Interesting story. I'm pretty certain lots of men have memories of this sort of pathetic sham. But not so many would be courageous enough to mention it in writing. Sometimes people talk lightly about peer pressure, but it can really be poison. Merely a touch of imagination would be necessary to go beyond the urgency to impress a peer group... Taking into consideration the mobility nowadays: In five years' time, will my prestige in this group still matter?

Bunch of lies for a status soap bubble.

Makes a guy's deflowering difficult and stressful too. He's talked about everywhere how experienced he is. Then when it's really his first time, if the other person has heard that blabla, he is under enormous pressure to hide the fact that he is a virgin. I admire a boy or man who is has the courage to say: This is my first time.

Ha, I guess I know now why I never once went out with a guy from my school. Or from my age group for that matter.