Since the time when I was able to understand "sex" in general, I've heard many elders say that it is a sin to have sex before marriage. But in my family, my parents never once told me not to have sex until I was married. In fact, in my eighteen years of existence, I never once talked about "sex" with my parents or other family members before. And I don't think that because of my lack of communication with my parents about sex, it has made me any different of a person from anyone else. People have different beliefs of sex in whether one should have sex or not have sex. It does not make one strange or odd if they do not have the same beliefs as others.
             Sex never seemed like a horrible thing to me. I first learned of sexual intercourse in my Sex-Ed class in the sixth grade. I learned about how a boy and girl grew to become a man and woman and also how reproduction occurs among human beings. I realized that it was part of living and that reproduction was necessary to keep the world growing. And as I was growing up, I was never attracted to anyone of the opposite sex until I was in middle school. But at a young age, I never thought about having sexual intercourse with the person I was attracted to. It was just a crush I had and that was it.
             But as I got older, I learned more about sex. I didn't enroll into another Sex-Ed class or anything. My knowledge of sexual intercourse grew through my conversation with friends, watching television, the internet, and others. And with me getting older, sex came into my thoughts more than before. My hormones grew and I started having more crushes of the opposite sex. And I never had a girlfriend till I was in my last year of high school. This girlfriend of mine was my first for everything. She was my first date, my first kiss, and my first love. And the both of us didn't talk or think about sexual intercourse until after we had been together for almost...