See, this is what talking about the virginity thing does to me.

[apocalypsos]

Now I can't stop thinking that I should write a book about being a 31-year-old virgin who's NOT all, "God told me at my father/daughter purity ball that I have to stay chaste until I'm maaaaaaarried."

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[robyn-ma.livejournal.com]

How about 'Satan told me at my father/daughter purity ball that I have to stay chaste until I'm maaaaaaarried.'

[ysabel.livejournal.com]

...

I think I love you.

[fools-game.livejournal.com]

I'm sticking with "I just haven't got round to it yet, lay off. It's my list, okay? Butt out."

THE HORROR

[laughingrat.livejournal.com]

Oh god, purity balls. You just haaaaaaad to bring those up, didn't you. It took me weeks to bleach my brain the last time someone mentioned those. Weeks!

[elbiesee.livejournal.com]

Along the lines of Cher from "Clueless": "You see how picky I am about my shoes, and they just go on my feet."

There was a Golden Girls parody where Estelle Getty said "You see how picky I am about my teeth, and they go in my mouth!"

*mental note to self: find the GG version on YouTube after work...*

[suaine.livejournal.com]

I'd read it.

It's kind of hilarious though, how people assume that just losing your virginity means you'll constantly be looking for sex for sex' sake. They look at virginity like a dam that breaks and then the pressure will flood your village with sex sex sex all the time. Er. You know.

Also, there is something insanely creepy about this whole father/daughter purity ball thing. Every time I read about it, I just want to curl up and pretend it doesn't exist. I keep thinking it can't possibly be real, that adult men can't possibly think it's a good idea to simulate a romantic date/relationship with their daughters.

[sassygirl.livejournal.com]

ew, is that what it is?

[suaine.livejournal.com]

It is. I've read interviews where the men involved basically talked about how they took their daughters out on dates to show them how it should be done, how a proper chaste date goes - but even discounting a possible sexual factor, the emotional weirdness is just so fucked up.

[sassygirl.livejournal.com]

ew, skeevy heebie jeebies. I thought it was the equivalent of a Sweet 16 or something, with religious factors, like a debutante ball or something tacky like that.

[suaine.livejournal.com]

Anything where girls "pledge their virginity to their fathers" kind of crosses the line between adorably tacky and creeptastically creepy-

[scary-being-me.livejournal.com]

It leaves the line far behind.

[ysabel.livejournal.com]

Don't forget the Daddy owning your vajayjay part!

[roseredathena.livejournal.com]

...and now I have to go find the Brain Bleach. And the mouth wash for when I finish hurling.

[scary-being-me.livejournal.com]

It really makes you wonder about the fathers - and worry for the daughters.

[shehasathree]

i'd pay to read that!

[foenix.livejournal.com]

Hooray virginity!

Userpic used for irony.

[theliel.livejournal.com]

watch Hal Hartley's Amatrue
it'll give you some good comebacks.

[spiritof1976.livejournal.com]

Can I ask you why you decided to remain a virgin?

I'm not asking in a "hur hur hur, I'll sort you out, love" sort of way. I'm just genuinely curious.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

It's a combination of dumb luck and a ridiculously small and crappy pool of volunteers, basically. The VERY short list of guys who've wanted to have sex with me who I've wanted to have sex with is ... um, one. And he ended up getting kicked out of his apartment and moving home to Utica before we got anywhere, alas.

[beanarie.livejournal.com]

Haha my "one" slept with my roommate instead, then, as we were becoming friends again, moved across country. Go us!

[torificus.livejournal.com]

I am sure you have been over this, but what attitude WERE you raised with, re: sexings?

I was a virgin until 21, which doesn't seem like very late or any big deal (not that it is ANYWAY, god), until I consider all the times where it came up, and I said No, stop there now plz. Possibly if I'd been raised up differently, it would have been much earlier, but I wasn't ever told >:( NO DON'T HAVE SEX EVER.

:( I don't like it that people undereducate their kids and as a result underestimate the potential maturity that lingers.


That was a bit of a ramble. All I MEANT to say was THAT BOOK WOULD BE AWESOME ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE WITTY (duh) AND POINT OUT ON MANY OCCASIONS THAT YOU ARE NOT A VIRGIN FOR ANYONE ELSE'S REASONS BUT YOUR OWN (and also the fact that Jensen Ackles hasn't called you yet).

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Oh, my family's got one of the healthiest attitudes regarding sex of anybody I grew up. We actually did kill time before the ball dropped one New Year's crowding into my parents' game room and cracking jokes about a soft-core porn move on Cinemax. Good times. Heh. :D

In all seriousness, I think that may have been my rebellious phase for a while. Like, "FUCK Y'ALL AND YOUR TALKING ABOUT SEX AND WHATNOT, I'M SAVING FOR MYSELF FOR MARRIAGE." I was also not drinking EVER, which lasted until I was 22.

I finally figured out that I was rebelling against the wrong damn relatives and started having a lot more fun making my grandmother's eyes bug out with liquor and tattoos. ;)

[torificus.livejournal.com]

I would read the hell out of that book, then :D

[calicokat.livejournal.com]

I do want to mention the entire concept of being "late" to have sex is silly to begin with. It's not an essential biological function in any way and on our overpopulated earth the idea of "coming late to the game" in terms of coitus is almost ridiculous. I'm not saying YOU'RE ridiculous for using the word "late," rather, that the idea exists in our society is just silly.

ETA: As a homosexual I've had people argue (online here and there) that I'm "Hurting the specieeez!!!! omg!!!!" by declining to have heterosexual sex. I'm like "Uh, really? Last I checked the species was devouring the planet."

[phaballa.livejournal.com]

YOU SHOULD OMG. My sister just wrote an article for Nerve about losing her virginity at age 34. And I think it's a really good depiction of why having sex just to get it over with is a bad idea, as is having sex because you feel weird about being a 30-something virgin. Sex can be fun, but it's not as fun as many many other things, and personally I wouldn't care if I never had sex again. I am actually PLANNING on never having sex again.

[septembergrrl.livejournal.com]

You SHOULD. Not just about that, but I think you could write a great memoir, just based on the way you write about your life in your blog.

*is randomly supportive yay*

[modillian.livejournal.com]

YES, YOU SHOULD DO THAT. No, really. It would totally be a punch in the face of krazy abstinence-only people and wake a lot of other people the fuck up.

[random-serious.livejournal.com]

I'll co-author. we can be rich and famous together.

[calicokat.livejournal.com]

I think this would be a brilliant idea. A character who just has other interests, damn it. XD

[akire-yta.livejournal.com]

write! or even edit a collection of "why i'm a virgin" stories - it seems there's more of us out here than ppl think!

[shadowpoet89.livejournal.com]

Why does this book not already exist so that I can own it??

[akire-yta.livejournal.com]

i think we might need to make one up *editorial headnod*