Hocus Pocus subtly insinuates that a person's virginity — specifically, a boy's virginity — should be a source of shame.
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"Virginity and the discussion and debate of his alleged virginity is a distraction," Nesbitt says—but adds that it may be a calculated one.
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Read these stories next: 34 Women Describe Their First Time Losing Your Virginity Doesn't Have To Hurt The Virginity Myths We Need To Stop Believing
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" Bachelor host Chris Harrison also addresses Underwood's virginity, saying, "You could lose your virginity this week," before Underwood responds: "Sexual intimacy is a big part of any relationship.
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Read these stories next: How The Royal Family's Policy On Divorce Has Changed The Virginity Myths We Need To Stop Believing Losing Your Virginity Doesn't Have To Hurt
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Letter To the Editor: Re "Jailed Afghan Women Are Often Given Virginity Tests" (news article, March 2): Virginity tests are a form of sexual violence masquerading as science.
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"The invasive procedure of a virginity examination violates the sanctity and purity of a female," Ms. Persaud said of the exams, commonly known as purity tests or virginity tests.
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" - Jenna, 238 "Virginity is a sexist social construct.
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She lost her virginity at 17 – during nonconsensual sex Schumer says she lost her virginity to a boyfriend who took advantage of her one night while she was half asleep.
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I started doing a lot of research on social media and seeing other embodiments or views of female virginity and I came across this interesting trend—so to speak— of virginity auctions where girls are putting up their virginity for auction because they recognize the market value [and] the fetish with their status as virgins.
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Sydney could also be talking to ABC, really — this show could have done with someone not so safe as Colton, but here we are, talking about virginity, first kisses, and more virginity.
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Some people believe that the allure of a woman's virginity has to do with having power over her, and it's worth noting that you never hear about a woman buying a man's virginity.
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So I lost my virginity to the sweetest guy, ever.
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Frankly, the focus on Colton's virginity was overdone all season.
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Moreover, female virginity is given special emphasis in this adaptation.
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He reiterates that his virginity is not related to marriage.
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While this shouldn't be true — virginity doesn't equate to perfection!
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"I lost my virginity while I was asleep," she revealed.
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There's just no telling who Jane loses her virginity to.
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But Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle's virginity doesn't matter anymore.
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Who wouldn't want to lose their virginity to David Bowie?
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"It's almost like people tie virginity with asexuality," Lesli notes.
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My virginity has already been talked about way too much.
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He fools around and loses his virginity to a girl.
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But what about what happens once that virginity is "lost"?
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Namely, it's everyone's baffling level of obsession with female virginity.
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Yet in many parts of the world virginity testing continues.
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She was then subjected to a "virginity and pregnancy test".
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THE VIRGINITY OF FAMOUS MENStoriesBy Christine Sneed305 pp. Bloomsbury. $26.
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She probes for revelations: When did they lose their virginity?
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The fact that they use virginity as a plot point.
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Sadly, her dad said he lost his virginity another way.
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Here, she'll start over — and of course, lose her virginity.
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The concept of "losing" one's virginity is also a misnomer.
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Let's be real, losing your virginity is awkward as hell.
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Why losing your virginity feels like such a big deal
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I can't give names, but somebody lost their virginity on set.
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"I lost my virginity to this girl named Ashley," Jonas shared.
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I'd written a piece about the breaking your hymen, virginity thing.
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I didn't want to lose my virginity in a public restroom.
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What is with this obsession of needing to clearly define virginity?
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I think that's a really interesting depiction of virginity in vampires.
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I had every faith I would lose my virginity in college.
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Things got awkward, as they do when you lose your virginity.
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"Virginity is not a possession to be 'lost,'" she tells me.
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"I lost my virginity to this girl named Ashley," he wrote.
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It was literally like losing my virginity—but it went well!
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Lucy is fifteen when Margaret takes sealed bids for her virginity,
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Her fiancé's parents compel her to undergo a humiliating virginity test.
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Spencer: My virginity stresses me—I'm never going to lose it.
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Like losing his virginity to a blowup doll in high school.
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Then, of course, he turns back around and grabs Laura's virginity.
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And, of course, it all ended with someone losing their virginity.
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As if the tightness of virginity is somehow desirable to women.
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Every teenage boy in America would lose his virginity this way.
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The police responded by forcing her to undergo a virginity examination.
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Legislator Michaelle Solages aims to outlaw virginity tests amid T.I. fallout.
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Virginity on their wedding night is to be prized above all.
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" Virginity is too often understood in heterosexual terms -- and for people in female bodies, penetrative sex with a man is often seen as the definitive means by which virginity is "lost" and a new womanhood "gained.
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"We expect girls to hold on to their virginity for quite some time and for boys to sow their seeds, forgetting that for them to actually lose their virginity, they are sleeping with another girl," he said.
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Losing your virginity has never been so hot (or so not awkward).
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NSYNC and share losing our virginity stories among other wildly random topics.
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In episode 3, Ryan loses his virginity to a male sex worker.
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To the girl I lost my virginity to in Mexico named Antoinette.
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Should they set their own parameters for when their virginity is "lost"?
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Before long, Kelly is taking Yorkie's virginity back at her beach house.
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Remember Jane's lackluster response when she finally lost her virginity to Michael?
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Why do you think virginity continues to be such a fraught subject?
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Many human rights organizations have condemned virginity testing as inhumane and unethical.
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It's a beautiful folk ballad about the day he lost his virginity.
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He'd lost his virginity at 23 after a lifetime of feeling overlooked.
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Meanwhile, the Indonesian army continues to subject female recruits to virginity tests.
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But "sex" means different things to different people, so "virginity" does too.
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"It's like some kind of bidding war for your virginity," Molly complained.
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Inexplicably, about a dozen young female applicants wrote about losing their virginity.
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The Virgin Mary, and physical virginity, are largely absent from Sotelo's debut.
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A couple of characters lose their virginity in the course of things.
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That I lost my virginity to a 28-year-old soccer player.
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"If virginity isn't penetration but does have to do with the first time getting some pleasure in the genital region by an active force, I'd have to say I lost my virginity to a pool jet," she says.
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I lost my shellfish virginity in the summer of 1997 (it would be another decade before I lost my real virginity, so shellfish would have to do), after an ill-fated game with my Little League all-star team.
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Lucy's eventual loss of her virginity is also notable in that, rather than veering into cliche, it's shown as a moment of empowerment — all the more notable considering Spears' own complicated history in discussing her virginity with the media.
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Would Hannah feel as guilty if there wasn't such a premium on virginity?
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When it comes to virginity, there are a lot of myths out there.
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But this isn't a movie about virginity; it's a movie about sexual choice.
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It also happened to be the year I pledged my virginity to God.
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A group of young men all want to lose their virginity, hilarity ensues.
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In time he lost his virginity, but sex alone did not provide experience.
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Leslie Jones didn't just steal Kyle Mooney's virginity; she also stole his heart.
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"I know I've been very open and candid about my virginity," he said.
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Gendry made dragonglass weapons for everybody and assisted Arya with losing her virginity.
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Only for a lot of women, losing your virginity isn't a fairy tale.
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And hey, if it hasn't changed since you lost your virginity, don't stress.
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Will the idea of the virginity be irrelevant in the next few decades?
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Now, it's Chris' turn to ask the questions: Did Colton lose his virginity?
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My virginity is something that has already been talked about way too much.
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In the same vein, a tight vagina does not imply virginity or purity.
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"I lost my virginity to a Motörhead song—'Jailbait,'" says guitarist Joe Ramirez.
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On the subject of virginity ... well, the show certainly made it fair game.
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WHEN Sri Rumiati joined the police, she had to take a virginity test.
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The text on a number of posts reads "Virginity is a social construct."
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Some see FGM as important for preserving a girl's virginity or for cleanliness.
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Until recently, virginity tests were also compulsory for female police officers in Indonesia.
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In the magazine's cover story, Schumer reveals that losing her virginity wasn't consensual.
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What's the song that was playing when all of you lost your virginity?
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Took me until I was a junior before I finally lost my virginity.
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The success of "Virginity Rocks" merchandise has startled some in Mr. Duncan's orbit.
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I lost my virginity when I was 15, you know what I mean?
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"'Virginity checks' are archaic and have no place in modern medicine," she says.
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After this, Otis is not in the right headspace to lose his virginity.
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There are also Bibles you can buy with an extended section on virginity.
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They say things like, 'I didn't want to lose my virginity that way.
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His virginity was on the minds in the mouths of almost every girl.
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On Tuesday, Cryer responded to claims that Moore took his virginity on Twitter, alleging that while the two did have a brief romance after meeting on the set of No Small Affair, he actually lost his virginity in high school.
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Prospective bursary applicants needed to provide a community-issued certificate of virginity, she said.
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Underwood first revealed his virginity while competing on Becca Kufrin's The Bachelorette season 14.
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Then they went and sat in the exact park where Nick lost his virginity.
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I learned some time later I had taken his virginity and had no idea.
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And I think that's where everything with all the virginity talk came from, too.
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He's open about his virginity, and never once tries to stop Dani from blabbering.
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Women remain conspicuously absent, apart from a certain Middle Easterner famed for her virginity.
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Popping a woman's cherry is a euphemism for when a woman loses her virginity.
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"I feel like I lost my virginity to that store," another Broadly staffer commented.
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Like in the title story, "Virgin," where the character's virginity it almost a fetish.
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But outside of male-female relationships, what does it mean to "lose your virginity"?
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She also said that she lost her virginity to him at 17 years old.
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Abigail's idea might seem bizarre and misguided, but virginity auctions are actually a thing.
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And that's fine—people lose their virginity when it's the right time for them.
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Just as marriage is for life, consecrated virginity is a permanent state in life.
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Paul wanted Tammy's virginity, so Karla offered it to him as a Christmas present.
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Losing my virginity in a soccer stadium bathroom was never a dream of mine.
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But most likely you remember Colton for his most headline-making quality: his virginity.
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" — Ed "I lost my virginity when I was 14 listening to Nirvana MTV Unplugged.
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Colton Underwood is proud of his virginity — and he's having some fun with it!
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The United Nations calls virginity testing "painful, humiliating and traumatic" and wants it banned.
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I tell friends I could write the manual on how to lose your virginity.
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"But some people have taken issue with her statement "virginity is a social construct.
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"Going to jail is like losing your virginity—it happens only once," he said.
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Has anyone offered to help you lose your virginity out of friendship or compassion?
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I am not making exceptions for myself because of my virginity or my condition.
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Some of these books are didactic, pairing virginity loss stories with epilogues by sexperts.
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In advance of the session, I'd filled out a form, confessing my tingle virginity.
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Society is obsessed with virginity, even fetishising it, and Lilly Singh has had enough.
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"Sometimes I wonder about the man I'll eventually lose my virginity to," Svetlana continued.
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Olympian Lolo Jones says being open about her virginity has ruined her dating life.
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Some Catholics argue for Mary's perpetual virginity, noting that no man ever touched her.
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The theory of perpetual virginity roots Mary's holiness on the denial of her sexuality.
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Virginity testing is "a form of violence against girls and women," she told Vox.
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I asked a friend if you could lose your virginity to a strap-on.
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I don't want to use universalism, but let's say that most cases from a North American context, you still get the view of valuing female virginity as purity, whereas the viewing of male virginity [is seen] as [he is] not yet a man.
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The A Little Late host slammed the double standards that surround the concept of virginity, smacking down patriarchal ideas about women's virginity being "fragile and helpless," and the complete omission of people having any other type of sex than with the opposite sex.
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For Underwood, the situation is even more loaded, given the season's emphasis on his virginity.
