I'm a big believer in the idea that things will happen when they should, not when you want them to happen, and that if you psychoanalyze things or worry about them or try to make them happen way too soon they won't.
Sometimes I've gotten sex when I've least expected it and I wasn't even planning on it or anything like that.
You know yourself better than any of us do.
If you want to have sex with someone while you're in a relationship, date some men or women and have sex when you're in a committed relationship with a caring partner.
If you just want to have sex with the next hot person that comes along and get it over with do that because you want to.
If you want to have sex with that person you’re friends with who you wrote about, have sex with them.
If you want to wait until you’re a certain age, do this since you want to.
Our society has some fucked up views on gender and sexuality and you should do what’s right for you and because it's what YOU want to do.
There's nothing wrong with doing any of these things or you could do a combination of the two like how some people will date someone and decide not to have sex with them and then after they break up/stop seeing each other they’ll have lustful sex with the first hot person that comes along who wants sex, or they’ll go out and have a drunken 1 night stand.
Your first time will probably be awkward, you might be REALLY nervous, and it may even be funny in some ways.
I do happen to believe that people do hype up the FIRST TIME way too much and this is how people get very disappointed by it.
I lost both of my virginities (to a woman and a man at separate times, I'm bisexual) to people who were strangers and I don't regret it since it's what I wanted to do.
I will admit that I do look back with fondness to the first time I had sex with a guy since he was kind, caring, understanding, had empathy for me, and didn't go crazy on me and stalk me or say that we were "in love" when it was just casual sex.
The first time I had sex with a woman I did enjoy it and it was pleasurable but I knew that I wanted to try sex with a guy too like I had wanted.
You’re 18 so you’re still young. You’re not that old to be a virgin.
I’ve had friends who lost their virginity at 14 and some who lost it at 25 and most of the people I know who waited until they were adults at 18 were thankful since they didn’t do something like get a horrible STD, or get someone pregnant.
As for me the first time I had sex with a woman I was 19 and I met her because she went to my friend’s university and was visiting him that summer and I just sort of wound up having sex with her and my friend and some random guy watched me. I don’t care about this.
I am however glad though that I only masturbated her, used a rider’s crop on her (we visited a sex toy store that day with my friend) and gave her oral sex as sex instead of fucking her without a condom like she wanted me to do. I could be a dad and taking care of a kid now instead of writing this post.
She wound up having sex with my friend who watched us have sex later that same night and I really don’t care about it but I did get annoyed at how she wound up lying about dangerous sex she’d had with other people when she hadn’t done that at all. I also didn’t like her stalking me and saying how we were going out, or how I was her boyfriend or how we were "in love" when we’d just agreed mutually beforehand that whatever we did or didn’t do that it would be it and we’d just go our separate ways. I look back in amusement at all of this now; but at the time I got annoyed at how immature she was and how she lied about things and clearly had issues. She wasn't a virgin but I dunno what her problem was.
The first time I had sex with a guy, I was 22 and I'd moved away from home. I picked him up when we were both drunk (I joke that this is the night I discovered my bi-dar since he is bisexual too) from a mixed crowd gay bar and we had oral sex and jacked off each other in his car and it was one of the most fun, pleasurable, intense, powerful, and comic moments ever! It was funny because, well I somehow KNEW I’d be having sex with a guy that night and I did bring condoms with me and at the time I never carried them at all.
I’d always wanted to lose my virginity to a guy in a random hook up and have sex in public and that’s EXACTLY what we did! I did keep my wits about me though and even though I was drunk I wasn’t so drunk that I was forced into doing anything that I didn’t want to do and we’d talked about how if either of us did something or wanted to do something that the other person didn’t want saying no sorry I don’t want to do that or I don’t like what you’re doing was fine. When he wanted to get us a hotel room I said well you can get one for yourself if you don’t want to drive home (as he’d been drinking) but I don’t want to have sex there. I even used a condom since I lived in an area where there was a big syphilis outbreak.
I gave him a kiss back at the bar, thanked him, and I wanted to kiss him in public but we didn’t do that.
Looking back I'm glad that things turned out this way since at the time I was closeted and I probably would have either had sex with a guy in a public bathroom, in a park, or in an adult bookstore as these things sometimes happen when you're young and you grew up in an area where everyone's closeted.
I still talk to him to this day and he was supposed to be a hook up but we became friends.