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Lolo Jones says staying a virgin harder than training for Olympics
Twenty-nine-year-old U.S. Olympic athlete Lolo Jones says she's saving her virginity for marriage.
Erik van Leeuwen
Most people would probably agree that there are few things more difficult than training to compete in the 100-meter hurdles at the Olympics. However, for 29-year-old U.S. track and field athlete Lori “Lolo” Jones, she claims that saving her virginity for marriage is “the hardest thing [she’s] ever had to do in her life, harder than training for the Olympics, harder than graduating from college.”
In an interview on HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, Jones discusses her decision to announce via Twitter that she is still a virgin. "It's just something, a gift that I want to give to my husband," she said in the episode, which will air Tuesday (May 22). “But please understand that this journey has been hard.”
Jones compares herself to Steve Carell’s character in the movie The 40 Year Old Virgin. “It was cute, like when I was 22 [to] 24, it was cute, like ‘Oh, I’m a virgin’, you know, that’s cute,” she said. “Twenty four to 29, it’s not cute. You get judged a lot. A lot of guys won’t return your call after they find out.”
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Stories like this fill my heart with hope that our genome has not been totally debased by the last few centuries of socialist meddling---the proper behaviors necessary for survival of the better part of our species are still there, if only the correct environment is allowed for their expression.
“Twenty four to 29, it’s not cute. You get judged a lot. A lot of guys won’t return your call after they find out.”
Those guys who won't return her calls, they're looking for prostitutes, not future wives.
Seriously, I respect her decision not to submit to what Germaine Greer describes as the tyranny of intromission. When I look out at this great world, and the awful people on it, I wish it was a decision that the vast majority of our parents had also made, albeit because of aesthetic and environmental rather than spiritual reasons.
I also think that her situation should be somewhat easier to take because it is voluntary. There are plenty for whom celibacy is not an option.
Get a life, sister.
Like having sex, you mean?