Tampons and Ramen

Virginity

I was confronted by the word "Virgin" today. There's a book out with that title, by Hanne Blank, whose style and subject matter I usually adore. But I was not able to even read the reviews. The word brings up too much discomfort. From being 14 and deciding to lose my virginity at 16, to my mother telling me the use of tampons would eliminate my 'virgin' status, to gasping, "I want to save it for marriage," as J.B. date raped me, to my sadness because when I finally did fall in love with someone, he was not able to be my first...the whole 'virgin' thing absolutely sucked. I'd like to erase from my mind that I was ever identified with the word virgin.

posted by Tampons and Ramen @ 7:25 PM