This is a true story to the best of my recollection.
I was 15 when I lost my virginity. She was 15 too. My Swedish high school had a small student exchange program with a corresponding school in Norway, and I was chosen as one of four students to participate. We would stay at one Norwegian student’s home each, attend class with them, and then host that student for a week while they attended class with us at home.
The intent was that two students were boys and two were girls. And host matching would be with the same sex. I remember hoping that somehow I would wind up paired with a girl anyway because, well, because I was 15 and a walking erection. As it turned out, the Norwegian boys declined to participate so there were four Norwegian girls hosting and I was paired with a girl. Yes! Her name was Kristin.
Kristin and I did not click. She was cute and friendly and a gracious hostess but that was about it. My male co-student, Kent, got placed with a girl named Hilde and she was a bohemian beauty. Straight long raven hair, a cute little almost-button nose that led your thoughts to an adorable troll doll. And she filled out her sweaters so well. So, so well.
Hilde’s well-shaped and well-sized (not too small and not too large) breasts made the front of her cardigans and sweaters look like… like… well, I cannot come up with a good simile at the moment, because all my blood would rush from my head to my smaller head whenever I looked at her. And I had many occasions to look at her because she always seemed to be around. I was hoping she would not think I was a creep stalking her but she was so pretty that I forgot to worry and she did not seem to mind my company that much anyway.
Hilde was a wet dream come true; smart, sweet, cute, fair skin, long black hair, and very much shaped like a girl. I remember those cursed sweaters to this day. I have a thing for women wearing sweaters just because of her. She always managed to look like the softest, fluffiest, warmest, cuddliest thing in the world. I would tease her about looking like a troll doll and say that if I could, I would put her in my pocket, and she would blush.
As the entire group of eight students and a chaperone traveled by train from Norway to Sweden, at one point Hilde put a band-aid on my pant knee and wrote “Mine” on it. I could not figure out what she meant by that, but I have never been as careful making sure a band-aid stayed put as I was with that one. It gave me butterflies in my stomach but I could not for the life of me conceive that this raven-haired beauty with the sweater-covered pillows liked me. No, there had to be another answer.
The whole week in Sweden passed in the same vein, and the night before the Norwegian girls departed for home, we had a party at Kent’s house. His parents were away and us eight kids had the house to ourselves.
Somehow, early in the evening I wound up alone with Hilde in a sparsely lit room and we were talking and all of a sudden she said, “I like you,” and put a hand on my knee.
I was stunned. I had no idea what to do or to say. I was just sitting there like a fool. Then she moved forward and kissed me. We continued kissing for a while, very chaste, until the others called us to participate in the party.
After a while of socializing, Kent showed us his room, and the guy had a king-sized mattress. We were all impressed because everyone else had a twin at their respective houses.
Hilde and I found ourselves alone in Kent’s room and somehow the door ended up closed and we would not emerge for a while. And when we did, to everyone’s amusement, the window in his room was completely steamed up. But that would still be a while.
We laid on Kent’s bed and kissed and I was wondering how I could surreptitiously cop a feel.
I cannot believe that I was this inept. I had in fact bought “The Joy of Sex” about six months earlier and read it from cover to cover several times. I knew how and where to find the clitoris, and also where to feel for the G-spot and what it would feel like to the touch when I found it. But I had yet to even touch a girl’s breast.
In my defense, though, I was being kissed for the first time in my life by a girl. A girl out of my league, no less. That in itself was a giant leap for me and before long I was getting myself handful after handful of sweater-covered breast. I was in heaven.
I assure every female member of the audience that my love-making skills have improved greatly since then.
After some kissing, her hand happened to graze over my crotch and the erection that she could not have missed even if she tried. After squeezing it like a toothpaste tube for a while, I finally—thank goodness—took some initiative and unbuttoned her jeans and mumbled something along the lines of “Lemme just…” and I pulled down her fly and reached in underneath the sheer elastic of her panties and slid down.
