Character Quote by Jessica Valenti

I think virginity is fine, just as I think having sex is fine. I don't really care what women do sexually, and neither should…

— Jessica Valenti

“I’ve always found the idea of 'saving' your virginity intriguing: it’s not as if we’re packing our Saran-wrapped hymens away in the freezer, after…

— Jessica Valenti

Present-day American society-whether through pop culture, religion, or institutions-conflates sexuality and morality constantly. Idolizing virginity as a stand-in for women’s morality means that nothing…

— Jessica Valenti

Virginity is such a personal thing. You can't judge anyone on it. A lot of young women feel they want to save themselves for…

— Joyce Brothers

“The moral of the story here is that if you’re ever offered anything that seems like it might lead to sex, there is no…

— Bennett Madison

[Virginity is] a cultural ideology that conflates passivity - the act of not having sex - with superior morality.

— Jessica Valenti

We continue to think of virginity as first intercourse. That ends up minimizing and marginalizing other things kids are engaged in, like oral sex.…

— Peggy Orenstein

Virginity is something that can be offered to God.

— Elisabeth Elliot

“Girls “going wild” aren’t damaging a generation of women, the myth of sexual purity is. The lie of virginity—the idea that such a thing…

— Jessica Valenti

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

— Voltaire

Virginity is not dignity its lack of opportunity

— Martin Kagecha

Virginity is not the dignity; its just a lack of opportunity.

— Ritu Ghatourey