Sexual experiences in a dream usually reflect the merging of certain aspects of personalities into waking life experiences.  Most often pleasurable experiences.  Sex in a dream can also reflect your sexual interests.


Adultery

*Please See Cheating.    TOP

Anal Sex

To dream of anal sex symbolizes the creation of problems or negative experiences. Life experiences that totally "screw you over", and leave you with unresolved problems.  It reflects choices that never lead to anything productive.  

Anal sex in a dream is a sign that a situation is being made worse or that you feel you are getting "the shaft" from someone.  Anal sex may also be a sign that you are giving in to bad habits.

To dream of anal rape symbolizes a sense of powerlessness to stop a problem from "screwing you over."  You may that problems are being made for you or that they are too big to overcome.

Example:  A man dreamed of his father having anal sex with him.  In real life he had a moral dilemma that poor choices were exacerbating.  His father having anal sex with him reflected a bad conscience making the problem worse.

Example 2:  A man dreamed of a demon anally raping another man.  In real life this man was experiencing his business being totally destroyed and felt powerless to stop it.  The demon rape reflected his perception of horrible and unfair it felt to witness his business going under.    TOP

AIDS / STD

To dream of having AIDS or sexually transmitted diseases represents thoughts and feelings associated with choices or mistakes that fill you with regret, a sense of contamination, ruin, or compromise.

AIDS or STDs can also be symbols associated regrets or concerns over sexual partners you've had.  You may feel dirty, or violated.

Example:  A young man had recurring dreams of having AIDS.  In waking life he regretted losing virginity with someone he didn't care about at all.

Example 2:  A man dreamed of seeing someone with AIDS.  In waking life he experiencing total financial loss after not having listened to advice he was given.    TOP

Bisexual

To dream of a bisexual person may reflect conflict between masculine and feminine qualities. An aspect of yourself that is both sensitive and insensitive, passive and assertive, or controlling and compliant. It may reflect you or someone else that is playing both sides of a situation.

Alternatively, a bisexual in a dream may represent you or someone else that desires to "have it all." It may also reflect an openness to all possibilities or choices. You or someone else that likes everything.

If you are straight and find yourself attracted to a person of the same sex it may simply reflect how nice something feels or how desireable a situation is. Ask yourself what one thing stands out the most about the person you were attracted to and how that quality may apply to your life.    TOP

Breasts

To dream of breasts or a chest symbolizes power. The size of the breasts indicative of how powerful you or some aspect of your personality is.

Ugly or misshapen breasts reflects the power of something you are thinking or experiencing that may not feel good.

To have scars or tattoos on a chest represents difficult events or life lessons that are hard to forget.  
Something unpleasant you had to endure to gain power.

To find yourself or someone else carrying something on their chest represents something you are thinking that you want to speak out on or express yourself about.    TOP

Cheating

To dream of cheating on your partner represents impulsive choices, or doing something that you can't resist.  Cheating on a partner can also represent a change of current beliefs.

To dream of a partner cheating on you represents bad choices that have consequences or dire repercussions.  Turning your back on principles, integrity, or sacrifices you are making.  A partner cheating on you may also symbolize your feelings about your partner having different beliefs or goals from your own.    TOP

Cock Ring

To dream of a cockring represents an area of your life where you are powerful, effective, or capable and are doing everything you can to stay that way.

You may have a skill, trick, or something that gives you leverage and are exploiting it for it's full potential.    TOP

Condom / Contraceptive

To dream of a condom symbolizes thinking patterns that are counter-productive to goals, objectives, or attaining what you desire. It can both good or bad depending on who is having sex in the dream and what qualities they symbolize in you.

Positively, the condom may reflect your attempts to prevent emotional pain. Negatively, a condom may represent negative thinking patterns that hold you back.

Since sex in dream is usually symbolic of merging qualities that create life experiences, a condom symbolizes something you are thinking or doing that prevents that from happening.    TOP
 
Doggy Style Sex

To dream of doggy style sex represents a person or situation that is giving itself away.  Handing away something that is desired by another.  The merging of qualities into a life experience where one quality gives the other what it wants.  The person in doggy position is the personality trait or quality that is giving itself up to the wishes of the other.

If you find yourself having sex with a girl who is bent over in the doggy style position this symbolizes something you want in life being handed to you.  Something you wanted to think, feel, or experience easily happens.

