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This Valentine's Day, the hymen enthusiasts behind Day of Purity want to remind you that if you have premarital sex, you will get diseases, get depressed, and most importantly of all, seriously disappoint a talking plush bear that for some reason cannot move its mouth when it talks. More »
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Two weeks ago, we were all introduced to the Purity Bear via a creepy video that looked like the last-minute submission to a misguided high school film course assignment. Well, according to the makers of this helpful little creature, the Purity Bear has been a rousing success because it has attracted more than a "quarter million" views, never mind the fact that, according to Towleroad, its garnered 1,500 dislikes and less than 200 dislikes. The important thing is that, just as people flock to Michael Bay's movies, everyone's watching the Purity Bear in action! My only concern is that I'm not sure how knowledgeable a sexless stuffed animal is about human sexuality. I mean, it's easy for the Purity Bear to be pure because it doesn't have any sex drive and I'm not convinced that it realizes that we're not all made of out synthetic fibers and Christian abstinence. More »
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On today's episode of Anderson Cooper's eponymous talk show, the silver haired action figure discussed the issue of father-daughter "purity balls." Specifically, is it the creepiest shit ever or what? Verdict: Yes. More »
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Hey guys, have you met The Purity Bear? He's a plush toy who appears to tempted teens and warns them without moving his mouth that going inside a girl's house will inevitably lead to sex having, and sex having before marriage is literally the worst decision you could possibly make. More »
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Welcome back to Guysourcing, where a panel of helpful gentlemen answer your questions! This week, by reader request, we posed this question: "What are your thoughts about having sex with virgins? Would you have sex with a virgin at your current age, assuming you were single? If yes, how and when would you like to be told that someone you were dating was a virgin? And how have your sexual encounters with virgins (when you weren't one yourself) differed — if at all — from sex with more experienced partners?" Below, guys answer. More »
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Fans of the bestselling book The Purity Myth, rejoice. The film version is now available for your viewing pleasure on DVD, and, from the looks of the trailer, its per-minute truth bomb concentration is unprecedented. Finally, a cinematic alternative to the unstoppable, metastasized Fast & Furious franchise. More »
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So TLC's one-hour special, Virgin Diaries, aired last night, and it was mesmerizing, intriguing, weird, sad and infuriating. Human beings have the right to make choices about what to do with their bodies. But man, it sure was cringe-inducingly awkward when Lisa, 30, told her blind date she was "still a virgin." He was just some dude she'd never met before, and just trying to get to know, while a camera filmed the whole thing. Lisa: "Still a virgin!" Andrew's eyes: "WTF SRSLY I FEEL SET UP." On the one hand, she is to be commended for staying true to herself and informing guys about her expectations and desires up front. But, on the other hand, Lisa and her friends — one a virgin and the other a "reclaimed virgin" — have placed so much importance on sex that it literally defines them. It's such a conversation-halter that the other important stuff — her sense of humor, her kindness, her non-relationship-oriented hopes and desires — might get overshadowed.

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A Saudi Arabian cleric has warned his fellow countrymen against lifting the country's ban on allowing women to drive, asserting that letting ladies take the wheel will lead to a complete extinction of virgins within 10 years. Because everyone knows that ladies will only use their newfound freedom to cars to drive directly to a dick. More »
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TLC insists that it totally isn't mocking the folks featured on its upcoming special Virgin Diaries. The trailer makes that abundantly clear by intercutting shots of a virgin describing her hopelessly idealistic image of her wedding night with scenes of her yelling, "I'm scared," and "Ow, it hurts!" while she and her fiancé play on a seesaw. More »
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Few things have greater potential to be irritating than post-wedding Facebook posts from newlyweds, but it looks like one dude has really taken things to an unprecedented level, posting an image of bloodied sheets and proudly telling the whole world that he and his new wife had just had awkward, hymen shredding sex. Mazel vom. More »
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Before tonight's episode of Glee even aired, it was attacked by the Parents Television Council for behaving with "gross recklessness" by "celebrating teen sex." (The anti-gay Culture and Media Institute also complained that the show is "stepping up its campaign of homosexual promotion," but attacks from bigots are to be expected with a storyline featuring gay teens.) After reading what seemed like dozens of interviews with Chris Colfer and Lea Michele about how sexy their characters' deflowerment would be, the only thing shocking about "First Time" was how tame it was. More »
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Here's some encouraging and surprising news for those of us who learned everything we know about the current state of teen sexuality from 16 & Pregnant: More teens are using condoms than ever before. While the show frequently features young men who expend all their mental energy on figuring out how to hurt their baby's mother with just a series of grunts, new statistics show that in real life, teens are actually pretty responsible. More »
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Believe it or not, Anna Faris got her very first acting gig because she was "chunky." At the tender age of 16, she starred in a commercial for fat-free frozen yogurt which is basically a recipe for disaster in terms of high school bullying. Said Anna, "If you want your daughters to stay virgins put them in headgear and on a frozen dairy yogurt commercial for overweight children." She added, "I think it was my parents' strategy. It was very good." More »
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Welcome back to Guysourcing, where a panel of helpful gentlemen answer your questions. This week, guys responded to a reader's request: "I want your 'How and Why I Lost My Virginity' stories." Let the tales of deflowering begin! More »
