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“I’m so glad these conversations on virginity preceded my first experience with hetero sex. It released it from the unhealthy, fabricated hype of “losing virginity,” and brought the choice into the same realm I always had in other sexual acts. My experience was fine…fun, even.” –Sassafras, 25
“I loved that she didn’t take a specific viewpoint and exploit the other like so many documentaries usually do, and I loved that she interviewed so many different types of women with such different personalities and views on sex.” -College Student, WA
“As someone who has dealt first-hand with the virginity movement and its damaging effects, I was fascinated and so, so thankful that there are people fighting against this awfulness.” –A., 18
“After I lost my virginity, I thought of three people to tell: My best friend, my college roomie and you for the blog.” –Ferrette, 27
“I owe you thanks for your project – for making me feel less alone, and also for giving me an outlet for my… lots of thoughts, lets say, about the whole concept of virginity. It was great to get out of my head, have societal and global context, all of that. The compassion with which you see people is rare and wonderful. Looking forward to seeing your film.”
“I had no idea that there was such a wide variety of ways to define how one loses their virginity, and that there are more than one possible virginity to lose.” College Student, WA
“Thank you so much for creating a space for older virgins like me (I’m 25) to discover that we’re not alone; I generally feel like I’m harboring a shameful secret, and before I found your blog was pretty convinced that I was the only woman in her mid-twenties who had never had sex.”
“Thank you so much for helping me put my confusing, frustrated thoughts on sex and relationships into perspective. It really makes me feel so much less like an outcast and more able to take ownership of how I feel and not to listen to what others tell me.”
“I just wanted to say thank you for your blog. I sat up entirely too late reading it, and felt emotionally purged afterwards. Reading about other people’s experiences with virginity made me feel differently about losing my own, and all the soul searching that resulted. I don’t know what it’s going to take for me to achieve a normal sex drive or a normal sex life, but I feel more comforted that maybe one day it’ll happen.”
“Your site is the first place where I’ve ever felt like I wasn’t alone in the virginity department. To hear other people’s stories is quite cathartic and relieving. At this age, it truly feels like I’m the only one sometimes. I don’t feel that way when I read the stories on your site.”
“I don’t know what else to say, except that I feel relief, comfort and kinship to have found this. Thank you. Thank you so so much for sharing.”
“Your blog and documentary project really inspired me and helped me to decide to make my own little personal blog about my journey. Can’t wait to be able to see the whole documentary!”
