03.29.07 5:00 AM CDT
• TV & DVDs
• Stephen Randall
Are you 18 years or older? Are you a virgin? And more importantly, are you lacking any shame? MTV is casting “Suburban Virgin,” a reality show version of “The 40-Year-Old Virgin.” According to Reality Blurred (one of the better websites covering reality TV), potential cast members, besides being losers, “must live within driving distance of the Los Angeles area and have limited to no experience with the opposite sex.” And be willing to have that limited experience broadcast to millions of MTV watchers who, should they to run into one of the show’s stars, would never, ever make fun of an adult virgin under any circumstances.
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Virginity in men is underrated, and in women overrated. Or is it the other way around?
Regardless, the reality of virginity cannot be relegated to the domain of the train wreck, the ruined marriage, or the alcoholic. For those are the domains of reality TV: train wrecks (real and figurative), ruined marriages, and alcoholics. but those were the domains of fiction and literature for some time in the 20th century, too. What fantasies are there on topic of virginity that are not sexual? Sure, we might pay an actor to portray his virginity on television, and then pay for his "first" with a prostitute, but does that fall into the category of train wreck, ruined marriage, or alcoholism?
Seriously, a virgin's mind is his or her own's. No matter how much Victoria Secret's might like to tell us what our fantasy is, each person hopes for something individual. When corruption becomes an issue in Playboy, give me a call. While you all pat yourselves on the back for finally "listening" to Al Gore, you're still snickering about Bob Dole "listening" to Britney Spears. Notice also the perversion of Justice when it comes to the hypocritical appreciation of purity side-by-side with appreciation of decadence: the girl next door is only the girl next door until a set of eyes lay on her. After that, no matter who sings "girl, you're gonna be a woman soon" to her, they're already too late. Sure, she might be in on the joke. Heck, you might even be in on the joke. But the joke is always more about the punchline than the waiting line, and that's the real carrot before the donkey: is it more important to "get it" than to get it?
That's awesome!