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Though she was raised Mormon, Kalani lost her virginity to Asuelu and quickly became pregnant.
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Let's talk about virginity, blood, and what to expect the first time you have sex.
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If you didn't bleed after losing your virginity, it doesn't mean you weren't a virgin.
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"[Jane] does lose her virginity this year," show creator Jennie Snyder Urman tells Entertainment Weekly.
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Another contestant used the show as an excuse to finally lose her bikini wax virginity.
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Read on for 13 stories from people who lost their virginity on their wedding night.
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One of Jonas' revelations involved this story about losing his virginity to actress Ashley Greene.
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On Tuesday, Joe Jonas shared the story of losing his virginity during a Reddit AMA.
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Virginity is a part of a person's sexual identity, and then suddenly it is not.
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It's 2018, and society has finally started to realize something important: virginity is a construct.
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Similarly, Porky's, about high school friends eager to lose their virginity, came out in 1981.
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How do we move to an idea of virginity that is not just about hymen?
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Specifically, he says he doesn't believe Underwood's virginity claims and claims he even saw proof.
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Did she really approach a random stranger and ask to be relieved of her virginity?
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After that night, I would inadvertently take the virginity of a number of grown men.
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As such, it's easy for a young man to regard his virginity as an albatross.
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The practice aims to reduce a woman's libido to ensure premarital virginity and marital fidelity.
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It's attended by young Zulu women who must first pass virginity tests within their communities.
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I did try to lose my virginity on my 33rd birthday by hiring a prostitute.
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South Africa Testing is condoned in Zulu culture, with virginity certificates even awarded at ceremonies.
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That's where she documents — from start to finish — the loss of her bubble-mask virginity.
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Even when national governments ban or discourage virginity tests, local bigwigs sometimes carry on regardless.
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" His main theme was his intractable virginity, which he blamed on "the cruelness of women.
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At the time, virginity was still a non-negotiable requirement for the heir apparent's bride.
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It wasn't until I lost my virginity, though, that I learned I really loved sex.
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What if you're the more experienced one, but you're worried about taking your partner's virginity?
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Ms. Coel plays a young woman in London on a quest to lose her virginity.
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More fallout from T.I. saying he used to take his daughter in for virginity checks.
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His season premiere was a three-hour marathon of virginity-themed puns, stunts, and questions.
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On Sunday night, Bradley Dean lost his virginity for what is likely the last time.
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"You've given your best thing to another man," he texted her, referring to her virginity.
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Klein learned growing up that maintaining her virginity and purity was of the utmost importance.
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Some types of virginity tests, like the two-finger test, can be painful, Mishori explained.
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Medical experts say it&aposs a myth that intact hymens prove a woman&aposs virginity.
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On Glee, guidance counselor Emma Pillsbury's virginity is presented as being connected to her hypochondria and OCD — "the show has combined Emma's germ-phobia and virginity into some sort of terrifying psychosexual pathology that doesn't make much sense," as the AV Club put it.
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"I lost my virginity, which I feel is pretty early, [when I] was 17," she said.
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After a nightmarish sex dream, she's hoping to lose her virginity with the cute world traveler.
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"Forced virginity testing committed in detention is a serious violation of international law," Amnesty International said.
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Colton's season was all about his virginity, and it was brought up at almost every turn.
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As someone who sees virginity as a harmful construct, it was a hard pass from me.
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LL: Well, it definitely changed my expectations for how teens are losing their virginity these days.
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I lost my virginity to your mom, so naturally, that had an impact on me, too.
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The request—coming just after the comments about her virginity—made Ware feel "vulnerable," she said.
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Max's virginity is transformed from a normal aspect of his young adult life into a punchline.
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Schumer shared that she lost her virginity at age 17, but that it was non-consensual.
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To me virginity is a meaningful thing, and I respect him for holding that so sacred.
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The whole concept of virginity is fickle anyway, and means many different things to different people.
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In a 2007 interview with the Daily Mail, Hugh said he lost his virginity to Millie.
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"I am so honoured that he chose me to take his virginity," she told the tabloid.
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Two in particular caused an uproar: "Barely Legal," a dusty rose, and "Virginity," a deep fuchsia.
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Colton Underwood is opening up about the difficult decision to discuss his virginity on national television.
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Abigail wants to sell her virginity online and donate the money she earns to Amnesty International.
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He was 29 years old and was determined to enter his third decade without his virginity.
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For the Romans, Midsummer was a tribute to Vesta, goddess of the hearth, virginity, and marriage.
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Last summer, he made waves when he spoke about losing his virginity for a Reddit AMA.
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I was 53 when I lost my virginity, two years older than the average American woman.
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Some people criticized a 1991 episode about the title character and his girlfriend losing their virginity.
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She was an appointed role model, with her compulsory virginity, those compulsory abs, that compulsory smile.
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How then, could two women—neither of whom happen to posses a penis—lose their virginity?
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Losing your virginity is hard work, Jane realizes, and she doesn't want any part of it.
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Even if she's not telling him about her virginity yet, Peter knows something major is up.
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We get a lot of messages from society about what "losing your virginity" should look like.
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Next Monday, the hosts will speak to T.I. after his controversial comments regarding his daughter's virginity.
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Many families see FGM as a religious obligation and a way to preserve their daughter's virginity.
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Another TikToker, Grasyn Hull, was wearing a "Virginity Rocks" shirt that a fan had given him.
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Some people criticized a 19703 episode about the title character and his girlfriend losing their virginity.
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But the heart of the show is Tracey's continuing, continually frustrated campaign to lose her virginity.
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Neither of them realizes that "driving over to Exeter" is a euphemism for losing your virginity.
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Finally, she comforted herself with a young Korean, Mansu Kō. She relieved him of his virginity.
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Virginity tests performed outside of a medical setting would be considered sexual assault under the proposal.
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Last year, the World Health Organization declared virginity testing unethical and recommended it should be banned.
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"At age 36, innocence, purity, and virginity don't necessarily represent who I am," Ms. Nel said.
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It also shows Underwood — as well as multiple contestants vying for his love — discuss his virginity.
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In case you (somehow) didn't notice, Chris Harrison is borderline obsessed with Colton's virginity on The Bachelor.
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"One day, right before I turned 17, I lost my virginity because I was raped," she says.
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Last week, the DNCE singer opened up about losing his virginity to his then-girlfriend Ashley Greene.
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Hannah rescues the date by admitting she lost her virginity despite wanting to save it for marriage.
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Despite the teen's virginity, a lifetime with Jean has made him a sexpert in his own right.
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If you have no regrets about the way you lost your virginity, we're really happy for you!
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The other women are NOT happy, with some speculating that Demi is trying to steal Colton's virginity.
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At the initial start of the pilot, we focused on what Jane was taught about her virginity.
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Still, losing your virginity is different for every person, unique to your own sexual experience and preference.
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"[Jane] does lose her virginity this year," show creator Jennie Snyder Urman told Entertainment Weekly in September.
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The organization says that it is a virginity myth that's been passed down to the next generation.
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Max's virginity, on the other hand, is seen as something he was too sexually incompetent to offload.
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From that utterance on, Max's virginity is a regular topic of conversation — and ridicule — in the movie.
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Neither Lowe nor Underwood are all that abnormal, but the franchise delights in discussing things like virginity.
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Apparently not, say scientists, who say our genes determine a lot, like when we lose our virginity.
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To know that you ruined my life, stole my virginity and stole many other things from me.
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The first woman I was ever with, I was 17 when I lost my virginity to her.
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It happens like this: Bow doesn't think that Dre is taking Junior losing his virginity seriously enough.
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The fact that this seems absurd suggests that virginity is defined, at least in part, by context.
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It was so traumatizing, Jane couldn't stop crying after losing her virginity to her own beloved husband.
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So if these experts all agree there's nothing really to "take," why are people still selling virginity?
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But it's weird when, as the virginity-taker, you don't know what you've done until it's over.
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Why not, if you're a member of Duncan's crew, get a "VIRGINITY ROCKS" tattoo in the greenroom?
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She explained what virginity meant and I knew a little what sex already was as a concept.
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There is no exam to verify virginity, medical experts say, and the attempt violates a woman's rights.
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She also wrote in her victim impact statement that Anderson had stolen her virginity by raping her.
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This is when viewers realize just how heavily our conversations about virginity rest on heterosexuality and fear.
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Another arc involves the mayor getting plastic surgery, then losing her virginity to the chief of police.
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Shira asks her more-experienced friend if she should lose her virginity to the boy she's with.
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According to the UN, FGM is performed for a number of reasons, including promoting virginity before marriage.
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It calls into question notions of purity and virginity, and the interchangeability of women in patriarchal structures.
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Here, it's her mattress and it's funny; later it'll be her virginity, and it'll be heartbreaking. 222.
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Rape is also punished more leniently if the woman does not lose her virginity during the assault.
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It's becoming more obvious each season that The Bachelor loves to use virginity as a plot point.
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The two were a medieval power couple who took vows of virginity and inspired a cultlike following.
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Obviously, there's a long history of movies about boys losing their virginity, including the "American Pie" series.
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"The invasive procedure of a virginity examination violates the sanctity and purity of a female," state Sen.
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"I definitely referred to having a new kind of virginity once I had a vagina," she said.
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"What does he have to lose?" the tagline asked, not-so-subtly referencing Underwood's much-talked-about virginity.
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It's a big moment for any woman, but especially one whose identity is so tied to her virginity.
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Colton's reaction was sweet (and evoked memories of Becca's reaction to Colton's virginity pronouncement once upon a time).
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If anyone knows a thing or two about talking about their virginity on national television, it's Ashley Iaconetti.
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On the eve of a potentially life-threatening battle, Arya loses her virginity to her old friend, Gendry.
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However, Eggert had previously claimed that she lost her virginity to Baio when she was still a minor.
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Her virginity protected her from marriage to a man she didn't love, from a life she didn't want.
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In high school stories, and especially in terms of virginity loss, it's always the guy creeping on girls.
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And then there's the grueling one minute and 226 seconds where the audience watches Bill take Jenny's virginity.
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In 22014, Jessica Valenti published The Purity Myth, arguing that American culture's obsession with virginity was harming girls.
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There is still a high value placed on virginity in China, and women still undergo hymen-restoration surgery.
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Surveys show that in much of the rich world young people are waiting longer to lose their virginity.
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Because, I may never stop thinking about the many bizarre turns of Colton's ongoing virginity saga this week.
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And even when sex and virginity come into play in the suites, it doesn't have to be stressful.
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Her virginity first heightens his desire, then becomes nightmarish and threatening as her deeper issues and sexuality surface.
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What's more, the film also showed Needy, the so-called "nice girl," losing her virginity to her boyfriend.
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Imagine your virginity, they say, as a stick of gum; once it's been chewed, no one wants it.
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Another gene, MSRA, is linked to irritability and was seen to result in people losing their virginity later.
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After all, much has been made over Ashley's virginity since her entrance into Bachelor Nation three years ago.
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When I got to high school, I was regularly asked for threesomes before I'd even lost my virginity.
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But aside from virginity loss, that relationship was about as meaningful as a high school relationship could be.
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I contemplate losing my virginity to him, but something feels off so I keep finding excuses not to.
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When it comes to taking a clients virginity, McNeill says she always takes the responsibility very, very seriously.
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Maybe her captivating aura stemmed from her virginity, which, given how this movie treated sex, is not unthinkable.
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According to The Independent, most of the factors looked at as proof of virginity are, in fact, myths.
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The issue with both of these virginity-focused statements is just how unnecessary they are to the plot.
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Rosaline, a progressive young woman who loves her cousin, has no reason to start talking about Juliet's virginity.