If you find yourself in the doggy style position, this represents you handing someone else exactly what they want.    TOP

Ejaculation

To dream of ejaculation represents the finality of a decision.  You have chosen to do whatever it takes to make a choice, or do something.

To ejaculate during sex represents the finality of a choice that produces a new life situation, habit, or insight.

To ejaculate without sex represents unproductive choices, or disappointments.

To dream of a person ejaculating on another person represents lingering failure, unfulfilled promises, or disappointments. One aspect of your personality created a problem for another one.    TOP

Erection

To dream of an erection represents you or some aspect of your personality that is interested in producing certain thoughts, feelings, or waking life situations.

Erections may also reflect how powerful or capable you or some aspect of your personality feels.    TOP

French Kissing

To French kiss symbolizes a strong motivation to believe in something or to care about something.  Going out of your way to protect, nurture, or encourage something.  Proving to yourself or other people how much you care about something.

You may be thinking or feeling something that is increasing in frequency.

A French kiss a sign that you are doing everything you can to support certain people, beliefs, or situations.    TOP

Flirting

To dream of flirting represents invitation.  Signaling another person or situation that you agree with them or that you are receptive.

Alternatively, flirting may reflect you telling yourself that something is a good idea.  Your receptiveness to experimentation or exploration of new ideas or new ways of thinking.    TOP

Girl On Top / Riding Sex / Cow Girl

To dream of riding sex represents a positive experience where someone or something is catering to another.  

If you are riding someone it may reflect a positive experienve where you are doing all the work for someone.  If you are being ridden it reflects a positive experience where someone is doing all the work for you.

Riding sex can point to situations where you like someone so much that you enjoy doing anything you can for them. Negatively, it can point to a person in your life that you are allowing to use you.    TOP

Homosexual / Gay People

To dream of gay people represents aspects of yourself that is sensitive about feeling good all the time.  A part of you that doesn't want to "get their hands dirty" or stop feeling good for any reason.  A need for something to always be perfect, pretty, or pleasant.  It may also reflect resistance to confrontation if it's uncomfortable.

Often a symbol for not liking having to give up vanity, luxury, comfort, or pleasure. A gay person is a part of you that doesn't like having to feel uncomfortable about anything at all.

To dream of an evil or negative gay person represents a need to feel good even if it costs you. Something that feels good that may anger or irritate you if you had to give it up.

To dream of worrying that someone will think your gay may represent anxieties about people thinking there's something wrong with you.  You may also be very self-conscious.

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Homosexuality / Gay Sex

To dream of gay sex symbolizes a lack of concern about something wrong that you know you're doing.  Something isn't right and are doing it anyway.

To have gay sex that you don't enjoy may reflect feelings of being coerced into situations that you know are wrong or dangerous.

To dream of being raped by a member of the same sex may represent a sense of powerlessness to control a situation that you know is wrong or dangerous.

Gay sex may also symbolize the merging of different pampered or sumptuous qualities into an experience you're having.  Different areas of your life where feeling good or luxury are more important that confronting problems.

Alternatively, a homosexual can be symbolic of your sexual desires if you are gay, or have homosexual curiosity.

*Please See Sex.    TOP

Impotence

To dream of being impotent or sexually incapable represents thoughts or feelings associated with insecurity and powerlessness in waking life situations.  You may feel unable to control events in your life, or respond to problems.  You are ineffective in some way.    TOP

Incest

Incest in dreams can be a difficult symbol to define.  The dreaming mind does not usually discern between what's moral or immoral.

The act of sex itself represents the merging of two personality traits or qualities.  So sex with parents, siblings, or other family members is most often just a symbol for different personality traits or qualities merging.  The family members are usually like any other dream symbols...personality traits based on your opinions, feelings, or memories of them.

If you not aware of the incest as it occurs in the dream, and feel like there nothing wrong with it , then the incest as a symbol is probably irrelevant.  The sex is the most significant symbol.  The family member is just an emotionally awkward or uncomfortable symbol.

Sex with parents may reflect a positive experience you've had making a choice.

To be aware of incest in a dream, to overhear talk of it, or feel that it is wrong represents taboo, or a lack of acceptance for something.

Alternatively, you may have personal issues with a family member you need to address.

