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If a boy wants you to do something, and you don’t want to—you know what I mean—just say ‘I don’t want to.’ When he says why not, you say, ‘Because I don’t want to.’ You keep answering ‘Because I don’t want to,’ and he can’t argue with that. There’s nothing to grab on to.
Big Edie’s advice on keeping my virginity, or at the very least, not being coerced into doing anything I didn’t want to do. Although the advice came a few years too late to guard my virginity, and at that time there was rarely anything I didn’t want to do, it has been surprisingly effective in a multitude of situations, sexual and otherwise.