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Virginity tests are unscientific—women's physiologies vary a great deal, whether or not they have ever had sex.
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Egypt's security forces have carried out virginity tests on women arrested for taking part in anti-government protests.
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Each year in South Africa, hundreds of young women have virginity tests before dancing for the Zulu king.
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But American society was, and in many ways still is, governed by puritanical notions of modesty and virginity.
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It doesn't stop me from hoping I could feel a mutual attraction for someone and losing my virginity.
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According to some medieval and Victorian literature, virginity wasn't thought to be entirely physical but spiritual, as well.
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The insertion of a penis into a woman has been the defining line between virginity and its absence.
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He litigated each claim, down to his teenage virginity, even when they weren't relevant to Dr. Blasey's accusations.
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At age 22, she lost her virginity to her brother-in-law, who is 11 years her senior.
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In "Blockers," Sam (Gideon Adlon) and her best girlfriends make a pact to lose their virginity at prom.
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Watching enough screwball comedies can lead you to believe losing one's virginity will inevitably involve elaborate, wackadoo adventures.
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He then distributes free "Virginity Rocks" shirts to the ebullient crowd, which begins chanting the phrase with him.
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" And "It is Mr. Clinton who behaves more like a teen-age girl trying to protect her virginity.
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During their weekend, the girls learn about the ambiguous "dangers" of sexual contact and the importance of virginity.
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When she loses her virginity to him, though, she does register surprise — at the banality of the experience.
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Wells is preparing to auction off the virginity of her youngest daughter, but we catch on that Mrs.
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They also say it should be considered sexual assault if virginity tests are performed outside a medical setting.
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I was confident that when I lost my virginity, I would be able to orgasm anytime I wanted.
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According to a sociologist, it's because male virginity, when dissected on a cultural level, is often more complex.
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He smoldered and was the guy Brenda gave her virginity to on prom night, which was a huge deal.
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It was my first sexual experience, and as far as I was concerned, I'd lost my virginity to him.
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But she seems to be the last royal hopeful to have to "prove" her virginity before her wedding day.
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In the 1980s Japanese firms lost their financial virginity by paying too much for Hollywood studios and Californian skyscrapers.
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In his new autobiography Finding My Virginity, billionaire Richard Branson reveals that Obama used the button to order tea.
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Ever since I lost my virginity in high school, I had a hard time thinking of sex as shameful.
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"He stole my body, virginity, and power over my body, and you let him keep it for all eternity."
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But when her son Jaden, 19, lost his virginity, he didn't have to tell his mom — she already knew.
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Well, he runs a charity and he's been dedicated to preserving his virginity for 26 years, whatever that means.
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Julia, the 26-year-old heroine of Emma Rathbone's new novel Losing It, is obsessed with losing her virginity.
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The conversation surrounding Colton Underwood's virginity has come dangerously close to discussing misogyny, locker room culture, and sexual shame.
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She said it'd be like losing my virginity, but I definitely didn't remember the first time being that bad.
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I remember the time I gave myself to New York, even more clearly than I remember losing my virginity.
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Mine happened about six months after I'd lost my virginity, in the 11th grade, by way of my hand.
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To take PrEP would also mean admitting that they have sex in a society that values virginity before marriage.
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Encouraged by his therapist, Sam decides he's ready to start dating and hopes that will entail losing his virginity.
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Matthew Kennedy, who is now 32, lost his virginity during his first year of college, when he was 18.
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"The hardest part is all the virginity talk when I know my grandma's watching," he told the podcast hosts.
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In a moment of apparent self-deprecation, Ramos has compared his first Champions League final to losing his virginity.
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"I thought this double standard, of virginity being the value of a woman, was in the past," she said.
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Hence the "virginity tests" to which new recruits are subjected: doctors check to see if their hymens are intact.
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In other cases virginity tests are administered in the false belief that they provide useful evidence in criminal cases.
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He stole my body, virginity and power over my body and you let him keep it for all eternity.
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Few women use them because they're (mistakenly) afraid a tampon might break their hymen and thus compromise their virginity.
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Mandy Moore admits she was "so shocked" by ex-boyfriend, Wilmer Valderrama's 2006 claims that he took her virginity.
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Well, he talks an awful lot about his virginity, which he plans to keep until he finds true love.
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I. defends his decision to protect his daughter&aposs virginity over his son&aposs: &aposThe stakes are higher&apos
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We created a all-bases-covered guide to losing your virginity, including lubin' up and what happens after sex.
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Still, he said, he believes that the popularity of the shirt is making virginity cool among Mr. Duncan's supporters.
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But it only counts as losing your virginity, she explains to a wide-eyed Jane, if you say yes.
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Female police officers and army recruits are sometimes required to submit to outrageous physical inspections to "prove" their virginity.
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Having once been young, I can confirm that Zelda's preoccupation with French-kissing and losing her virginity rings true.
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Other attempts to introduce virginity tests on students in some Indonesian schools faced opposition, including from among Islamic clerics.
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A Saudi family's honor rests, to a considerable degree, on its ability to protect the virginity of its daughters.
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She loses her virginity to him, but instead of a lonely horror, the encounter is mostly sweet, and tender.
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She loses her virginity after marriage (and after Michael's recovery from a post-wedding gunshot wound), just as she intended.
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She carried on multiple sexual conversations with the student, telling him she wanted to take his virginity, the release states.
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One evening, White invited Nesbit to dinner, and it was then that he sexually assaulted her and took her virginity.
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Colton is overwhelmed by most of it: He seems disinterested in the virginity jokes, and flabbergasted by the attention, frankly.
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Like with braces and bad skin, most of us grow up believing that virginity is a thing to be shed.
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To prevent the painful punishment for the host, Mendes revealed that he lost his virginity at the age of 16.
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When you started the series, did you anticipate it would take until season three for her to lose her virginity?
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Valderrama appeared on the show in 2007, and said he had taken Mandy Moore's virginity when she was a teenager.
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"Natalie was commenting on the oversexualization of LITERAL teens & the creepy obsession with purity/virginity," one voice of reason said.
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Listen to "Shine (This is It)" below and read about how Eli, one half of Soul Clap, lost his virginity.
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But he took it to the next level on Sunday when he revealed the shocking age he lost his virginity.
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Then, Colton briefly compares her trauma to his virginity being on national television, also not an equivalency Colton should employ.
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This season on The Bachelor, fans have had to endure a whole lot of talk regarding Bachelor Colton Underwood's virginity.
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Cranston lost his virginity to a prostitute in Austria In A Life in Parts also details Cranston's first sexual experience.
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Colton's virginity isn't affecting any one of those guys so no one should have any cheap shots thrown his way.
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"It is one part of securing convictions, and is important in cases where children have lost their virginity," George said.
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"People say you are suppose to do it for love," Stone says of the cultural ideals around losing one's virginity.
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That's how much has been made of one woman's virginity: a true Bachelor(ette) neophyte was already totally filled in.
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But by 2010, Joe's purity ring was out the window when he lost his virginity to then-girlfriend Ashley Greene.
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Because if Kylie Jenner can create virginity-inspired cheek colors, Vergara's can be inspired by her elevated body temperature. Right?
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Feels like it was designed for a college freshmen who's pledging into a sorority and ready to lose her virginity.
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Meanwhile, Colton is prepping for their dinner date, truly believing this could be the night he'll finally lose his virginity.
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"The definition of virginity itself isn't universal — it's far too limiting to be applied across the board," Dr. O'Reilly says.
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Because virginity is a gift that cannot be 'taken back' once it is given, it has an inherent sacred quality.
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The main character on the show, Sally Fletcher, actually lost her virginity to Scott in the back of his van.
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In "Episode 1," Margaret makes the difficult decision to auction off her youngest daughter Lucy's virginity to the highest bidder.
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Arya (played by Maisie Williams, 22) lost her virginity to longtime crush Gendry after he forged her custom dragonglass weapon.
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It was a status marker for wealthy brides at the time, but eventually became associated with virginity and purity. Well?
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I'd just gotten out of a relationship with my first love, and the guy who I lost my virginity to.
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One thing is for sure though, durian condoms definitely bring a new meaning to "I Finally Lost My Durian Virginity."
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I expect, on the show, he'll be talking a lot about his ex-wife, to whom he lost his virginity.
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I fell asleep listening to him, he drove somewhere in the middle of woods and raped me, taking my virginity.
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For starters, when many straight people think about losing their virginity, they tend to think of penis-in-vagina sex.
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I thought I would fall in love, be in a steady longterm relationship for aaaaages, and then lose my virginity.
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Most notably, Lena Dunham made a much-derided 2012 video for Barack Obama that compared voting to losing your virginity.
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"It's up to you to decide what's right and what's wrong," Katherine's mother says in "Forever," of losing one's virginity.
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The author introduces us to conversations about existential subjects that reveal character, like Islam, virginity and romantic dreams about marriage.
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"Virginity" is nothing more than a mirage that reduces women to fertile bodies kept chaste for a man to claim.
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But beyond one family's particular case, there is evidence that people around the country are asking doctors to test virginity.
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The debate over whether to ban "virginity testing," explained The most damning sentence in the House Intelligence Committee's impeachment report
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"I lost my virginity for the second time when I was visiting a friend from a Facebook group," she said.
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" She says the concept of virginity isn't entirely applicable: "I don't think there's any clear lines of 'virgin/not virgin.
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When Evie finally loses her virginity to one of Russell's seedy musician friends, Suzanne is in the bed with them.
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"Virginity testing does not protect and promote the health of female patients; virginity testing is therefore completely incompatible with each of these three principles of professional ethics in obstetrics and gynecology," said Laurence McCullough, an ethics and health policy researcher at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and a co-author of the essay.
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Find me a teen movie, any teen movie, and I'll show you at least one character obsessed with losing their virginity.
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In movies, virginity loss scenes often contain hidden messaging about what sex means, and what its repercussions for an individual are.
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Deeply attracted to her, Angelo counters with a proposition: If she sacrifices her virginity to him, he'll spare her brother's life.
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Ashley Iaconetti shared how she feels about Monday's episode of "The Bachelorette" and the show's portrayal of contestant Colton Underwood's virginity.
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After mocking both his virginity and lack of knowledge about everything ("You know nothing, Jon Snow"), Ygritte soon takes Jon prisoner.
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Ahead of the big day, she shares some unique advice for those preparing to lose their eclipse-viewing virginity next week.
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It's also important to note that one in every three women didn't lose their virginity consensually, but through rape or coercion.
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Maybe you want to tell the story of how you lost your virginity on a boat floating down the Amazon river.
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For the pinup aesthetic of the '50s, and its attendant obsession with sex and virginity and innocence, that was Marilyn Monroe.
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"Virginity," it's a loaded word and we place a lot of importance and pressure on losing it and gaining sexual experience.
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In one exchange, Akervik allegedly admitted to "taking the virginity of a 15 or 16-year-old," the criminal complaint states.
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Stifler's hyper-sexualized mother infamously takes the virginity of her son's close friend, 6563-year-old Paul Finch (Eddie Kaye Thomas).
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" Mathematician Charles Hutton mused in 1815 that a likely explanation for Newton's virginity was his "constitutional indifference to...sex in general.
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Yes, really, this is what virginity can offer someone, since that kind of "purity" also speaks to race, class, and income.
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Losing your virginity on one of those really special nights where everything is magical and it just feels right, you know?
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Whether you still consider yourself a virgin by the end is, as virginity tends to be, a matter of personal choice.
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Shortly after tampons were invented in 1929, Catholic priests denounced unmarried women's use of tampons because they believed tampons compromised virginity.
