Virginity and celebrities

True Love Waits (TLW) is an international Christian group that promotes sexual abstinence outside of marriage for teenagers and college students. TLW was created in April, 1993, and is sponsored by LifeWay Christian Resources. It is based on Christian views of human sexuality that require one to be faithful to one's husband or wife, even before marriage.

In addition, they promote what they consider "sexual purity", which encompasses not only abstaining from intercourse before marriage, but also abstaining from sexual thoughts, sexual touching, pornography, and actions that are known to lead to sexual arousal.

This notion of virginity and sexual abstinence is of course EXTREME. But the topic of virginity is apparently very important in the two American continents (and perhaps even more in Asia and Africa...leaving out slutty Europe on its own!) There is even a young lady (late 20s) with a blog dedicated entirely to her virginity:

"Allow myself to introduce myself. I am in my late 20s and living in Los Angeles, CA. I have no kids nor am I married. I have 2 tattoos, a tongue piercing, and am 99.99% disease free (pretty proud of that one.) I do date and have been in a serious relationship: he must've been with me literally just for my personality; it definitely wasn’t cause I was good in the sack.

Blake asks “Wow, are you really fat or something or like deformed? A 28 year old female virgin, I mean goddamn. Its not that hard.”
Comment by Blake — December 18, 2006 @ 7:57 pm

Answer: Overweight and deformed people are getting more play than I am. I work out and 2 years ago I finally had my third eye removed along with the third nipple.

My decision to stay sex free was made a long time ago. I am not doing it for religious reasons because I am not religious. Yes I do get sexual urges as any other warm blooded American, British, Canadian, African or any other race I’ve left out (politically correct) would get...although I do question if the Amish do?

Some other specs: hate seafood, can drink like a fish, kisses on the first date but I don’t put out on the first, second, and so on. Not quite sure if I’ve gotten to third-base. What is third base these days anyways?"

Virgin Files

She doesn't let out her name or place of work etc. Then there are celebrities....publicly coming out (about not letting anyone in/on/near them?). The lovely Adriana Lima featured earlier is one; seen here with her boyfriend:



Then there is Lisa Kudrow another publicly declared pre-nuptial virgin:

"My virginity was something I had decided was very precious, something that I owned, to give away. It was an honor I was bestowing on a young man, and he had to be worthy of it."

Highly motivated to have sex with only one lifelong partner, Lisa kept sex out of her dating relationships until she married her husband, advertising executive Michael Stern.

Erika Harold, the 2003 Miss America, also declared:



"Ever since I can remember, I've had a commitment to abstinence. I was fortunate enough to have been raised by two loving parents who encouraged me to set high standards, to value myself, and to save myself for marriage. But I grew up knowing that I was lucky and that not every young person had the love and support that I did. I saw many of my peers use sex to try to find that love and acceptance. But instead of being able to fill that void, many of them became teen parents, contracted diseases, and had their hearts broken."

The singer-actress Jessica Simpson was also public about her intact hymen till marriage:



"I believe in one true love, so I really wanted this song not to be cheesy or preachy but rather just truthful, because I believe in abstinence and commitment. The lyrics come straight from a dream I had and are so personal and real to me, because I know that innocence can be sexy and that you can be confident and at ease with your sexuality and your womanliness without having sex. I am."

Brooke Shields, a virgin till she was 21 or 20, she was used in the anti-teen pregnancy campaign.


a still from the movie Blue Lagoon, filmed when she was a teen.






Singer Jordin Sparks has also pledged to remain a virgin until her marriage.


Hilary Duff also went public with her virginity claims:



“It’s hard having a boyfriend who’s older because people just assume. But [virginity] is definitely something I like about myself,” Duff said.

But Hilary, whose mom described her as a “very chaste young woman” in the same article, denies she ever discussed her virtues since she’s dated Madden. “The thing is that I didn’t say that. I wouldn’t say that. I don’t know how [the writer] got that out of what I said,” said the 18-year-old singer and actress, who has totally confused the Gossip as to who said what, or what the hell she’s even talking about.

According to Hilary, it’s not something that she talks about or wants people to focus on. Nor is her sex life even appropriate to think about, dammit! “Whose business is that?” she bristles.

And then there's Katie Holmes. The cute girl pledged to remain a virgin until her marriage to Hollywood hunk Tom Cruise. This actually led to a hot debate on whether the attractive Katie was lying about being a virgin.