What US Weekly's List Of Star Virgins Reveals About Teenage Girls
Posted by Defamer Hollywood at 4:20 AM on August 7, 2008
Putting together a celebrity slideshow isn't for the faint of heart: just ask our own Molly McAleer, whose titanic work in the pursuit of compilations could kill a lesser man (and has — don't ask us about that intern in '06). So how do you survive filling out an eleven-page slideshow when your subject is that most rarest of species: celebrity virgins? Well, if you're an employee at Us Weekly, you cheat a little, padding your list with both non-virgins and non-celebrities alike!
Hard-nosed investigative analysis after the jump:
First of all, let's eliminate a few. Out of Us Weekly's list of twelve star virgins, at least two are famously deflowered: the indefatigable Britney Spears and the formerly married Jessica Simpson. And though we can't be sure Gary Coleman has finally done the deed, we'd like to believe his wedding (and Al Roker's prodding) may have helped hasten things along.
That leaves us with nine star virgins, and three of those are the Jonas Brothers. Take them out of the equation, and you're left with six separate celebrities, all of whom (it may not surprise you to learn) are young and female. Yes, while we can't imagine that a reporter would ever ask, say, Phil of the Future if he'd given it up yet, apparently the world would fall off its axis if even one famous teen girl neglected to reveal the state of her hymen. Let's hear it for sexual stereotypes and pernicious double standards!
- Star Virgins [Us Magazine]

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TillieHarper
Posted 4:48 AM 7/8/08
Why are we taking the mild bunch out of the equation?
TillieHarper
NoWireHangers
Posted 4:42 AM 7/8/08
That oldest Jonas is 20. And speaking of triad Mormon tweeny-popper brothers, weren't all the Hanson's married by that age? No sex until marriage, but marriage is at 17. This latest crop of Disney purity ring enthusiasts is entirely composed of "technical virgins." Miley's porny pics scream of burning hormones. Kids, it's natural to want to fuck. Wear a condom, use some discretion, and go to town. Who benefits from this marketing gimmick anyway--none of us seriously believed Britney was a virgin and I doubt people bought her records because of her "virginity." Besides, the "Virgin Stamp" usually just suggests creepy, over-bearing, born-again parents. Speaking of which, they forgot Shaved Koala.
NoWireHangers
A Pimp Named DaveR
Posted 4:39 AM 7/8/08
Also still a virgin: Lady Elaine Fairchild.
A Pimp Named DaveR
DramaClub
Posted 4:37 AM 7/8/08
Virginity is a useless and outdated concept.
DramaClub
LLH
Posted 5:21 AM 7/8/08
@bess marvin, girl detective: is the virginal jonas also teh gay jonas?
LLH
Losin_it
Posted 5:14 AM 7/8/08
@Booksaretoo: I understand your point, but then again, I doubt if we see children as being MORE pure after they start having sex like adults. It's not scary, it just means that kids are more innocent (and more "pure", if you will) than adults.
Losin_it
Fry_Bread_Power
Posted 5:14 AM 7/8/08
@bess marvin, girl detective: I doubt the claims of nearly all of them.
Fry_Bread_Power
bess marvin, girl detective
Posted 5:04 AM 7/8/08
two out of the three jonas brothers are not virgins and i know that for a fact.
bess marvin, girl detective
Booksaretoo
Posted 5:03 AM 7/8/08
Does anyone else think its exceptionally creepy that all of these young people (when I say all I mean the ones that might actually be virgins) equate virginity with purity and sex with impurity? That's both really dumb and really scary.
Booksaretoo
LuckyEmmie
Posted 5:34 AM 7/8/08
@NoWireHangers: Those Hanson boys don't exactly belong in the "religious/purity/abstinence" category. Especially since Taylor's wife was preggers when they got hitched (when he was 17). Don't ask me how I know all this... what can I say, I heart Hanson.
LuckyEmmie
ronaldpagan
Posted 5:31 AM 7/8/08
Mike Myers is a virgin, right?
ronaldpagan
Pop Socket
Posted 5:26 AM 7/8/08
Judging by the pervy hits I get on my blog, there's no shortage of guys willing to help Selena Gomez out with her problem.
