Wednesday, 23 January 2008

true sexuality in a over sensualised society

I read this article on the Observer website today and think it really speaks for itself.

Jennifer Moore is a virgin. A 27-year-old singer-songwriter virgin from North London, with a Jessica Rabbit physique and an irrepressibly dirty laugh. And she insists that her virginity brings her a degree of intimacy with her boyfriend that she would never otherwise experience.
'I've been going out with Juan [a music producer] for five years and chastity is natural to me. We're both Christians, and we will probably get married, otherwise it wouldn't work. I wouldn't put a guy who didn't have the same beliefs as me through that.
'I just think, why would I want to have sex before I'm married? I believe that if I'm spiritually compatible with someone, then I'm going to be sexually compatible.'
In our hyper-sexualised, ultra-liberal society, virgins are perhaps the only sexual sub-culture left with the power to shock us. You can be as gay or as fetishy or as promiscuous or as transsexual as you like; you can be a regular at Cake parties and on the dogging scene; you can be part of an open relationship, and we won't bat an eyelid. But a virgin? Are you serious? We simply don't expect to encounter them any more. We certainly don't expect to meet attractive, assertive, well-dressed, professional, celibate Christians in their late twenties. But it seems that they do exist. And furthermore, they reckon there are hidden benefits to their choice.

you can read the whole article here - http://observer.guardian.co.uk/woman/story/0,,2237778,00.html

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