ShadesOfMe wrote:
thedaywalker wrote:
i started the relationship a few moths a go the sexual part of it one week ago and it is good... why do you ask?
I'm just wondering. Many people around my age (and younger) are having sex. I'm not too interested in it, and my boyfriend doesn't want to start an intimate relationship with someone until he is married. I was wondering when others on here had started one, and why.
OK here's my opinion. I have never actually had sex so I can't say for SURE. However, having taken (and almost finished

) a sexuality class at school, I would assume that people have it for one of two reasons: # 1 is so they can have kids (something I prob'ly would not do), and # 2 is is 'cuz people find that the feel of their natural bodies against one another is pleasurable to them (BTW using the word "natural" here 'cuz if I used another term for it it prob'ly wouldn't be apt here...so please try to figure out what I mean by "natural" here if you haven't already, lol

) Personally I wouldn't mind such contact. However, I DO have my (at least current) limitations on this - any body-to-body contact, whether natural or with covering, is fine with me, EXCEPT if it's with the parts commonly covered by a bathing suit. I dunno, it just sounds reaaallllly risky IMO, esp. for someone like me who would fear getting disease on account of this type of contact (again I hope you know what I'm talking about, but I think by now I've gotten as clear as I can without being "adult"). My OCD isn't always the best since it causes me to fear things like this
Seriously, though, body to body contact without heavy use the "parts down below", lol

sounds like something that would be an absolutely wonderful experience for me if I ever got the chance to have it!

I've gotten comfortable and confident enough with my body, its image, etc. to look forward to such an opportunity instead of dreading the possibility of it. I hope this isn't what's causing you (and your bf) to think twice about an "intimate" relationship

I hope you're wanting to postpone and/or forego it for the same reasons I am (i.e. fear of disease). Honestly, it's a darn shame Western culture teaches little kids (and others) to be ashamed of their bodies

It's really rooted in our fear of change, difference, acceptance, etc. IMO.
Also, I just thought of a third reason people your age (and younger) have sex. Pressures of our backwards, cockamamie media, lol

It's also a matter of status for the teens and unmarried twentysomethings who engage in such activity - since Western culture views sex to be a "taboo" subject, most of the "average" teens

prob'ly think that by rebelling against such ethics that they are vying more and more for the status they (think that they) want. Same with smoking, drinking, etc.
P.S. (to the moderator if he/she is reading this) - I hope I haven't used terms and/or descriptions here that sound too "graphic". If I have please let me know and I'll try to edit them. Not trying to offend anyone here. Quite the opposite, really