Spiritual, titillating, amusing, profitable, ruled by myths, dogma and misconceptions, female 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?
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- 2009 - This is a Work-In-Progress
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- Documentary
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- Trixie Films
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- First Person: "I have no one to blame but myself" 12:10pm Jul 1
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This is a cross-post from Feministing.com Also, please check out the great comments with first-person thoughts on losing your virginity. [Bolding here is ours]Dear Professor Foxy, I am 22 and half years old and I am still a virgin, and frankly, I worry a lot that this is strange and unusual...
Another installment in our series of First Person interviews on virginity. This one came by way of our comments section and is somewhat disturbing. If you're out there, drop us a line and let us know you're OK.I'm a 38 yo male virgin...
From our intern Courtney:This is off topic, but I thought it was pretty cool. Amnesty International has created an interactive billboard to combat domestic violence. When a person first glances at the billboard there is a picture of a man about to hit a woman...
Have you see the photos of Sasha Baron Cohen's alter ego Bruno in a naked suit? We have and frankly we prefer Borat in his lime green thong. Best to leave a little to the imagination.We think he got his suit from a woman named Anna Maltz who does these suits as art projects, creepy as it they be...
The other day we posted a cool list of films in the genre of playboy-tries-to-get-into-the-pants-of-a-sweet-young-thing...
Welcome to our summer intern Courtney who's going to be doing some posting for us over the next couple of months. Take it away, Courtney:The Nation has an article by Jessica Valenti about the "virginity movement" (the abstinence-only crowd) trying to re-brand itself...
NOTE: If the screen is cutting off on the right, watch it here or here.Does Bella's passivity make you want to hurl? Are you thinking "If only Buffy were around today, she'd call out that creeepy Edward..."Well, here's the match-up you've been waiting for...
From IOL, a South African news website (via Broadsheet) reports on a new program:Schoolgirls who can prove they are virgins are being offered the chance to gain scholarships to university under a scheme launched in Sierra Leone on Monday to combat high rates of teenage pregnancy.Girls from northern...
An occasional roundup of comments from the Trixie Films YouTube channel*: Antifeminazi: Feminism is the most loathsome and phoniest Marxist fraud ever devised...
We just wrote about this, but I just thought the cover was so hilarious it was worth posting. Besides, haven't virgins always been one of Cosmo's main demographics?
Newsweek's online division recently reported on the trend of modern brides "opting for racy gowns, wild bachelorette parties and sexy Maxim-style pre-wedding photo shoots." Apparently this is due to the influence of seeing "respected actresses and role models pose seductively on the covers of the...
College Candy says: "I always knew deep down that engineers could never get laid, and now I know it’s true." So do we. We've seen the data. But this next one we can't figure out. Is it for real or a brilliant parody?Three more billboards and commentary her
The National Review's Kathryn Jean Lopez is all in a lather because of a Cosmo story about college-age virgins and the pressure around them to have sex. I don't know which is more annoying:a) Cosmo's stop-the-presses story that there are still 20-somethings out there that are still virgins...
From a great post on the blog E-Verse Radio: Top Five Movies with Men who Play Scoundrels who Settle Down when They Meet that Special Virgin. From back in the day when 'confirmed bachelor' wasn't just code for gay...
"They are men. They have desires. They have testosterone. If they make a mistake, I'm not going to hate them. I don't think they are above or below being seduced. I would be foolish if I thought that...
Bad news for the Australian fellow who won the right to be the first to put his penis inside Natalie Dylan for $3.8 million. Seems his wife doesn't think it's as good an idea as he does and has made him back out on the deal. He's getting his deposit back.
By now I think everyone has heard the horrible news about the murder of abortion provider Dr. George Tiller. Instead of looking at this as an isolated incident, Christina Page, author of "How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America," writes:The pattern is clear and frightening...
Update: Since this item ran, there's been a lot of discussion about the wisdom of withdrawal – and how effective this method really is...
I think this one's pretty darn convincing! This apparition of the Virgin Mary was recently sighted at a Rio Grande Valley dry cleaners. The employee who spotted it on one of the presses revealed that she prayed every day...
