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notice? Are people gonna think I look cool? Am I a woman? Is this normal?"
I called him up crying because of course I started to bleed. We talked and he was sweet about it.

ALL-NATURAL LUBRICANT
Kristen, 30

I was not necessarily conned into it but... I was. I was 18 and I wanted to make sure I turned 18 before I did it. I had had earlier opportunities but I wanted to wait until I was a little older. I was saving it for a graduation gift to myself.
I had been dating Rob for awhile, through most of high school. I was like, "Well I want to move to the next step." We go to the beach: Wildwood, New Jersey. We were sharing this beach house with two other couples and a single guy. There was a room with two double beds and there was another room with a single bed and pull-out couch.
Rob wanted to do it while we were at the beach house, and I thought, "After all these weeks, he finally wants to get down and busy and I'm on my period." He told me, "You really should do it now because it will hurt less." He was saying if you’ve never done it before, it will hurt the least if you do it when you have your period because, "Your period, it’s like lubrication." He gave me this whole story. I was like, "Yeah but it’s gonna be messy."
He sounded real convincing and he said the hotel staff would clean it up. I was duped from the beginning. I thought it was the right thing to do, the right time to do it. Maybe not right then when I was on my period, but Rob convinced me otherwise.
We were sharing this room with other people so we were trying to do it quick and not get caught. We were doing it and the bed broke and fell to the floor. The sheets were a wreck.
Everyone else eventually walked in and the bed is half on the floor, the sheets are off and wadded up in a ball in the corner. My girlfriend was like, "Ohmigod, you finally had sex?" And I’m like, "Yeah." And I told her about the whole period thing and she’s like, "What are you dumb?" And I was like, "Yeah." She’s like, "You never have sex on your period." I was like, "Rob said it wouldn’t hurt as bad and it would be more slippery. He said it would feel better." That’s what the dude said. He also said that the senses would be heightened.
Boys will tell you anything to get you in bed. At least it was safe sex.

A SAD STORY ABOUT SOMETHING THAT MEANT NOTHING
Mary, 22

I was in a juvenile program for kids on drugs and stuff. I wasn’t on drugs. For whatever reason my mom was fine with her other kids, she just didn’t want me. She worked for the state of Oregon and, through connections, managed to get me in.
I came home for Mother’s Day weekend and my mom went off on me on how she didn’t want me there and how she wished I would have really made her Mother’s Day special by not coming home at all. She said she wished she’d never had me, just went off. I didn’t have anywhere to go. It was a small town, I was depressed and I had to get away. My older sister’s friend Tim lived nearby. I just needed somewhere to go, someone to talk to. I was 15 and he was 19.
I walked over to his house and he acted comforting, he talked to me and calmed me down. We were sitting on his bed and I was crying and everything. He just totally pulled my strings and took advantage of the situation. It happened very quickly. I’m pretty sure I heard him say he was a virgin too but I can’t be sure if he really was or if that was just part of his story to get his pants off.
Afterwards he walked me outside and told me, "You know we’re not together, right? This meant nothing." I said, "Yeah, I know," and I walked home by myself. It wasn’t exactly rape. I didn’t want to do it but, then again, I never said yes. And I wasn’t expecting us to be together or fall in love just because we had sex. I wasn’t one of those girls but for him to say that so bluntly just sucked.
My sister was my best friend and she saw I was balling. I had gone over to Tim’s to escape but all it did was make the