As a virginal teenager, that's what I'd been trained for.
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You and your lover lay atop a glistening virginal shore.
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Jenkins lingers on their bodies, Tish's virginal vulnerability, Fonny's tender knowing.
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Always dressed in flowing virginal whites, she's gracious, meek, selfless, obedient.
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Ferdinand is worldly and sexually experienced; Simon is literary and virginal.
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"Everything is lovely and wild, with a virginal sweetness," he rhapsodizes.
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I needed to look like a sexy, barely-legal, virginal … Mashable reporter.
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It requires that a woman's body be pure, innocent, virginal, and clean.
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He was so earnest, he may have thought younger girls were virginal.
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Poor, virginal Lady Flora (Alice Orr-Ewing) is instead carrying around a giant tumor.
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It was all virgin territory being plowed by innovative and probably equally virginal men.
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The "dead girl" is a main character, but she's also voiceless, virginal, and pure.
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In fact, Shore was a just-arrived city boy, virginal to what he beheld.
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She's not the chaste, pure, virginal, innocent teen at the start of the film.
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The expression emphasizes the paradox of being old and yet still virginal and unmarried.
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Beneath the persistent veneration of virginal women lies a desire to control women's sexual behaviour.
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Anything that's not virginal or functional gets placed in the "mildly rude, or indecent" category?
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To impress a mate, the snowy egret grows long, flowing, virginal white feathers each spring.
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Instead of coding herself as sexy or provocative, she's coding herself as virginal, even childlike.
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There's even a Nick Jonas blush, a soft, sweet pink that one might say is virginal.
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And she may abandon virginal white in favor of a flattering tone of peach or blush.
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She was a virginal abbess who conjured a comely maiden for her disappointed suitor to marry.
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The effect was hardly virginal; now he just seemed like a raunchy sylph winking about it.
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The young sculptor is disgusted by vulgar real women, so he sculpts a virginal maiden for himself.
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Yet, the stigma of being a non-virginal woman went deeper than worries about pregnancy and parentage.
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Garner is fair, blonde, dressed in pink—virginal, but remember that it's often virgins who are sacrificed.
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"As a broad rule, virginal personas are overwhelmingly preferred for unmarried female K-Pop stars," he said.
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Until, that is, Sebastian falls in love with the virginal do-gooder Annette Hargrove (Carrie St. Louis).
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You, on the edge of young adulthood, examining the virginal hairs sprouting from your underarms and your groin.
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The blonde is feminine where the Final Girl is tomboyish, and sexual where the Final Girl is virginal.
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The mutant purposefully looks virginal with her doe-eyed gaze and all-white outfit, complete with ladylike gloves.
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She's young, virginal, and pure — unlike the sexually active girl who is usually the first to get murdered.
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Her dark hair pulled back into a topknot, she dons a virginal white dress and Ozian red flats.
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The woman's apartment was modest, with a cloistered aspect, though she herself was not virginal in any way.
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The resident surfer may have swept Underwood off his virginal feet, if this paparazzi photo is to be believed.
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Su-ho's characterization as a virginal innocent defies belief, as does Mr. Kang's performance as a man approaching deafness.
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Why should serious people bother with the BDSM-tinged love story between a powerful man and his virginal ingenue?
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It was virginal, restrained, un-sexy sex in a show known for nothing if not splashy sex (sometimes literally).
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I was 34 then, and aiming to bring a touch of complexity, even sexual desperation, to the virginal Mina.
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There's something degrading about removing an undergarment from your wife in a virginal white gown, while everyone is looking.
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Laurie is no longer a virginal babysitter, however; she's a gun-toting grandmother who's determined to protect her family.
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It had been sardonic, but urgent, too, when a virginal Stolarsky had interrogated Bruno on Bruno's experiences with girls.
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This virginal alien princess Wonder Woman can't befriend or relate to other women—she is too exceptional in every way.
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Capricorn season lights up your house of dating and romance (which is also the creativity sector, for the virginal Virgos).
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The newly wedded Irene, a virginal vision in clouds of white fabric, has a confession to make to her husband.
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Unlike her racier, sexually confident friends, quick to be plucked off, the final girl typically has a quivering, virginal sensibility.
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The Final Girl is virginal, responsible, and not prone to the partying pitfalls that her soon-to-be-dead friends are.