This is another thing I will always remember. I had not even kissed a girl or touched a girl’s breasts before that night, and now my hand was sliding reverently down between Hilde’s softly curved abdomen and her almost-as-soft panty fabric. I had not touched a girl’s underwear either before then. I knew intellectually what I was going to find down there, but actually feeling it for the first time was intense enough to imprint that touch memory on my brain and my soul forever.
My fingers touched a patch of coarse hair, very much like the hair I had down there. And then came the neatest thing; there was nothing there!
I know, I know; that’s one of the more tangible differences between boys and girls and I certainly knew about it, but until that moment, I did not Know it, if that makes sense.
At about the point my… package would be sticking out, there was nothing but a gentle curve that funneled my hand in between her upper thighs.
Oh boy.
I cupped her vulva, registering the coarse hair against the palm on my hand and I was trying not to soil my underwear. Her outer labia completely covered her inner labia so it was just one (coarsely) smooth, warm mound.
And then the absolutely best thing ever in my short life happened; her outer labia parted and my fingers slipped into the hot slick wetness I had read about and heard about and never fully understood. I was beginning to understand now.
My fingers were almost falling into her, giving me vertigo, because there was no resistance once her labia parted. It was amazing. It was like seeing my first sunrise over Grand Canyon one crisp morning in January.
Oh boy oh boy oh boy.
A racing heartbeat or three after slipping in, everything slipped into place (pardon the pun) in my head. I was touching a girl whose body was ready for mine and I fingered her gently and found her clitoris and made her come and I continued to finger her and finger her and she was silent but she kept on shivering periodically in a way that I came to associate with her coming.
My fingers were pruny when I withdrew them from her and they smelled so good! I had never ever smelt anything like it. It is a scent, no, a perfume, that penetrates straight into the male reptile brain.
And then Kent’s parents came home and said it was time to go to bed because our guests were leaving in the early morning. Hilde and I barely had time to find a private space to say goodbye. We were both so sad because we had just “found” each other. We made plans right then and there that she and Kristin would come to stay with us in my house over Easter break in a couple of months.
We wrote romantic puppy-dog-love letters to each other and spent hours on the phone weekly. At that time there was one phone per household so we were both sitting and talking where the entire family could listen in if they wanted, so there was no raunchy business. I am grateful for my now clouded memory of those discourses; those sappy letters and calls would undoubtedly be unbearably embarrassing to peruse now.
Both my parents and Hilde’s parents had a pretty good idea of what she and I were planning. They all employed a don’t-ask-don’t-tell policy and just let us do as we willed. My mother did have the “condom talk” with me before Hilde arrived and I remember driving across town on my moped to a now-defunct gas station and buying a 10-pack of condoms. I was embarrassed but no amount of embarrassment would stop me from finally getting laid. This was before AIDS and everybody’s main concern was pregnancy.
Night could not come fast enough the day Hilde and Kristin arrived and got settled in our guest bedroom.
Once the house was dark and quiet, Hilde snuck stealthily into my room in a nightgown not doing anything worthwhile hiding the soft pillows on her chest. I finally got to undress a girl and see her in all her glory.
Hilde was shy and for some reason insecure about her nudity, so she jumped quickly underneath the covers on my bed. From what I saw, though, and what I remember, she was magnificent with no clothes on.
I dove in after her and we kissed and made out and I blew in her ear and I sucked on her breasts and my hand traveled down to the steaming heat I remembered so well.
The hot slickness was just as welcoming and heavenly as I remembered. For some reason that I cannot remember, we were never in a hurry to escalate from one activity to the naturally succeeding one. I was just happy fingering her, it is such a nice thing after all, and kissing her and sucking on her breasts. And she shivered more than once as I did that.
Even the coming days, when we were alone in the house, was she as quiet as a mouse. At the time it seemed natural to me because I don’t make much noise either, but I have learned the power and allure of a vocal woman in bed. But then and there, I was with the love goddess Venus herself. Or, at least, her 15-year-old sister.
I withdrew my fingers from her pussy and was treated again with her scent. It was almost a religious experience for me. We were laying stretched out on our sides, kissing, with her upper leg over my hip.
Serendipitously I happened to be positioned with the head of my dick aimed straight at the entrance of her pussy, and when I felt the heat of her against me, I instinctively reached with my upper hand for her hip and pulled her hip towards me.
