We talk about giving away your “precious gift,” like your virgin status is really all you have to offer someone. When Taylor Swift sings in her song “Fifteen” that her friend ‘gave everything she had’ to a boy, it means she gave him her virginity, doesn’t it? And it ended badly because, well, if all you have is your virginity, then you’re left kinda worthless.That was EVERYTHING SHE HAD! Really, she has nothing else of value to offer this world? Like being a kind person or being good at math, or being able to run really fast? There are a lot of very excellent reasons to wait to have sex, but the fact that your virginity is the only thing of value you have to offer the world is NOT one of them.
-Therese Shechter, director, “How To Lose Your Virginity”
I have a great convo (now up at gURL!) with Therese, who was a panelist at my Rethinking Virginity conference in May. We talked double standards and pop cultural manifestations of the virginity myth (think: Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift, Britney Spears, etc.). Check it out!
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UGH. Taylor Swift. UGH.
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I wrote a pissed-off op-ed for my college newspaper on this point about 10 years ago. In response to some other girl who...
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We talk about giving away your “precious gift,” like your virgin status is really all you
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YES THANK YOU. This is why I despise that TSwift song, and why I have a growing dislike for her music. A woman’s...
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