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Clad in demure, almost virginal, white, Victoria has her hand around the Prince of Wales, in a gesture of motherly affection.
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But women who remain to be virginal beyond what is perceived to be the normal scope are seen as abnormal, deviant.
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The detective survived the injury, and went on to marry (and have sex with!) the no-longer-virginal Jane (Gina Rodriguez).
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From virginal girl to dockside whore, Lu is a ghostly metaphor for her country — a river goddess and Chun's romantic fixation.
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They come to you weeks before that little chippie comes up with her story of how I despoiled her virginal hand?
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Gradually lowered to the ground, Ms. Cox met the path of a virginal couple trying to back away from the weirdness.
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Others are classic sexual stock characters, doe-eyed and virginal girls-next-door types, and others still are somewhere in between.
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He picks a fight with the virginal Laura (Jamila Velazquez) and grabs the crown — in a horrible suit I might add.
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But she soon found that years of being told to be pure and virginal by the organization had a psychological impact.
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With a voluntarie by William Byrd, Mr. Denk finally arrived at something composed for an early keyboard instrument, an Elizabethan virginal.
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There's a cheerfully shocking Jesus sex scene in which the virginal son of God undertakes a pornographic marathon with a married woman.
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It's Hollywood in 212, and a virginal young actress (Lily Collins) has just arrived to begin her career on contract to Hughes.
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For being too interested in sex – like Jennifer in Jennifer's Body, a virgin sacrifice who turns out to be not so virginal.
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Many cheeses have floral or vegetal notes, but this ricotta was no joke—it was a pastoral landscape blanketed in virginal sunshine.
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In Ms. Pyle's works, female heroines may fall in love, but they're not weak, timid or virginal; they stand up for themselves.
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She is already virginal and spends the last act of "Camp Redwood" being terrorized by the serial killer no one else sees.
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The metaphor can't be a visual similitude (although white, gauzy clouds could look somehow more virginal than heavy ones pregnant with rain).
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At the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, Netherlands, a virginal clean kitchen made of unused yellow sponges stands vacant and exposed to the elements.
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The women are: a dancer (or as the game describes, a "whore"), cleric (the picture of pure, virginal feminine servitute), and a merchant.
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Neither of you stepped forth from a dream portal as perfectly-formed-yet-somehow-virginal creatures who'd been made exclusively for this relationship.
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Latinx folk are often painted the same way in comedy: big, loud, sexy or virginal (can't be both, sorry), and often lacking dimension.
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To feed the guests, human meat plates were brought out so attendees could fill up on the "flesh" of angelic, virginal, sacrificial bodies.
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A popular mean girl in a backwater town, virginal or not, drunk or not, dressed suggestively or not, shouldn't be abducted and assaulted.
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Yet it also inspired a backlash among some feminist critics, who noted that the virginal Laurie survives while her promiscuous pals are slain.
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He's a kindly, virginal dweeb, and the only thing he demonstrates any interest in, other than Alaska, is memorizing famous people's last words.
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The next pairing of instruments, a Japanese koto and a Flemish "double virginal" keyboard, similarly draws a tangental line between two cultural histories.
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The other two parents are consumed by a desire to preserve their virginal visions of their little girls and control over their daughters' lives.
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The day begins with the Moon in fellow Earth sign Virgo, where it will be sending you not so virginal (pretty flirtatious, actually) vibes.
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And there are admittedly a few characters in the movie that can't escape the same nerdy, foolish, virginal tropes that never seem to die.
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By sticking our heads in the sand and saying Jefferson was this virginal God-like person who never did anything wrong, that's just silly.
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So one afternoon we were doing a mock newscast and because she had no qualms about being virginal at 29 she named herself 'Pristine Buttocks.
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Aubrey Plaza stars as virginal valedictorian Brandy Klark who decides to draw up a list of sexual escapades to complete before heading off to college.
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Plot In a squalid Texas trailer home, a drug dealer, his virginal sister and their father hire a contract killer to dispatch the siblings' mother.
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The mythology around the stereotypical blonde, virginal dead girl Laura Palmer was ruthlessly deconstructed in the original series, and this one splits that out prismatically.
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Historically speaking, the story of Jesus' virginal conception is independently attested by Matthew and Luke and is utterly unlike anything in pagan mythology or Judaism.