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I could justify the pain: I was merely losing my virginity, and it was my feminine duty to endure such affliction.
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But, while Kerr and Spiegel's personal motives aren't up for debate, it's clear that born-again virginity is making a comeback.
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Reddit banned a community made up mostly of men who blamed women for not losing their virginity or forming a relationship.
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In the 1980s virginity was considered a woman's chief asset and few couples dared to date openly, let alone live together.
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Criticizing her depictions of sex as unconvincing, she tells the young, wheelchair-bound woman to lose her virginity and then return.
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Jonas didn't shy away from discussing the purity ring he wore as a teenage Disney star prior to losing his virginity.
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I lost my virginity to her the last day of camp, in a room full of boys asleep in bunk beds.
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"There are no situations in which the female patient can be considered better off by having virginity testing performed," McCullough said.
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In "Road Trip," Tracey's sister Cynthia—who recently discovered that she, too, wants to have sex—tries to lose her virginity.
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The CDC reports that some teens have oral sex before vaginal to "maintain their virginity" while (subtext) maintaining their partners' satisfaction.
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While the explicit arc of the film is Lucy's hunt for her biological father, the primary tension is over her virginity.
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Paula offered to be Andy's "f--- buddy" when she realized he was trying to find someone to lose his virginity to.
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Melissa says she repeatedly told him she did not want to have sex, and was saving her virginity for her husband.
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I think it is because of that anonymity that I feel more at ease about being more open about my virginity.
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I was young and foolish enough at the time to believe giving him my virginity meant he was worth seeing again.
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I decided to open up to him because, well, I lost my virginity to him and thought I could trust him.
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I'd always thought that when I lost my virginity, it would be a big deal — or at least a conscious decision.
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When I actually lost my virginity, no music was playing, but we went to Taco Bell afterwards, which is more important.
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When I mentioned the age of 13, I was talking about myself and the age at which I lost my virginity.
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When she loses her virginity with Ashley's model, he doesn't seem to mind that she stays in disguise the entire time.
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I wasn't only attracted to her iconoclastic spirit, alluring eyes and figure; I was on a mission to lose my virginity.
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I lost my virginity when I was 17, and about a month later, I felt a burning pain when I peed.
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Earlier that summer, I had told her when I'd lost my virginity, but we hadn't addressed my sex life any further.
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Also, this Elizabeth Bruenig essay in The New York Review of Books, about the virginity of the Marys, mother and Magdalene.
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Fact is ... Colton's more than just his virginity -- here's hoping the producers of the show realized that before it's too late.
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It's poetic justice, after I ended things with the girl I lost my virginity with for not so different a reason.
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Colton Haynes had some folks confused about his virginity story ... but he cleared it up for us once and for all.
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Stop The V-Ritual are in the process of drafting a petition against virginity tests to the Supreme Court of India.
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There are so many other things worth talking about with respect to this finale — but the virginity question isn't one of them.
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" Her letter continued: "He stole my body, virginity and power over my body and you let him keep it for all eternity.
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Three hours and no sign yet from the producers that Colton, virginity or not, has a vested interest in the female anatomy!
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She remembers kids in the higher grades being encouraged to go to "purity classes" to pledge their virginity and getting purity rings.
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Rather than a crumpled white flower à la Alba Villanueva (Ivonne Coll), Farouk uses a Coca-Cola bottle as a virginity allegory.
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We found 15 of the most cringe-worthy How-I-Lost-My-Virginity stories on Reddit, and they're pretty hard to read.
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"It's not funny to lose your virginity!" wrote Khloé, who said she had sex for the first time when she was 15.
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" Also saying, "While I laid asleep, took my virginity, so scared to say something, so I just put the blame on me.
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In 1981 when Lady Diana Spencer was about to marry Prince Charles and become Princess Diana, her virginity was a huge issue.
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"The notion of a woman having to submit herself to a doctor's examination to 'prove' her virginity is offensive nowadays," Carroll says.
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There has long been value in a woman's innocence and virginity, so that's what we use to define OFFICIAL-DOING-IT-SEX.
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On a quest to lose his virginity, Jim decides one of his mother's freshly baked apple pies would be the perfect analogue.
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Virginity is not a prize people "give away," like some kind of diamond they've kept tucked up in their crotch for years.
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When I got a UTI promptly after losing my virginity at age 18, I had literally no idea what was going on.
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And ever since, you've always had some vague idea that a hymen is this thing inside your vagina that polices your virginity.
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Another situation that I wanted to talk about was the way I handled the conversation when Colton opening up about his virginity.
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"People are so hung up with putting meaning behind the first time you've done anything, especially with losing virginity," Dr. Stubbs says.
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Yet, that doesn't mean virginity doesn't still have an effect on the world, because everyone hasn't gotten this very important message yet.
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The man had been respectful of her virginity, always got her home early on school nights, and was polite to her mother.
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"This movie cured me of my virginity," he wrote in response to a Rotten Tomatoes tweet pointing out the film's positive rating.
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It was the biggest bombshell of the season, so it's no surprise that Colton Underwood's virginity is still a topic of discussion.
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Few might have predicted that Nagata Kabi's autobiographical tale of 28-year-old virginity would become the hit manga of the summer.
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As if that weren't exciting enough, they didn't lose their coffee virginity to a cheap watery brew from their parents' coffee machine.
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This makes him sound like a stamp collector going over his latest finds rather than an awe-struck adolescent losing his virginity.
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One of the most talked about topics on this season of The Bachelor (aside from Colton Underwood's virginity): contestant Heather Martin's hair.
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" She also said that she had researched how she would execute it, and she was "educated about prostitution, virginity and slut-shaming.
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Not to mention, lesbian sex (and queer virginity in general) tends to be a concept that dumbfounds people who haven't experienced it.
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If you're new to this type of sex, it's important to choose partners that are understanding and supportive of your hand virginity.
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Dr Sarah Salih, senior lecturer at King's College London, whose work spans the history of virginity and sexuality, seems to think so.
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Blake Shelton ain't afraid to shake things up with Gwen Stefani, and he proved it by letting her take his Disneyland virginity.
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Virginity tests have also been done in other situations to ensure, for example, that women are virgins when they enter the military.
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"It was as if Priscilla's virginity was another thing that Elvis strangely and sorely needed to maintain," Williamson notes in his book.
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The girls will be subject to virginity tests at the beginning of every school semester and when they come back from breaks.
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Things started off sexy as Dobrev opened with "Let's Get It On," which could be a veiled shot at Tebow's famous virginity.
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The film doesn't so much eroticize this teenager and her virginity; rather, it invites her to relish in her own innate eroticism.
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All branches of the Indonesian military have used virginity tests for decades and, in certain circumstances, also test the fiancées of officers.
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It was a useful reminder that a cult of virginity is specific neither to Egypt, my birthplace, nor to Islam, my religion.
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"A virginity exam does not exist," said Dr. Maura Quinlan, an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University in Chicago.
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According to the World Health Organization, virginity testing is unethical and should be banned, as it has no scientific or clinical basis.
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Others pointed out that being a virgin is a choice, and Cyrus should "respect people's choices," and not "define or belittle" virginity.
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So-called "virginity tests" usually examine the hymen, a membrane inside the vagina, to see whether it has been ruptured or torn.
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Officially known as consecrated virgins, Byers joined an estimated 3,000 Catholic women in 42 countries who've publicly pledged lifelong virginity to God.
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She had to settle for Dean, her slightly remedial married high-school ex with a bad haircut, to lose her virginity to?
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And to curb the spread of HIV, a Zulu mayor has offered scholarships for female university students who present certificates of virginity.
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The big question teased in the preview is whether bachelor Colton Hayes Underwood will lose his virginity to one of the contestants.
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Right. Right. At the same time, they've been told they have to value this thing that they have, which is their virginity.
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From time to time, however, I just feel completely alienated from the rest of humanity because of my virginity and social inexperience.
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"I had this fantasy that my dad had actually lost his virginity by my grandfather taking him to a brothel," Liz says.
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But as the genre has developed, McAlister argues, virginity loss stories have moved away from moralizing to become subjects of anthropological interest.
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"There is an enduring idea that virginity is a bodily state," says Hanne Blank, historian and author of Virgin: The Untouched History.
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"When I lost my virginity to a guy, this happened, but when I lost it to a woman, this happened," she says.
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"A lot of queer folks feel they lost their virginity the first time they had an orgasm with a partner," says Blank.
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Critic's Pick It is one of the more repellent bargains in Shakespeare: a young woman's virginity in exchange for her brother's life.
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Given how things turned out, am I upset that I lost my virginity in a rush to a guy who didn't matter?
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In 93.93, the first year the federal government conducted this survey, 42.5.9 percent of teens said they had already lost their virginity.
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Her supposed virginity certainly makes her a much more appealing prospect, but not consummating a marriage doesn't annul a marriage by itself.
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A few moments after we meet, despite some initial nerves, Amanda, unprompted, starts recanting the story of how she lost her virginity.
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They scheme their way into a roadhouse nudie bar (Porky's) so that one guy — Pee Wee — can more expediently lose his virginity.
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Sure, there were jokes about Columbus' virginity in the first one, but no one exudes even a hint of BDE — until now.
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Otis and Ola plan to have sex for the first time in episode 5, which means losing their virginity to each other.
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It's a traditional practice preserved in proverbs like, "Marry an 21-year-old girl, she's guaranteed" -- an assurance of a child's virginity.
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An older boy plied a 15-year-old with booze and, after she passed out at a house party, stole her virginity.
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Nearly everyone loses her virginity while at Camp Marigold — even Fiona's apron-wearing mother, when she herself was a camper of 14.
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That disastrous alcohol-induced Ola-Maeve monologue, which occurred right before he lost his virginity, is a great example of his assholery.
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Young women learn -- absurdly -- that their value as human beings is tied to outdated ideas of sex and the charade of virginity.
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In his autobiography "Finding my Virginity, " the billionaire writes that he's always on the lookout for new talent to promote at Virgin.
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It's still debatable whether Cronuts or losing your virginity fall into that category, but one thing that certainly does is homemade pasta.
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The population of 200,000 or so now largely reside in Tamaichikar's home state of Maharashtra, where virginity tests continued to be practiced.
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During an interview last week with comedian Phoebe Robinson on the podcast Sooo Many White Guys, Rodriguez opened up about losing her virginity.
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But from the very beginning, the CW series Jane the Virgin treated Jane's virginity with nuance — just one part of her multifaceted character.
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As Jane the Virgin enters its fifth and final season, we're looking back at how revolutionary this portrayal of adult virginity really was.
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And for Underwood, one night with one special lady may, indeed, mark something of a fantasy: He may very well lose his virginity.
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"When I found out it was you, I wasn't worried with the whole virginity thing because he was the same way," she says.
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Iaconetti's virginity was the subject of much discussion during that season, and thankfully we never have to listen to chatter about it again.
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At one point, Asuelu says condoms are for "slut people," which explains why Kalani loses her virginity to him and instantly gets pregnant.
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Watch above as everyday people talk about losing their virginity — sharing all the pointers, advice, and stories that might answer a few questions.
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We looked to the kind people of Reddit to tell us what it's really like to lose your virginity on your wedding night.
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Now that we have exorcised the demons of Bachelorette virginity gawking, let's get to the other hometown dates with Becca's remaining brunette men.
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Can we stop talking about virginity like it is some kind of object that is entirely separate of a person's body or self?
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Underwood has certainly had to talk about his virginity a lot, even more so now that he's going to be the next Bachelor.
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Today he gladly doles out details about things like losing his virginity, the size of his penis, and the nature of his boners.
