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02e4523
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Lady and gentleman, when my parents left Korea with nothing but the clothes on their backs and the considerable wealth they had amassed in the shipping business, they had a dream. They had a dream that one day amid the snowy hilltops of western North Carolina, their son would lose his virginity to a cheerleader in the woman's bathroom of a Waffle House just off the interstate. My parents have sacrificed so much for this dream! And that is why we must journey on, despite all trials and tribulations! Not for me and least of all for the poor cheerleader in question, but for my parents and indeed for all immigrants who came to his great nation in what they themselves could never have: CHEERLEADER SEX.
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cheerleaders
immigration
sex
virginity
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John Green |
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7e43fa8
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He'd never be able to touch her, and as passionate as she was, she would eventually need a man who could. He'd never had to worry about these things before because he'd never been with a woman. Not even before his possession. He'd been too busy then, too involved in his job. Maybe he needed to join Workaholics Anonymous, he thought dryly. He had to be the only millennia-old virgin in history.
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lords-of-the-underworld
virginity
workaholics
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Gena Showalter |
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0cc59d5
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"I have a rule." "Elaborate." The statue is still warm from the previous visitors. "I ask myself, if the worst happened--if I did get knocked up-would I be embarrassed to tell my child who his father was? If the answer is anywhere even remotely close to yes, then there's no way." He nods slowly. "That's a good rule."
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virginity
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Stephanie Perkins |
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8eb6fa3
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He had preserved the best part of her and made it his own: the principle of her scent.
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olfactory
perfume
preservation
preserve
principle
scent
smell
the-story-of-a-murderer
virgin
virginity
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Patrick Süskind |
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0d7d3fc
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I had begun to think my ripening body would wither untasted on the vine.
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eagerness
horniness
sex
virginity
youth
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Jacqueline Carey |
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3ec5582
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Virgin suicide What was that she cried? No use in stayin' On this holocaust ride She gave me her cherry She's my virgin suicide
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lyrics
music
sex
suicide
the-virgin-suicides
virginity
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Jeffrey Eugenides |
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f0424f6
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"God, you mean I lost my virginity to the apocalypse?" Morgan sighed again. "The whole thing was really embarrassing; my parents sent me to Brooklyn when they found out." She shrugged. "I thought I'd be safe in a gay bar, okay? What were you doing in there anyway?" Lace looked at me sidelong. "You were where?" I took a sip of beer, swallowed it. "I, uh, hadn't been in the city...very long. I didn't know."
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cal-thompson
gay-bar
virginity
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Scott Westerfeld |
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3ac1f5c
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When I was twelve I was obsessed. Everything was sex. Latin was sex. The dictionary fell open at 'meretrix', a harlot. You could feel the mystery coming off the word like musk. 'Meretrix'! This was none of your mensa-a-table, this was a flash from a forbidden planet, and it was everywhere. History was sex, French was sex, art was sex, the Bible, poetry, penfriends, games, music, everything was sex except biology which was obviously sex but not really sex, not the one which was secret and ecstatic and wicked and a sacrament and all the things it was supposed to be but couldn't be at one and the same time - I got that in the boiler room and it turned out to be biology after all.
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love
sex
virginity
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Tom Stoppard |
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851381a
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"For our own part, we learned a great deal about the techniques of love, and because we didn't know the words to denote what we saw, we had to make up our own. That was why we spoke of "yodeling in the canyon" and "tying the tube," of "groaning in the pit," "slipping the turtle's head," and "chewing the stinkweed." Years later, when we lost our own virginities, we resorted in our panic to pantomiming Lux's gyrations on the roof so long ago; and even now, if we were to be honest with ourselves, we would have to admit that it is always that pale wraith we make love to, always her feet snagged in the gutter, always her single blooming hand steadying itself against the chimney, no matter what our present lovers' feet and hands are doing."
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memories
sex-education
virginity
virgins
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Jeffrey Eugenides |
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973d7cf
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"As bell hooks wrote in a 1998 essay, "Naked Without Shame," about black women's bodies and politics, "Marked by shame, projected as inherent and therefore precluding any possibility of innocence, the black female body was beyond redemption." She points out that since the time of U.S. slavery, men have benefited from positioning black women as naturally promiscuous because it absolves them of guilt when they sexually assault and rape women of color. "[I]t was impossible to ruin that which was received as inherently unworthy, tainted, and soiled," hooks wrote. Women of color, low-income women, immigrant women- these are the women who are not seen as worthy of being placed on a pedestal. It's only our perfect virgins who are valuable, worthy of discourse and worship."
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misogyny
mysogynoir
racism
virginity
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Jessica Valenti |
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16ebad8
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Finally the homeless eel marked its territory, I suppose, and the Doctor lay heavily upon me, moist with sweat.
