I was a 17yo virgin when I went away to college. I started my first serious romantic/sexual relationship in the first month. The delightfully excruciating process of deciding on each forward step--at least two months before I even got to feel her breasts--is among my fondest memories. My first post-divorce relationship after a 25-year marriage was much the same way, slow-walking through friendship to kissing, to touching, etc. I'm a huge fan of mutual--and very slow--seduction.