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On the day of her wedding, an older woman advises the virginal Eurídice — who, unlike Guida, had little interest in matters carnal — on male desire.
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They were both sugary sweet, a little retro, and very femme, but Perry was sexed up and candy-colored where Swift was all virginal white gowns.
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Again, Santa Clarita Diet acknowledges the trope; Eric Bemis (Skyler Gisondo) the Hammonds' helpful, virginal neighbor, finds a girlfriend who turns out to be a zombie.
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The final girl is the last survivor, usually an innocent, white young woman, while all her sluttier or otherwise less virginal friends have already been annihilated.
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When he returns decades later, in true prodigal son fashion, she's still there to provide redemption, like some virginal angel — a cliché of 19th-century romanticism.
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For the role of Banderas's virginal fiancée, Almodóvar selected Rossy de Palma, a musician with the high forehead, bulging eyes, and refracted nose of a Picasso.
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Portman commented on the weird standards of the early '00s, when she felt women were expected to be both virginal and sexual, citing Simpson as an example.
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Both sisters were exceptionally intelligent, yet it was Elizabeth whose brilliance shone in the spotlight, who was flirtatious yet resolutely virginal, whose poise and regality were unmatched.
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The final girl trope—in which the last character standing in the movie is also its most virginal—requires women to be chaste, pure, and physically attractive.
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She was optimally post-virginal and menstrual when EMI released her debut LP, a time when the only other woman being publicised at Kate's level was Blondie.
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While the squares are everything that conservative society holds up in high regard—rich, Christian, virginal, conventionally attractive, from "solid" families—you ultimately side with the drapes.
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Younger viewers who've never seen Scott's movie will be granted a delicious jolt as the fully formed dystopia rises out of nowhere to greet their virginal gaze.
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Starchy high collars, chaste necklines, slender arm-sheathing sleeves, virginal capelets and cascading ruffles suggested that even for some stubbornly progressive brides, this year prim is in.
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The show, you'll recall, involves a virginal couple, Brad and Janet, who become stranded during a storm and seek help at Frank-N-Furter's castle and laboratory.
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His sexual anxiety, and the virginal purity that, in horror movies at least, establishes him as a rare moralist, ends up saving his life in the end.
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He was passive, active, cocky, coy, aloof, needy; to virginal fans such as myself, he made sex sound liberating, funny, and boundless, as well as impossibly fraught.
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Or the idea that she beat Blanchett and Fernanda Montenegro, who complained to the Brazilian press that Paltrow won for being a "romantic figure, thin, pure, virginal"?
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It was because his virginal daughter falls in love with one of his prostitutes and, in the play's most beautiful scene, kisses her passionately in the rain.
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Reichek short-circuits their polemic by remitting Poe's letter to a virginal state, before it was purloined, when it was still in the possession of the Queen.
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She was simultaneously virginal yet sexy, career-focused yet domestic, elegant yet approachable; she didn't just "enjoy being a girl" — she presented an uncomplicated, nigh-mythical image of womanhood.
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Childhood saw Davíd taken under the protection of Simón, who narrates both books, and who in Childhood convinces a suitably virginal young woman named Inés to become Davíd's mother.
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In the pop culture canon, the double bun, gun-toting princess can be viewed as both virginal Leia in the white dress or the saucy princess in the bikini.
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In season 2's "Seeds," Nick (Max Minghella) and Eden (Sydney Sweeney) got married in a creepy mass ceremony in which virginal young brides covered their heads with veils.
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That's not to say the spectrum of female representation in turn-of-the-century pop didn't stretch further than a blonde-haired, virginal pop-star, though – because it did.
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Mr. Parker does give the movie these flashes of old, literal-minded Hollywood staging, like when young Donna's virginal suitor (Hugh Skinner) shoots "Waterloo" all over a French restaurant.
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Of course, this is summer camp, so who knows how long Brooke's virginal front will last — especially now that she's being pursued by not one but two serial killers.
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But the upcoming season of the series, which premieres on January 7, really does seem to have it all: falsified Australian accents, a Twitter scandal, and a proudly virginal Bachelor.
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In a season 3 bit, virginal Podrick is rewarded by Tyrion (Peter Dinklage) with a night with sex workers who later refuse payment on account of the character's sexual prowess.
