They say that music can stir emotional feelings and that hearing a certain song or tune can take you back to either when you first heard it, or a particularly significant moment in time. Well, I would agree with that theory, especially when the piece of music can be considered a classic. For me, that piece of music is 'Suite: Judy Blue Eyes' by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, the classic Woodstock soundtrack version.
All eight minutes eleven seconds of it that it took me to lose my virginity. OK I know that technically it only takes a nanosecond for that to happen, but that was how long the first sex lasted, well more or less. That was the song that was playing when I finally gave in to my boyfriends' promptings.
Whenever I hear that song, my mind drifts back, well they also say a girl always remembers her first time don't they and with such an iconic track as the background, any girl would remember that, wouldn't she?
Sunday, September 20
th
1970, the day I became a woman, aged just eighteen.
I'm eighteen and have been going out with my boyfriend Jonathan for six months now, he's a year older than me and a teammate of my brother at the rugby club, that's where we met. He's a hunk, just over six foot tall, wide shoulders, broad chest, fit and strong, with a gorgeous bum. Long fair hair as was the fashion in those days, with grey eyes. He was a catch, and I was determined not to lose him.
I'm a slim blonde, about five feet six inches tall, so fit under his shoulder just nicely when we walk together. I've got naturally wavy dark blonde hair that is cut chin length, in no particular style. Like Jonathan, my eyes are grey, and I have a little snub nose. I'm slim but have a pair of perky boobs that he loves to play with, and I let him play as often as he wants. They sit high and proud, with very small but sensitive dark brown nipples to cap them. A narrow waist and cheeky little bum, lead to my best feature. Long, slim, legs, a feature that I love to show off as I wear miniskirts that are as short as I can get away with. Jonathan says, they lead to heaven, that quickly turns to hell for him, as he isn't getting entrance to the pearly gates.
As I say we've been going out for about six months now, and he has been very patient with me, but at the same time letting me know he would like to go a lot further than we already have. He's very subtle and never pushy, and when I say no he backs right off. I think he's playing the patient game, but also that he loves me and doesn't want to push things too far or too fast meaning I would want to break up with him. I am conscious that he needs more, I want to give him more, lots lots more. Plus there are more than a few girls who are sniffing around him who would have no hesitation of giving him what he wants.
We've had lots of kissing, and as I've said, I let him play with my boobs anytime and for as long as he wants. He loves to suck and play with them. I've gone as far as letting him finger me, that has now progressed to mutual masturbation. I've learnt how to make him cum and love the feeling when he releases his load over my hands. I let him finger me, but that is as far as we, no I, have gone. He's brought me to an orgasm more than once, so I know about things like that.
Once he tried to go down on me, but I wouldn't let him, and to be fair, he didn't try and get me to suck him off, he wanted to have oral sex with me, but I knew that eventually, he would want me to do the same. Urgh, yuk, no way.
We've played that teenage game, where he tries to go a bit further, and I refuse, so he backs off, then tries it again, and I still refuse, then after a third attempt, I give in. I mean, back then it was all part of the game of growing up, a boy tried things, the girl refused, so the boy eased off, then tried again, we all knew that was the game we were playing, the boy showing interest, the girl not wanting to appear too easy. But the thing was we all knew the rules of the game. And if a girl said no, it meant no.
Let's face it I'd have been annoyed if he hadn't tried things on, like any teenage girl, I wanted to feel loved and pretty and that he fancied me.
I'd wanted to go further for a while, I just felt the time was right, that I was in a serious relationship and that it wouldn't be just a quick fuck and a notch on his bedpost. I'm sure he could have many on there if he'd not been faithful and patient with me, waiting until I was ready.
It had been a crap weekend for Jonathan so far, his idol and to quote him, 'The greatest guitarist in rock history and one of the most influential people in rock and roll, after Buddy Holly, no more than Buddy Holly' had died on Friday. Jonathan had been devastated when I met him after school. At the time I wasn't into rock and Hendrix just didn't do it for me, but I could tell that he had something different about him as a musician. I was more into Motown, James Taylor and Carol King that's all.
So it's now Sunday, and I've made up my mind, I'm going to have sex with Jonathan, I'm determined to do it, I'm just not sure I'll be brave enough to actually go all the way, that I might back out at the last minute.
As a good Catholic girl, I was ready for Mass but had had a massive argument with mum over what I was wearing. I knew I daren't push it to wear my favourite patched suede miniskirt. It is so short that it only just covers my bum, but Jonathan loves it so much. So I had opted for a full-length denim skirt that buttoned all the way down the front, so I could control how much leg I was showing, for Mass it would be none, but after, well the buttons were all going to be open.
Mum for some reason didn't like that fact it was denim, so we had a stand-off, Mum saying denim wasn't proper for Mass, whilst I said it was and refused to change, eventually, I won as we would have been late for the service. I'd paired it with a cheesecloth blouse and no bra, my brother nearly freaked out when he noticed that. Mum either hadn't noticed or had decided to let things pass. I'd played with going with no panties as well, but that was a step too far.