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virginity
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Arthur Golden |
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1d904b3
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"I, for example, recently finished writing an article about the latest wave of "home-grown" Islamic suicide-murderers. It was impossible not to notice one thing that their profiles and Web sites had in common. All of them complained about the impossibility of finding a woman, or sometimes a woman of sufficient piety. Meanwhile their public propaganda was hot with disgust and indignation at the phenomenon of female inchastity. The connection between repression and orgasmically violent action appeared woefully evident."
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fanaticism
freud
piety
repression
sexual-frustration
sigmund-freud
terrorists
virginity
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Christopher Hitchens |
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cac94a0
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"Failure to put the relationship on a slower timetable may result in an act that was never intended in the first place. Another important principle is to avoid the circumstances where compromise is likely. A girl who wants to preserve her virginity should not find herself in a house or dorm room alone with someone to whom she is attracted. Nor should she single-date with someone she has reason not to trust. A guy who wants to be moral should stay away from the girl he knows would go to bed with him. Remember the words of Solomon to his son, "Keep to a path far from her, do not go near the door of her house" (Proverbs 5:8). I know this advice sounds very narrow in a day when virginity is mocked and chastity is considered old-fashioned. But I don't apologize for it. The Scriptures are eternal, and God's standards of right and wrong do not change with the whims of culture. He will honor and help those who are trying to follow His commandments. In fact, the apostle Paul said, "He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear" (1Corinthians 10:13). Hold that promise and continue to use your head. You'll be glad you did."
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act
advice
alone
and
apostle
are
attracted
avoid
away
be
bear
bed
beyond
can
change
chastity
circumstances
commandments
compromise
considered
continue
culture
day
did
do
door
eternal
failure
first
follow
girl
glad
go
god-s
guy
he
head
help
her
him
hold
honor
house
important
intended
is
keep
knows
let
likely
may
mocked
moral
narrow
near
never
not
old-fashioned
path
paul
place
preserve
principle
proberbs
promise
reason
relationship
remeber
result
right
scriptures
she
should
single-date
slower
solomon
someone
son
sounds
standards
stay
tempted
those
to
trust
trying
use
very
virginity
wants
what-you
whims
who
whom
will
with
words
would
wrong
you
you-ll
your
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James C. Dobson |
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3bf97ed
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"And so the twins had remained virgins. Julia and Valentina watched all of their high school and college friends disappear one by one into the adult world of sex, until they were the only people they knew who lingered in the world of the uninitiated. "What was it like?" they asked each friend. The answers were vague. Sex was a private joke: you had to be there."
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private-jokes
sex
twins
virginity
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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f091f7c
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"There can have been no doubt in Eleanor's mind as to what was expected of her as a wife. In her day, women were supposed to be chaste both inside and outside marriage, virginity and celibacy being highly prized states. When it came to fornication, women were usually apportioned the blame, because they were the descendants of Eve, who had tempted Adam in the Garden of Eden, with such dire consequences. Women, the Church taught, were the weaker vessel, the gateway to the Devil, and therefore the source of all lechery. St. Bernard of Clairvaux wrote: "To live with a woman without danger is more difficult than raising the dead to life." Noblewomen, he felt, were the most dangerous so fall. Women were therefore kept firmly in their place in order to prevent them from luring men away from the paths of righteousness. Promiscuity--and its often inevitable consequence, illicit pregnancy--brought great shame upon a woman and her family, and was punishable by fines, social ostracism, and even, in the case of aristocratic and royal women, execution. Unmarried women who indulged in fornication devalued themselves on the marriage market. In England, women who were sexually experienced were not permitted to accuse men of rape in the King's court. Female adultery was seen as a particularly serious offence, since it jeopardized the laws of inheritance. Men, however, often indulged in casual sex and adultery with impunity. Because the virtue of high-born women was jealously guarded, many men sought sexual adventures with lower-class women. Prostitution was common and official brothels were licensed and subject to inspection in many areas. There was no effective contraception apart from withdrawal, and the Church frowned upon that anyway: this was why so many aristocratic and royal bastards were born during this period."
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equality
history
promiscuity
purity
sexism
sexuality
virginity
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Alison Weir |
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a3a04ef
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I was a young girl, a virgin, and therefore men denied me rationality just as they denied it to all those who were not exactly like themselves, in all their unreason.
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virginity
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Angela Carter |
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0d2f7ad
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We police girls. We praise girls for virginity but we don't praise boys for virginity (and it makes me wonder how exactly this is supposed to work out, since the loss of virginity is a process that usually involves two people of opposite genders).
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feminist
girls
virginity
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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4da648f
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I am fit to capture a unicorn, and I should not be so questioned.
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virginity
virtue
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Philippa Gregory |