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In 5013, Jenkins published " Textual Poachers ," an "ethnographic account" in which he defended fans against pernicious stereotypes: the basement-dwelling virginal dweeb, the screaming teen girl hurling panties at Elvis.
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Ms. Finke, who plays the virginal Victorian dream girl Johanna, delivers the pastiche ballad "Green Finch and Linnet Bird" with a twittering skittishness that adroitly signals a nervous breakdown ahead.
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Unfolding during rush week in a nightmarish veterinary school, where freshmen are relentlessly hazed, and every night is a bacchanal, the movie clings nervously to the virginal Justine (Garance Marillier).
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But critics remain skeptical, arguing that the Miss America Organization has spent nearly a century projecting an antiquated image of the ideal woman—one that's necessarily coded as virginal and traditional.
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With the Whistlerian title "Room Decoration in Purple and Gray," it offers an Annunciation-like scene of a solitary virginal maid communing with a golden bird surrounded by irises on vines.
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Those Southern Italian brunette tresses of hers, for instance, were long ago replaced by elaborate weaves that, as far as anyone knows, may require the regular sacrifice of virginal Swedish blondes.
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Wendy is jealous of Tiger Lily's perceived seduction of Peter, a storyline that plays into an insidious trope of women of color as temptresses, while white women are virginal and pure.
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Except she is far from the virginal maidens of Susini's models, and she has a voice, until it is silenced by her execution for the murder of her husband and two children.
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In the poem "There Is a Garden in Her Face" (1617), Thomas Campion likens the fruit to what it most commonly symbolizes today: the sex appeal of a pure, virginal young woman.
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Virginal in color and alluding to a sportiness that suggests youthful pursuits, the pairing of scrunchy white socks and tennies against bare legs is like getting a peek into the locker room.
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Almost inevitably it concludes with a version of Luther's own hymn, "Ein Feste Burg Ist Unser Gott" ("A Mighty Fortress Is Our God") in an early version, with Hein Hof playing virginal.
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Mentioning this experience to a few people recently, the overwhelming response I got is that if I mention this complex event publicly I would ruin the man's career—and my own virginal reputation.
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Which begs the question: What good is having 25 bajillion streaming subscriptions if I cannot watch Britney Spears, playing a virginal, high school valedictorian named Lucy, do Joan Jett-karaoke whenever I want?
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The protagonists in "Lipstick Under My Burkha" are not the coy, virginal women Bollywood has long idolised, nor are they emancipated, modern women who don't need validation from men for the way they live.
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Generally, the female main character (MC) is flustered and virginal, naïve and self-effacing to the point of self-annihilation, while the male characters conform to personality archetypes that are more aggressive and active.
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One of America's first blockbuster films, Birth of a Nation, ends with the capture of a "mulatto" carpetbagger who had tried (and failed) to force a pious and virginal white woman into marrying him.
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Critic score: 43%Audience score: 50%Stone starred as an awkward, virginal sorority sister in "The House Bunny," and this Anna Faris-led movie was one of Stone's first major roles in a film.
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All the paintings in this Guggenheim show were displayed in Péladan's annual, highly publicized exhibition: plaintive Orpheuses; pale femmes fatales; virginal maids in the wilderness, their pallid skin rendered in soft, vaporous brush strokes.
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The wonderful Rebecca Naomi Jones's virginal, apprehensive Laurey is steeped in a combination of dreaminess, raw terror and independent-minded pragmatism that seems to say so much about where America was then — and is now.
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She was always playing catch-up to Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, which forced her to play up the contradictory, sexy-but-virginal persona that record companies seemed to think teens wanted at the time.
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We meet him, along with Arendt (sung as a young woman with virginal purity by Anna Pisareva and in middle age by Vera Semieniuk, a toughened mezzo), in 1924, during a philosophy lecture in Marburg.
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Portman then brought up the weird standards in the early '00s when she remembered feeling that women were expected to somehow be both virginal and sexual in the images they projected, citing Simpson as an example.
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Kavanaugh has emphatically denied those allegations, both during his Thursday testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee and in previous statements, including a televised interview with Fox News in which he presented himself as a virginal square.
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Consequently, Virgo in Japanese is the "otome sign" (otome-za), highlighting the virginal, pure connotations of the word and the genre's initial emphasis on pure love as often depicted in shojo (girls') manga at the time.