If you have experienced incest in real life then you may be having problems dealing with that or are reexamining the past.

Example:  A man dreamed of his father slowly pushing his penis into his bum.  In waking life he was conscious of himself about to make a bad decision that would have consequences.  His father trying to have anal sex with him reflected his conscience or ability to make a decision that was about to screw him over.    TOP

Infidelity

*Please See Cheating.

Kissing

To dream of kissing symbolizes approval, encouragement, or supportive behavior. If you are kissing someone it may symbolize a person or situation that you are supportive of. It may also reflect you encouraging yourself in some way. Kissing may also represents approval or respect of capabilities. Liking or encouraging talents or possibilities.

To dream of seeing other people kissing may represent different aspects of your personality working together, or different areas of your life supporting each other.

To dream of kissing someone's foot represents approval or respect for principles. Liking someone else's morals.

To dream of kissing an enemy represents betrayal, hostility, or reconciliation.

To dream of not liking someone kissing you represents unwanted praise or appoval.

Alternatively, kissing may reflect how much you care about someone or intimate thoughts you are having about a crush.

To dream of a kiss being rejected represents feelings that your approval or support is being rejected or unwelcome.

*Please See French Kiss.    TOP

Love

To dream of being in love or feeling love represents a situation in your life that feels good all the time.  You may be experiencing new found success or financial security.

To dream of being in love with someone you aren't involved with in real life symbolizes your strong attachment and acceptance of a quality in yourself that you see in that person.  It may also reflect strong attachment or comfort with a situation that is occurring.

To dream of being in love with someone you are involved with in real life can reflect both your feelings for that person, or your strong attachment and acceptance of a personality trait you have become comfortable with.  It may also reflect how good you feel about something that is happening to you.

To dream of being in love with a family member can reflects both your feelings for that person or how much you like something that is happening to you.

To dream of being in love with someone you are infatuated with or "have a crush" on may symbolize a powerful desire for that person. You may not believe you can ever have that person, or possibly fear never having them. This applies to celebrity "crushes" as well.

To be in love with celebrities which you have no attraction to in real life symbolizes your strong attachment or acceptance to some quality in yourself that you see in that celebrity.  It may also reflect how much you like something that is happening to you.

To be in love with people you recognize, but have no physical attraction for symbolizes your strong attachment or acceptance to some quality in yourself that you see in that person.

To be in love with a stranger represents a strong attachment or acceptance of new qualities in yourself, or new situations. Something in your life may be encouraging new feelings, or feelings you haven't had in a very long time.

Example: A man dreamed of falling in love.  In waking life his struggling business finaly began to make money.

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Masturbation

To dream of masturbating represents pleasing yourself mentally or emotionally.  Fantasizing, daydreaming, or pleasant thoughts about desires, wishes, or goals.  Things that may not be realistic at the moment.  You or some aspect of your personality is more focused on enjoying yourself or being successful than on true achievement or real life experiences.

You may see masturbating in a dream when you are spending a lot of time daydreaming about enjoying success, leisure, or using power to attain what you want in life.    TOP

Menstruation

To dream of menstruation or being on your period represents a problem or life situation that requires your full attention. Something you have to attend to, or a problem that can't be ignored.

Dreams of menstruation are common for pregnant women or women about to have their periods because it reflects their feelings about these situations requiring care and undivided attention.

*Please See Tampons.    TOP

Molestation

To dream of being molested represents feeling or violated in some way. You may feel humiliated. There may be a person with a domineering influence over you or that you're having an bitter dispute with.  Molestation may also reflect corruption of innocence or of something good that was happening.

Dreams of being molested may be a symptom of post traumatic stress. If you have been molested in real life then you need to speak to a professional.    TOP

Nakedness

To dream of being naked represents feelings of being vulnerable or exposed. An aspect your life is totally out in the open or susceptible to influence. If you enjoy being naked it may reflect a situation in which you feel free to all restraints. Nothing is holding you back.

To dream of other people being naked represents an aspect of your personality that is vulnerable, exposed, or feeling of powerless. An area of your life has totally opened up to you or has reveal its weaknesses

To see beautiful sexually attractive people naked may represent desirable experiences that you want to have. It may also reflect your sexual desires or fantasies.

