<human>: Original post: 

So I talked to my (1 year, 27M) boyfriend about the possibility of me never being ready for sex.  He said he was optimistic and wasn't worried about it.  This all came up because he was planning to visit for the past week (LDR).

Wellll... I mentioned the baby steps idea to him and we went with that.  And it worked really, really well.  We went from him not even seeing me topless to basically everything but sex within a week.  I was anxious about a few things right before but for the most part I was surprisingly comfortable with doing sexual things for the first time with him.  I'm no longer nervous about sex and we're planning to do that when we can make it more "special" during my next trip.  And I learned I'm definitely not asexual...  lol

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<bot>: Being nervous about sex doesn't mean you'll hate it.  Having anxiety can make you even more freaked out.  Taking baby steps works.