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Also virginal cotton nighties splashed with black-and-white prints from Andy Warhol's Death and Disaster series, and a riot of slightly queasy-making color in knit vests and contrasting trousers and silver-tipped cowboy boots.
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And so City of Girls follows the mile-a-minute goings-on of Vivian, a bright-eyed 19-year-old dripping with curiosity who checks off every connotation of the word "virginal" one could possibly procure.
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Two weekends ago, a doubleheader of Harvey's own warehouse rager at Lot 613 in LA's Arts District and a Rumors party with Guy Gerber on the virginal pavement of Gin Ling Way in Chinatown exemplified this perspective.
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Laurey, well-behaved, virginal but feisty, is a well of (sexually) untapped potential: She ostensibly dreams of escaping with Curly but also carefully nurses Jud at his bedside, spending fraught moments alone with him in his quarters.
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Drugs and sexuality were very much at the forefront of pop culture in a commercial sense at the time, with the eruption of all these virginal female pop stars and heroin chic happening in the fashion world.
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His first gown for the event, designed by Peter Dundas for Kim Kardashian, in 2015, was a see-through yet somehow virginal mixture of beads, embroidery, and ostrich feathers, some of them cut to look like vulture.
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Diego Duarte II, the composer's brother, owned a Vermeer—probably "A Young Woman Seated at a Virginal," which now hangs at the National Gallery in London—and the painter may have sold it directly to the family.
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Such products use chemicals that shrink tissue and promote the idea that using them can help a woman shrink her vaginal tissue so much so that her husband will be able to experience a virginal vagina again.
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In season two, the virginal hero Otis (played by Asa Butterfield) continues to manage his own complicated relationships while also discovering that giving sound advice to his confused classmates can't keep their sex lives from getting messier.
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At the conclusion of the first season, two hosts — one created in the mold of a virginal farm girl, the other a seasoned madam — seem to become self-aware and lead a revolt against their human captors.
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Whether she portrays herself painting, reading, praying, or playing the virginal, Anguissola's self portraits present an intelligent, cultivated young woman who is beautiful but modest — most identify her as the "virgo," or virgin daughter of Amilcare Anguissola.
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Though her team kept assigning her a virginal narrative even throughout her high-profile relationship with cocky N'Sync leading man Justin Timberlake, Britney pushed back against that sterile persona, becoming more openly sexual, even a little dangerous.
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Hear the name Emily Dickinson, and you'll probably think of the virginal woman in white, the reclusive Belle of Amherst who died with her "letter to the world" — as she wrote in one of her enigmatic poems — unsent.
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In 2012, the organization filed a lawsuit against Clovis Unified School District in Central California after discovering that the district failed to provide information about preventing STDs and preached abstinence by comparing non-virginal women to dirty shoes.
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When a frigid, virginal police sergeant heeds a call from someone on the island to investigate a missing person report, he discovers it to be teeming with sexually charged paganism and ruled by a single man, Lord Summerisle.
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Lucy is a virginal valedictorian who confines her love of singing to performing in her bedroom with a hairbrush for a mic; Kit (Zoe Saldana), the popular one, is already engaged at 18 to a sophomore at UCLA.
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While the Duchess floats through the orderly grounds like a Stepford Scarlett O'Hara — straw hats, cascading gowns, blank smiles — the inmates are pointedly dressed in girlish outfits, virginal white from their neck ruffs to their high-button boots.
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Show me a 23-year-old man who has "chaste" fantasies!) And though we're led to believe that the relationship is consummated, there's still a wide-eyed, almost virginal (and unbelievable) quality to the writing that describes it.
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Even 22016 years after the Delft artist's death, a Pieter de Hooch work sold for 22015,000 francs, and this two years after Vermeer's "A Lady Seated at the Virginal" (1670–75) went for a mere 2,000 (78 times less).
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The term, coined by Carol Glover in her book "Men, Women and Chainsaws" (22019), refers to a young woman, usually virginal, who is the last survivor of a violent psychopath and acts as the "investigating consciousness" of the film.
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According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, she's said to have faced a confusing and disorienting interrogation, accusations that she wasn't as pious (or virginal) as she claimed, and even threats of torture with total patience, reiterating her commitment to God.
