Let's Talk About Virginity Baby

Sex is the icing on the cake. The last Champagne to be popped. The ultimate test of love. The secret last weapon. The final bow. Young women, who have not encountered it, hold on to their virginity tight, as if it can be blown away any minute they look aside. It is their source of consolation, that they haven’t been swallowed by devious worldly ways. It is their proof of physical chastity. Well, it is debatable. Maybe they watch porn, but there is no physical evidence. Like they say, being a virgin does not mean you are pure, but really, don’t we all find them pure? And not being a virgin does not either mean that you are immoral. And sex gives a woman absolute power over a man. Thus, men are enslaved by this act.

Mothers portray sex as if it is the most dangerous thing you can touch or even think about. We went to college fully armored with enough advice, threats, and attitudes. We would look at the girls talking about sex and freeze. We would wonder if their mothers were aware they were doing it. Yet in the silence of the night, alone in the small bed, we would secretly be jealous of their courage of taking the sexual step.