Being naked and ready for sex represents your readiness to enjoy yourself doing something you like.    TOP

Oral Sex

To dream of oral sex represents total submission.  Doing whatever someone else wants.  It may also reflect you completely submitting to certain beliefs or situations.  Doing all this asked or required.

Positively, oral sex can represent helping other people or a total concern for their interests.  Negatively, oral sex could reflect caving in completely to fears.

To dream of getting oral sex represents a person or situation that is doing whatever you want or ask.

To dream of someone evil or negative getting oral sex represents a negative situation or negative habit that is being completely supported.

To dream of giving oral sex to an ex-girlfriend or boyfriend you still fantasize about can represent you empowering your sexual desire for them.  A sign that you need to put more effort into getting over them.

Alternatively, oral sex in a dream symbolizes your sexual desire to be pleased orally.    TOP

Orgasms

To dream of an orgasm represents you or some aspect of your personality that is satisified with a choice, or happy with the results of a new life situation.    TOP

Orgy

To dream of an orgy represents aspects of your personality that are totally focused on sexual desire, or desire for things you want.  You can't stop thinking about what you want or people that you're attracted to.

Orgies have a tendency to show up in dreams when someone is having excessive sexual fantasies, and desires.  When you see an orgy in a dream it may be a sign that you need to resist desire for attractive people and reduce any exposure to pornography.

An orgy could also symbolize a number of different personality traits or qualities you have merging together into a life experience.    TOP

Pregnancy Test

To dream of a pregnancy test represents your need for verification that a situation is going to happen.  You may be checking for signals or indicators from people.

Negatively, you may have concern about a possible problem developing or that you are not ready to confront a problem.    TOP

Pregnant

To dream that you or someone else is pregnant represents something new that is developing in your life.  It may also reflect more of something being made.  A new way of thinking, new ideas, new goals, projects, or a new life situation. Preparations, choices, or consequences are leading towards a new life situation.

Negatively, being pregnant may reflect a new problem that is developing or a problem that creating more problems.

If you are trying to get pregnant in a dream this represents your desire or wish for something in your life to happen.    TOP

Pole Dancing

To dream of pole dancing represents you or someone else that is flaunting desirability or self-worth. Feeling good noticing ones own abilities or talents. Teasing or showing off to others how attractive, wanted, or important you are. It may also reflect bragging about abilities or self-worth. It may also be a sign that you or someone that is "rubbing it in" that they are better in some way.

Example: A woman dreamed of seeing the woman her husband had in the past cheated on her with dancing on a stripper pole. In waking life she was having heated arguments with her husband. The stripper pole reflected her husband feeling good noticing himself not having to care about what she wanted.    TOP

Pornography

To dream of a pornography video represents a life experience where you are feeling good doing nothing.  Desiring, fantasizing, or dreaming about having something you want.  Goals, wishes, or aspirations that feel good, but may be out of reach.  Pornography may also reflect delusions or unrealistic fantasies.

Pornography may appear in the dreams of a man who can't tell a woman he likes her, ex-partners who fantasize about former lovers, someone planning a vacation, or a business man working on a project he hopes will be successful.

To dream of pornography photos represents memories you have that feel good to think about.

Pornography can also be a sign of excessive sexual fantasies and daydreaming.  You may be thinking about someone you desire and don't believe you can ever have.

To dream of someone you know in pornography may represent you fantasies about them. Something that is common for ex-lovers.    TOP

Porn Star

To dream of a porn star that you know represents feeling good wanting something that never materializes. Ask yourself what feelings or memories stand out most about that porn star for further symbolism.

An ugly porn star would possibly represent your feelings of how unpleasant it feels to wait or doing nothing while being told to feel good about it.

To dream of being a porn star represents your interest in making others desire things that may never happen. You may be lying to someone or trying to make someone feel good being patient.

Example: A man dreamed of a porn star named Kira Kener. His most honest feeling about this porn star was that she was so beautiful he couldn't think of anything else. In waking life he had a long standing health condition that finally began to slowly improve. Kira Kener in his dream reflected how preoccupied he was with how wonderful it was to heal while never healing completely.    TOP

Prostitutes / Prostitution

To dream of a prostitute represents an aspect of your personality that sells themselves out.?It may reflect your self-interest before higher ideals or being more concerned with money than anything else.?It may also reflect you or someone else that provides a service whenever they are asked to.

