How to feel better about your "first time"

Dan Savage of Savage Love has kindly posted a wonderful column on readers' nightmarish first sex experiences. Check it out here.

Some of them are pretty funny (one of my favourites is the guy who thought he was doing his lady friend, but was having sex with the couch cushions instead).

And wonderful company for those of us who had a hardly stellar first-time experience (mine was when I was 15, a whopping two minutes of staring at the ceiling with my skirt pushed up to my hips and thinking, "This is hardly worth it" after which he accused me -- for months... and even years -- of not being a virgin since I didn't bleed. Ass).