Is oral sex losing my virginity?

By boyfriend and I might do it but I won't if I lose my virginity.
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  • You're not a virgin if you ever had sex. Now what's "sex"? The question for that is cultural. So the concept of virginity depends on the constant movement of the social values. Those who are saying you only lose your virginity with a penis in the vagine are well-intended ignorants. Maybe it was in the 50s. But society and it's values are dinamic.

    So a lesbian never loses her virginity? Of course she does. We are already putting heteronormativism behind.

    But to give you a more straight answer. In 2016, most people in your social circle would NOT consider it losing the virginity. But this answer is not an atemporal or absolute one.

  • In a heterosexual relationship, I count penis -> vagina to be the mark for that, as that's the "final" scenario of sexual behavior.

    Virginity itself is just a false concept though designed to shame people into abstinence, so technically you aren't actually losing anything.

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  • I am completely confused why someone would think they lost their virginity if there is no vaginal penetration. I am truly curious what they are teaching kids these days in the sex ed classes that they are now forcing 8 year olds to take. NO you will NOT lose your virginity by oral sex. The only way you lose your virginity is if his penis goes into your vagina.

  • I don't think you would be a "pure virgin" in the traditional sense. True virgins don't engage in any types of sexual acts and stuff like anal and oral are just "loopholes". If you don't care enough about your virginity, to the point of wanting oral sex, then you might as well just go all the way with penetrative sex too. Instead of looking for loopholes.

    • Just because she's ready for one thing doesn't mean she's ready for penetration, and if she's not radii for both then the second could be incredibly harmful mentally. Saying she "might as well just go all the way" is ridiculous, and oral sex is not a loophole, it's a separate form of enjoyable (for most people), arguably safer sex.

    • @Desiree94 ok first off I didn't say that she should start doing sexual acts she's not comfortable doing. This is all through the perspective of "keeping" your virginity. If you want to keep your virginity and value it so much, then you shouldn't go around having oral or anal SEX because it's still sex. You're gaining sexual experience and I think it's stupid to then turn around and say that you're still a virgin. You would be having your cake and eating it too, and I don't think that that's what virginity is about. Again this is not about safe sex or about not doing acts you're not comfortable with. Asker can do what she wants and of course she should use all the protection she can as well as not feel forced to do acts she doesn't want to do. However I think it's stupid to want to have oral sex and then still pretend to be a virgin, when the whole point of being a virgin is sexual inexperience. Which is why I said that she might as well go all the way then considering that she won't..

    • ... be a virgin anymore anyway.

  • It depends on what you define as losing your virginity. For me, losing my virginity was penetrative sex. Although I didn't receive oral sex for the first time until I did also have penetrative sex. And my advice for when you do lose your virginity is to do it when you feel completely comfortable and at ease doing so :)

  • If you want to go with the primary definition of "virgin", then yes you would still be considered a virgin. However the secondary definition is "someone who lacks knowledge in a specific field". So in that respect, the more experience you have with this type of sex, the less of a "virgin" you are.

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  • Well the actual act of sex.. no you're having oral sex, I would classify virginity as penetration with a penis in the vagina. However a lot of people have different ways of viewing it

  • No, when the wee wee goes inside the pee pee and the cherry pops or when the wee goes in the pee pee then you lost it.

  • i don't believe so, because it isn't penetrative, but i mean ur still doing that kind of thing under 18, which isn't much better.

  • The definition of virginity has to do with the breaking of the hymen inside the vagina and done by a penis. All other definitions are artificial. Oral sex is not considered a breaking of "virginity." It is however going a long way!

  • Kinda, maybe mouth virginity? JK ;) only penetration is sex. Oral sex is sex but some people have different thoughts on what is sex and what is? Do you undertsand? :)