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If teen movies (and Steve Carrell movies) have taught us anything about virginity, it's that the label comes with a lot of baggage.
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What follows was a surprisingly complicated exploration of what virginity really translates to and what kind of unsettling social currency it comes with.
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So, whether or not you should think of yourself as a virgin after masturbating depends more on your definition of what virginity means.
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Like the brothels themselves, Stone's choice has been controversial, particularly for those who believe a woman's virginity should only be shared for love.
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If Sebastian can get Annette to lose her virginity to him, he's allowed to bone his step-sis ("you can put it anywhere").
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Sara, unaware that her mother spied on her in the precise moments she was losing her virginity, is still in a chipper mood.
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I don't harbor any resentment toward my mother for perpetuating the myth that tampons take virginity by way of never talking about them.
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Other studies have shown that teen girls who've taken a virginity pledge end up having a higher rates of HPV and unintended pregnancy.
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Another topic that's been making headlines surrounding the franchise, especially this season with contestant Colton Underwood , is how the show handles virginity reveals.
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Some can't get behind the scandalous names — "Barely Legal" and "Virginity" are the biggest offenders, according to Twitter — while others are thoroughly jazzed.
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I knew that consecrated virginity coincided with the deepest desires of my heart: to belong totally to Jesus and to serve the church.
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"If all that defines a person is his or her sexual activity, then consecrated virginity would be a life of deprivation," Byers adds.
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I lost my virginity at 18, and was dead set for years on making up for lost time, just like Wu and Morgan.
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This was the episode in which Jane was set to lose her virginity, rendering both her past identity and the show's title moot.
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Too often when talking about someone losing their virginity, we resort to the basic extremes of whether or not they've done it yet.
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The freshly-minted couple had just landed when our photog -- an avid 'Bachelor' fan -- peppered them with questions, ranging from virginity to marriage.
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Modern romance and relationships, all kinds of drugs and losing his virginity are just some of the topics we touch on, including kale.
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And while last season's Colton Underwood is a man, his virginity at 27 years old was treated as a punchline the whole season.
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With money-lenders threatening her, Ann took up an offer from a woman who approached her promising big money for her daughter's virginity.
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Most cases of rape are not reported to the police—a 97% male institution which still sometimes makes female recruits undergo virginity tests.
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Saving up for her dream bike, Wadjda's obstacles are not simply financial: a fall on the bike could compromise proof of her virginity.
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When you start reading the essay "How I Lost My Virginity," you expect a charming, possibly gross, possibly salacious but certainly uproarious tale.
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A decade ago, they would have been expected to attend services regularly, to dress conservatively, and to save their virginity for their husbands.
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Conservative groups complained that the book deviated from official dogma on matters like original sin, creation, the virginity of Mary and sexual morality.
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In one of the saddest scenes, Fox, full of agitated bravado, coerces a student to tell the class how she lost her virginity.
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"Virginity tests" are known to cause psychological harm, an effect that's probably exponentially worse when both your gynecologist and your father are involved.
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In his new autobiography, "Finding My Virginity, " Richard Branson describes a trip he took to Las Vegas with his teenagers, Holly and Sam.
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Meanwhile the extremely horny band geek desperate to lose her virginity through elaborate fantasy roleplaying scenarios forgets the reality of who she is.
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The simple scenarios of Jaime Lannister being nice to Brienne, or Ayra losing her virginity feels like a monumental investment that's uniquely Thrones.
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The organization states that there is "no place" for a virginity test in women's health care and warns health providers against the practice.
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It adds that virginity tests are considered sexual violence by the WHO, as well as U.N. reports on torture and violence against women.
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I've heard about people bleeding while losing their virginity or trying things without the proper lubrication, but my issue is neither of these.
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Drug experimentation is, of course, as much a part of the coming-of-age story Pantheon as losing one's virginity or getting arrested.
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"You know those stories you hear about kids who lose their virginity to a hot babysitter?" he says, holding the silence an beat.
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The protagonist Alex (Daniel Doheny) plans to lose his virginity with his girlfriend when he starts to fall for a boy (Antonio Marziale).
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She reacted in horror, for example, to a traditional wedding ceremony in which the goal was to take a young bride's virginity violently.
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But really, there's no one "right" way to have sex for the first time — and "virginity" means different things to different people, anyway.
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In the episode he spoke about making "yearly trips to the gynecologist" in order to check on the status of his daughter's virginity.
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To read Richardson is to enter a moral universe in which the terms "virtue" and "honesty" are used, unironically, as synonyms for virginity.
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Take Chris Brown, who told The Guardian in a 2013 interview that he "lost his virginity" at age 8 to a teenage girl.
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A 2016 survey of 288 doctors found that one in 10 had treated patients who requested virginity tests in the previous 12 months.
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Until that moment, I had expected to maintain my virginity until I was married, or at least until I fell deeply in love.
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It turned out he was childhood friends with a resident assistant I knew and had boasted to her about taking away my virginity.
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Spurling tracks his adventurous romances, including the fact that, while at Oxford, he lost his virginity in Paris to a hooker named Lulu.
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The 'Bachelor' star was out Tuesday in NYC and was asked about finding love and whether or not he finally lost his virginity.
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"Now, I admit a family member touched me / From a child to the age 14 / While I laid asleep, took my virginity," Kelly sings.
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High schooler Emma Roberts wants to lose her virginity to boyfriend Carter Jenkins, while Swift harasses her real-life (at the time!) boyfriend, Lautner.
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I promise I will never stop coming up with alternative titles for this show post-Jane's virginity, even if you politely ask me to.
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The two lose their virginity to each other and Zach even goes to the Crestmont every day to watch movies and talk to Hannah.
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I didn't have another girlfriend until I was 19, so I lost my virginity officially, I suppose, to my girlfriend when I was 20.
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I was a teenage girl who had all these things going on in my life in terms of losing virginity or wants and desires.
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After decades of buildup, Jane meaningfully lost her virginity and went on to have more casual yet equally fulfilling sexual relationships with different men.
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We've seen too many Apatowian man boys take a stab at the virginity beat not to be astounded that someone got finally it right.
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Then, one day, Hannah asked Zach if he wanted to be her "first" — she wanted to lose her virginity to someone she actually liked.
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The "Men Tell All" was spent engaging in debates about virginity, car size, and how much fun one can have inside a cardboard box.
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But, considering everything we know about how fantasy suites actually run, it's unlikely they'll actually be all that dramatic for Underwood and his virginity.
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During a SiriusXM interview with Stern on Wednesday, Moore — who is engaged to Dawes frontman Taylor Goldsmith — said "he did not" take her virginity.
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Purwanti - whose day job as a development worker includes tackling natural disasters - said her campaign is to push back against Indonesia's obsession with virginity.
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And "popping" your hymen during masturbation, fingering, or any other activity that you don't feel was sexual, doesn't mean that you've lost your virginity.
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These 24 adults took to Reddit to open up about what's stopped them from losing their virginity – and how it has impacted their lives.
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With Lady Bird's messy tale of botched first times, Greta Gerwig has reclaimed the narrative around virginity — and it's all the better for it.
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She was just going to go on Tinder and have sex with somebody, lose her virginity to get over it, get over her feelings.
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Left her even though he had held her hand and promised that the loss of her virginity to him would be a safe thing.
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Colton Underwood's penis and virginity came under fire during his charity event in San Diego, leaving the 'Bachelor' star feeling deeply disturbed and violated.
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I lost my virginity to my manager and she eventually lost her battle with herself, assisted by easily accessible alcohol and long, unsociable hours.
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I can't fault Madeline for reacting like that to hearing that Abigail wants to sell her virginity off as a form of political protest.
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The four men I spoke to who lost their virginity to sex workers are all in the stages of developing more consistent sex lives.
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Though genes are undoubtedly important, when it comes to losing your virginity and becoming pregnant, the social, economic, and cultural factors can't be overlooked.
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Whether or not these new regulations will be used to curtail the sale of everyone's favorite "lose virginity liquor" remains to be seen, though.
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When he admitted to Seth Meyers that he used to cry a lot and immediately told his mom when he lost his virginity. 4.
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During that decade, he stole many things from me, including my swimming career, my college experience, friendships, my virginity, and ultimately my Olympic dream.
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Scientists have long condemned so-called virginity testing as a violation of a woman's rights, as well as a sham procedure unsupported by evidence.
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The girls wade into the river with sponges and calabashes for a communal bath, and sit on a sacred stone that affirms their virginity.
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Jane, having just unceremoniously lost her virginity to a stranger at a party, is feeling down, and Bonnie's easy, wisecracking cynicism buoys her up.
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At the time, she'd just lost her virginity, had never seen a porn film and was humiliated to attend the screening with her father.
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"What we need to be saying as advocates for survivors is: your virginity—whatever that means to you—is beside the point," Nesbitt said.
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Bona DeaNamed for the Roman goddess of virginity and fertility, this festival is performed every year on May 1 to invoke Bona Dea's powers.
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Hair and makeup artist Polly Tyson considers the loss of her lesbian virginity to be the first time she went down on a girl.
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I lost my virginity at the tender age of 19 after impressing a grown woman by fucking nailing Billy Idol's "Rebel Yell" at karaoke.
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And that's how I ended up losing my virginity on a fourth date with a middle-school teacher that I didn't even particularly like.
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" A woman could recover damages for a broken engagement that left her with "neither her virginity nor a wedding band to show for it.
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Ike Barinholtz, John Cena and Leslie Mann play the parents of high school seniors, who each plan to lose their virginity on prom night.
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He talks to Eric about it, and says he always thought he would be in love with the person he lost his virginity to.
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Still, the practice persists — in and outside the U.S. In some places, "virginity exams" are required before marriage, the New York Times points out.
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Farmiga's Coven character, Zoe Benson, was forced into virginity due to her literal man-eating supernatural power (sex with her would kill a man).
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As for whether Underwood lost his virginity, he and Randolph played coy and would only say they did what was "best" for their relationship.
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The 54-year-old actor denied that Moore, 56, had taken his virginity after she wrote about it in her new memoir Inside Out.
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During that same performance, Taylor sang "Fifteen," the song in which she basically told the world that her IRL best friend Abigail lost her virginity.
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She and her virginity "parted company," as she put it in a letter to a male friend from Oxford, at the latish age of 23.
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For male characters, sex is viewed as a conquest, and the loss of virginity is accompanied by a metaphorical trophy that says: Welcome to Manhood.
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By the time she gets accidentally artificially inseminated with Rafael's sperm during a routine Pap smear, Jane's virginity is the least interesting thing about her.
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Colton has been up front about his virginity, and it's highly unlikely that what the show is teasing is him taking that step just yet.
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"If I had a tape of me losing my virginity, it would be the funniest thing I'd ever heard," said the late night host. Honestly?
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All together, Hannah's reveal is an emotional and thoughtful look at how the purity culture around virginity leads to women torturing themselves for their sexuality.
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You can choose from "X Rated" (bright peach), "Barely Legal" (bubblegum pink), "Virginity" (bright fuchsia), "Hot and Bothered" (reddish-orange), or "Hopeless Romantic" (bold red).
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This includes being abandoned by his parents as a child, being allegedly stalked by an ex-girlfriend and losing his virginity to a European prostitute.
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Against Khmer culture—which prizes virginity and can offer young women little choice in whom or when they wed—the highlander's traditions can seem astonishing.
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Teyana Taylor lost her virginity at 22 years old & says she "doesn't want to run [Junie] away" Come back every day at 8:30 a.m.
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Jason Sudeikis snarks his way through this rom-com as Jake, a Columbia student who lost his virginity late, only to morph into a womanizer.
