Two weeks in August my parents were on a vacation, and during these two weeks the relationship reached a climax. Several times she stopped by the house in the morning. All of these morning visits resulted in very passionate petting in bed. My parents left town for the weekend and I had a party. As the night progressed we ended up in the bedroom. We started petting, but I could see this wasn't enough for me. I started to undress her very slowly until she was in the nude. I undressed quickly and we began to neck. She was beginning to breathe heavily.
I rolled on top of her and slowly started to insert my penis into her vagina. She
was startled at first, but by then it was too late. I achieved orgasm,
and rolled off completely exhausted. She was a bit upset at first,
but that soon passed. Neither of us had any guilt feelings in respect
to our act and our sexual life continued on a high scale of action.
This was my first experience with sexual intercourse and I found it
to be most enjoyable.
I lived with my boyfriend for the length of time my parents were
gone last summer. He was in his mid-twenties and I had just
graduated from high school. My parents were on vacation,
therefore giving me the run of the house for six weeks. My
boyfriend moved in for the entire period of time my parents were
gone, on my invitation. Before he moved in we had not been
involved with each other sexually at all, he regarded himself as my
big brother which I did not at all.
By telling him that I was alone
for a month and a half, I made it clear that I wanted him to live
with me. During the day both of us worked and at night we would
be at home. Right after work he and I would always do something-
shopping, swimming, or bicycling-whatever it was, we would do it
together. The sleeping arrangement started off with me in my room
and him in my parent's room but it progressed with both of us
sleeping in the nude in the king-size bed in the master bedroom.
The majority of adolescents like and respect their parents, though they do not
regard them as liberal in their attitudes toward sexual behavior among adolescents
(Sorensen, 1973, p. 63, 78). A minority of parents leave their teenagers with the
impression that they at least tacitly encourage sexual permissiveness; others are very
proscriptive even when they are absent from home.
Last year was the first time in my life that my mother and father
ever let me stay at home alone. I had to make them a promise that
no fellow would go within a block radius of my home. None ever did.
Her parents, in a spirit of confidence, left us alone at their cabin
with the information that they wouldn't return until early the next
morning. This fact in itself was enough to stimulate both of us to
the point of spending the evening in bed together.
The Automobile, Parking, and Intimate Encounters
Use of cars for dating increases the teenager's dating situations, opportunities,
and problems. The automobile provides almost unlimited freedom and scant adult
supervision. The automobile is no recent appendage to high school dating, although
greater availability of the family's automobiles, or the ownership of automobiles by
large numbers of teenagers, is a contemporary aspect of the situation. An estimated
one and a half million teenagers in the US own automobiles. The automobile was an
appendage of adolescent dating even in "the olden days." The threat which the
automobile presented to anxious parents in the 1920s is suggested by the fact that of
thirty girls brought before the juvenile court in twelve months preceding September 1,
1924, in Middletown charged with "sex crimes," nineteen were listed as having
committed the offense in an automobile (Lynd and Lynd, 1929, p. 258). The
automobile appeared as a potential enemy of home and society. Today, 20 percent of
adolescents report the automobile as the place of first coitus (Sorensen, 1973, p. 193).
The parent generation may see the automobile as a threat in adolescent dating;
the adolescent sees the lack of an automobile as a greater problem.