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What it really is: You'd think that, with /r/incel getting banned for going too far off the virginal reservation with its hatred of women, the nearly identical pluralized version of the sub would dial it back a bit.
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Despite its virginal reputation, the traditional nightie, with its airy tulip skirt, puckering and frills can also be incredibly sexy in a coy, strictly suggestive way — an idea that a handful of cool new brands and shops are embracing.
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The film's highly stylized aesthetic was inspired by the color scheme of Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), which Argento also drew on for its mythic tone and its presentation of a young, virginal heroine surrounded by evil.
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Perhaps. After all, the black dress appeared after Ms. Sorokin made back-to-back trial appearances in virginal white: a white long-sleeve V-neck mini with a sweet sheer overlay, a short white lace frock with a youthful drop waist.
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He launched his own novel-writing career with the spoofs "Shamela," in which the virginal young maid is recast as a slatternly schemer who manipulates Squire Booby into marrying her, and "Joseph Andrews," which purported to be about Pamela's brother.
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The artists of the Salon de la Rose+Croix painted lovesick Orpheuses, busty femmes fatales and virginal shepherdesses, all in the service of the salon's dubious mystic founder, Joséphin Péladan, an author with a taste for high drama and white robes.
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"Miss Saigon" started with an audacious idea — create a musical that explores the end of the Vietnam War through an ill-fated romance between a virginal Vietnamese bargirl and a hunky American G.I. It would become much more than that.
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"I'm merely a minor fascination to/Manic virginal lust and college dudes," he sings, and he predicts they'll ditch him in favor of other musicians after they hear the "10-verse, chorus-less diatribe" he's in the midst of singing.
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Coined by feminist film scholar Carol J. Clover in 1992, the trope included a very specific set of characteristics from 70s-20183s slashers: The classic final girl was virginal, virtuous, and innocent, especially when compared to her sexually promiscuous friends, who inevitably die.
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Year after year we've been blessed with looks like Madonna's non-virginal wedding gown (replete with a "Boy Toy" belt buckle), Rose McGowan in well, pretty much nothing, and Lil' Kim's iconic purple jumpsuit that let half of her upper body fly free.
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The earliest written reference to the blue-eyed animals with horns was way back in the 4th century B.C.E. Over time, they became popular folklore fodder, and as fables have it, they could only be lured by the naked breasts of virginal women.
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On the one hand, pooping ruins the pure virginal vision of women; on the other hand, it stands as testament to the fact that the body has its own needs and is not just there for a man to use as he wills.
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Most of what's there, however, is devoted to showing us how much Mercury loves his common-law wife, Mary Austin, who's portrayed as personifying virginal beauty and traditional wholesomeness — everything Mercury could have, the film implies, if only he weren't tragically queer.
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If Maar represented a lissome "virginal" woman at times (Nusch was, in fact, a close friend), she certainly didn't limit herself to that trope, opting to also celebrate a more brazen, still defiantly feminine, form in works produced for art presses and highbrow erotica.
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In Le Fanu's Carmilla, the title character is a sinister vampire who uses her air of innocent beauty to get close to the virginal women whose beds she invades, causing them to have dark, erotic, pseudo-awake "dreams" and eventually claiming them as her victims.
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But in 2016, mainstream media began to talk about whether the whole 2009 VMAs scandal had stuck as hard as it did because it played so neatly into the old racist American nightmare of the aggressive black man menacing a virginal blonde white girl.
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The show follows the plot of the film, which starred Ryan Phillippe as Sebastian — a sex-driven teen who, responding to a bet from his step-sister Kathryn (Gellar) — set out to deflower the new headmaster's virginal daughter Annette (Reese Witherspoon) before the start of term.
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"If you ACTUALLY READ the Natalie Portman quote, she's clearly not criticizing Jessica Simpson for wearing a bikini so much as pointing out the confusing double standards of early 2000s pop stars, who were expected to present as both virginal and hypersexual," tweeted BuzzFeed editor Louis Peitzman.
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But Millie Bobby Brown of the Netflix series "Stranger Things," at 13 one of the Emmys' youngest-ever contenders, opted quite consciously for something more virginal, strolling the carpet in a strapless, full-skirted white Calvin Klein gown that could have doubled as a wedding dress.
