When is a "normal" age to lose your virginity?

[goosefats]

Name changed because this is something I would not like to follow me around on here, if you please

I was having a little Xmas Zoom call with one of my female friends this evening and we got a little drunk on our (individual) Pinot Grigios, and things started getting a little personal. We began talking about our first times, to which I told her I had sex for the first time at 15. She immediately had a " Oh my GOD, Goosefats!" response which I thought was a little mad as I figured that was a normal age.
According to her, it was far too young and I'm wondering what the general consensus is?

Obviously it's a personal choice, just to preface! I'm just curious as to what age you think is appropriate and what age you'd have a strong response to Relatively light-hearted thread, and please be kind to my friend, she's salt of the Earth but relatively sheltered (bless her heart!). x

@StarlightLady

Amen to that! You are spot on in my opinion.

I don't like 'lost virginity' either, it seems rather careless to not know where it went. 'My first sexual experience' maybe?

So people didn’t like my alternative wording, OK, it was clumsy off the cuff use of language, I can live with that. So, if we have to live with an expression, can we collectively come up with a positive, equality based non manspeak phrase for going forwards sexually?

I repeat, nothing is lost.

In the mid 1990s in my MC girls school, there was definitely a "right" time to have first time sex.

One girl in our year had it at 13 (not sure it was entirely consensual) and she was talked about for a while.

Then around 15/16 with a "proper" boyfriend was the goal. In fact having a boyfriend was the pinnacle of achievement apart from getting into a good university.

We were definitely aspiring to have it all (but also needed to be thin too . I achieved only the thin goal by virtue of a nasty illness in sixth form).

I was 17 and DH was 16 and it was with each other.

A girl in my year was 12 when she lost her virginity. Sp she told us anyway.She was in foster care.

She then went on to have an affair with our geography teacher, who got fired. I heard she had 6 kids by her mid 20s (not to the teacher).

My own DD is 12 and you just don't think about it at the time do you, until you have your own daughter

I'd say mid to late teens is average?

I lost mine at 17.

Where did it go?