Born-again virgins claim to rewrite the past

[RamboLiberal]

Victoria Watts, a 23-year-old single mother of two small children who lives in Canton, Ohio, lost her virginity at 16 with her high school boyfriend.

She was the granddaughter of a Pentecostalist pastor and the daughter of an assistant pastor, and she believed sex outside marriage was wrong. “I felt really bad from a religious standpoint,” she recalls of the experience. “My thoughts were really clouded because I was so emotionally bonded with my boyfriend. That overshadowed my religious world.”

Though the relationship lasted for seven years and produced two beautiful children, a part of Watts always felt guilty. She wished she could step back in time and recapture her lost virginity. Thinking of how “I could have ruined one of greatest fulfillments of my life,” the first time having sex with a husband, she wanted to “have that opportunity again. I know my husband deserves a whole person.”

So Watts engaged in a lot of prayer and thought, and now declares herself a virgin once again. “The most important thing was to realize what my values were and what I want in the future and the bigger goals in my life," she says. "That’s why I can call myself a renewed virgin.”

Across the country, "revirginization" appears to be gaining steam. Spiritual efforts to reclaim virginity emerged back in the early 1990s and now, prompted by abstinence-only school courses taught to thousands of girls nationwide, and by religious teachers, there are reports of more and more young women like Watts attempting a sexual do-over. Other women are opting for a more radical route to reclaim their virginity: surgical replacement of the hymen, the small membrane that stretches from the walls of the vagina and that typically breaks when a woman first has intercourse — or for many other reasons, from tampon use to vigorous exercise.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23254178/

No wonder this country is so screwed when we let delusional people like this vote. So you had sex - so what. And if you go through surgery to replace a hymen you have too damn much money to waste!

[mrreowwr_kittty]

1. This stuff is creepy

The chastity movement objectifies women every bit as much as the purveyors of smut in entertainment.

[Missy Vixen]

2. I just got done reading this article at MSNBC as well

Some women must have the surgery to prevent "honor killings". At the same time, those who are doing it for a neato anniversary gift -- I wonder about them.

The artist who started the Virgin Project's comments were very interesting as well.

Julie

[MissB]

3. There isn't too much of a leap from this to ritual female circumcision.

[DadOf2LittleAngels]

18. As much as I disgaree with the thoelogy behind this stunt

Is not even on the same planet as female circumcision..

[MissB]

21. I'm talking about the train of thought that puts virginity on such a pedestal.

And how obsessing over a woman's virginity and her need to remain pure for her future husband can lead a culture to choose something like female circumcision. Because for cultures that choose female circumcision, life and sex is all about the guy and not about the woman's pleasure.

[DadOf2LittleAngels]

22. Womans Virginity only?

There are allot of guys who 're-virgin'... While this story is about a woman this 'movement' is about chastity, not just female chastity..

[MissB]

25. Well, the subtitle at the link is "Through spiritual or surgical routes, women give their first time

a do-over".

So yeah, I was commenting on women's virginity only. :rofl: The article was all about women restoring their virginity through prayer or through surgery.

[DadOf2LittleAngels]

27. This article might only focus on Women

But there are men who do it as well

http://www.thebluedot.com/srv/

"I lead an active lifestyle and can't let anything get in my way. So when my lost virginity began to slow me down, I called SRV. Now nothing can stop me!"
Anthony Luciano - Tampa, Florida

I agree this is stupid, senseless and demeaning but its not gender specific..

[liberal N proud]

4. Once that cherry has been popped, it isn't growing back

No matter how much praying she does.

WOW!

[leftofcool]

5. Okay that does it!!!!!!!!!!!

This 60 year old crone is getting revirginized. Because when the old goat I have been married to for umpteen years kicks in the towel, I am going to need this for my next husband. I should probably also consider a tummy tuck, liposuction, a small face lift and for good measure, something for the law of gravity in the chest area.

Left of Cool

[kineneb]

32. ahh, what "joys"...

I should be looking forward to, as dearest Hubby (of nearly 27 years) slowly fades into the sunset, due to his illnesses...

not.

gag me...
If a dude can't cope with a (soon-to-be) 50-ish non-virgin, blech. I ain't gonna' be no stinking Trophy Wife if I were to get married again.

