Virgin Nation

It happened every Monday morning in class. There were always little notes and whispers going around the room recording the many “hook up” stories that happened during the weekend.

In high school, most students took the liberty of bragging about how many people they had gotten "to know better" over the weekend. The reality is that it was all about a social status and whether you were "cool" or not - and bragging about sex was definitely the cool thing to do back in the day.

In college, most students would be considered non-virgins. We assume that everybody’s experienced. But many of those so-called "sexually experienced" seniors in high school are college freshman virgins and actually remain virgins throughout their freshman year in college.

So in hopes of trying to find out a small average on how many freshman virgins are at FAU, I took the liberty of conducting a survey of my own.

I went around the Breezeway on the Boca campus and asked 12 freshmen one of the most embarrassing questions you can ask in public: Are you a virgin?

To my surprise, nine of the freshmen openly admitted to being virgins and to not having encountered any sexual behavior whatsoever. In fact, three of them even went as far as to say they wanted to remain virgins until marriage... Whaaaatttt????

What I also found interesting about the survey was that four of the students were pre-med majors and two of them were engineering majors. I guess those long hours studying take away from their sex lives... good thing I'm a communications major.

But the bigger question is, why remain a virgin? I thought that was all college students thought about...

Rony Barzily, a freshman that was part of the survey, admits that she's waiting for the right opportunity to come up.

"It's not like I'm planning on waiting until marriage," Barzily says. "It's just that I haven't been in a serious relationship and I'm waiting for the right guy to lose my virginity to."

Hey, on the bright side, at least FAU is one of the safest places to lose your virginity in because according to a study done by Trojan condoms in October,
FAU is number one for being the most educated University in sexual health.

Thanks to our friends at Trojan and the FAU Today and Beyond Wellness Department - our local sexual health center - located above the Breezeway in room 222, who focus on teaching students about sexual health and of ways of being safe when it comes to sex.

"I'm not worried about being a virgin," says Clarissa Lowmark, another freshman part of my survey. "The time will come and I feel like I've learned a lot about sex while being in college anyway."