How to Stay a Virgin

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Choosing to remain a virgin, until marriage, is a personal decision for either sex. Once you have come to a well thought out decision, do not waver from it nor allow anyone to talk you out of it.

Steps

1. Learn to respect yourself, and your body. Just as you would not want to share your car with everyone, the same applies to your body.
   
   
2. Attend parties and functions. Interact with all sexes, but if you see that couples are pairing off and heading into bedrooms, it is time for you to head for home. If you have gone there with someone, or met someone while there, explain to them that you have chosen to save yourself for marriage. No further explanation is necessary.Respect yourself, and others will respect you. If someone laughs or makes fun of you, just turn your back and ignore it.
3. Keep meeting and dating. Do not be desperate, but don't feel you need to remain alone. A good night kiss, a hug, or holding hands with a person you enjoyed being with is quite appropriate.
4. Recognize that many people brag about how many sexual relations they have had, but realize that not all 'brags' are truthful.
5. Remember, just as you have decided on virginity until marriage, there is also someone else out there of the opposite sex that has made the same decision.
6. Remain steadfast and never waver. Allow your wedding night to be an experience like no other. Give yourselves to each other, and know that you have made the correct decision.
7. Don't be alone with the opposite sex in places that might be easy to have sex. Ex: In a bedroom of an empty house and no one will be home for a long time, hotels, a car in a secluded area, and etc.
8. Plan constructed dating and in public places. If you don't plan anything constructive, then you guys will probably just do the most obvious, make out.
9. Don't go too far when making out. You can't be tempted with what you haven't tried.
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    Knowing that you are virgin saves you a lot of a stress. A moment of pleasure is not worth the stress of worrying whether or not you are pregnant & facing the possibility of abortion, giving up your child, telling your parents, boyfriend, STDs, and etc. How much is your pleasure worth? In fact, how much are you worth?
11. The most important thing is to make a decision before you are tested, because if you have not set limits for yourself, then you will do what feels right at the time. That may be a decision that you will regret later.

Tips

• Make sure that your decision came from long hours of really thinking about it. This way, you will be able to remain firm when someone attempts to talk you out of it.
• Know in your heart that your decision is for the best. Look forward to one day meeting and marrying someone who feels as you do.
• You can buy a purity ring, which symbolizes your vow to God (if you believe in Him) and yourself to stay pure until marriage. When someone tempts you, just look at your finger with the ring and remember the promise. It is usually worn on the ring finger and when you get married it gets replaced by the wedding ring.

Warnings

• Understand the difference between displays of affection and actual intercourse. Saving your virginity does not mean that you need to abstain from all displays of emotion. Just make it known from the onset that it will go no further, as you have decided to remain a virgin until marriage. You might very well be surprised to hear that they feel the same way.
• Stay sober! According to a 1999 study published by The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, teens who drink are seven times more likely and those who use drugs are five times more likely to have sex than those who do not. In a 2002 survey conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation, almost one-third of sexually active young people age 15-24 said they had "done more" sexually than they had planned while drinking or using drugs.
• Don't publish that you're a virgin. Virginity is a personal thing and should only be disclosed to people you completely trust. You can be made fun of if you're not careful. You need to trust the person before telling them. If he/she has earned your trust then, and only then can you proceed.
• Choosing not to have sex until marriage is a personal decision, and as such others may think differently about the matter. Try not to be judgmental. What is right for you may not be right for someone else. Remember that even as you have the freedom to abstain, someone else has the freedom to choose to have sex before marriage.
• Recognize that your mind may change, and thus you need to stay informed. Even if you choose to abstain, research STD transmission and birth control methods.
• The choice to be a virgin will make you a beginner at sex when the actual wedding night approaches. Therefore it is a good thing to not have too high expectations on your first time. Practice makes perfect.