Virginity is of concern here, that is its utter messiness. At once valuable and detrimental, normative and deviant, undesirable and enviable. Virginity and its loss hold tremendous cultural significance. For many, female virginity is still a universally accepted condition, something that is somehow bound to the hymen, whereas male virginity is almost as elusive as the G-spot: we know it''s there, it¿s just we have a harder time finding it.Of course boys are virgins, queers are virgins, some people reclaim their virginities, and others reject virginity from the get go. So what if we agree to forget the hymen all together? Might we start to see the instability of terms like untouched, pure, or innocent? Might we question the act of sex, the very notion of relational sexuality? After all, for many people it is the sexual acts they don¿t do, or don¿t want to do, that carry the most abundant emotional clout.<i>Virgin Envy</i> is a collection of essays that look past the vestal virgins and b
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Virgin at 50: the official publication celebrating the half-century birthday of one of the world's most famous brands.
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