The New Virgins
No, this is not a joke.
My web wanderings occasionally take me to very strange places, like, for instance, this article in Rolling Stone Magazine about the “new” virgins. Yeah, that’s right. Virgins. And, not as in “virgin sacrifice”, either. Actual Christian young men and young women saving themselves for marriage. No, this is not a joke!
I know, the idea that Rolling Stone Magazine, of all things, would write an article about this blows my mind, too, but, there it is. And, I can’t help but wonder what it means. While I applaud the sentiment, the idea of this whole movement is really mind-boggling to me. I can’t help but wonder if this is just a slightly more serious version of that whole “born again virgin” thing from a couple years back. (Though, I know a few people who would like to think of themselves as one of those spurious “born again virgins”!) I see a return to this kind of conservative thought happening all over and among the generation just behind me. I try to see the cycle of history that’s causing the Great Wheel to turn all the way around to this, but, I have to admit, I’m having a hard time seeing all the forces driving this.
Advice from your Uncle Jim:
"May you live all the days of your life."
--Jonathan Swift
Sometimes I read grand themes into gum wrappers.
Comment by Mark — 7/24/2005 @ 7:43 am
Well, you know, Bazooka Joe could get pretty profound at times!
When I read that comment, though, the first thing that popped into my head was watching a little, old lady very carefully guarding the back of a fortune cookie paper while copying the numbers off it onto a Lottery ticket. I guess people find meaning where ever they can.
Comment by the Network Geek — 7/24/2005 @ 8:35 am