Negatively, a prostitute may represent "caving in" or giving up higher ideals as soon as pressure is felt. Abusing talents, or lowering your standards, morals, or principles for personal benefit.

Example: A man dreamed of a seeing a prostitute walking towards him. In waking life he spoke a second language fluently and someone who needed his help kept offering to pay him to do translations. The prostitute reflect his willingness to do whatever he was asked when paid.    TOP

Rape

To dream of rape represents negative life experiences that you are powerless to stop or control. Someone or something is effecting your self-esteem, well-being, or ability to do as you please.

Sex in a dream represents the merging of different aspects of yourself to create life experiences. Rape is then a negative experience that you are unable to stop that's filled with fear, stress, desire for things you can't have, or other negative emotions.

Rape dreams may occur when are experiencing situations that are very frustrating, humiliating, scary, or leave you feeling powerless.

Examples of real life situations that may encourage dreams of rape may be a loss of a promotion to a less qualified person, an unsupportive spouse, or a problem that never seems to improve. People may also dream of rape if they experience unwanted attention from the opposite sex.

If you see someone raping another person it represents one aspect of your personality forcing itself on another to control your life experience. For example, if a killer raped your mother in a dream it may represent a powerful fear controlling your intuition so that you will never make choices that will help you to face you fear.

If you were actually raped in real life, it may be suggesting that you have unresolved issues with the event.

Example: A woman dreamed of being raped.?In waking life she just had a baby and felt like her husband was not doing enough to help her and always had a perfect excuse not to. The rape reflected how powerless she felt to get her husband to help her raise the baby.

Example 2: A man dreamed of seeing a man rape another man in the anus. In waking life he was experiencing enormous stress at work with the constant threat of losing his job. The anal rape reflect how he felt powerless and strewed over by his job.    TOP

Sex

To dream about sex represents the integration or merging of different aspects of your personality in waking life experience. If you are the one having sex this most likely reflects a positive or pleasurable experience that you are having in waking life. Whomever you have sex with represents a quality your noticing in yourself or a situation that you are experiencing.

For example, if you have sex with a celebrity it may symbolize a quality you see in that celebrity coming out of you or enjoying an activity you associate with that celebrity.

Whatever the thoughts, feelings, or memories that stand out the most to you about the person you have sex with represents what you are experiencing more of in your life.

Alternatively, sex in a dream may reflect your feelings about your partner or someone you desire.

To dream of being unable to find a safe place to have sex may reflect challenges that stop you from doing what you like or from expressing yourself. Interests or goals may be sidetracked by complications or conflicting feelings. Feeling confused as you sort through your options. Alternatively, it may reflect your inability to be close or intimate in your relationship.

To dream of having sex interrupted represents outside forces intruding on your private time, relationship, or ability to enjoy what you are doing. Your career may be interfering with your love life or a distraction is interfering with your ability to succeed. An outside element is spoiling your special moment or time to shine.

To dream of having sex with a person who has something wrong with them may represent your enjoyment of being needed. You may also be enjoying the role of being more desirable, important, or interesting than someone else.

To dream of having sex with someone in public may represent your private life being made public or other people speculating about your life. It may also reflect attention you are attracting yourself with your personal interests or achievements.

To dream of having sex with a vanishing partner represents a lack of committment or an inadequate partnership. Sexual or romantic frustrations. Noticing your confidence in a person or situation you are enjoying disappearing.

To dream of a having sex with a faceless person represents a need to learn more about what really pleases you. Feeling good with something you are undecided about. Enjoying being single or trying new things. Feeling free in not knowing what you really want.

See the themes section for sex for a more in-depth look at sex symbolism.

Example: A man dreamed of having sex with Oprah. In real life this man was a successful public speaker. Oprah to him represented excellent communication skills. The sex with Oprah represented how wonderful he felt being so good at public speaking.

Example 2: A woman dreamed of having sex with an android. In real life she was having sex with someone she felt was socially boring and easy to control sexually.    TOP

Sperm

To dream of sperm represents a final choice, or decision.  It can symbolize the motivations or intentions that lead to a final choice.

