It wasn't painful for me, and I never had a friend tell me that it was physically painful for her either.
Now emotionally.....that's a whole different world. If you don't want to be emotinally scarred when you loose your virginity, then I suggest you wait until you are married, or at least engaged to be married to a serious young man who has expressed his love and a desire to make you happy.
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