Spiritual, titillating, amusing, profitable, ruled by myths, dogma and misconceptions, virginity is still something our culture cares deeply about.
What is virginity? Who gets to define it? Why do we care so much about it? Does it even exist?
What is virginity? Who gets to define it? Why do we care so much about it? Does it even exist?
Information
- Release Date:
- 2009 - This is a Work-In-Progress
- Genre:
- Documentary
- Studio:
- Trixie Films
The American Virgin Cosmo tells readers to sign the petition against Stupak-Pitts. How cool!
Source: www.cosmopolitan.com
Find out how you can add your voice to a crucial petition.
The American Virgin Check out our tees, caps, and baby clothes for progressive consumers. Perfect gifts for the holidays and it supports our documentary!
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For fabulous feminists and the people who love them. Trixie's Boutique offers supercool merchandise for discerning gals and guys. This is a non-profit venture to support the documentary
Regina José Galindo, a Guatemalan artist, performer and poet has a show at Exit Art in New York through Nov. 21st. I wasn't that familiar with her work until I read an article about her in
"The woman did not provide the necessary qualifications"–Reason a Turkish court gave to annul a marriage, regarding a husband's claim that his wife was not a virgin on their wedding night.Despite ...more
The American Virgin Republican National Committee insurance plan covers abortion for their employees (via Feministing.com)
Source: www.feministing.com
For those of you who haven't already heard, let me repeat that: the Republican National Committee (RNC) has a health insurance plan for their employees that covers abortion. Now, this shouldn't even be ...
The American Virgin Over 39k have signed this petition to Senator Reid! Add your name by noon EST to make sure you're counted: http://StopAbortionBan.com
Source: StopAbortionBan.com
The House of Representatives passed health-reform legislation that included an anti-choice amendment that will seriously jeopardize women's access to abortion. It's called the Stupak-Pitts amendment.
This week's First Person interview comes from 23-year-old Ashley, who talks to us about pheromones, flirting, and the problem with calling virginity sacred. Please send us an email if you'd like to tell your story.Tell us a little about yourselfI'm 23 and I live in a liberal oasis in a conservati...
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The American Virgin Nice column about writing the virginity blog in conjunction with filming the doc & how one helps build audience and content of the other.
Source: der.org
Story consultant and author Fernanda Rossi has helps filmmakers craft the story structure of their films.
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Via Planned Parenthood of New York City: Very Scary -
Stupak & Pitts are members of "The Family" & "poster boys for
the evangelical/conservative Catholic alliance known as"co-belligerency," a culture war strategy designed to take territorywithin the Democratic Party as well the GOP." Straight out of a Dan Brown novel http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/1
Source: www.salon.com
American women will pay the price for the Democratic dithering that allowed Saturday's passage of the Stupak-Pitts amendment, a worm virus inserted into the House healthcare reform bill with surgical precision. But the Democratic Party will suffer collateral damage.
The American Virgin If ever we needed a 'dislike' button, we do for this... From Planned Parenthood of New York City : The Stupak Amend just passed the House, representing the biggest constriction of a woman's right to choose in decades!
This is an interesting and cool question from Slate's Dear Prudence. If every young woman got a vibrator at 16, the world would be a better place. But, I'm wondering why she advises her not to talk to her mother about getting a vibrator. Not that it's something I'd ever talk to my mother about......
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Some excellent questions from one of our readers:Other than "I'm a virgin," (which I hate, with its noun-ness, it's definition of a person by their sexual history) how do you say to a potential par...more
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"...schools
offer sex ed in junior high, but ... teachers have little incentive to
emphasize the subject. After all, safe sex isn't going to show up on
the national university entrance exam that students spend years
cramming for."
Despite the one-child policy, millions of Chinese citizens don't know how to have sex without gettin
Source: www.slate.com
BEIJING—The first time Hu Jing tried to have sex with her college boyfriend, there was a technical difficulty. "We knew we had to use a condom," she said. "But we didn't know how."
I came across this fantastic vintage Harlequin Romance cover via the blog Shuffling Through A Book-less Desert who writes:This one caught my attention, not only because of the title – virgins in ti...more
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