{"id":1247,"date":"2009-04-22T19:52:48","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T09:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msnaughty.com\/blog\/?p=1247"},"modified":"2009-04-22T19:52:48","modified_gmt":"2009-04-22T09:52:48","slug":"virginity-is-a-huge-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/22\/virginity-is-a-huge-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Virginity Is A Huge Lie&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Huffington Post has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/anastasia-kousakis\/why-is-america-so-obsesse_b_183798.html\" target=\"blank\">a great interview<\/a> with Jessica Valenti, founder of Feministing, about the rise of the &#8220;virginity cult&#8221; in the US, specifically among Evangelical Christians, and how it is symptomatic of a larger push towards removing women&#8217;s rights.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Oh, I definitely think that virginity is a myth. I think that virginity is a huge lie. Having your first sexual encounter certainly is important, and I don&#8217;t mean to demean anyone&#8217;s understanding of their sexuality or how they want to think of themselves in that way. And I think that can be a really powerful experience and a wonderful first thing. But, as a concept it&#8217;s more dangerous than not, because it puts us into these virgin or not virgin categories, which doesn&#8217;t really give us a very nuanced perspective or understanding of sexuality.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well worth reading.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Huffington Post has a great interview with Jessica Valenti, founder of Feministing, about the rise of the &#8220;virginity cult&#8221; in the US, specifically among Evangelical Christians, and how it is symptomatic of a larger push towards removing women&#8217;s rights. Oh, I definitely think that virginity is a myth. I think that virginity is a huge lie. Having your first sexual encounter certainly is important, and I don&#8217;t mean to <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/22\/virginity-is-a-huge-lie\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[919,835,836],"class_list":["post-1247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sex-and-women","tag-sexuality","tag-virginity","tag-virgins"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}