Pop Socket
eirestar
Posted 6:06 AM 7/8/08
@eirestar: or should I say, I don't know why it's notable that Cyrus/Gomez are.
eirestar
eirestar
Posted 6:05 AM 7/8/08
News at 11: 15-year-old girl is virgin!
I would imagine the majority of 15/16 year old girls in this country are virgins, I don't know why people are surprised that Miley Cyrus/Selena Gomez are.
Now if Miley's still proclaiming her virginity at 25, that's less probable.
eirestar
Desk_hack
Posted 6:05 AM 7/8/08
Isn't this more of a Molly Friedman beat? What happened to her?
Desk_hack
kookla
Posted 5:59 AM 7/8/08
@bess marvin, girl detective: I swear, I only let Joe finger-bang me while Kevin watched. But that Nick is such a prude.
kookla
bess marvin, girl detective
Posted 5:55 AM 7/8/08
@LLH: i don't know about that, but i am a little surprised that they so blatantly lie to their fans. why proclaim to be a virgin when you're clearly not? did the media ask them about it or did they talk about it first? i don't know, but two of them have already dipped their balls in the sea of sex.
bess marvin, girl detective
NoGrumpys
Posted 5:49 AM 7/8/08
YEAH - pernicious double standards!!!!
NoGrumpys
paxetaurora
Posted 6:31 AM 7/8/08
You know what's sad about that slideshow? Once upon a time, Britney really was a pretty, healthy-looking girl.
paxetaurora
Breadbowl
Posted 6:23 AM 7/8/08
Does molestation count?
Breadbowl
Demosthenes7898
Posted 6:22 AM 7/8/08
Goddamnit....
Either they're saying this for the benefit of doped-up, sanctimonious neo-victorians that still persist in this society, or they're truly hopeless and deserve to lose their virginity to a cattle prod.
Demosthenes7898
Old No.7
Posted 6:20 AM 7/8/08
Julianne Hough has never been a virgin in my mind, if you know what I mean, and I think you do.
Old No.7
RonMwangaguhunga
Posted 6:44 AM 7/8/08
Has Gary Coleman ever considered that his prickly uptightness might have something to do with the fact that he's not getting any sweet ass?
RonMwangaguhunga
halloweenjack
Posted 7:30 AM 7/8/08
I saw a porn movie titled Star Virgin once; the title character is being raised aboard a spaceship by a robot who is explaining the facts of life to her, and wraps things up by deflowering her him(it?)self. As per usual, the most entertaining thing about the movie was the awful theme song.
halloweenjack
Victor Ward
Posted 7:30 AM 7/8/08
I would marry Phil of the Future.
Victor Ward
BitchyMcGee
Posted 10:42 AM 7/8/08
I actually assumed that all this virgin talk was for male consumption period. The whole having-something-no-one-else-has-had, the innocence, the vulnerability. I figured it was because some men are terrified of sexually experienced women.
I've never really known women to care that much. My mother never went through my cds wondering, "Yes, the music is good, but is the artist's cherry popped?" At least, not to my knowledge she didn't. Besides, Queen was a little obvious...
Ultimately, whose fucking business is it that a girl is a virgin or not? Am I the only one who thinks this is an incredibly intrusive, vulgar question? You might as well as how many abortions a pop star has had.
I prefer celebrity celibates. Like Morrissey.
BitchyMcGee
Trai_Dep
Posted 3:42 AM 8/8/08
Since daisy-chained, incestuous, gimp-costumed, rump-busting-with-full-penetration humping doesn't count, the Jonahs still make the list.
Thank gods the same dorks that obsess about "purity" are the same ones with stunted imaginations when asking celibacy-related questions.
Trai_Dep
paradisefound21
Posted 5:12 AM 7/8/08
Oh, they're virgins... ever since the re-virginizing ceremony... Can someone please do some sort of hard-hitting journalistic expose on this?
paradisefound21
julijet
Posted 5:38 AM 9/8/08
Oh my god this goes along with Jessica Simpson's virginity description. Fucking HIlarious...
At 12, the Baptist-bred singer was given a purity ring by her father. She kept her commitment until her wedding with Nick Lachey. "I definitely think [abstinence] is the best birth control," she once told MTV. "I know that condoms are not a hundred percent, because I'm here because of a busted condom. I can say that right now. I am here because of a busted condom."
It explains a lot...
julijet