your first time, and HER first time, do NOT push her to do it any sooner than she’s ready for.

My advice is not to go in expeting too much. Sex is a great thing, but the first time you will be nervous and jittery. So just try to relax, make sure you have plenty of time and privacy, and just do what comes naturally. As you get more experience you will (or should anyway) refine your methods and improve the experience.

Good luck and have fun!

Oh yeah… and what’s with the “you’ll probably need the lube” bullshit? Come on… people have been having sex for thousands of years with nothing but natural lube (and saliva, yummm)

You don’t need lube, Ryan

**expeting should be “expecting” up in my first post :stuck_out_tongue:

i’m just wondering how you can actually tell if you are having sex with a (female) virgin.
A prospective first timer for me says she is a virgin but when we actually do the dirty how do i know it’s her first time?
what are the specifics of the hymen in sex?

Firstly, she may well be new to sex, and thus a virgin, but that does not mean that her hymen has not broken through strenuous exercise, the use of tampons, or even, potentially, masturbation.

Secondly, is this such an important issue to you that you feel the need to underhandedly request the advice of a message board in the pursuit of verifying her technical virginity?

I must reiterate: She may have never had sex before, but especially in this day and age, that does by no means assure that her hymen is intact. Go easy anyway. :wink:

Oh for heaven’s sake, why don’t you two just get a room!?! :slight_smile:

(Apologies to Anahita, jjimm, Mr. Anahita, Mrs. jiimm, etc etc)

If it’s your first time, it probably won’t be fantastic. If it’s her first time, it will probably be even less fantastic for her. That’s okay. Practice makes perfect. :slight_smile: If you’re comfortable talking with her, things will get better.

My Advice???

LISTEN to these people…

The MAJORITY of them … KNOW of which they speak…

Lots of TRUTH here…

I can’t believe I’m actually typing this on a public message board, but I think it may be very valuable in giving you some realistic idea about the awkwardness some people have been trying to describe in order to counter the whole movie and tv image.

People have alluded to the problem of being too quick. That was not my problem. I was rock hard and ready to go when we got naked, but I had no idea how much time it would take just to get inside!

Step one: Get her wet. We knew enough to do foreplay, but I was brand new at it, she hadn’t spent much time exploring herself, and to top it off, she was nervous as heck (as was I), which dries women up like a desert. We did our best, but finally decided we’d just have to go with what we got. By this point, I’ve been ready to come for several minutes. “You ready?” “I guess so.” “I’m ready.” “OK. Get the condoms.”

Step two: Put on the condom. “You mean there’s instructions with these things? You gotta be kidding! . . . [couple minutes later] . . . Did you see what I did with those instructions? . . . Wait that isn’t working, try it the other way . . . Shit, try another one. Oh, it rolls down THAT way. . . Wait a minute, the instructions say what? . . . No, let me do that . . . Shit, get another one.” At this point, I’ve gone way past being ready to come, but I still haven’t. Putting on the condom has been much less stimulating than I’d hoped, and I’m starting to fade. Hopefully the next step will help.

Step three: Penetration. “Wait, I’m not ready anymore. I need more foreplay.” (How come no one told us about lubricant beforehand?) Back to step one. That helps both of us, so now time for–

Step three (redux): Penetration. “Is that it?” “No, that’s not it.” “What about now?” “Let me move it.” “OW! It doesn’t bend like that!” “Sorry! How about this?” “That’s better.” “There we go.” “Am I in?” “Uh . . . Not anymore.” “How about now?” After about three or four minutes of this . . .

Step three: Penetration (Finally!). “OOOWWWWW!” “Are you ok?” “Yeah. I knew it would hurt, but I didn’t know it would be like that!” “Do you want me to stop?” “No keep going.” “OK . . . um, sorry. I can’t. And the condom just fell off.” Hearing your girlfriend scream in pain is a HUGE turn off (at least when she’s not expecting to be screaming in pain.)

Repeat steps 1-3.

“Is this working?” “I think so. It feels different inside you than I thought it would. Does it still hurt?” “Yeah, but keep going. Did you just come.” “Um. Yeah. Er, I think so.” Alas, 'twas not the case. I had gone hard and soft and hard too many times, had taken too long, and had neglected other physical needs without realizing it. I was still very nervous. I thought I had just come, but I had urinated inside the condom.

Fortunately, this was a great girl, and we were emotionally close, so we had other runs at it. It took maybe two or three tries to improve on this abysmal attempt, but we laughed a lot along the way. We’re still close friends several years after breaking up. (Though if she see this somehow and recognizes me, I’m in deep shit!)

Some observations based on the above:
Don’t expect too much.
Don’t do it with anyone you could ever feel embarassed around, because even if it goes well, it will be nothing if not embarassing, unless you can laugh about it.
Practice with the condoms. A lot.
Use a back up form of birth control. Spermacide on the condom doesn’t count. Condoms can break, fall off, or otherwise fail, especially when used by amatures (but also by experts); you want something else (pill, diaphragm, IUD, etc.) in use just in case. Remember, other methods don’t protect against STDs, however.
Finally, talk about what you will do if all methods fail. Sorry to be the party pooper and bring up the R-word (responsability), but there are VERY serious concequences at stake here, and you need to discuss what your moral, financial, and practical situations are, and what options and alternatives those leave, if a pregnancy should result. It may not seem romantic or sexy, but if you aren’t ready to do this, you aren’t ready to have sex, either.

