{"id":98820,"date":"2019-06-24T15:38:14","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T13:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/06\/24\/i-wanted-sex-on-my-terms-and-it-was-readers-on-the-joy-of-losing-your-virginity-in-your-30s\/"},"modified":"2019-06-24T15:38:14","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T13:38:14","slug":"i-wanted-sex-on-my-terms-and-it-was-readers-on-the-joy-of-losing-your-virginity-in-your-30s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=98820","title":{"rendered":"&#039;I wanted sex on my terms, and it was&#039;: readers on the joy of losing your virginity in your 30s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our article about later-in-life virgins generated a huge response \u2013 much of it from readers who had finally found love, or started having sex, in their 30s or later. From the woman who lost her virginity six months ago, to the thirtysomething who no longer feels alone, here is what you told us\u2022 Later-in-life virgins \u2013 \u2018At my age, it becomes a red flag\u2019When Preeta read, in last week\u2019s Guardian, about Jim from East Sussex \u2013 who, at 35, had never been kissed and was considering paying for sex to lose his virginity \u2013 she could have been reading about her husband. She read the paragraph aloud to Owen. \u201cThe resemblance was uncanny,\u201d Owen says.When Preeta and Owen met, they were in their 30s and neither of them had had sex before. In August, they will have been married five years. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2019\/jun\/24\/i-wanted-sex-on-my-terms-and-it-was-readers-on-the-joy-of-losing-your-virginity-in-your-30s\" target=\"_blank\">&#039;I wanted sex on my terms, and it was&#039;: readers on the joy of losing your virginity in your 30s<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our article about later-in-life virgins generated a huge response \u2013 much of it from readers who had finally found love, or started having sex, in their 30s or later. From the woman who lost her virginity six months ago, to the thirtysomething who no longer feels alone, here is what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}