agree, however, that people who masturbate or have other kinds of sex play - including fingering, or touching a sex partner’s genitals with the hands - are still virgins. Some also believe that people have to give consent to lose their virginity - that virgins who are raped, for example, do not lose their virginity. Many people also believe that people who have sex with the same sex can lose virginity through oral or anal intercourse. Most people agree that women and men lose their virginity the first time they have penile-vaginal intercourse. There are many different beliefs about what it means to be a virgin.

If you use a dildo, does that mean that you’ve lost your virginity? Are you still a virgin if you’ve used a dildo?