My father paid for me to lose my virginity to a Spanish waitress when I was 16. It's ruined my life... and means I can't find a loving relationship

My father paid for me to lose my virginity to a Spanish waitress when I was 16. It's ruined my life..

. and means I can't find a loving relationship By SEBASTIAN SOUTHBROOK Published: 01:58, 29 November 2024 | Updated: 02:00, 29 November 2024 e-mail 13 shares View comments Last summer I was on location with some work colleagues. We had just finished six months' research on a new archaeological dig.

At the 'wrap' party we all ended up back at my apartment, where the drinks flowed. There were ten of us, a fairly even mix of men and women, most of us in our 50s, and as the night tipped over into the small hours, the conversation turned to the salty subject of our sex lives. Then some bright spark suggested going round the room and asking when we all lost our virginity.

There were the usual tales: drunken fumbles under piles of coats at parties and rushed couplings on the neighbour's sofa while babysitting. Then it was my turn. 'I lost my virginity aged 16 to a beautiful older Spanish girl on the last night of a holiday in Ibiza,' I said.

'We'd gone for a midnight swim and then afterwards, with the moonlight reflecting on our warm, naked bodies, and the waves pulsing on the shoreline in time to our racing hearts, we made love on the sand.' The room went silent, as it always did when I told this story. I'd won.

The men in the audience declared me 'a lucky b*****d', while the women wistfully said that's how they would have loved their first time to be. Yet I chose to leave out the r.