h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

There are so many issues to consider. For a start, the very title of the movement "True Love Waits"; does it imply in this that those who don't wait can't experience true love? There's something terribly ambiguous about 'love'. As far as I can see, one can love someone, but then later stop loving someone, or at least start loving them in a different way. Even if a relationship subsequently breaks up, hopefully at least some good will have come from it.

I agree that you wouldn't tie yourself to buying something you had never tried, but historically people have waited until marriage, and the species still exists. I didn't wait. However, I lost my virginity to another virgin, and although admittedly the first time isn't going to be great, it gets better. At least it did with me. I imagine that this should be much the case with couples who wait until they are married. However, I was not bound to my relationship - if things hadn't worked out sexually, I had the option of leaving. This isn't so much the case with married couples.

There are successes though, I suppose. My grandparents had, to all intents and purposes, an arranged marriage, and they still have sex. I know this, having at the tender age of eight asked my mother "what's KY jelly?"