Comic television and movies star Amy Schumer has revealed that her first sexual experience was when she was raped at the age of 17, according to a preview of her August 2016 Marie Claire cover story. The 35 year-old standup comedy veteran, who has mined the subject of rape in her act for years, told Marie Claire‘s Allison Glock that the incident wasn’t the first time, either, according to an extended preview of the article furnished to The Huffington Post. 
 
 Here’s what the Marie Claire preview says: 
 
 On her first sexual experience: “My first sexual experience was not a good one. I didn’t think about it until I started reading my journal again. When it happened, I wrote about it almost like a throwaway. It was like, And then I looked down and realized he was inside of me. He was saying, ‘I’m so sorry’ and ‘I can’t believe I did this.'” 
 
 The HuffPo preview contains a little bit more of the interview: 
 
 Schumer told Glock that the man is no longer in her life and she doesn’t feel the need to punish him for what he did. “This was 17 years ago. There are just so many factors,” she said, adding: “I had another time with a boyfriend where I was saying, ‘No, stop,’ and it was just completely ignored.” In the profile, Glock writes that she and Schumer discussed how common that type of experience is. Although Schumer didn’t specifically identify herself as a victim, she alluded to our culture of victim-blaming. “You know, with the rape survivor, it’s not just shaming, it’s fury,” Schumer said. “It makes people so mad if you’re not a perfect victim.” 
 
 Almost as stunning as Schumer’s revelation is the way that mostly liberal outlets have reported it, with headlines like “Amy Schumer reveals her first sexual experience was not consensual” at Salon and “Amy Schumer Opens Up About Losing Her Virginity Without Consent” at NY Magazine and even HuffPo‘s “Amy Schumer Says Her First Sexual Experience Was Not Consensual.” 
 
 None of those articles identifies the experience that Schumer described as a rape, which might be because Schumer herself didn’t use that word, but which doesn’t change the fact that the thing they are describing is definitely rape. That timidity is, as our friends at Salon might say, “problematic,” because it sends the message that maybe there are kinds of rape that aren’t as rapey as other kinds, or that a “sexual experience without consent” is a thing other than rape. It isn’t. 
 
 Watch video of Schumer’s cover shoot above, from Marie Claire. 
 
 This is an opinion piece. The views expressed in this article are those of just the author. 

 It is unseasonably hot the afternoon Amy Schumer arrives at New York's Central Park dressed in workout gear, sunglasses, and a baseball cap, her blonde hair tied in a low ponytail at her neck. 
 
 "Hope you like Lyme disease!" she deadpans as we set off toward a shady spot. While we walk, two things become clear: 1) Though the past year has brought a dizzying spate of good fortune, Schumer remains resolutely unsparing and unguarded, and 2) this is not going to be a stroll. 
 
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 Powering forward, Schumer, 35, reflects on her recent past. "It's such a blur. I don't even remember what I've just done. I'm trying to figure out how to navigate all this. I don't have it down. I. Do. Not." 
 
 I remind her of some highlights: Her HBO stand-up special, Amy Schumer: Live at the Apollo, directed by Chris Rock; the $140 million grossed by her debut film, Trainwreck, last year; her dramatic role in the upcoming military PTSD film Thank You for Your Service; a fourth season of her award-winning (including two Emmys and a Peabody) show, Inside Amy Schumer; and, most recently, filming a yet-untitled mother-daughter comedy with none other than OG icon Goldie Hawn, whom Schumer lured out of quasi Hollywood retirement to costar. 
 
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 Here, a few highlights from her interview, on newsstands July 19: 
 
 On a recent sex dream she had about friend and Girls actress Jemima Kirke: "It was so awesome. I almost told her about it. Then I thought maybe Lena [Dunham] would get jealous. So I didn't." 
 
 On what she was like growing up: "I was always self-effacing, self-reflective. I hated feeling I was just like every other girl on Long Island. Looking at my clothes and my hair. I was very aware of not wanting to be the same as everyone." 
 
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 On being in love: "Being in love is the scariest thing in the world. You want to f-ing cry and scream. I can't handle it. Every time we say good-bye, I think, This will have been a nice last week together. Or I tell myself nothing is real and he's going to leave me and tell me he never loved me. I feel so bad for him. How exhausting it must be dating me." 
 