To have sperm on your face, or see it on the face of someone else represents the consequences of unproductive or negative choices.  Some aspect of your personality has made an unproductive choice that negatively effects you or embarasses you.    TOP

Spooning

To dream of spooning represents a positive waking life situation that give you exactly what you want.  A positive experience that leaves you totally in control, with full access, or always letting you having your way no matter what.

The person being penetrated represents a personality trait or a person in your life that is giving you exactly what you want.  The person doing the penetrating represents a personality trait getting everything they want.

Spooning in a dream reflects positive waking life experiences or relationships with people that feel good, leave you in control, and make you feel powerful.

Example:  A man dreamed of spooning a woman he had just met.  In waking life he was sharing his art work with this woman over the Internet and she always had something good to say about his art no matter what.  He felt like he could never lose or be rejected.    TOP

Strippers

To dream of a stripper represents an aspect of your personality that teases or tempts other people. You or someone else that is offering something desirable with no intention of handing it over. A stripper points to the prospect of having something you want that always eludes you.    TOP

Tampons

To see or wear a tampon in your dream represents a solution to a nagging problem. A solution to a problem that requires your full attention.

Example: A woman dreamed of a tampon coming out of her nipple. In waking life she had a big problem with offloading an excessive amount of concert tickets. She was trying to make people feel that they needed them. The tampon coming out of the nipple reflected her attempt to make others feel that they needed her tickets in order solve the nagging problem having of too many tickets.

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Testicles

To dream of testicles represent nerve, confidence, capability, bravery, or courage. You just don't care about something, or decide to face something head on with no inhibition.    TOP

Threesome / Three-Way Sex

To dream of having a threesome represents multiple aspects of your life that you are coming together for a really enjoyable experience.

Example: A young man dreamed of having three-way sex with a fellow student and his girlfriend.  In waking life he was
enjoying showing off his musical talents to his girlfriend that he got while practicing with his fellow female student.    TOP

Transsexuals

To dream of transsexuals, or people with both make and female sexual organs represents aspects of your personality that share both masculine and feminine traits.  Something powerful and impotent or beautiful and insensitive.

For example, if a man dreams of a woman he sexually desires having a penis it may symbolize his desire for that woman being very powerful over this decisions.  Something that may allow that person in real life to control him.

Transsexuals may also represent your anxieties or uncertainties about masculine/feminine roles or passive/aggressive behavior.    TOP

Undress

To dream that you are undressing represents the shedding of inhibitions. You may be giving up certain beliefs or attitudes. Undressing may also reflect revelation of your true feelings or beliefs to others. You may be "opening up" about your true feelings, beliefs, or intentions. What you're thinking or feeling is being made clearer to others. Giving up secrecy. Alternatively, you may be revealing your romantic interests for someone.

To dream of another person undressing represents an area of your life that is revealing itself or becoming clearer to you. New insights are becoming obvious to you. You are becoming more aware of the truth in some matter.

To dream of undressing someone else represents an attempt to gain a better understanding of that person. Alternatively, it may reflect new information or new possibilities that are arising.

Undressing to prepare for sex represents a positive or desirable experience that close to happening.

To undress and change clothes represents an open change of attitude, intentions, or motivating factors. You or some area of your life is openly transitioning away from certain beliefs or goals.

*Please See Nakedness.
*Please See Sex.    TOP

Vagina

To dream of a vagina represents receptivity or compliance to beliefs, ideas, wishes or goals. How open you or someone else is to accepting what other people want. How receptive a desired situation is to your wants.

The size of the vagina may reflect how receptive you are to someone else's objectives. A big vagina may reflect a situation that is too easy or that's been done a lot before. A small vagina may reflect a situation that is difficult to do or that's never been done before.

A nice desirable vagina represents something that is in demand. An ugly or sick looking vagina may represent undesirable alternatives or a problem being able to interest others in what you have.

To dream of a child's vagina may represent a person or situation that you feel is not interesting or desirable enough for you. Someone or something may not be mature enough for you.

For a man to dream of having a vagina represents subordination or lack of control over decisions. You may feel unable to make choices or like you are less powerful than other people.

For a woman to dream of her own vagina may represent her self-perception about womanhood, femininity, or how "ladylike" you feel yourself to be.

*Please See Menstruation.
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Virginity

To dream of virginity represents you or some aspect of your personality that is innocent, unspoiled, or lacking experience.    TOP