Love and Loss: Virginity Stats and Stories

Last week The Virginity Hit came out, and today Easy A - a worth-seeing comedy about a girl who advances her high school standing by giving herself a fake loose reputation - opens. It seems virginity, or its loss, is in the late-Summer air, so we've rounded up answers to our virginity polls to get the how, where, when, why, and who of our collective first time. Check out the results!

• We asked how old you were and the average age was 17.5, which sounds about right considering the average age around the world is 17.3.
• No regrets for the majority of us. Fifty-seven percent of you said that you do not wish you had waited to lose your virginity.
• Most of you lost it to your boyfriend. Husband, co-worker, and best friend were named, too.
• The best laid plans? Not so for most of us: 61% of you said losing your virginity was unplanned.
• The most common places to lose your virginity were his bedroom, hotel, car, her bedroom, floor, couch, or place of employment. Honorable mentions for imagination in these places: "outside the back entrance of my church," "hospital auditorium," and "boyfriend's grandparents' bed."
• Sixty-two percent of you said that you didn't keep your abstinence pledge. Fastest pledge breaker goes to Spaceketgal. "I kid you not," she said, "I lost my virginity 1 week after signing it."
• When does virginity become a stigma? While a few ages in the early 20s were debated, the vast majority of us say virginity is way too personal to ever be a stigma.
• About 20 percent of us had an orgasm during the first time!
• At least half of us have taken someone's virginity! "He had such a reputation as a womanizer," Starbucks said, but he "was actually waiting for the right girl."