I (22F) am tired of people looking down on me for my inexperience /u/sleighisland Sex

I can’t help but feel like people look down on me for my inexperience when I explain to them that I have only been with one person and not more people at my age. Throwaway because privacy.

A good amount of my friends are on the double digits of partners by now and I feel like they pity me when I talk to them about sexual experiences as a whole.

They’ve somewhat mentioned in passing that sexual inexperience at our age is embarrassing and that people should have a handful of partners by now. They also always talk about it like I don’t know what I’m doing during sexual acts or just word it in a way that I’m a kid. People I have tried to get intimate with say similar things or act like they are into ‘my innocence’ or treat me like I don’t know what I’m doing so I’m still single lmao.

I was raised by strict parents so I didn’t have sex until I was 18 and moved out for college. I was with that person for a while before we broke up over just dumb college kid things. I never really got a chance to have a handful of partners. I do want to have more partners because I just want to explore other people while I’m youngish.

I can’t get out of the thoughts that people look down on inexperienced people all the time or people trying to fetish me. I’ve considered lying about my experience level to people because of it but I’m not deceitful but I’m tired of being treated this way. What do I do?

I can’t help but feel like people look down on me for my inexperience when I explain to them that I have only been with one person and not more people at my age. Throwaway because privacy.

A good amount of my friends are on the double digits of partners by now and I feel like they pity me when I talk to them about sexual experiences as a whole.

They’ve somewhat mentioned in passing that sexual inexperience at our age is embarrassing and that people should have a handful of partners by now. They also always talk about it like I don’t know what I’m doing during sexual acts or just word it in a way that I’m a kid. People I have tried to get intimate with say similar things or act like they are into ‘my innocence’ or treat me like I don’t know what I’m doing so I’m still single lmao.

I was raised by strict parents so I didn’t have sex until I was 18 and moved out for college. I was with that person for a while before we broke up over just dumb college kid things. I never really got a chance to have a handful of partners. I do want to have more partners because I just want to explore other people while I’m youngish.

I can’t get out of the thoughts that people look down on inexperienced people all the time or people trying to fetish me. I’ve considered lying about my experience level to people because of it but I’m not deceitful but I’m tired of being treated this way. What do I do?