How to Lose Your Virginity
It has launched both purity balls and porn franchises, defines a young woman’s morality-but has no medical definition. Enter the magical world of virginity, where a white wedding dress can restore a woman’s innocence and replacement hymens can be purchased online. Filmmaker Therese Shechter uses her own path out of virginity to explore why our sex-crazed society cherishes this so-called precious gift. Along the way, we meet sex educators, virginity auctioneers, abstinence advocates, and young men and women who bare their tales of doing it-or not doing it. “How To Lose Your Virginity” uncovers the myths and misogyny surrounding a rite of passage that many obsesses about but few truly understand.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Therese Shechter
Actors: Abiola Abrams, Bronwen Pardes, Erica McLean, Hanne Blank, Heather Corrina, Joycelyn Elders, Judy Kang, Lena Chen, Meghan Currie, Sarah DiMuro, Shelby Knox