53, female, lost my virginity on my 20th bday with a guy I went on to live with for a couple of years – and who’s still a good friend of mine.
Didn’t tell anyone, because I’m still one of the types of females who doesn’t discuss the details of my sex life with anyone who’s not directly involved. And medical professionals, as neccessary.
I’ve heard that sex is good for clearing up your skin. But since it was only a few days in your case, that wouldn’t be it. Maybe you were glowing? 
Female, 22 was 17.
Told one friend. Didn’t go into the details!
Female, 38. I was 15. He was 14, and also a virgin.
I don’t remember telling any of my friends or what I might have described. I am sure I told my best friend right away, since she knew we were planning it. Telling people wasn’t a meaningful part of the experience, and naming my partner wasn’t necessary, as we had been “going together” a few months.
The only people I vividly remember telling were my parents, at separate times:
To Dad (about 6 months after): “Dad, I think I’m pregnant”
Dad: “Well, how about we find out for sure.”
(I wasn’t - and considering how carefully we used condoms it was extremely unlikely - but I was irregular and paranoid. My dad bought me my first pregnancy test.)
To Mom (shortly after that): “Mom, I want to go on the pill”
Mom: “Why?”
Me: “Why do you think?”
Mom: “Oh dear!”
First people I told were the members of my therapy group.
Out-lame that! 
Not told. Wrote it down in my journal. Thought it was safe. Wrong. I was 26. She was 19 and married. Still is. I just turned 50.
An 80 year old man went into the confessional and told the priest, ‘Father, I am an 80 year old man, I’m married, I have 4 children and 11 grandchildren. Last night I strayed and had an affair with two 18 year old girls. We partied and made love all night long.’ The priest said, ‘My son, when was the last time you were at confession?’ The old man said, ‘I have never been to confession, I’m not Catholic.’ The priest said, ‘Then why are you here telling me this?’ The old man said, ‘Father, I’m telling everyone!’
25-year-old female. I lost mine at 21, on the night of my first kiss; I’d previously been fat and recently lost a lot of weight, and I was at a college party- it was a friend of a friend. He drove back to my place and did it in my dorm room. I lived in a suite at the time, and there was a long hallway of doorways. One of my (male) roommates walked by as he was leaving my room in the morning and, since I was not known as one who normally brings guys back, he raised his eyebrows knowingly at me. I was loathe to talk about it, though, b/c I felt that 21 was an embarrassingly late age to still be a virgin! Anyway, I then went to lunch in the dining hall, and found a friend of mine. I sat down and she gasped. “Nightrabbit, you’re GLOWING!”. I told her I’d “hooked up”.
Later, after I dated the guy for a few months and he broke my heart, I told some people to explain why I was feeling particularly distraught over the breakup of an otherwise relatively short relationship.
Then 21, now 35. She was 18. Happened in the dorm room (I had a single).
I didn’t tell anyone that I can remember. If anyone from our group had been surprised, it only would have been that we’d waited as long as we had. Mind you, we’d been doing other stuff for a month or two leading up to the technical main event. I’ve no idea if she told anyone (she was a virgin as well).
I can only think of three times I’ve openly expressed that I had sex (of any sort) with someone. Once was as simple as a friend saying “So, didja dork her?” (actual quote) and me saying “Yeah”, once was a friend and I talking about a girl who we’d both dated long ago and once was me telling my best friend that I’d done a bit of messing around with his sister-in-law at a New Year’s Eve party two years prior. The funny thing about that one was, after two years of keeping my “secret”, his wife saying “Of course I knew! Tina is my sister! She told me that day!”
Female, 51, lost it at 19. Never heralded the news to anyone, not even my best girlfriends, at the time. It happened at college, and I had no close friends there…and it just seemed like my sex life was no one’s business than my own.
The closest I came to admitting it to anyone was when, a year or two later, at a Christmas party with my girlfriends, the most straight-laced one, who had primly mentioned that she was sure we were all still virgins (she was a nursing student and had just learned all sorts of horrific things about STD’s…and this was before AIDS) mentioned that she’d heard regular sex could cure severe menstrual cramps. My friend Leanne and I looked at each other (we were both engaged, at this point in our lives) and said at the same time, “no, it doesn’t” and then broke up laughing.
Hey, Search is down. ALL the content is missed right now.
I thought you said my best thread was “Why does Auntie Pam rock, and how much money should each of us give her in recognition of her rockingness?”
Maybe the hamsters ate that one.
Female, 53, lost it at the age of 20 on my wedding night, so I didn’t bother telling anyone, I assumed they knew.
Male, 18 then, 18 now. I told people that I’d lost my virginity, but that was all.
I implied it to my best friend the next day(who unknowingly was a catalyst for the hookup), but he didn’t get it (he was on the deluded notion that I was a puritan, like another friend) until many weeks later.
I told it to a classmate (and from then on, the whole class knew, gossip travels fast on vet school), after she was teasing to me about still being a virgin. Don’t know why the topic came up, I think they were making a list of who was virgin still or not… shrugs
I told my sister about 9 months after the fact, since, again, she had the notion I was a virgin and she had to “protect me” from the evils of NYC. I haven’t told my parents, I think they think that I’ve been having sex for longer than I have really been doing it.
I was 23, now close to 25. Thanks to another friend (and luck) I came to terms with many things (prior to the hookup). I’ve seen the first guy randomly since then, I’ve seen others all the time, too.
I didn’t know guys really talked about it until I talked on the phone to another guy friend on Christmas. My ex-lover and common friend and him were out together, and I don’t know what exactly they were talking, but they left me surprised and curious after my friend said “Do I have to change my bedsheets?” to me (and no, I didn’t bring my fling to his place).
Male, middle-aged, queer.
Depends on the definition. If orgasm is not required, then I was twelve, he was twelve and I told no one at the time. Yonks later I told my brother because he said something about how he thought I was into the guy’s sister in high school and I said that I had actually been into the guy. If orgasm is required, then I was 19. I told one friend, who had as I found out later been my partner’s first choice and, with his being straight, offered me up as a substitute.
Orgarsm is only required you feel it is. Though I, generally, find them quite pleasant.
By the way, what’s a yonk?
I’ll keep the ages out of it. I told everyone who needed to know - no one. That includes the young lady with whom I lost my virginity. She didn’t know she was the first.
Male, 56, lost it at 19, circumstances previously posted somewhere on these boards (she was 22). I told my best friend because we shared that kind of stuff all the time and I trusted him to keep it confidential. He did. My younger brother quickly figured it out on his own, however.
Is being teased about being a virgin common in America? One sees it in movies, but I’ve rarely been teased about being a virgin and never at work.