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"Let's talk about your virginity," cheerleader director Dorie Grogan allegedly said during an end-of-the-year meeting, according to the complaint obtained by NBC.
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Beyond the original elevator pitch, Jane's virginity has never been the point of the series, but it's still an important lingering aspect of her life.
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For a lot of viewers, this week was the episode to look forward to: There was finally the possibility that Jane might lose her virginity.
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That much was proven during Wednesday night's grown-ish, when Zoey Johnson's (Yara Shahidi) new boyfriend Cash Mooney (Da'Vinchi) announces her virginity to the world.
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In the minute-long teaser, Underwood discusses the possibility of losing his virginity, a hot topic in Underwood-land, and, shockingly, walks off the set.
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Instead, Katherine Stone, who dreams of one day becoming a lawyer, planned to sell something other women working at the bordello couldn't offer: Her virginity.
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In one verse, a rapping priest (of course) tells her that "your vote is like your virginity; don't give it to those who defend impunity".
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Once it was common for young men to lose their virginity to prostitutes in Yoshiwara, something known as fudeoroshi, meaning writing with a new brush.
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Sybil is often seen as a foil to the main character Katherine, a rail-thin control freak who loses her virginity deliberately and with purpose.
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This is bringing us to Twilight, which is what started myself and [co-editor Jonathan A. Allan] on this discussion of female and male virginity.
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There is a taboo around [virginity] still, but if we're going to be discussing identities—female, male, trans, queer, lesbian—you cannot take out sexuality.
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A 25-year-old Verizon employee named Arthur tells me he's been less anxious and more confident since losing his virginity in a massage parlor.
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And the days when a woman's virginity was the most precious gift she can give to her husband on their wedding night are mostly gone.
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The most popular questions the service gets are about preserving virginity and abstinence, while in the US, questions about birth control tend to flood in.
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At the beginning of this year, we reported some very important news: A man with a revolutionary bionic penis was about to lose his virginity.
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The above video from WIRED reveals a handful of intriguing American sexual averages, from average number of kissing partners to average age of virginity loss.
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T.I. says he still accompanies his now 18-year-old daughter for an annual gynecology check-up ... just to make sure her virginity is intact.
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As a result, very few Chinese women use tampons, because it is widely, and falsely, believed that they can rob a woman of her virginity.
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During a SiriusXM interview with Howard Stern on Wednesday, Moore, once again addressed Valderrama&aposs 2006 claims, saying the actor "did not" take her virginity.
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He's a lothario who lost his virginity at 12 and who married a showgirl in a wedding that was aired live on Italian national television.
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McAlister believes the anxiety-producing language around losing your virginity didn't undergo a radical makeover until Marie Stopes' book "Married Love" was published in 1918.
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From the consequences of selfie culture to the tyranny of virginity, here are the seven most crucial takeaways Orenstein serves up about girls and sex.
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It is believed that the students who participate in the puja 'will find the one' within six months, and lose their virginity within a year.
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I was 16, so I gave it my best shot and played My Bloody Valentine's "Isn't Anything" on loop when the virginity-taker came over.
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As soon as I was cured, I visited his house in Westchester for Sukkot, where he offered me his teenage virginity and I piously accepted.
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The rapper, 39, appeared on a recent episode of the Ladies Like Us podcast where he made the insensitive comments about his daughter Deyjah's virginity.
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Human rights groups have previously opposed "virginity tests" on Indonesian women seeking to join the police or military, saying the practice was unscientific and degrading.
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One police substation in Kabul sent 26 cases of "moral crimes" — which include rape cases — to forensic medicine in 2015, and most involved virginity tests.
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She says that some medical practitioners still receive requests to perform virginity tests, and she does not want T.I.'s celebrity to endorse the practice.
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In college, I lost my virginity to Sally, a red-haired flute player, in a rite of passage that I simply wanted to get over.
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In an interview for the release of his book "Finding My Virginity" in 2017, Branson recalled several moments with the former president and his wife.
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" (Fieri declined to be interviewed for this article.) After the success of the review, Wells said, "people said that the Times had lost its virginity.
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And the entire concept of "virginity testing" is flawed because it doesn't take into account the many kinds of sexual activity people can engage in.
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Despite the difference of opinion around legislation, though, many agree that more public attention paid to the concept of virginity testing is a good thing.
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The bloodstained cloth is handed to the groom's mother as proof of the bride's premarital virginity, serving as a test for her so-called character.
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There are also numerous black men in music who have talked about losing their virginity at an early age and played it off as a positive experience like Diddy (age 13), Flavor Flav (age 6), Ja Rule (age 12), and Chris Brown, who said losing his virginity at 8 to a girl who was 14 or 15 prepared him to be "a beast" in the long run.
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Because Jane's virginity wasn't the sole focus of the show, Jane the Virgin itself didn't have an identity crisis after Jane was no longer a virgin.
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Colton Underwood, loudly proclaimed virgin, maybe lost his virginity last year, and the chances that it will be aired on national television are at least 20%.
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You guys read in to things wayyyy too much… can't a guy just take his pregnant gal out on a date without speculation on his virginity?
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"In the end, I'm thankful I was open about my virginity on the show because it made a lot of people feel less alone," she added .
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That summer, after some sweet heart-to-hearts and bonding time, Hannah decided that she wanted Zach to be the one she lost her virginity to.
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As a teenager, Catherine of Siena — the saint who stopped eating — had taken a vow of perpetual virginity, focusing instead on her devotion to her faith.
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"I want to go to prom, get drunk, get potted up on weed, and lose my goddamn virginity," Kayla says at the outset of the action.
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A new study has shown that genes influence your life in more ways than you think—and that includes at what age you lost your virginity.
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May's family was basically looking at the situation thinking that, in such a traditional society, she's already lost her virginity, she's lost her value to society.
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As the series opens, Sasha suffers a devastating, freak heart attack while trying to lose her virginity with her (very sweet) boyfriend, TJ (Griffin Powell-Arcand).
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We live in a culture in which girls' virginity is still fetishized and praised in certain segments of the population, with promise rings and purity balls.
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I know that "taking" someone's virginity is a common turn of phrase, but in this situation, I think it indicates a double-standard based on gender.
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RELATED:The Awesome Way Twitter Is Celebrating National Coming Out DayWhat Virginity Means To Queer WomenWhat It's Really Like To Be A Queer Teen In The Suburbs
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"Jackie, when she was a teenager, lost her virginity to somebody in Paris in an elevator," he tells PEOPLE Now in an interview that aired Tuesday.
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Catherine's "big little lie" about her virginity will chase her until the end of her life – but now Henry has a lie of his own, too.
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Spears played Lucy Wagner, who planned to lose her virginity to Henry (Long) after their graduation — although it ended more awkwardly than the two had hoped.
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There was the guy I lost my virginity to, then I met a Christian boy and we didn't have sex for the year we were together.
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She's bored and needs attention, so she stirs up trouble by losing her virginity, coming between two best friends, sleeping with her mother's boyfriend, and eloping.
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Will seeing a mermaid with big boobs cause them to loose their virginity at an early age, drop out of school, move to New York City?
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I eventually lost my virginity at 23, but, to be perfectly honest, I didn't feel 100 percent ready until I met Joslyn Nerdahl a year later.
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"When I was 17, I lost my virginity to a female extraterrestrial," the 74-year-old says in a documentary about him called Love and Saucers.
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As Jane's life became a melodramatic tangle of complications to rival her favorite telenovelas, her virginity remained one of the only real consistencies in her life.
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"I lost my virginity at 13, to a girl and a guy," Haynes said, explaining the female was 15 at the time and the male, 16.
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Colton Underwood putting his virginity up for grabs on "The Bachelor" will be just another day at the office for him ... according to Dr. Jenn Mann.
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"You have to come up with a substitute, either spend to restore the virginity of the source or I will tax you to death," he said.
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The show, starring Uma Thurman, is about Sasha Yazzie (Sivan Alyra Rose), a young woman who has a heart attack while attempting to lose her virginity.
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She was taken to a hospital, issued a certificate confirming her virginity, and then taken to a hotel room where a she was raped for days.
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I really sort of hate that capitalist, virginity plot structure of like, "Yeah, I'm really sexually inexperienced," and then some guy with money turns you on.
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He just wrapped up his second "Virginity Rocks" tour, which have included "a dance-off between little people, haircuts for his fans, and jousting matches onstage."
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Actor Jon Cryer revealed on Twitter Tuesday that he didn't actually lose his virginity to Demi Moore — despite what the actress wrote in her new memoir.
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Ms. Vardevanian is a remarkably lucid and intelligent Isabella, who has her reasons for being deathly afraid of relinquishing her virginity: shame, the risk of pregnancy.
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Though as a Northern Ontario rube who lost his virginity after a superb karaoke rendition of "Rebel Yell," this brutalist mating ritual was a winning one.
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The scene in which he finally loses his virginity is funny and physical, but at the moment of truth, it still resolves into an ironic distance.
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Still, something in Isabella stirs and unnerves him, and he makes this offer: If she will yield her virginity to him, he will pardon her brother.
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T.I. is setting the record straight following the major backlash and criticism he got for making insensitive comments about his 18-year-old daughter Deyjah's virginity.
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Rapper T.I. spoke out about his controversial comments regarding his teenage daughter&aposs sexuality, and defended his decision to protect her virginity over his son&aposs.
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Ian Somerhalder spoke openly about his first sexual experience on SiriusXM's Radio Andy Wednesday, sharing that he lost his virginity when he was a teenage model.
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But research shows that that's not the case at all — and that's without getting into the complications of what virginity even means in the first place.
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"I love that song so much," said Mr. Dean, who lost his offstage virginity in a car parked at a Pennsylvania community pool and can relate.
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For starters, after Otis (Asa Butterfield) drunkenly loses his virginity to cool girl Ruby (Mimi Keene) he can't remember whether they used a condom or not.
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As for T.I.'s role, Solages noted that while he may have walked his comments back, he's never come out and said virginity testing is wrong.
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" Fisher on losing her virginity: "My mother offered for me to have sex with this guy Albert, and she would supervise Albert and I having sex.
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Laura M. Carpenter is a professor of sociology at Vanderbilt University and the author of the book Virginity Lost: An Intimate Portrait of First Sexual Experiences.
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"It was through the group that I could for the first time express my thoughts against the virginity tests with members of my community," says Tamaichikar.
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Rogen must not be keeping up with this season, because Underwood's virginity is all the show has been promoting since he was first announced as the Bachelor.
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Fisher lost her virginity to actor and friend Griffin Dunne — though the two were not dating at the time, nor did they ever pursue a romantic relationship.
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At one point, every parent in the room discussed losing their virginity to a Prince song—at a drive-in theater, at a cabin on Lake Minnetonka.
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But let's be honest: The most exciting part about the episode's last act is Jane agreeing that it might be time to re-evaluate her virginity promise.
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"We're 24 hours, 228 proposals, 28 kiss and 22019 virginity jokes in and we STILL don't know what this sloth girl looks like #TheBachelor," tweeted a fan.
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Maybe you can take that earlier twine game about losing your virginity on the amazon and add some graphics and music (er, maybe some alligator sound effects?).
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This season's portrayal of sex and virginity is not only wildly problematic, it's painful to watch—and not even in a fun, so-bad-it's-good way.
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This season there have been countless moments showing contestants as they wonder, aloud and to the camera, if they will be the one to "take" Underwood's virginity.
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As well as virginity tests and FGM remaining prevalent, Indonesia's top court is currently hearing a petition from conservative Islamic activists lobbying to outlaw sex outside marriage.
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Last week, of course, brought an altogether different shocker for Thrones fans: Arya, a young assassin, a character they've known since she was 11, lost her virginity.
