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Virginity, Penetration and Other Sex Myths with Sophia Smith Galer

Doing It! with Hannah Witton

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How to Deal With the Fear of First-Time Sex

There is a lot of anxiety that people feel if they haven't yet had sex and their peer group has. We're taught to sort of think of first-time sex as a place to get everything perfect or right but that's not the reality. There was an American psychologist who did some very interesting research trying to look at how different people conceive of virginity loss. She divides the group into three either you believe um virginity is a gift to be given ohYou've either you think it's a stigma to be lost or you're in this third group who just thinks first time sex is a right of passage. They were also often not honest about their virginity status with their partners.

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