Still no plan here, folks, I just went with what felt natural.
I heard her gasp as I pulled her towards me, her eyes widened and looked straight into mine and all of a sudden I registered the heat radiating at the head of my dick as much more intense.
I had no experience with which to compare to, so I was not sure what was going on. That happened another time too when I accidentally entered the wrong hole with a different girlfriend, but that is another story. I can be very dense at times.
I did not know that the head of my dick was already inside her. My dick was so hard and the skin so taut that I had very little sense of pressure. I was feeling mostly heat.
I knew I was very close to her pussy, though, because there was something really warm right there. Much closer than I should be. I knew there was a possibility of impregnating her just by showering her lips with my sperm, so I had to be careful.
But you only live once. And I was a horny 15-year-old, and I just wanted to see what actually touching her wetness with my dick would feel like. I promised myself that I would just touch her and then put on a condom before continuing. That is what I told myself.
So before Hilde had time, after her gasp, to inform me of where I real position, I pulled her hip towards me even further, you know, just to feel her. I was overwhelmed with emotions and sensations and I had no idea that the tip of me was already lodged inside her.
I pulled her hip towards me and my eyes widened to match hers. Instead of pushing against coarse hair and hot, wet slickness, I slid further in. At that moment I realized exactly where I was positioned and there was no stopping my hand pulling that round hip towards me even further.
I felt some coarse hair, true, but not against the tip of my dick, I felt it against the sides of my shaft! And that sensation kept registering lower and lower on the shaft as I sank deeper and deeper into her. And above that sensation, I was held and guided by a slick softness I could not believe was of earthly origin. Surely, this was what an angel would feel like. At that moment, Hilde was an angel to me.
Oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy.
I will be eternally grateful for not shooting my load right then and there. I maintained enough presence of mind that when I was as deep as the position allowed, I stayed for a moment, moved my hand from her hip to her cheek, and kissed her deeply. I know I was risking her becoming pregnant, but I am still proud of the boy I was at that moment.
I cupped Hilde’s cheek and I kissed her deeply while staying fast inside her. I believe that act shaped me as a lover all by itself. After I broke the kiss, I gently pulled out and proceeded to put on a condom and enter her again, but that is not part of the story of my first time. No, that is the story of my second time. And there were going to be many times after that one.
But this is the story of my first time, and I remember my first time as sliding into my girl with sensations exploding like fireworks in my body. I remember my first time as her gasp and her widening eyes, and that single, deep kiss. I remember my first time as parting her below and above, entering her at both ends, possessing a female for the first time in my life.
“The Joy of Sex” taught me what sex was about, but Hilde taught me what it felt like to be inside a woman and how she will change you just by embracing you.
That night, I fell in love with the act of entering a woman and experiencing her rather than just climaxing in her. Too many of my friends only learned the latter lesson.
That is how I was shaped as a lover and that is how I enjoy and experience women to this day.
Wherever you are today, Hilde, I am eternally grateful for you writing “Mine” on a band-aid on a knee on a train traveling east on a day roughly 30 years ago. Thank you for everything.


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Hej då! Tack för sist. I didn’t know you were Swedish. I spent a year in Stockholm about 15 years ago.
Anyway. Enough of showing off. This piece is beautiful. Amazing. Moving. And, for a woman, so very educational. I want to thank you for sharing your experience with us, but that sounds so trite.
S0 I’ll just say thank you, and if you listen very closely you can hear everything that lies behind.
Tack ska du ha, själv. Kul att höra lite svenska mitt på dagen utan varning. Det värmer.
This is a nice coincidence; I was living in Stockholm 15 years ago. I would be moving to the U.S. not long after, but there is a possibility we sat in the same subway car or squeezed past each other in Gamla Stan.
Världen är så mycket mindre än vi tror.
I wrote this when a very dear friend idly asked about my first time. I thought I’d give her come context and it turned out to be a bit longer than I anticipated. Not that I minded, it was such a good stroll down memory lane.
I am listening closely, Oatmeal Girl, and I am nodding my head in silence.
Thank you.
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