
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 …
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