The Ambiguity of “Having Sex”: The Subjective Experience of Virginity Loss in the United States is an article written by Laura M. Carpenter and can be found in The Journal of Sex Research. In the article the author investigates and analyzes group and individual responses to questions concerning sex and virginity loss. The article also contains many statistics recorded throughout the investigation, which allow the reader to obtain a better interpretation of the responses given by the research participants.
Several different investigative techniques are used in this partic