I hope all this was helpful to someone out there.

Don’t even bother preparing.

It’ll be nervy, uncomfortable and quick.

Then do it again. It’ll be better.

Then do it for a third time. You’ll be so wasted by this point that it’ll seem to go on forever. She’ll get off. You’ll get off for the third time and she’ll go on about your amazing recovery time for ages, forgetting all about your virginal premature ejaculation, shaking limbs and fear-widened eyes.

Oh yeah, and shower beforehand.

Oh yeah, and you’ll last longer is she’s on top, plus you get to se her bits jiggle.

Ah… sweet mammories…

I later remembered some advice my old roommate gave his cousin, that might be useful.

“When you feel like you’re about to bust a nut, change positions.”

IIRC it goes something like this:

You are stopping over at your sister’s on the way home from university for the Christmas hols, 1979. You, she, her husband and a friend of hers go out for a few beers. You glug down a few more brews than you’re used to and go and crash in the spare room.

Some time round about midnight you’re woken out of your beer-fuelled stupor to learn that you’re sharing the bed for the night with your sister’s friend. You shove over and make room while the friend, who’s twelve years older than you and quite fat, wearing a nightie borrowed from your sister, climbs in next to you.

Later, between three and four in the morning, you’re both awake at the same time and you get talking, exchanging a few rude jokes, that kind of thing. Your SF giggles over your PJ jacket and the vest you’re wearing under it (hey, even in southern England it starts to get chilly in mid-December) so you take them both off, with a slight air of defiance.

While you continue talking about this and that, your SF begins examining your bare chest and stomach with her fingernails. Pushing her away would seem rude and besides, you’ve not been blessed with any female attention since a spot of tonsil-licking with a girl you met once at a bonfire party a few years ago but who things never worked out with subsequently, so you’re not disposed to be too critical.

After a while her hand “accidentally” strays near your crotch, and her mocking “Oh, what a surprise!” informs you that she has discovered that, beer or no, your testosterone-fuelled 19-year-old anatomy is in perfect working order.

After a while longer she “accidentally” lets her forearm rest against your erection, and when you still don’t yell for your sister she grabs hold of it.

At this point you figure it’s time to either fish or cut bait…

When you slide your hand under the hem of her nightdress she playfully pushes your hand away with hers while still carrying on with what she’s doing with her other hand. Getting past this not-too-serious blocking technique you discover that she’s still dry, and despite having absolutely no prior experience of female bits you’re clued-up enough on the theory to know that something ought to be done about this. So you go to work on her breasts and then check her snatch again after a while and this time it’s dripping wet.

So you shift to your knees, and there is a rustle of bedclothes as she draws her own knees up and lets them fall apart. (You should note that up to this point there’s been no discussion whatever of what’s going to happen, let alone the issue of contraception or any consequences.) You shuffle between her spread-apart thighs, make one or two fumbling attempts to get on target (slightly hindered because you don’t know exactly where the vagina is - other than the obvious, to within a few inches either way - or quite what it feels like), and apologetically ask her to guide you in. She does so.

The expected tidal wave of mind-blowing sensual pleasure completely fails to materialise. Four in the morning is maybe not maximum sensitivity time for you, even without taking the beer into account. Still, you are determined that after all the years of waiting you are not going to waste what you are now thinking of as “this opportunity”, and you set about pleasing her as best you know how from theory. She tells you to relax, and you finally kick off your PJ trousers.

Sooner than you expected, she is announcing “I’m gonna come!” and you encourage her to go ahead and do so. She does, noisily. Then you try to concentrate on your own orgasm. Having had nothing but your hand in the past, and not getting anything like the sensation that you had ignorantly imagined from her vagina, this isn’t easy. But there seems to be something like a ring of muscle gripping a bit like a finger and thumb wrapped around you, and you concentrate on this as best you can until you achieve a finish, of a sort. When you stop, she does actually ask “Did you come?” and you urbanely murmur “Is the Pope a Catholic?”… though the earth didn’t move an inch for you.

Shortly afterwards, when you need a massive dump (again, probably something to do with the beer) you find yourself saying to yourself: "I’m not going to start thinking ‘Is that all?’ " … However, warned by whatever wise instinct, you do not let this sentiment communicate itself to your sister’s friend.

This approach, drawn from life with no exaggeration whatever, is not necessarily recommended as the optimum. (It should be noted that this was in the days when any variety of Cupid’s measles could be cured with a short course of antibiotics, not that any were needed on this occasion.)

I recomend mashing all this thread’s advise together and splitting the difference.

Read something, knowledge is a good thing. Don’t read to much, experience is better than theory.

Foreplay is great. Knowing where and what a clit and G-sport are helps. Start gentle. Add pressure and intensity as seems nessesary. Follow the other persons lead, and suggestions.

Don’t ask for anything you’re not willing to reciprocate. If you go in with the attitude that you are there for the other person’s pleasure, it’ll mostly work out OK.

Some of the best lovers I’ve had were inexperienced. The worst I’ve ever had was experienced, but very selfish.