Lena Dunham opens up about the stigma of virginity: 'I was obsessed with getting it done'

'I was a late bloomer'

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Lena Dunham has revealed she found losing her virginity “uninteresting”.

The actor, writer, producer and director made the comments in an interview with SiriusXM host Bruce Bazzi for his Lunch With Bruce feature.

At the Palm Restaurant in Beverly Hills, Dunham, 32, explained that she was a “late bloomer” and lost her virginity while at university, Oberlin College.

“I was almost 20,” Dunham said. “I was a late bloomer… I went through my whole freshman year and half my sophomore year and I barely kissed anybody.

“I did it halfway through my first year at Oberlin. And I was like, obsessed with getting it done. I acted like being a virgin was like have the plague. If anyone found out, I was like, appalled.

“I remember then when it finally happened… it was so, uninteresting, bordering on terrible. Literally, as it was happening - and he was a very nice guy - I was like, ‘This was what I allowed the last two years of my life to be about?’”

Dunham’s comments come just weeks after a study found that millennials are losing their virginity later than previous generations, with one in eight people remaining virgins at the age of 26.

Researchers suggested that an overexposure to pornography and a “fear of intimacy” might be the reason that people are choosing to delay having sex for the first time.

However the study found that more than 90 per cent of those who had lost their virginities had done so by the age of 19.

In an episode of The Independent’s relationships podcast Millennial Love about virginity earlier this year, Virgin author Radhika Sanghani explained: “When you’re at school it seems like everyone is having sex, everyone’s lost their virginity by sixth form, but it’s so nice to know that in reality that’s not the case, it’s happening that little bit later.”

Dunham’s episode of Lunch with Bruce will be broadcast on Friday June 29 on SiriusXM's Radio Andy.