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According to TMZ (a gossip site for all those tracking my reading habits), Clara Meadmore is still a virgin at 105. She claims to have been to busy to have had an intimate relationship.
Note to authors, please don't use this as an excuse for including more virgin heroines. We have enough of them.  Jane is a long time romance reader whose passion is, you guessed it, reading. Jane also does not like to talk about herself in the third person, but apparently this is the way that this biography thing works (although in a true biography, someone else would be writing this blurb). Anyway, currently Jane loves urban fantasy authors Patricia Briggs and Ilona Andrews. She's really excited about this year's crop of historicals including Joanna Bourne's The Spymaster's Lady and Sherry Thomas' Private Arrangements and the upcoming Loretta Chase Her Scandalous Ways.
She's looking for a good contemporary author. Email her with a recommendation!
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I took care of a woman 85 years old who was a virgin. Her finance died in WWII and she never met anyone else. A life without knowing the bliss of sex? That’s rather sad if you ask me.
I’m all for waiting for that special someone before you get nekkid and bump uglies.
But jaysus f*ck, by…say, 40… you gotta stop waiting and start getting busy. Love at first sight only happens 100% of the time in romance books. The rest of the time, love has to develop between two dear friends with common interests.
If nothing else, get a vibe at least. Geez.
Although…note that many long lived women have neither children nor men to help their death along a lil faster. Hmmm..die fast and happy, or live long and lonely?
Wow. Good way to ensure your access to heaven?
I donlt think you can say there s anything all people should do, by any age or at all. For a start a minority of people are innately asexual and have no desire to be sexually active.
Did it say if she ever had a girlfriend?
Lori, my thought exactly!
Um, there’s also the idea of forced celibacy too you know, veinglory, wanting to have sex, but having no partner to have it with. It happens to a lot of disabled folks. They do have sexual needs as well, but can’t find a single person willing to sleep with them.
I agree with Emmy. It’s fine to wait for that special someone but at some point you have to stop placing roadblocks in front of yourself and say to someone, “let’s do it.”
Virgins in romances don’t bother me. Handled correctly it could be/can be/has been hot.
I agree with LoveRomancePassion when they say that virgins, when handled correctly, can add a wonderful element to a story. However…
I am tired (oh so tired) of every virgin/loss of virginity portrayed the same way. That it ‘only hurts for an instant’ etc… or the reasons that a person keeps their virginity within a story seems so redundant.
So yes, unless a virgin is portrayed is some other way than the typical,
no more virginal heroines.