How Do Gay People Lose Their Virginity?

Question: How Do Gay People Lose Their Virginity?

Answer:

A lot of folks wonder how gay people lose their virginity. In part, this is because there has been a long standing association between virginity and a woman's hymen.

The hymen is the thin piece of skin that lies over the opening of a woman's vagina. Though it can be stretched during vaginal sex, it can also be stretched masturbating, during other types of sex play, doing gymnastics, riding a bike or a horse, or even using a tampon.

Using the hymen as a measure of virginity isn't an accurate way to determine this for a few reasons:

• If a hymen is the test then how could a man ever lose his virginity?
• There are many non-sexual ways to stretch they hymen.
• Doing so excludes any sex act that doesn't involve a vagina.

Though everyone has their own ideas about what counts as sex, a lot of people would agree that vaginal, anal and oral sex, are all sex.

So keeping this in mind, it would stand to reason that GLBT folks lose their virginity like straight people do, by having sex with another person.