Additional Details Best Answer - Chosen by Asker There are many ways to have sexual contact without having full intercourse, from holding hands and "whispering sweet nothings" to caressing (touching) and kissing (a form of oral sex). More than this, every sexual experience has more than one level of reality. More than just a physical experience, sex experience is also mental, emotional, psychological and spiritual. Sexual contacts fire up ones imagination, and can change how you feel about others, and how you feel about yourself. Where being virgin gives someone ideas about their own innocence and purity, or their own fitness for relationships, sexual contacts can have a very negative impact on their sense of self worth and self confidence. Every sexual contact makes a tiny, barely visible change in a person. Where someone has practiced discipline and restraint of their sexual feelings for a long time, this change appears as an upheaval (the world is turned upside down). With these points in view, you perhaps can see why sexual contacts are not always satisfying. More than this, no two sexual experiences are ever the same (not even with the same partner, same place, same time, etc.). For this reason we may think of sex as unpredictable...and therefore, dangerous. The result may be discomfort, dissatisfaction, disease, or unwanted pregnancy. In strictly physical terms, a girl loses her virginity when her hymen is broken. The hymen (also called the "maidenhead" and "the cherry") is a small piece of tissue that is