EDITOR’S NOTE: This post is Part 2 of 2 on the topic of Virginity and Sexuality – or at least my experience with it.

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I sat in Freshman Biology my first semester of college, averting my eyes from the PowerPoint slides and picking my jaw up off the floor. I was stunned and horrified because

• I had just learned was sex was.
• It took me until I was 18 years old to learn this.*

Over the years, I’ve been so embarrassed by that second fact that I’ve just lied and told people I was “like 15 or 16” when I learned about the birds and the bees.

For years, I still somehow managed to remain mostly innocent, despite some of the not-so-innocent books I had to read in college. I fast-forwarded certain scenes in PG-13 movies, whispered the word “sex” the first few times I had to use it in a non-gender-related way, and refused to laugh at Read More

EDITOR’S NOTE: This post is Part 1 of 2 on the topic of Virginity and Sexuality – or at least my experience with it.

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I am a virgin.

I am 31 years old.

I never would have guessed the crazy/awkward/unexpected conversations and situations this fact would get me into.

• Like the time a few months ago that I went for a check-up, and the doctor didn’t believe that I’ve never been sexually active, ever. He kept looking at me like, “Are you suuuuuure there isn’t something you want to tell me?”
• Or the time my host mom in Australia found out I was a Christian and immediately asked, “So I guess you’re a virgin, then?”
• Even my carpool buddy at work would get asked by coworkers, “So Charity…she’s never…you know…done it?”

Ummmm…no, I haven’t. Read More