 "I feel so bad for him. How exhausting it must be dating me." 
 
 On her first sexual experience: "My first sexual experience was not a good one. I didn't think about it until I started reading my journal again. When it happened, I wrote about it almost like a throwaway. It was like, And then I looked down and realized he was inside of me. He was saying, 'I'm so sorry' and 'I can't believe I did this.'" 
 
 On the election: "This election, Trump, it's so upsetting. I did some stand-up at Hilary's [Clinton] birthday party, and I'm in the same room as her and Bill and [New York Senator] Kirsten Gillibrand, and they were not worried about Trump at all. I've just been holding on to that for dear life." 
 
 On dating Ben Hanisch: "I feel like Ben is the first guy who's really been my boyfriend. There are guys who, if they heard me say that, would want to punch me in the face, but yeah, it's the truth." 
 
 Read the full interview and see more pics in the August issue of Marie Claire, on newsstands July 19. And for a little behind-the-scenes action to hold you over, see Schumer at her cover shoot here: 

 Amy Schumer lost her virginity without realizing. 
 
 “My first sexual experience was not a good one. I didn't think about it until I started reading my journal again. When it happened, I wrote about it almost like a throwaway,” she told Marie Claire. 
 
 “It was like, And then I looked down and realized he was inside of me. He was saying, �?I'm so sorry’ and �?I can't believe I did this.’ ” 
 
 The 35-year-old actress/comedian, who lost her virginity at 17, said the man is no longer in her life. 
 
 Amy Schumer on beau Ben Hanisch: �?Being in love is the scariest' 
 
 But that wasn’t the only time a man took advantage of her, according to Schumer. 
 
 Amy Schumer said her first sexual experience "was not a good one." (Mark Seliger for Marie Claire) 
 
 “I had another time with a boyfriend where I was saying, �?No, stop,’ and it was just completely ignored,” she said, according to The Huffington Post. 
 
 “You know, with the rape survivor, it’s not just shaming, it’s fury. It makes people so mad if you’re not a perfect victim.” 
 
 Schumer’s rep did not return a request for comment. 

 Amy Schumer has never shied away from tackling sexual taboos on her Comedy Central show or in films such as Trainwreck. In her new interview with Marie Claire , however, the comedian reveals that her own sexual history began on an upsetting note.Schumer shared that she lost her virginity at age 17, but that it was non-consensual."My first sexual experience was not a good one," she told the magazine. "I didn't think about it until I started reading my journal again. When it happened, I wrote about it almost like a throwaway. It was like, And then I looked down and realized he was inside of me. He was saying, 'I'm so sorry' and 'I can't believe I did this.'"She added that she is no longer in touch with the man. It also wasn't the first time she experienced non-consensual sex with a partner."I had another time with a boyfriend where I was saying, ‘No, stop,’ and it was just completely ignored," she continued.The August issue of Marie Claire comes out next week. 

 Photo: Mike Coppola 
 
 Amy Schumer is Marie Claire’s August cover star, and during the interview with writer Allison Glock, the comedian reveals that her first sexual experience at age 17 was non-consensual, although she only came to terms with that much later. 
 
 “My first sexual experience was not a good one,” she tells the magazine. “I didn’t think about it until I started reading my journal again. When it happened, I wrote about it almost like a throwaway. It was like, And then I looked down and realized he was inside of me. He was saying, ‘I’m so sorry’ and ‘I can’t believe I did this.’” 
 
 According to the Huffington Post, who saw the piece in full before it hits newsstands on July 19, Schumer says she has moved on from the experience. “This was 17 years ago. There are just so many factors,” she says. “I had another time with a boyfriend where I was saying, ‘No, stop,’ and it was just completely ignored.” 
 
 Much like friend Lena Dunham, who wrote in her memoir about a college sexual encounter that she only later recognized as rape, new discussions of rape culture and the nature of consent are giving women a vocabulary to describe traumatic sexual experiences that used to be swept under the rug. 
 
 “You know, with the rape survivor, it’s not just shaming, it’s fury,” Schumer says. “It makes people so mad if you’re not a perfect victim.” 

 Amy Schumer’s very first sexual experience was painful for her. 
 