One scholar...has raised eyebrows and hackles by suggesting that the “houri” promised to martyrs when they reach Heaven doesn’t actually mean “virgin” after all. He argues that instead it means “grapes,” and since conceptions of paradise involved bounteous fruit, that might make sense...
In a news item weirdly-connected to the Susan Boyle story, Brooke Sheilds said she thought she was not good looking enough to have sex, which is why she stayed a virgin to the impossibly old age of 22.I guess the first question is: Why tell us this now, Brooke...
Just this weekend we sat around wondering: Whatever happened to Susan Boyle?Didn't she have to compete in some more rounds for that show she was on? Or was she just unanimously proclaimed the winner...
Posted without comment, but a couple of boldfaces...A former youth adviser at a Bridgeport church was arrested Monday after police said he sexually assaulted a 16-year-old Trumbull girl he was counseling about sexual abstinence.Vernitt Hoheb, 31, of Barnum Terrace, Stratford, a youth adviser at...
An update on Alina Percea, who says she sold her virtue for far less than the 50,000 Euro she hoped to make."Ten thousand euros is not so much money, even in Romania,' admitted Alina. 'But it will be enough. I hoped I'd be able to have an apartment in town...
Our abstinence correspondent Formerly Fundamentalist has more on Bristol Palin:Graduated Bristol Palin and poster baby of pro-life, son Tripp, take the cover of People magazine this week...
Copyright 2008 News Group Newspapers LtdThe Sun reports that 18-year-old Romanian student Alina Recea, who we wrote about a while back, successfully auctioned off her virginity to an Italian businessman for £8,782.We can have a nice debate about whether this is just a savvy woman taking advantage...
Our abstinence correspondent Formerly Fundamentalist checks in with Bristol Palin:Congratulations, Bristol! You graduated from high school! You're future's so bright, you've got to wear shades! Tiny baby shades for Tripp, too! Blow Pops all around! Uh, wait, your plan is.....
Salon recently did an interview with Jessica Valenti on her wonderful new book* The Purity Myth. Being virginity obsessives, we've covered a lot of this material here on this blog, but the Salon interview is a really nice precis of the most interesting/maddening issues...
The Frisky asks "Do men really have a virgin fantasy? Are they actually turned on by the idea of deflowering someone?" (nice icon, by the way)We at The American Virgin often asks guys this question and the overwhelming response we get is: Not really...
Slate Magazine has just launched a new site called DoubleX, a spin-off of their great women's issues blog the XXfactor, which consistently covered topics close to this blog's heart (we've linked to them many times)So, I love the XXfactor, now located here - the posts are timely, thoughtful and...
Several weeks ago we wrote about Australian filmmaker Justin Sisely's dubious documentary project. He's advertising for one man and one woman to auction off their certified virtue in exchange for $20,000 (AU) each...
Too bad we've already wasted well over $1 billion dollars on this crap...
You can see her discomfort. Saying lines from her script, not really understanding what she's advocating...
Please watch and enjoy this breathtaking speech by Hillary Clinton on global reproductive health and the vital importance of access to safe abortions. It is her response to anti-choice Rep. Chris Smith when asked if the Obama administration will "overturn pro-life laws" in Africa and Latin America...
A decree from the Catholic church:Catholics who claim they have seen the Virgin Mary will be forced to remain silent about the apparitions until a team of psychologists, theologians, priests and exorcists have fully investigated their claims under new Vatican guidelines aimed at stamping out false...
I hear a lot from older virgins, so this item popped out at me. Em & Lo, who are mostly all about sex, sex and then more sex, recently ran this interesting question:I’m 34 and I’ve never had a boyfriend. I was molested as a child and raped as an adult. I’ve never had consensual sex...
"Morning After Morning After Pill Re-Impregnates Guilt-Ridden Women"Reduces the chance of aborting pregnancy after unprotected sex (ie. if regular birth control method succeeds and you have sudden, dramatic change of heart). Not intended to replace responsible choices in life.From The Onion...
From The Uber Review, which has a link to buy this t-shirt:You know those guys that great each other with Vulcan gang signs? They aren’t getting any...
Given the recent conversations about the date-rape scene in Observe and Report, I wonder why men aren't more insulted by the unending portrayals of their gender as sex-crazed, shallow date-rapers.Yesterday's New York Times ran an interesting column about a movement to deal with that image – and...
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