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>================================== >Sarah Geronimo Fans Group- SG: Little Feather >====================================== > >Title Subject - >" Celibate Celebs: Some Aren't Promiscuous " > >+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >NOTE: You can count Sarah & Regine as some of those >celebs >who are still a u-know-what. hehe.. ;-) mmJ ( born >again >virgins? ) And they'll probably keep it till they >marry. >+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > >Britney Spears was 18 when she lost it. So was Marcia >Cross >from "Desperate Housewives." Ozzy Osbourne was 14. His >daughter, >Kelly, was 16. Gary Coleman? Well, he might still have >it. > >Other than Steve Carrell as "The 40-Year-Old Virgin," >celibates are >tough to find in Hollywood. And when they are, the >formerly Very >Special Topic has become part of the meticulous >image-crafting >required of today's celebrities. > >"We're so interested in it because it's different for >everyone," >psychologist Joyce Brothers told The Associated Press. > >Spears, now very much pregnant and married to Kevin >Federline, once >famously proclaimed she was saving herself until >marriage, prompting >years of has-she-or-hasn't-she speculation. In a 2003 >interview with >W magazine, the pop star finally revealed she had — >with Justin >Timberlake, two years into their relationship. > >Sorry, Kev. > >"She made a big fuss that she was not going to give up >her >virginity, and then apparently she did," said >Brothers, "but I was >not there to know for sure." > >No one is truly certain about the big V except the >celebrities >themselves, making chastity declarations a vague >publicity stunt >that stars can use to portray themselves as innocent >and pure, >according to Elayne Rapping, professor of pop culture >and media >studies at the State University of New York, Buffalo. > >"It's a way to differentiate yourself from the >mainstream >Hollywood image of everybody sleeping with everybody >else," >she said. > >Unlike Spears, fellow blonde bombshell Jessica Simpson >ostensibly kept her promise. "The Dukes of Hazzard" >star >was the poster teen for abstinence during the beginning >of her career. Simpson often pledged to save herself >for >marriage before she and Nick Lachey ever became >"Newlyweds"— >although Lachey admits he didn't do the same. > >"Virginity is such a personal thing," said Brothers. >"You can't >judge anyone on it. A lot of young women feel they >want to save >themselves for the man who they think they'll love >forever." > >Long before Spears and Simpson, Brooke Shields was >Hollywood's >most famous virgin. In the controversial 1978 film >"Pretty Baby," >a 13-year-old Shields played Violet, a child >prostitute whose >virginity is auctioned off. In real life, Shields >didn't >lose it until age 20 to "Lois & Clark" actor Dean Cain >while >the two attended Princeton University, according to >Cain. > >When it comes to virginity in film and TV, Rapping >said, >abstinence has become the new innocence. In the 1980s >and >90s, screwball comedies such as "Porky's," "The Last >American >Virgin" and "American Pie" entirely revolved around >doing >the deed. > >Losing it for fictional TV characters formerly merited >Very >Special Episodes. Conflicted "Doogie Howser, M.D." >remained >a virgin until season three, introvert Dawson Leery >waited >until season five on "Dawson's Creek" and Donna Martin >famously saved it for seven seasons on "Beverly Hills >90210." > >Not anymore. Nowadays, characters like Seth Cohen on >"The O.C." >and Ephram Brown on "Everwood" are only able to hold >out >until second season sweeps. > >"All of this has become a new way to sell sex when sex >has become commonplace and fairly uninteresting," said >Rapping. > >Former NBA player A.C. Green made no secret of his >decades-long >drought. Neither did "Diff'rent Strokes" star Coleman, >who >told Us Weekly magazine he was still a virgin in 1999. > >"For men to be virgins, we think it's negative," said >Brothers. >"We think that there's something wrong with them. At >the same >time, we think when a woman gives up her virginity too >early >she's a bit of a tramp." > >Green was only two years shy of becoming a >"40-Year-Old Virgin" >himself before marrying in 2002 at the age of 38. > >The virgin jury's still out on Coleman, now 37— >he didn't respond to an interview request. > >"It's come full circle," said Rapping. "There's more >intrigue >when people identify themselves as virgins or celibate >or >whatever. People have gotten bored with the endless >display >of graphic sex." > >"But then," Rapping quickly added, "they pretty much >have sex, anyway." > >-------- END OF ARTICLE --------> >=================================== > >rv_foreverinmyheart · RV_Forever In My Heart >http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/rv_foreverinmyheart/ >=================================== > > >++++++++++++++++++ >Inside Music Buzz : >++++++++++++++++++ > >HOT music news!! Streisand, Gibb re-team for new album >Barbra Streisand and Barry Gibb have re-teamed for a >collaborative album in the vein of their 1980 smash >hit, >"Guilty." > >http://insidebuzz.tripod.com > >:-)

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