I am 17 and I've never had a "real boyfriend".
However, I have had two "boyfriends" by name only. I've only each of them in person once (we started talking online). I was afraid to tell them no because I didn't want to hurt their feelings. The first was when I was 15...and a big mistake. He was my first and only kiss, but that was all he seemed to be interested in. I finally got the courage to tell him I didn't want to continue things a week later.
The next one was last fall. He was in his 20s, and I was naive enough to believe him when he told me he was madly in love with me, so I really didn't want to say no and hurt him. Big mistake. He was emotionally abusive to me for the few weeks that I talked to him. But, I didn't kiss him or anything.
Never having a real boyfriend has been kind of hard for me, just for the fact that I come from a family where everyone else is almost "never single", while here I am "always single". Other than their comments about it, it doesn't bother me that much at all.