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MSNBC’s resident tech and social media blogger Helen A.S. Popkin has found a real gem of a website, the virgins-only dating matchmaker You and Me are Pure. The website is supposedly sold-out of their gift memberships, but you can still get a virginity card for the bargain price of $3.50, but no refunds (“just like your virginity,” muses Popkin). While the site seems to be merely seizing on the currents pro-virginity and pro-abstinence trends (Jonas Brothers, Twilight, etc.), this website is the first to make sure that it’s members are virgins through the use of the cards they sell. While the website boasts some less than inspiring success stories, the glimmering couples they use in the photographs are models used for “illustrated purposes only.” Indeed, the whole site looks rather like a scam, but, then again, isn’t most of the abstinence industry just a way to trick people …
… into spending money?
Popkin also raises the interesting point that by putting two hormonal and repressed people into a straight relationship (no gays, since they “party like it’s Aug. 4, 2010“), this might in fact encourage them to have premarital sex. This potential sex is also statistically more likely to be risky, as those that have taken abstinence pledges tend to not use protection when first engaging in intercourse. Despite the fact that a pay site would probably attract more serious virgins (try saying that with a straight face!), the door is still left open to a lot of sexual tension and the potential for partners to get hurt (is it that hard to imagine a horny lover getting some action on the sly and then bringing home some nasty surprises, especially if their partner is holding out on them?). All in all, whether the site is legit or not, it raises some strange questions about what exactly the purpose of this website is: shameless fundraising for some shady behind the scenes corporations or a place where the so-called “shy virgin” can meet their opposite sex counterpart for some good old-fashioned, wholesome celibacy? Either way it provides plenty of comic fodder for Popkin, myself and others critics of a movement that seems to get more ridiculous by the day.
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Looking to find a virgin? I am selling my own homemade virgin detector, made of the finest bent paperclips and fishing wire, for the low low price of $299.99. Also detects Big Foots and Chupacabra, optional Lock Ness Monster snare available.
Chupacabra?? Say no more! I’m taking it!
WTF is with the nouveau-virgin-fetishization? Did I just wake up in 1453?
Seems to be a realistic path to take from the uprising of problems and information surrounding the diseases that arose from my parents’ generation.
By the time I was old enough to be sexually active, I had seen AIDS and hep and herpes and kids getting pregnant and decided having sex simply wasn’t worth the issues it could bring.
I think the whole virginity fad is going to stick around for a while. It will probably balance out in the next generation or so, though. Like SentWest said, we went from free sex to AIDS and I think the pendulum’s probably swinging back in the other direction a bit. I can only hope it finally rests somewhere reasonably in the middle eventually.
Who’s kidding who, everybody knows all this stuff with virgin dating and gays getting married is just people killing time until we can bang robots.
This. –^
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