Obsessed with Virginity? Get Your Fix Here.

So, if you can’t keep your hands off the tabloids filled with virgins and non-virgins and young mother and sad Jennifer and John break-up news…check out The Virginity Project, a blog that collects stories about the first time from a wonderfully broad range of sources. (By the way, she’s not surprised about “Harry Potter’s” early sexual debut, but I totally agree: I’m surprised that wee Danny Radcliffe ended up such a stud!)
Read an excerpt here:

Mary. Aged 26, from North Carolina.

‘Hey Kate,

To start with, I wasn’t raised religiously, but I became an evangelical Christian when I was sixteen.  So I grew up thinking of sex as a natural, value-neutral thing. I looked forward to having it, but it was still something that was a long way off and thus not too worrisome.

Joining the church changed that.  I bought into the idea that ‘good Christians’ remained pure and waited until marriage.  When I went to college, I immersed myself in another evangelical church, where I basically only knew church people who also felt the same way about relationships and sex. 

Although it was common to hear couples talking about ‘struggling with purity’, the public expectation was that everyone was waiting till marriage.  My friends today are shocked when I tell them how many of my friends got married so young, right out of college, but when you’re waiting (or you at least planned to wait); it begins to make a lot more sense. More.