[CJCRANE]

6. She's got two kids.

She's delusional if she thinks she's a virgin. Any prospective husband should run a mile.

[Mountainman]

7. Hey I see a new reality show coming. America's next top virgin!

[GoneOffShore]

26. Best Laugh I've Had All Day

And following America's Top Virgin at 11 on FAUX - Celebrity F**KING!

[mcctatas]

8. Moral do-overs?

now if only birth control were retroactive, barbara could spare us all the hell that is her son GW

[sharp_stick]

9. Why are RW idiots so hung up about sex

Is it because their parents are constantly telling them how bad it is while cheating on each other with anything that has a heartbeat?

I wouldn't give a nickle to do it again for the first time. It was embarrassingly short and anti-climactic to say the least. It took me a long time and a lot of practice to get good at it. ;-)

[trof]

10. I renew my certificate once a year.

Don't want to get a ticket.

[TlalocW]

11. Boy, her future dates are going to be fun

When she tries to explain to her date that while she does have two kids, she is still a virgin.

There was a comedy skit, British, by whom I can't remember dealing with a guy looking for his virginity as he thought it would be nice to have it back and give it to his soon-to-be wife. A couple of by-standers help him look for it, and in the process, one of them starts naming off all the women he deflowered, and the virginity-seeker's fiance's name is one of them. Turns out that they had both told each other they were virgins, and the fiance had written to her deflowerer asking him to return her virginity as she was getting married soon. It so happened that he was carrying it on him so he gave it to the groom-to-be to return to her... the sound effect being a harp and chirping birds. That taken care of, they returned to looking for his, which they soon found... the sound effect being a large dog barking, sniffing, and slobbering.

TlalocW

[malaise]

12. She's already fucked up so

I won't tell her to fuck off. :puke:

[Richard D]

13. I suddenly feel . . .

. . . very nauseous.

[acmavm]

14. Good grief, reality and these people have not one thing in common.

What the hell is going on? How can people be so delusional?

This is one freaky scarey country anymore. And nutcases like this are the real scarey ones.

[sinkingfeeling]

15. Guess she's striving for the 'Christian' ideal, Mary... neither born nor died like every other

human being and eternally a virgin. Lord, spare me from those who believe in myths.

[DadOf2LittleAngels]

16. Why would a Christian do declare such a thing

Out sins are *why* we need Christ and though he may wash the guilt away it is not because of our sinlessness that grace is granted but because of Christ sinlessness! Stunts like 're-virgins' only cheapen the wonder that is grace by trying to put some kind of qualifier on ourselves..

[LanternWaste]

39. Would you consider the practice of Lent a stunt?

Would you consider the practice of Lent a stunt?

[DadOf2LittleAngels]

53. No...

And I dont consider someone saying 'from this point forward I am going to abstain from sex' or 'I will do X for Y ministry' to be insipid but when you try to say 'I'm revirginized as if you are capable of wiping the sin from your plate' you are cheating what Christ has actually done..

Its because he has covered my sins that grace is miraculous it has nothing to do with me going to Virgin camp doing some ritual and suddenly I have covered my sin..

When Christ hung next to the thieves on the cross he did not 'un-thieve him' he covered the sin..

I think the concept of recapturing sexual purity is a noble one but it should not be aimed at recovering for past sin, the grace of Christ is sufficient for that..

[unpossibles]

17. back before this was real some friends and I used to joke around about this idea

wtf?

And how come it's for girls only? Maybe I want to be a virgin again too!!

[DainBramaged]

19. Why is this so important to their pea brains?

How do you get a better "man" (with two kids) still claiming to be "revirginized"???


These ignorant fuckers (and I use the term loosely) have the highest divorce rates in the country, and they want to be "revirginized"???

This country has gone nuts.:wtf:

[Kali]

35. heh - they ARE "fuckers" they just want to pretend they aren't.

:freak:

[dchill]

52. "fuckers" ... want to pretend they aren't...."

Perfect Republicans! :)

[LanternWaste]

20. Much like a smoker who quits...

Much like a smoker who quits and then calls himself a non-smoker; or a heroin addict who kicks and then calls himself clean. :shrug:

We all gradually reinvent ourselves-- I would suppose it's much better than maintaining a stagnant life course.