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"We're 2 hours, 2 proposals, 1 kiss and 527363 virginity jokes in and we STILL don't know what this sloth girl looks like #TheBachelor," tweeted a fan.
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"Let's move on, let's start talking about more things Colton has to offer than just the virginity angle," he says while promoting Subway's Valentine's Day pop-up.
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Talking to Colton again about Tia and his virginity was something I looked forward to mainly because of the backlash that rippled through both of those topics.
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As time went on, though, I never found a man I felt comfortable enough to lose my virginity to, one that I felt connected to and trusted.
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During his "pregame" chat with Underwood, for example, Harrison was prodded to ask about the star's virginity but waited until later to weave it into their conversation.
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The nice guy in his songs wouldn't be the type of person to talk about an ex's virginity or air their dirty laundry to further his career.
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"The Broken Pitcher," shows a pretty peasant girl seated by a well with a broken water pitcher beside her, historically a symbol of the loss of virginity.
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The virility side of that discussion—that a man who loses his virginity is a positive thing—does not have to be within the confines of marriage.
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The star was a guest on the Anna Faris Is Unqualified podcast in March, where he shared all the "sticky" details about losing his virginity at 15.
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Back in 2014, a 27-year-old medical student tried to sell her virginity and told The Huffington Post that financial independence was part of her motivation.
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From there, the author surveys everything from films like Brokeback Mountain, the virginity complex, anal pleasure and violence, and even how butts relate to colonialism in Canada.
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Being a virgin in her early 20s didn't bother her, until she finally lost her virginity and started feeling like she'd wasted her youth not having sex.
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"If I applied for a job and they said 'Take a virginity test', I'd look for a different job," says Zakiatun Nisa, a feminist activist in Jakarta.
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At the age of 23, I was the last person in my group of friends to lose her virginity, and I had only slept with one person.
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The color white also become culturally associated with purity, innocence and virginity within Christianity, said Amanda Miller, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Indianapolis.
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Later in "True Love" Friar Lawrence (Dan Hildebrand) mentions Juliet was called "The Flower Of Verona," and everyone knows flowers are used as a metaphor for virginity.
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" Likewise, she loses her virginity to him not because she's chasing a rose-tinted version of romance, but because "sex would hurt and she wanted it to.
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I was 15, which was quite old for a Scottish person — we tend to lose our virginity and our sobriety on the same night — but on Oct.
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With concerns like pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections, and contact with fuck bois severely lowered for lesbians, Penny isn't sure why she should be worried about Elena's virginity.
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I was almost 21 when I lost my virginity to an escort, which led me to spend my earnings on this service many more times that year.
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So that even though they are losing their virginity, dating, doing all this kind of stuff before marriage, they have to be virgins at the wedding night.
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Some of these tales are harrowing; in the early 20th century, virginity loss stories tended to be "gory" with "brutish men screaming and blood everywhere," McAllister says.
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The cleric said in 2009 that the excessive "movement and jumping" needed in football and basketball might cause girls to tear their hymens and lose their virginity.
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For all its telanovela tension, the storyline confronts two of Jane's worst virginity nightmares: first, rejection and later, her own inability to have sex without emotional commitment.
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Less than a month after the 2011 uprising forced Mr. Mubarak to step down, the military subjected female activists to "virginity tests" — a form of sexual assault.
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The couples try to settle parenting issues over an amiable dinner, but Madeline vomits when Nathan tells her that Abigail's college project involves selling her virginity online.
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In this ritual, a female specialist—a juntaora—inserts a handkerchief into the women's vagina, breaking the hymen, and collecting smears of blood to prove her virginity.
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"We'll put a censored bar over 'virginity,' but kids will know what it is, so that way schools won't take the shirts and suspend them," he said.
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When he stole my virginity, he washed my entire body compulsively in the shower and then told me, 'If you're not a virgin, I will kill you.
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The laughs run hot and (mostly) cold in this comedy about three daughters who set out to lose their virginity and whose parents try to stop them.
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The September installment of Into the Dark tackles the purity movement by placing the horror at a camp where daughters to pledge their virginity to their fathers.
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The British study suggested that the rise of premarital sex has meant that "conquest" narratives, which once fetishized the taking of virginity, now require a new focus.
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It is one of many examples — virginity tests, parents' permission to get an abortion — that smacks of the puritanical influence our culture can't seem to shake off.
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T.I. made the remarks during an interview with the "Ladies Like Us" podcast, revealing that doctors have tried to explain to him why virginity testing is flawed.
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Nevertheless, the assumption of the Ancients that the hare could procreate without a mate led to the belief that it could give birth without losing its virginity.
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Her younger daughter Lucy (Eloise Smyth) is the reluctant subject of the aforementioned virginity auction, a Hail Mary attempt to save Margaret's house from a devastating fine.
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"Those who oppose us know we have the support of the media and political leaders and that we are planning legal action against virginity tests," explains Vivek.
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Xo and Alba are at odds after Xo discovers that Alba lost her virginity to a man named Pablo but insisted on keeping that a secret from Xo. Xo isn't just angry that Alba lied to her, but she's angry that Alba turned out to be a hypocrite who raised Xo with the belief that virginity is sacred and should be saved until marriage, even though she did the opposite.
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Typically, that's not how sex is portrayed for women characters (exception: Michaela Cole's Chewing Gum, a TV show centered around one sheltered woman's quest to lose her virginity).
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If a movie shows a woman losing her virginity, it's either some momentous and romantic occasion, or something that comes with major repercussions, for better or for worse.
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Staying true to this season's theme of "let's bring up Colton's virginity at every chance we get," the group date is all about revealing your "firsts" — get it?!
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After six months of unsuccessfully sending nonverbal signals that I was ready to have sex, I called him up one day and asked him to take my virginity.
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And while her candy and rose petals fantasy of losing virginity might seem old school, don't be fooled — she knows what she wants, and how she wants it.
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He claimed she asked him to "take her virginity" while he was home for the Christmas holidays from university and described the sexual incident that followed in detail.
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It's a place where a Dudu Mazibuko, a mayor in the Kwa-Zulu Natal province, introduced a scholarship for young women who are able to prove their virginity.
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It's nice to see them so cordial, especially after the speed bump in their friendship when Valderrama talked about taking Moore's virginity, a comment he continues to regret.
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I feel like I'd seen so many American movies about virginity or prom night, coming of age stories, but none of them have been from young women's perspectives.
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" As Jane the Virgin comes to an end, Snyder Urman emphasizes that Jane's virginity and subsequent ideas about sex and sexuality were "always so essential to the story.
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Sure, he takes her virginity in the back of a limo mere hours after she breaks up with his best friend, but this time at least, it's consensual.
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Not only did she save the entire world from wintery annihilation, but on the same exact night, she also lost her virginity to a sexy blacksmith. Yas. Kween.
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Virginity is a personal choice that neither defines a person nor is all that big of a deal in general, especially on a series as chaste The Bachelorette.
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WATCH: The Bachelor's Colton Underwood Opens Up About Fantasy Suite Dates and His Virginity There's honestly not much to say about Cassie's date with Colton other than WOW.
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Underwood openly discussed his virginity on the Men Tell All, weeping a bit as he recounted his life as a professional NFL player who was also a virgin.
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It finally happened — no, Colton Underwood didn't lose his virginity, but another much-teased moment from this season of The Bachelor did finally go down on Monday night.
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Each video breaks down aspects of sex ed that might not be taught in schools, like sexual orientation, how to be an ally, or what virginity actually is.
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The following week, I found out that all his friends had been waiting for him to lose his virginity, so it was a big deal for them too.
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Though Parton won't reveal the age when she lost her virginity, she admitted that she grew up fast and learned about sex from her older cousins and uncles.
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"If I was the person that Colton gave his virginity to, I would definitely bring out all the tricks," says Onyeka, an IT risk consultant from Dallas, Texas.
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One of our movies literally that I showed in seventh grade last year implied that boys were only looking for sex and girls needed to protect their virginity.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Health experts have condemned U.S. rapper T.I. for subjecting his teenaged daughter to an annual virginity test, saying the practice was harmful and unscientific.
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Studies show it is one of the most common reasons they give for having oral rather than vaginal intercourse (in addition to preserving virginity and not getting pregnant).
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The three are determined to take the top prize, of course, but they also don't want to finish their journey together without losing their virginity along the way.
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Jonas, who shed his purity ring years ago, sort of confirms that he lost his virginity to Twilight actress Ashley Greene by telling you to trust search engines.
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When he witnesses a Hitler rally in Heidelberg on the same day he loses his virginity to a prostitute, his mind is not focused on momentous historical pronouncements.
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"Purported virginity exams are so unreliable that the World Health Organization has said that they have no scientific validity and health workers should never conduct them," she said.
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And all that came back when Hardcore bands started growing their hair out and they lost their virginity and they started getting into sort of more progressive ideas.
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Olive's life spiraled out of control after she gave a "totally false account" of how she lost her virginity to a guy named George at a community college.
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"I was so excited about sex once I had it, and I lost my virginity to a comedian, so it was like in front of everyone," she said.
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The stories of desperation are plenty: A 19-year-old woman trying to sell her virginity on a subway in eastern China to help her brother with leukemia.
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One of 2 women who came forward accusing Steven Seagal of sexual assault claims he raped her when she was in her late teens and took her virginity.
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The video shows him emerging from a sleek black van emblazoned with "Virginity Rocks" and being greeted by a large group of screaming teenagers in a parking lot.
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Critics said T.I. monitoring his daughter's virginity and having her waive her right to doctor–patient confidentiality so he can access her results was controlling and even abusive.
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That means Madison's virginity is being treated as if it is as fraught and possibly destructive as the Alayah Benavidez fiasco, which birthed multiple cliffhangers over season 24.
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In Cambodia, I once saw terrified young girls being sold for their virginity; in Pakistan, I saw a brothel owner determined to kill a girl who had escaped.
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And while the reasons behind rising heterosexual virginity rates are complex, virtual sex and porn consumption have also been blamed for the decline of heterosexual relations in Japan.
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" Robin says her second first time was "more awkward than the first time I lost my virginity—I was worried I'd never be able to be penetrated comfortably.
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The panchayats are a set of kangaroo courts that govern their community, with their own quasi-constitution that insists on virginity tests as a marker of marital unions.
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But when the time did come in season three for her to lose her virginity, the show delivered an earnest, joyful hour that was never condescending about her experience.
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" Winfrey asked Schumer if she still defined her first sexual experience as a rape, to which the comedian said, "I, personally, feel like I lost my virginity through rape.
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Kardashian West's revelations came just hours after Khloé, 31, shared her own very candid sex post, revealing all the steamy details about her first kiss – and losing her virginity.
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But in reality, Kay Cannon's directorial debut goes far beyond the usual virginity scare trope (and that butt-chugging scene in question, it must be said, is masterfully done).
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We met by chance in a New York City bar, he asked me to be his girlfriend two weeks later, and I gave him my virginity the next day.
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If Davidson can adhere to these guidelines and also refrain from commenting on the concept of virginity in his lifetime, he can safely avoid crossing the Wilmer Valderrama Line.
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WATCH: The Bachelor's Colton Underwood Opens Up About Fantasy Suite Dates and His Virginity For Underwood, though, "I think that's when I knew I was all in," he said.
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Jane the Virgin About halfway through the second season of "Jane the Virgin," the question of when Jane will actually lose her virginity is still up in the air.
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Here, too, one hopes to experience love, but the mechanisms of love — encounters, seduction, flirting — are prevented: Women are watched, we obsess over their virginity, the morality police patrols.