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The translation is by the Scottish poet Peter Manson, in a collection published by Miami University Press in 2012: The virginal, enduring, beautiful today will a drunken beat of its wing break us this hard, forgotten lake haunted under frost by the transparent glacier of unfled flights!
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So, despite some strong words ("If he's not making any moves tonight at a wedding – with an open bar – I'm going to murder him") and some promises ("I would go to third base with Jared tonight") from the famously virginal Ashley I., her pals' party was ultimately a bust.
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The movie itself invites these comparisons, when it has Johnson's character Anastasia Steele, the virginal heroine of the Fifty Shades franchise who is inducted into an education in sexual bondage at the hands of Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan), pay homage to Working Girl after winning a sudden promotion.
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Somewhere between the reused "stripper with a heart of gold" trope seen repeatedly in movies (see: Natalie Portman in Closer; Marisa Tomei in The Wrestler, and so on) or listening to Drake's rap about dancers not meeting his virginal-like expectations, our perception of pole dancers is limited.
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Miracle The stories will claim that when Christina was starving, chained in a dungeon by Gertrude and me, denied food and water, sunlight and air, her virginal breasts began to flow with a liquid of clearest sweet oil, which nourished her wasted body and healed her festering wounds.
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Halloween is often credited as being the first example of the slasher subgenre of horror, and for introducing the world to the concept of the Final Girl: the one girl, usually singled out for her virginal qualities, who gets to survive the cinematic massacre of all her counterparts.
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"Should I just round up the sons of the most important families in town?" the sheriff sneers at Veronica, who has woken up in an unfamiliar bed with no memory of the previous night and walked straight to the sheriff's office in her virginal, suddenly ironic white dress.
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It's understandably hard for a virginal man, gay or straight, living in a hyper-sexualized society where male promiscuity is lauded, to admit that he hasn't yet had sex—but, really, letting someone know that you're about to take his or her virginity is, obviously, the decent thing to do.
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Nickelodeon star Victoria Justice and Disney Channel actor Ryan McCartan will play the virginal leads, Janet and Brad, Penny Dreadful's Reev Carney will appear as the sinister henchman, Riff-Raff, and Adam Lambert has recently signed on to play Eddie, a motorcyclist who meets a grisly end via ice pick.
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Think back to her earliest videos, which tended to involve her twirling through a meadow full of wildflowers in a virginal white gown — she has always presented herself to the world as a sweet girl, a good girl, a pure and perfect pop princess, and yeah, that image can be irritating.
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Here's the sex-haver's way to say "fuck cops":If you're a Blue Lives Matter person, you'll probably feel more inclined to use this instead:USE (LIBERALLY): Symbols of the Surveillance StateWe're being watched by our government—there's nothing less virginal than being aware of the imminent threat this poses to our liberty.
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"Virgo is the sign of the virgin, but if you're having trouble relating to that concept in 2019 (age of Hex the Patriarchy), think of it this way: Virgo is an aspect of the priestess archetype, who were often required to be virginal in ancient times but wielded great power," she explains.
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Earlier this week, a deeply bizarre tweet sent by a self-described "wife, mother, Christian," whom we suspect (read: hope) is, in fact, an internet troll, compared Taylor Swift's vagina to a sandwich with protruding ham, and the sexual anatomy of the tweeter's ostensibly virginal daughters to a sandwich with ham neatly tucked in.
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If you were paying close attention to the opening scene of the finale, when Camille arrived home and walked in on her family's demented dinner table ritual, you'll have noticed that Amma was cosplaying as Persephone, the virginal woman who, according to Greek mythology, was abducted by Hades, the king of the underworld — a.k.a.
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You could be completely untouched by a member of the opposite sex but still considered non-virginal if you'd had a dirty thought; a letter to the editor of a British newspaper in 1730 said books by female authors like Eliza Haywood and Delarivier Manley "ruin more virgins than masquerades or brothels," McAllister tells Broadly.
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Historians have many theories: Some say the exchanging of rings dates back to ancient Egypt; others believe engagement rings come from a time when virginal women were regarded as property that needed to be purchased away from their family; and then there are those who think it's all just the result of a marketing campaign to increase diamond sales.
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A quick refresher course on where we stand: Fifty Shades of Grey introduced us to Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan), the devastatingly handsome 28-year-old billionaire with a secret passion for BDSM, and Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson), the virginal object of his affections who falls face first into his life while standing in for a friend's college paper interview.