[mikeytherat]

29. More like an ex-smoker claiming to have never smoked in her life.

Or a former heroin user claiming he's never used smack. Not once. Ever.

mikey_the_rat

[LanternWaste]

33. I don't think the subject

I don't think the subject in the story listed by the OP claimed to have never had sex-- unless I misread, which is very possible these days.

[Marr]

48. There's already a word for that. Celibate. Or chaste.

Virgin has a precise meaning.

I would say a person who's grasping at their lost virginity is living a stagnant life indeed.

[wiggs]

23. They must have been reading Tom Robbins...Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates

Rejuvenated hymens are possible....as are triangle shaped heads, curses, and blue skin.

[Dorian Gray]

24. Seems like such a pointless

and unnecessary rewriting of history. As human beings we all make mistakes and behave in ways that we are ashamed about. So what? Acknowledge past mistakes, but there is no reason to rewrite them.

[Kali]

28. WTF!!???

You're not a whole person because you had sex but you will be when you do it again after you have a wedding and you claim you are a virgin for no other reason than wishful fantasy? WTF? No wonder Bush has managed to find supporters for photo ops for 8 fucking years. These people are AT LEAST as delusional as any fundies anywere in the world and while this particular example is harmless to the rest of us, many of their halucinations are fucking up the entire planet.

excuse the language but it is both part of the subject matter and appropriate reaction to idiocy.

[HelenWheels]

30. Just another way to undermine a woman's worth

It's disgusting.

[madokie]

31. even though that cherry has been pushed back far enough that its a stop light now

so putting a clear lens on it will make it a backup light now. I don't buy it

[defendandprotect]

34. When do we start worrying about MALE VIRGINITY . . . ???

[knitter4democracy]

36. This isn't anything new amongst evangelicals and pentecostals.

Men and women who recommit themselves to God often say that they're virgins again. It's weird, but it's understood in those communities.

[blondeatlast]

37. Hint: Once the horses are out, it's too late to seal up the barn door...

That's gonna take some serious praying--and a monumentally stupid male companion indeed.

:eyes:

[Tyler Durden]

38. VIRGIN? Let Captain Kirk go where no man has gone before. n/t

[Matariki]

40. "my husband deserves a whole person"

hate to break it to you sister, but sewing your hymen up isn't going to accomplish THAT.

[SoCalDem]

50. Maybe he deserves a REAL person.. not a lunatic

:rofl:

[Zorra]

41. *sigh*...conservative insanity again. Sad. n/t

[ProgressiveFool]

42. I hear this thing is very popular with bulimics. /nt

[Ilsa]

43. "I know my husband deserves a whole person"

I think this kind of attitude is part of what destroys rape victims and ruins marriages. I wonder if her husband is going to reclaim his virginity? Elevating virginity to the level of salvation is very creepy.

Why don't they just pillage and murder and then claim that didn't happen either? Is that part of their salvation?

[immoderate]

44. The rapist can do the same switcheroo.

As in, "I used to be a rapist, and now I'm OK."

--IMM

[truebrit71]

45. This stuff is so fucking stupid...what a bunch of fucking assclowns....

...these morans give Christianity a bad name...

[fascisthunter]

46. neurotic

simply neurotic.

[riderinthestorm]

47. Instead of a "whole" person, she is becoming a truncated version of herself

She is literally cutting off enormous swaths of her experiences - vast portions of her life that have contributed towards being who she is now.

It's breathtaking in it's immaturity. I can't imagine the brainwashing it takes to get a person to deny so much of who they are/have been.

[mitchum]

49. Well, I've got a brand new used car I want to sell to Victoria

[Withywindle]

51. Damn, I almost wish I still had mine!

Instead of being in such a hurry to get rid of it, maybe I could make something selling it on eBay if people want one so badly. Didn't know there was a market!

[electron_blue]

54. I see. If she were software, she'd be "Virgin 2.0"

[baby_mouse]

55. Well, I'm a born again Mary Tyler-Moore clone.

Oh, no, sorry, that was last year. This year I'm a born again bob-tail squid:



EEEEE! BOBTAIL SQUIIIIID!!

Cutest. Cephalopod. Ever.