As Feministing.com commenter electron-Blue noted in response to the 2008 New York Times Magazine article “Students of Virginity,” on abstinence clubs at Ivy League colleges, “There were a WHOLE GOTTA us not having sex at Harvard. . . But none of us thought that that was special enough to start a club about it, for Pete’s sake.

Jessica Valenti

The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women

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