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Since the best ones were written at least 100 years ago, they brim with old-fashioned sexist assumptions, such as that a woman who loses her virginity is ruined.
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Joe Gorga was 9 years old when he lost his virginity Teresa's brother Joe has always been bold when it comes to talking about sex with his wife Melissa.
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Her sexuality is her own to control — "University" notably depicts her deciding to lose her virginity, having sex for the first time ever with college boyfriend Noah (Patrick Tully).
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Historically, for blockbuster films and TV shows -- including "Game of Thrones" -- straight (and usually white) men losing their virginity has been framed as a heroic high-five with adulthood.
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References are made each and every episode, and apparently, the fans aren't the only Bachelor viewers who think the producers are pushing Colton's virginity storyline a bit too far.
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Queer women, in particular, seem to face a murky definition of virginity (in pop culture references, at the very least), since male penetration isn't always part of the equation.
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She's been open about everything from losing her virginity to coping with thyroid disease, so it makes sense that she'd want pictures of herself to be similarly as honest.
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As you know, Colton's virginity has become an endless punchline on "The Bachelor" ... but after Wednesday's encounter, we're told Colton feels the virgin jokes have finally crossed the line.
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But could these women be taking ownership of their bodies in a culture which routinely portrays virginity loss as one of the most meaningful events in your sexual career?
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The first remarkable — and frankly, unexpected — aspect of Jane losing her virginity is that it didn't happen as part of a Very Special Episode devoted to that single subject.
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As a recap: When answering a fan's question, Jonas candidly revealed the story of how he lost his virginity, all but explicitly naming the Twilight star as his partner.
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Marinetti did not specify what kind of music should help establish gustatory virginity, so we tried a bit of everything, from chants from Italy's fascist era to Avril Lavigne.
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By 1921 she had moved to Paris, where she played tennis with Ezra Pound and decided to "get rid of [her] virginity" with the writer and artist Laurence Vail.
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" Gates encourages Booth to "listen to your God-given woman intuition," and threatens: "If this ends badly, I'mma cut his penis off, and he can't ever lose that virginity.
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Once she was in Halifax she would stay with Gamble, they would lose their virginity to each other, and then, the next day, they would pull off their plot.
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There are roller coaster dates, passionate kisses beneath a riot of fireworks, intriguing promises of lost virginity, the return of the near-mythic Ricky Devlin, betrayals and secrets revealed.
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So much has been made of Ashley's virginity, and everyone wants to know what happened between Ashley and Kevin in the fantasy suite and then after they left Vermont.
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So these women, many of them are going to their marriages needing this therapy before they go because they don't even want to lose their virginity to their husbands.
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Admittedly, that's kind of a weird way of fetishizing the lunar surface—does DeWitt mean that the Moon lost its virginity to a bunch of Jersey-based light waves?
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One mate lost his virginity, another broke down and confessed (very emotionally) to being an atheist, and at one point my lighter quite spontaneously blew up in my face.
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And this is the one potential love connection that Game of Thrones decides to pay off in this episode, as Arya loses her virginity to Robert Baratheon's bastard son.
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He'd seen Heckerling's short, "Getting It Over With," which was about a girl trying to lose her virginity the night before both her 250th birthday and her psych final.
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While as a teenager she was terrified of losing her virginity before marriage, in late adolescence her unmarried sons begin to sleep with their girlfriends at their mother's apartment.
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A nominee for the Supreme Court was asked if he was "a gang rapist" and a blackout drunk, while defending himself by describing how long he preserved his virginity.
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Parts of Indonesia - the world's most populous Muslim country - remain conservative and some still value female virginity highly, although pre-marital sex is not uncommon among the younger generation.
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"When you're 13 and you're a boy … boys are pretty on it," replied the actor, later revealing the girl he lost his virginity to was 16 at the time.
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The doctor can explain that virginity cannot be medically tested, and can also ask questions to make sure that the patient is safe from abuse or coercion, Mishori said.
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He narrates, reflecting on his lack of professional ambition, recalling a bad acid trip he once took or the time he lost his virginity in a bordello in Taiwan.
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The most raucous and wildly funny is Michaela Coel's "Chewing Gum," about a very demonstrative young woman in a London housing project trying very hard to lose her virginity.
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These are some of the most visceral renderings of menarche and virginity loss ever committed to film, using body horror to drive home the universal traumas of female adolescence.
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We learned (kind of uselessly, I would come to realize once I parted with my virginity) how to make a dental dam by slicing up a condom with scissors.
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Shortly after arriving there from Los Angeles, his virginity is taken by his handsome Mexican guide, Palomino Cañedo (Luis Alberti), a married philosopher of comparative religion with two young sons.
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It was important for her, then, to make sure that the show didn't lean on stereotypes about virgins, and to break down the stigma that sometimes associates virginity with prudishness.
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Cairo, Egypt (CNN)A member of Egypt's parliament has sparked an outcry after reportedly calling for women to be submitted to virginity tests before being allowed to go to university.
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Charlotte wants to exit the family business not only for herself, but for her younger sister Lucy, whose virginity Margaret plans to sell now that she's reached age (ugh) 15.
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"Biloxi Blues," which won the best play Tony and again starred Broderick, was about Eugene losing his virginity and learning to deal with different kinds of people in the Army.
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Colton Underwood and Cassie Randolph, the newly minted Bachelor couple, have had their fair share of drama thus far: fence-jumping, morally questionable virginity speculation, and a rare surprise finale.
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We can sum up the movie's tendency toward idealization through a real experience omitted from the movie: Allegedly, the real Mary Shelley lost her virginity on her dead mother's grave.
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According to Parsons fashion scholar and researcher Molly Rottman, the white wedding dress was not originally a display of virginity and purity like you'd think, but rather, wealth and status.
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Later that night, at the bar, Chuck tells Wendy something about his father: he was never more proud of Chuck than the night he lost his virginity to a prostitute.
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Falwell, in which the Supreme Court held that Jerry Falwell could not recover damages from Hustler for a satirical interview in which Falwell discusses losing his virginity to his mother.
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Discussions of Colton Underwood's virginity dominated this past season of The Bachelor, and while ABC is admitting they went overboard with the topic, the series isn't known for its subtlety.
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A former cheerleader for the Miami Dolphins claims she faced gender and religious discrimination during her time on the team, which saw coaches demand her not to discuss her virginity.
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The result is a film that's far more about female sexual choice than it is about virginity, putting three assertive female characters with different motivations and interests front and center.
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There's nothing like the memories of prom to make a grown woman cringe — the Betsey Johnson frills, the corsages, the pressure around virginity, the completely unnecessary and environmentally irresponsible Hummerzines.
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Bob's got a point -- it probably wouldn't play well with audiences if Colton started hooking up with ladies left and right after touting his virginity in such a public manner.
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Unfortunately, no one listens to J.Lo's advice and, before the rose ceremony, Colton, apropos of nothing again, brings up his virginity in terms of the fantasy suites to Chris Harrison.
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In Syria, a society where taboos about women riding bikes remain strong, "there's a belief bicycle seats deflower women, and virginity is a big deal", said the 24-year-old.
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Speaking to Martha MacCallum on Fox News, the under-fire judge said the allegations were baseless because he did not lose his virginity for "many years" after he left school.
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In a conservative culture where great value is attached to a woman's virginity, the "aggressive" exams can damage a woman's personal dignity, emotional health, and social status, the report warned.
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"[Virginity] is a failure in their minds," says Maggie McNeill, a long-time sex worker and writer who's taken a number of virgin clients over the course of her career.
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She also noted that one of the videos that she showed last year depicted boys as "only looking for sex" and focused on the importance of girls protecting their virginity.
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I lost my virginity to someone I spent a decade being nuts about, someone who was very unkind, and who returned repeatedly to profess feelings for me — and then disappear.
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Yes, virginity was a historically huge factor in engagements at the time Star-Crossed takes place, but it's not like the drama is sticking to reality in every other facet.
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In the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh in 2013, district officials made hundreds of women undergo virginity tests before taking part in a mass wedding, although Indian law forbids this.
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Kay Cannon directed "Blockers" (April 6), a comedy about a group of parents who intend to prevent their daughters from fulfilling a pact to lose their virginity on prom night.
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It's a vulnerable and funny half our of television that really digs deep into virginity: How people talk about it and why we even "loose it" in the first place.
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Dunne, who gained early lustre starring in "An American Werewolf in London" and "After Hours," has long exuded sexual panache; Carrie Fisher chose him to relieve her of her virginity.
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Well, apparently Shosh is never going to meet Yoshi's grandmother or pretend to lose her virginity to him, because she is back in the U.S. — and not happy about it.
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Blockers is a tale of two trios: three teenage girls who make a pact to lose their virginity on prom night and three parents who are out to stop them.
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When virginity is prized as the highest honor, those who are assaulted can feel even more worthless — and may avoid reporting abusive or predatory behavior out of shame and confusion.
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Patty, who is 17, decides that she's going to lose her virginity to Bob and leads on a classmate she has no interest in so he will do her bidding.
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What Dottie actually wants to know — the shameful shameful question, in other words — is whether it's normal that the man she recently lost her virginity to never once kissed her.
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I found girls who had been kidnapped and locked in brothels, and interviewed a frightened 0003-year-old who was awaiting the sale of her virginity to the highest bidder.
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"Sex is an intimate thing and losing your virginity can be a scary thing to think about because it is the first time you have ever done sex," she said.
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While she agrees doctors should not perform such exams, she says a request is a chance to talk to patients about the many issues surrounding "virginity" and concerns around it.
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In the course of a little more than 90 minutes of screen time, Lady Bird fights with her mom (the astonishing Laurie Metcalf), loses her virginity and applies to college.
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The pilot begins with a flashback to the origin of Jane's virginity — when Jane was 13, her devout Catholic grandmother told her she needed to wait to have sex until marriage.
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Compare Jane to other examples of twenty-something virgin women on TV. On HBO's Girls, Shoshanna's virginity is presented as a character-defining trait, as well as a problem to overcome.
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"The show typically, thus far, has made virginity seem like a weird thing to possess," Ashley Iaconetti, a contestant on The Bachelor, Bachelor in Paradise, and Bachelor Winter Games, tells Refinery29.
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And this week, Colton Underwood became the latest franchise contestant to speak candidly about his virginity when he disclosed the information to Becca Kufrin on Monday night's episode of The Bachelorette.
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In a plot only horny teens could come up with, Sasha and TJ decide to break into said mattress store and lose their virginity on which ever boxspring they like best.
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The former couple ended things when Rachel, who has vowed to save her virginity for marriage, discovered Fabian was cheating on her with the "sexy Tinkerbell" he met at a party.
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Former actress Elizabeth Gorcey, who played Wendy Jo in the hit 1984 movie, revealed in a recent interview that one of the actresses on the film lost their virginity during filming.
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Read these stories next: 17 People Describe Their First Orgasm — & Wow People Share True Stories Of Love-&-Sex Firsts What It's Really Like To Lose Your Virginity On Your Wedding Night
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If this were The Bachelorette, and some meathead started boasting about how he was going to "take" the Bachelorette's virginity, well, it wouldn't fly under the creep radar quite so smoothly.
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With Bachelor fantasy suites around the corner, it's natural for audiences to wonder whether or not he's going to lose his NEAR CONSTANTLY MENTIONED virginity with one of the remaining women.
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The moment was particularly huge for Ashley, whose virginity has been a much-discussed topic on the franchise since she first appeared on Chris Soules' season of The Bachelor in 2015.
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KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan women and girls accused of so-called moral crimes are often forced to endure invasive and scientifically questionable "virginity tests" by government doctors, according to human rights advocates.
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