To het & bi women: Male virgins?

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Please keep in mind that WP is not a representative sample of society.

If somebody scorns you for being a virgin, tell them the truth----that you are not one.

It's quite possible that you're building barriers around yourself which don't need to be built.

The issue is lacking sexual experience. One time is not sufficient to make any meaningful difference. This is why I say I'm practically a virgin.

You would be surprised how many adult women "lack sexual experience."

In some other topic, Hurtloam gave the explanation on why women may prefer non-virgins that finally makes sense to me.
It's not about proficiency. It's about being realistic.
Guys watch porn. If someone's knowledge on sex is limited to porn, then... ouch. Things people do in porn are usually painful in reality, especially for the woman.
But if you respect her, react to her and consider her needs and preferences, that shouldn't be a problem.

Most women don't want to "hit the sack" right away, anyway......they would not like it if a man wanted to have sex with her right away.

Experience doesn't necessarily dictate any kind of skill. Just because he's done it a lot, doesn't mean he's learned anything to enhance the experience. I'm sure there's plenty of men that think they're pretty good but the women would give him a "Meh" rating.

The only think that experience is assured to give a man is some comfort in doing it, and thus some confidence. Thus minimizing any "awkwardness".

Anything else; like tricks he may have learned, and an understanding of realistic (how real sex isn't like porn) is dependant on his ability to learn and be attentive/empathetic with his partner. Experienced men are more inclined to this simply from trial and error but it's not a given.

Personally for a relationship, I'd take a virgin over someone that has a large amount of experience.

Poll results thus far:

1 vote (7%) for "I prefer a virgin, for religious reasons."
14 votes (93%) for "I don't care either way."

Much of what I've read on WP is contrary to my experience. For me, losing my virginity at 20 (and I was probably rather lucky to have done so at that age) was a huge turning point in my life. In fact, any time I come across the topic of the year in which that happened, I unavoidably think of the significance.

When I was 23, somebody a couple of years younger than I outright propositioned me simply because she was horny and, I believe, thought I was somebody she could easily dump once she'd gotten her urges satisfied, given that she thought me about the most annoying person she'd ever met. Given that poor assessment of my social skills, it seems ironic that she assumed I'd know what to do once we got to her room, as all she wanted was to do the deed (using a condom) without any sort of preliminaries. Were I not experienced, the encounter would probably have turned farcical, although in retrospect it's debatable whether I was fortunate in the long run that things went so well.

Having disagreed that losing one's virginity is no big deal, an idea largely promoted by people who are sex-negative to some degree anyway (which seems way more widespread on WP than in the general population), I am sorry to admit I don't have much advice to help men achieve this. Unfortunately looks, plus giving some expectation of having a financially independent future, play a role. In my case, dogged persistence had a lot to do with it.

I have more advice for women. If the guy is on the spectrum, or even just conforms to that stereotype, your approach, once you've decided you're interested, should be the exact opposite of the Hollywood ideal of a passionate encounter. You should make your intentions clear at the outset, but also make clear that you don't expect the guy to "perform" or that full penetrative sex need be on the agenda the first time.