 Schumer opened up to interviewer Allison Glock about how she lost her virginity. It happened when she was 17, and it was non-consensual. She told Marie Claire magazine, 
 
 My first sexual experience was not a good one. I didn’t think about it until I started reading my journal again. When it happened, I wrote about it almost like a throwaway. It was like, and then I looked down and realized he was inside of me. He was saying, ‘I’m so sorry’ and ‘I can’t believe I did this.’ 
 
 Schumer also goes on to say she didn’t come to terms with the fact the sex wasn’t consensual until much later in life. 
 
 Unfortunately, this wasn’t the only time sex happened in this way for Schumer. 
 
 She recalls, 
 
 I had another time with a boyfriend where I was saying, ‘No, stop,’ and it was just completely ignored. 
 
 She also takes a stand for survivors of rape, saying, 
 
 You know, with the rape survivor, it’s not just shaming, it’s fury […] It makes people so mad if you’re not a perfect victim. 
 
 Schumer’s story is a sad one, and it must have taken her so much courage to talk about it. Still, it’s always important to have conversations about rape, especially in today’s day and age where rape is often silenced. 
 
 Lena Dunham is another celebrity who has been vocal about her experiences by writing a memoir, in which she disclosed everything that happened to her. 
 
 Dunham wrote, 
 
 Speaking out was never about exposing the man who assaulted me. Rather, it was about exposing my shame, letting it dry out in the sun. 
 
 Hopefully, continuing to have open conversations about non-consensual sexual experiences will encourage women to talk more about it and create a safe space for others to do so as well. 

 Amy Schumer’s first sexual encounter “was not a good one,” the comedian recently told Marie Claire’s Allison Glock for the magazine’s August issue. 
 
 In the interview, where they also discussed Schumer’s career, her upcoming book and her family, the 35-year-old revealed that when she lost her virginity at 17, it was not consensual. Schumer said that, at the time, she didn’t realize what had happened. 
 
 My first sexual experience was not a good one. I didn’t think about it until I started reading my journal again. When it happened, I wrote about it almost like a throwaway. It was like, And then I looked down and realized he was inside me. He was saying, “I’m so sorry” and “I can’t believe I did this.” 
 
 Schumer told Glock that the man is no longer in her life and she doesn’t feel the need to punish him for what he did. “This was 17 years ago. There are just so many factors,” she said, adding: “I had another time with a boyfriend where I was saying, ‘No, stop,’ and it was just completely ignored.” 
 
 In the profile, Glock writes that she and Schumer discussed how common that type of experience is. Although Schumer didn’t specifically identify herself as a victim, she alluded to our culture of victim-blaming. 
 
 “You know, with the rape survivor, it’s not just shaming, it’s fury,” Schumer said. “It makes people so mad if you’re not a perfect victim.”
– In a new cover interview with Marie Claire, Amy Schumer reveals that she was raped when she was younger. "My first sexual experience was not a good one," she says. "I didn't think about it until I started reading my journal again. When it happened, I wrote about it almost like a throwaway. It was like, And then I looked down and realized he was inside of me. He was saying, 'I'm so sorry' and 'I can't believe I did this.'" Later in the interview, per the Huffington Post, she said, "This was 17 years ago. There are just so many factors," and then added, "I had another time with a boyfriend where I was saying, ‘No, stop,’ and it was just completely ignored." Though Schumer did discuss "rape survivors" in the interview, she apparently didn't use the term "rape" specifically about herself—and neither did a lot of media outlets. Salon's headline: "Amy Schumer reveals her first sexual experience was not consensual." New York magazine's headline: "Amy Schumer Opens Up About Losing Her Virginity Without Consent." The New York Daily News: "Amy Schumer says she wasn't ready to lose her virginity." Refinery29: "Amy Schumer Reveals That Losing Her Virginity Was Non-Consensual." Elite Daily: "Amy Schumer Reveals the Upsetting Way She Lost Her Virginity." Mediaite calls the phenomenon "stunning," noting, "That timidity is, as our friends at Salon might say, 'problematic,' because it sends the message that maybe there are kinds of rape that aren’t as rapey as other kinds, or that a 'sexual experience without consent' is a thing other than rape. It isn’t."