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The myth that tampons steal your virginity has been around for awhile, but we were still taken aback to find it being espoused by an adult, with a child, on the Tampax website. An expert answering questions was faced with the following: More »
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For the first time, a military official has admitted that detained female protests in Tahrir Square were subjected to spurious, invasive "virginity tests." His comments to CNN don't exactly constitute an apology. More »
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Everybody relax: neither Kate Middleton nor any of her male relatives will be required to make a public statement about her virginity prior to her marriage to Prince William. The royal family is all modern these days — unlike when Charles and Diana got married. More »
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Quoth she: "I didn't lose my virginity until I was 17. But I have to say even then I wasn't ready and it was an absolutely terrible experience. It wasn't good at all." More »
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Kink.com, the company behind the hymen cam, has apologized for, well, being normative about female virginity. And the apology is pretty convincing! More »
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This weekend, Kink.com will "stream the deflowering" of porn performer Nikki Blue — her first vaginal penetration. There will be an "official hymen-cam" operated by "a trained expert." And one of Blue's Kink.com colleagues has raised some concerns about it. More »
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TMI, Ronnie (I halfway expected it to be at a foam party), but two can play at that game. I lost mine in a twin bed in Athens, Greece. Where'd you lose yours? More »
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The new Republican candidate for Senate in Delaware is known best for her positions on sex: She is a devout Catholic, chaste, anti-masturbation, pro-abstinence-only sex ed, anti-condoms and anti-porn. But Christine O'Donnell didn't grow up in a strict religious household. More »
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This month, two movies about teen virginity will hit the theaters. One follows someone who wants to lose it,  another follows someone ridiculed for losing it. Guess which one is about a girl? More »
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A while back, Social Minefield tackled the issue of losing your virginity. But as many readers pointed out, not all deflowerings involve a dick — herewith, some tips for your first time with a lady. More »
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Let's face it: first-time sex is always going to be a little awkward. But with our tips, you can minimize the awkwardness and maximize the fun. More »
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An 18-year-old Hungarian girl, who is known only as her blog-name "Miss Spring," recently sold her virginity for £200,000. The bidding started on eBay, but they quickly shut it down and Miss Virgin Spring was forced to go rogue. More »
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Window washer Shawn Wickens has written How To Lose Your Virginity about people's "joyful, erotic and unfortunate" tales of first-time sex. Disappointingly, it's based on 1,000 interviews he conducted, not encounters he witnessed on the job. [N.Y. Daily News] More »
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A new film entitled How to Lose Your Virginity takes on the white dress — and in a world of abstinence-only education debates, wedding-crazed culture and a writ-large societal Virgin/Whore complex, this is obviously fertile ground. More »
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Growing up, I was freakishly small and no one paid attention to me. There are always some-those gnomes of the schoolyard running in slow motion toward puberty. We sad sideshows were the same as our peers emotionally, if not physically. More »
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Is there anyone besides the Parents' Television Council who looks to Gossip Girl for moral messages? We hope not, because when it comes to virginity, rape and consent, including in last night's finale, the show's confusing and pretty fucked up. More »
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Two trend pieces today allege that young people are turning celibate in droves. But maybe they're just having a dry spell. More »
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What are the historical roots of virginity? How do queer people lose their virginity? And in an age where teens claim virginity while having anal and oral sex, what does virginity really mean? More »
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There are plenty of pearls of wisdom over at "www.revirgination.net," which specializes in the increasingly popular procedure of "hymenoplasty." Another such pearl: "You wouldn't want your boyfriend/future husband feel ashamed because your hymen no longer existed." No, certainly not! More »
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With Bristol Palin and now Real Housewife Danielle Staub, the born-again virgin is having a moment. But is "secondary" virginity any less upsetting than abstinence pledges? More »
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"The Virgin Files" range from sweet to hilarious — the most poignant contribution comes from the woman who lost it to a guy who "holler @ me when I was crying over losing a best friend." [Nerve] More »
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TLC recently reran Purity Balls, a documentary about the father/daughter cotillions celebrating girls' pledges to remain virgins until marriage. Why is the focus solely on getting girls to protect their "purity" and so little on preventing boys from violating it? More »
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A Hong Kong teenager tried to auction her virginity on a social networking website. The highest bid was $7,800, but the girl pulled the auction and the site posted a warning not "to sell your body for money." [SMH] More »
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Toyota pulled the winning entry in an online ad competition following complaints about its "incestuous overtones." The innuendo-filled clip shows a father speaking with his daughter's date, who assures him he will "have her on her back by eleven." [News.au.com] More »
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Members of the Swedish Association for Sexuality Education have taken it upon themselves to rename the hymen. Its new moniker? "Vaginal Corona." More »
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