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in the 1950s, C.S. Lewis saw chastity as under attack with "all the
contemporary propaganda for lust that makes people "feel that the
desires we are resisting are so 'natural,' so 'healthy,' and so
reasonable, that it is almost perverse and abnormal to resist them."
You can now safely delete the word "almost."
Today virginity isn't a virtue but a burden. Chastity is a freak show
and anyone who chooses to keep it is a carnival barker. In today's
entertainment world, weirdos -- especially sexual weirdos -- drive a
juicy plot, so virgins are in vogue, as a target or merely as an
anthropological curiosity.
MTV has a new reality show called "Virgin Territory" where four young
participants explain their "very tumultuous journey" in the "tricky
world of virginity." MTV sells it as pathos: "Whether they're trying to
lose their V-cards or keep them safely tucked in their pockets for as
long as possible, being pure is really starting to grate on them."
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