At the precise moment of our birth, each and every person who has been blessed enough to take just one, single breath of life is given a special gift from the Most High God. It’s a gift so special, so sacred, that it can only be given once. It belongs entirely and completely to that individual and the exact moment that gift is given and all the details surrounding that event will be FOREVER remembered by them. Sharing one’s virginity, an act symbolic of entry into adulthood, the awakening of one’s sexuality, is something that should ONLY be gifted to someone deserving of such an honor, someone who will treat it as the sacred and holy sacrament that it is. Aaron Waters was the man who had been chosen to receive Taisha Dixon’s most precious gift and it was an honor and a responsibility he was not going to take lightly.

From the moment he met Taisha, Aaron knew that she was special. There was something about her, something about the way she thought and believed and, just something about how she carried herself that made her vastly different than the other young ladies her age. First and foremost, she had chosen to remain a virgin until the ripe old age of 20. These days, both guys and girls are becoming sexually active in their early teens and by the time most girls are 20, they have seen and experienced all things sexual from A to Z, a few times in fact. Her faith in God was strong, it was the primary reason she had chosen to remain chaste for so long in fact, but it was not a blind, unquestioning faith. Taisha was informed; she possessed a unique ability to separate the myths and oppressive dogma of the church from the joy that can only come from having a personal relationship with the Creator of All. She was also smart enough and savvy enough to understand that sensuality, sexuality, and carnal pleasure were birthrights to all human beings and that our emotional and spiritual health depended upon our connection, our touch, our moments of ecstatic bliss when two bodies are joined together which was a meditation and a communion with God that can only be shared with another human being during the joining of two bodies.

To Aaron, Taisha was a perfect mix of beauty, femininity, intellect, spirituality, and sensuality. She was down-to-earth and grounded but she was cool and sweet as well. The choice to share her most precious gift with him was not a decision that they came to haphazardly or randomly. It was a choice they came to together, based largely on their physical attraction to one another but primarily because of their similar core values, beliefs, and interests. Taisha cared for him deeply and she loved his spirit. She was convinced that he was a good man with the potential to be a great man and that he possessed all the traits and characteristics of a man with whom she could build something really, really astounding. He possessed integrity and honor and she was quite convinced that sharing her virginity with him was the next, most important step to forming an even more important bond that could potentially lead to a deeper, more significant long-term relationship. Very much to her credit, Taisha understood that in order to form a healthy, emotionally-mature, long-term relationship, she knew in her heart and soul that it had to be based on sexual chemistry and compatibility as well as all the other things they already had in common. She was incredibly unique in that she understood that in order for her to fully mature and be ready to handle the responsibility of an adult relationship, to become a REAL woman, not just in age but in spirit and heart as well, that she was going to have to gift her virginity and explore her sensual side.

Taisha was ready. Aaron . . . not so much. They had discussed it time and time again, sharing open, deep communication about what it meant, the ramifications and implications thereof, even down to what form of birth control to use. Aaron wasn’t a virgin and he knew that Taisha was going to remember her first time until the end of time. He wanted it to be special for her, to share this experience with her, but the good guy in him was . . . well scared really that he was going to hurt her, emotionally and/or physically; he just wasn’t sure he was up for the responsibility of being someone’s first. He thought that was for fairy tales and Prince Charming type dudes and he was afraid he wasn’t up to the task.

Oddly enough it was Taisha who comforted his fears. She did so by just being an exceptional woman. She listened when he was frustrated with work and wanting something more. She didn’t judge him or berate him, she communicated well and she just had a light that emanated from her that seemed to make her glow. She was radiant from the inside out and he didn’t want to dirty that.