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KJ, Rose, Jenny, Chris, Karen, Ben, Lisa, Deborah, Graham, Danny, Michelle T, Claire, Shantelle, Sarah, and Ricki mention regret
Have you ever had a problem using contraception?
“Now we’ve ended up in the situation where maybe looking back on it I wouldn’t have wanted to be in”
How did you know you were ready to lose your virginity?
“To be honest at the time you’re not thinking are you ready or not, you're just thinking you wanna do it.”
Have you ever been unfaithful?
“I was away from home and I got in a situation where I was a bit worse for wear and my friend was worse for wear and I’d always had a little bit of a crush on him…”
How did you feel when you found out you were pregnant?
“I knew I had done something wrong, or I felt I had done something wrong. ”
Have you ever slept with more than one person at the same time?
“You know, there’s always someone being left out, and unfortunately it was me. They seemed to enjoy each other’s company a hell of a lot more than mine.”
How did you know you were ready to lose your virginity?
“I wasn’t the maturest of people when I was 18.”
Have you ever experienced awkwardness after sex?
“It was awkward in as much as it was uncomfortable and borderline painful but not in a good way”
How did you feel when you found out you were pregnant?
“I don’t know any woman that actually only buys 1 pregnancy test; you always buy at least 2, because you always think that the first one’s wrong”
Have you ever had an open relationship?
“I’ve had open relationships before. Um… sometimes they work, sometimes they don’t... ”
How did you feel when you found out you were pregnant?
“It was just wrong timing. Completely wrong timing.”
How did you know you were ready to lose your virginity?
“I do have regrets because, you know, I always fantasised about this knight in shining armour…”
How did you know you were ready to lose your virginity?
“These days it’s old to lose your virginity at 20, but when I was younger it just seemed right to do.”
“It was a bit of a joke for me to lose my virginity... and you know, it wasn’t the way I wanted it to happen”
How did you know you were ready to lose your virginity?
“I wasn’t quite ready for it to happen then, and you know, I regretted the way it did happen.”
Has sex ever meant something different to you and your sexual partner?
“I was out at G-A-Y bar, as you do, you know enjoying myself, having a few drinks, and this beautiful lady came over to me and started talking to me...”
“The next morning she quickly rushed out of bed and was like throwing my clothes at me. ”
“I don't really feel that I knew my own feelings or what i wanted out of a relationship at that time. Very, very young and I just feel that I wish i had waited a year or so”
“I don’t think he had any form of sexual education ‘cos he didn’t get it in the right place …”
“I had drunken, unprotected sex once…”
“...you like them as a person so when they give you a lift home and drop you off and that's it - you feel a bit used…”
Have you ever slept with more than one person at the same time?
“I found myself focusing on one person and then another and the other.”
Have you ever had a Sexually Transmitted Infection?
“ I went home and then he text me and said he was HIV positive and to be honest it shook my world and turned it upside down for a second. ”