The Virgin trope...What's your take?

I didn't purposely go out to write "virgin romance" with Wolf Ridge High. But since they are in high school (although they're eighteen before they have steamy sex! lol) firsts are sort of a part of the world.

I once went to a workshop on writing YA, and they said it should all be through the lens of "firsts". Even if it's their third time having sex, that's still in the realm of firsts.
Alpha Knight

I can't have my heroes be so very experienced, either. There's fumbling, misgivings, asking if she's okay after they went alpha-wolf and got way too rough with her. (Of course she likes that...)

It's funny, there's all this fetish with virginity and who you give it to, and whether it's an honor to be the one who took it. When I first had sex I didn't tell my boyfriend I was a virgin. It seems ridiculous in retrospect, but I was trying to pretend I was more experienced than I was. I thought there might be some shame in being inexperienced. (There's just shame piled everywhere on sex, isn't there?).



Sloane is also quite closed and defensive. Of course, Bo doesn't let her get comfortable and feel secure much, so despite the attraction, there's a lot of protection going on. She doesn't want to tell him she's a virgin even though she wants to have sex with him. Here's her inner monologue on the subject...

“I know you're awake.”


Lying here in my dark bedroom with a two hundred plus pound football god lying on the floor beside me has me wishing I already had my V-card punched. Because I don’t want this guy to know he’s my first.


And I do want him to be my first. He knows what he’s doing. My body responds to him.
I respond to him.


If you would’ve asked me a month ago what my type was, I never would’ve said some grease-monkey football player from the sticks who hates my guts, but there it is.
I am quickly becoming powerless around his charm.


And he does have charm. He’s not a meat-head jock. I don’t know how well he does in school, but the guy is smart. He reads people and situations. And he has this cock-sure attitude that makes him both an asshole and wildly attractive.


“Legs.” His sexy voice cuts through the darkness, goes straight to my clit, which has been buzzing and pulsing ever since the vibrator incident.


I don’t answer. We’re not doing pillow talk here. It feels far too vulnerable. Because even though I was fully dressed, I got more intimate with him than I have with any other human being.


“I know you’re awake.”


So how what's your take? Do you preferred an experienced heroine or is the virgin/ first time thing your kick? I'd love for you to reply and let me know!


Alpha Knight (Wolf Ridge High, Book 2)

SHE’S GETTING A FAKE BOYFRIEND--ME.
WHETHER SHE LIKES IT OR NOT.
The leggy car thief is trouble with a capital T.
My brother went down because of her
I need to find him before the cops do,
which means I’m not letting her out of my sight.
Anywhere the human goes, I go.
I’ll play her fake boyfriend.
Sleep in her bedroom.
Go to her prep school classes.
Take her to the homecoming dance.
I will learn all her secrets, find out all her games.
By the time I’m done with her, she’ll be sorry.
Sorry she ever set foot in our shop.
Sorry she ever met me.
Sorry she made me fall for her.