Meet the Feminist Filmmaker Convincing Us That Virginity Doesn't Exist PolicyMic
go to original December 4, 2013

"How To Lose Your Virginity" Trailer (Trixie Films)

"What has launched both Purity Balls and porn, defines a young woman's morality, and has no medical definition?"

This is the question that feminist filmmaker Therese Shechter explores in her charming and provocative new documentary How To Lose Your Virginity — a film that might make you rethink everything you know about sex.

Virginity has a deceptively simple question at its core: What is a virgin? The answer is more complicated than it seems. If a virgin is someone who has never had sex, then what is sex? If sex is defined as P-in-V intercourse, then are lesbians and gay men life-long virgins? Do personal definitions of intimacy matter? Does it count if it doesn't go all the way in? Or if someone is raped? What about oral or anal — are there different kinds of virgins? And if virginity is a state of not having done something, how can it also be a thing that is given up or taken away?

Most importantly, why is the impetus to remain pure so often thrust upon women?

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