The girl, as much as the man, seems anxious to preserve her virgin status. Unlike the heroines of pornography she fears the ordeal of being deflowered, pushing the narrator away with cries of "You hurt me!" Though she sucks him until he comes in her mouth, she finds no evident pleasure in this experience at first.

The course of true love is far from smooth in Suburban Souls. Indeed there are moments when the intercourse of the man and the girl becomes confused to the point where even the participants are not quite sure of what is going on. Pushed away from Lilian's vagina, Jacky seeks consolation by placing his "bursting" erection between her buttocks. Pushing and thrusting, he is convinced that in the final moments he has penetrated her behind. Lilian assures him that nothing of the sort happened. As so often in the book, even the antics of the bedroom are principally an account of the state of the hero's mind and the impressions he receives.