How to Lose Your Virginity

This is not the beginning of a story about my virginity. I first met Therese Shechter in a hotel room. We were in San Francisco both attending a sexual health conference. She was in my hotel room to talk about virginity. Not with me, but with my friend and colleague Heather Corinna, the founder of Scarleteen, someone who has more than a few things to say on the topic.

Shechter is the director of How to Lose Your Virginity, a documentary having its US premiere Sunday evening in New York, and...