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This is why for some, comfort women must be represented as having been young and pure, virginal, sex slaves: Anything else would mean wrestling with the far more challenging notion that some of South Korea's women did sleep with the enemy, literally and metaphorically, and that the rest of the nation may have had something to do with that.
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For protection, she winds up married to a virginal farm boy named Jamie (Sam Heughan), a situation that is, for viewers, a delicious fantasy, like a time-travel hall pass: Claire has no choice but to go to bed with this brawny innocent who knows how to shoe a horse, a nice break from her mansplaining husband.
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Around the time Cézanne and van Gogh were down in Provence analyzing apples and mountains, the artists of the Salon de la Rose+Croix painted lovesick Orpheuses, busty femmes fatales and virginal shepherdesses, all in the service of the salon's dubious mystic founder, Joséphin Péladan, an author with a taste for high drama and white robes.
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Or, better still, might be taken up in the Facebook comments section of this post by politically virginal douchebags as a reason for unrest in the Middle East That's why he couldn't declare himself a "Citizen of Sway in the Morning;" that's why he can't dance to "Thriller" the way he wants to; that's why we can't have nice things.
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For example, the video for her recent single, "Prophet," begins with Straus dressed as a high school football player and ends with her laying on a table, her body a literal cake—frosted with virginal white clothing and surrounded by roses à la American Beauty—that, as the clip finishes, a horde of business-clothed men and women eat with enthusiasm.
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In the end, it's their business, but it's interesting to note the slight trend in "post-virginal chastity" in a "high-profile heterosexual couple to be involved in an openly sexless relationship wherein the woman is the mother of a child from a previous partner" (thanks, Bobby Finger, for that one), referring to the much-talked about situation between Ciara and Russell Wilson.
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Even when lube does make an appearance in popular culture, it's usually in a mocking context: In the movie Superbad, Jonah Hill's character makes fun of the virginal Michael Cera for bringing a bottle of lube to a party, while both Rihanna and Nicki Minaj have boasted of not needing to use lube due to being in a perpetual state of vaginal humidity.
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The tale of Halloween in Haddonfield, Illinois, has been told and retold: the night in 1963 that an angelic 6-year-old Michael Myers, dressed in a clown suit, brutally murdered his teenage sister, followed by the night 15 years later, again on Halloween, when he broke out of a mental institution in his famously mutilated William Shatner mask to terrorize the virginal babysitter Laurie Strode, a.k.a.
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Only those blessed with the privileges money and slim good looks bring, these women seemed to suggest, could get away with wearing a dress that evokes virginal drabness at best and cult-style patriarchal oppression at worst; a dress which, with its sacklike silhouette, looks like a cross between a 1880s homesteading smock and the so-called bankruptcy barrel archetypically worn by old-timey hobos.
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She advised a virginal Elaine Stritch to have sex with Marlon Brando to keep him interested; helped Rock Hudson thwart a blackmailer who threatened to out him; sheltered Ivana Trump from other gossip-hounds; traveled the world with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton; and during her tenure at The Post broke the story of Mr. Murdoch's divorce — from his point of view, of course.
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Given how many villains Roberts has played on the show in the past, both the media and fans have noted her switch to playing the virginal good girl in this go-round; but few seem convinced that the good girl act is on the level, and as I watched, I couldn't help but think of another classic summer camp horror heroine with a mysterious side: Angela from 1983's Sleepaway Camp.
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For those who've somehow forgotten, Hocus Pocus tells the story of how Max Dennison (Omri Katz), his precocious kid sister Dani (a wee Thora Birch), and Max's crush Allison (Vinessa Shaw) find themselves battling the child-soul-sucking Sanderson sisters (played by Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy, and Sarah Jessica Parker) on Halloween night in Salem, after virginal Max lights a magical black flame candle that allows the witches to come back from the dead.
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More than 40 years later, the cult film is retooled with a cast for millennials: Laverne Cox as Dr. Frank-N-Furter, the "sweet transvestite from transsexual Transylvania"; Victoria Justice and Ryan McCartan as the virginal Janet and Brad, who seek help during a storm at his castle and laboratory; Reeve Carney as Riff-Raff, his creepy aide; Adam Lambert as Eddie, the ill-fated delivery boy; and Staz Nair as Rocky Horror, the monster.
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