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"It's your decision, it's your life, it's your choice"

Kim

"I was only about 13 but close to 14 when I lost my virginity. I was invited to this big party by some of the cooler girls at school and most of the people were older. It was pretty full on. I had tried alcohol before but wasn't used to it, I really didn't know how much I could handle. I drank a bottle of wine, and got really wasted really quickly. I had a bit to smoke as well, dope, and at one stage blacked out and came to under a table. It was pretty embarrassing.

Anyway towards the end of the night, I looked for a place to crash. I saw this friend of my brother's sitting in a bedroom with mattresses all over the floor, so I guessed that was where people were going to sleep. We talked for a while, not that I can remember much. I asked Alex if I could sleep by him, and he said that was sweet. We started kissing and that, then he undid my jeans, and I thought Uh oh. I doubt he wanted to have sex, I think he felt some pressure to, or whatever. I didn't say anything, I just thought it won't take long, it's easier than saying no. I didn't want to, but I didn't want to seem a geek either.

So we did it, it was really sore, I was dry , and he didn't know where to stick his dick. Anyway the condom broke. It was really awful. I wish I'd never done it like that."

Peter

"It was a first fifteen function, you know pretty typical. By the time it got to eight o clock, I was pretty rotten. My girlfriend was supposed to be meeting me at the clubrooms, and she'd kind of made me promise not to get too plastered, but well you know how things happen. Anyway at some time quite a few of the girls from school rolled in and there was this girl who I'd met at camp that year.

One of my mates suggested we head down to the causeway to roll up, so we all piled into the car, and headed down to the beach, yeah and well that was probably mistake number one, I can't remember how it started but me and this girl were sitting in the back of Andrew's car and you know one thing led to another, she reckoned it was me who made the first move, and that it was me all over her, but that's not the way I remember it.

The next thing I remember we're like on the beach and doing it, though I can't see how, not in the state I was in. Sure enough my girlfriend found me, she caught us coming back from the beach, and this girl's like crying and saying that like I forced her and stuff. After that everything seemed so unreal. Things were quite rough there for a while, but the Police ended up dropping the charges. It still feels like it happened to someone else sometimes, weird eh ?"