I've read through all the past Biographies and noticed there was only one submission from a woman. I thought I'd take it upon myself to write a second.

I was first introduced to sex when I moved to a new town at the age of 5. I met a little girl from around the corner, and we instantly became friends. One day we were sitting in her front yard trying to think of something to do, when she asked me if I wanted to "hump." Not knowing what she was talking about, I said "Okay, what is it?" She took me behind the bushes in the front yard and asked me if I wanted to be the boy or girl. Confused by the question, I said "the girl." She told me to lie down. I did. She got on top of me and started thrusting her hips against my thigh. I still didn't get it. (Though eventually I did.)

I started masturbating at around age 8 or 9. At that point I wasn't aware what a clitoris was, let alone that I had one. I had sexual feelings, but I never really knew how to ease them. See, I was friends with a girl who was about 5 years older than me. She was more of a sister than anything else. I've known her my entire life. She had started to tell me stories -- very explicit stories. I think she was just expressing her fantasies to me through them. Anyway, in these stories the characters always ended up having sex. I knew what it was -- the mechanics of it, anyway. I'm not sure what actually gave me the idea to try and mimic the act on my own. I just remember late nights rummaging through the house looking for phallus-shaped objects. I was under the impression that penetration was the only way to derive pleasure from my vagina. I used everything from candles to the handles of screwdrivers. It felt nice -- just subtle tingling, nothing really intense.

At about age 10 I had a friend who would rub her genitals against the hard plastic nose of a giant stuffed Yogi Bear I had. I tried that, too, but never got much out of it. Perhaps I was using the wrong angle. I did, however, incorporate it in to my masturbation method: I would insert whatever instrument I was using and then straddle the bear and kind of ride it, I guess. Things felt a little better in this position.

I never got that wet; instead I used spit or water as a lubricant. I usually got sore from running dry. I guess it was around age 11 that I discovered my clitoris. I still didn't know how to use it, or even really what it was, but I found that if I rubbed it hard I would produce my own lubricant. The down side was that it was painful to do this, so I used the technique only when I was desperate. By around age 14 I figured out from conversation that the clitoris was supposed to be the source of great pleasure, but I couldn't get things to happen the way I thought they should. So I continued with what I knew.