A scientific look at the milestones of falling in love and losing one's virginity.

To rupture the hymen is considered to be losing one's virginity.

But you see, what is losing one's virginity?

It was not like losing one's virginity - which had been fraught with guilt and tender tears.

Cherry Healey finds out if losing one's virginity really does have a lasting impact.

Losing one's virginity is one thing, but being sent back home with a dose of the clap or something even worse is quite another.

But in areas like Beeston, they say, that has also meant learning to drink, using or selling drugs and losing one's virginity at an early age.

Right is on your side. Off you go, in the name of God, liberate the planet and show how to make love without losing one's virginity.

Losing one's virginity is one of those life-defining moments that can be intimate, exciting and nerve-wracking all rolled into one.

In its first three issues Sassy offers articles on losing one's virginity, ways to be the best kisser and what it is like to "date" a rock star.

Aside from drinking enough beer to fill Lake Erie, the great pursuit - indeed, holy grail - at AD house was losing one's virginity.

Its significance is reflected in expressions such as "saving oneself", "losing one's virginity," "taking someone's virginity" and sometimes as "deflowering."

Sooner or later, everyone got burned one way or another, either ID'd by a false-flag operation or through an operational error, and that was like losing one's virginity.

In "Biloxi Blues," adapted by Neil Simon from his autobiographical play about Army life, such familiar situations as losing one's virginity to a golden-hearted prostitute are given new life.

Although Elena has been promiscuous, she is saving herself for someone who loves her, while heavy-set Anaïs thinks it is better to lose one's virginity to a "nobody" just to get it over with.

Shoe Tree: For a lot of students, throwing a pair of shoes or flip-flops tied together into the shoe tree marks a memorable "first time" on the college campus-i.e. losing one's virginity.

Cherry Healey finds out if losing one's virginity really has a lasting impact, from a girl's first time in the back of a Fiat Panda to a man who has popped his cherry three times.

Many episodes also deal with wider social problems: AIDS awareness, racism, homophobia, sexism, gang violence, access to quality medical care, and losing one's virginity are topics, along with aging, body issues, and friendship.

"Depending on how you look at it," she said when she got into Mark's Mustang, with its rebuilt engine, "either the gypsy lied, or losing one's virginity isn't as exciting a life change as I had expected."

Codes and conventions of teen films vary depending on the cultural context of the film, but they can include proms, alcohol, illegal substances, high school, parties and all-night raves, losing one's virginity, relationships, social groups and cliques, and American pop-culture.

"Common parlance tells us that this is a time to lose one's virginity," Brother Hoagland and other administrators of Kellenberg High wrote in a letter to parents in March, warning them that the prom might be canceled unless parents stopped financing what, in effect, the school considered bacchanals.

Comparing it to losing one's virginity as an event which only happens once and is irreversible, the Wachowskis had tried to stay out of the public eye and avoided giving interviews due to fear of losing their personal privacy, fearing that they would never be able to go to a public restaurant again without being noticed and harassed as celebrities.