I'm a 22 year old woman who is a virgin. Before you start making assumptions let me state that 1) I am attractive (this isn't be vain, I'm 5'10 109 lbs with dark blond hair and green eyes. I've worked as a print model since my early teens) and 2) I am not a religious nut (in fact, my parents raised me and my sibs without a religion because they are both from former communist countries and think poorly of religion because of the propaganda they were exposed to).

I want to wait until I am married to have sex because I think that it would be wonderful to share this special experience with only one other person. There are so many things that we can share with everyone: a delicious scoop of ice cream, a funny joke, a backrub, or sad movie. Wouldn't it be great to have something that only you two share with each other.

Also I don't want to get pregnant before I am 30 (so I can continue to work as a model --I wear size 4 so any extra weight would be bad). I know that there is birth control, but none is 100% effective and I don't want to have abortions. My mother had 2 in Russia before she came here and my father's sister, my aunt had 7 in Cuba. Both my mom and my aunt say that they regret the abortions even though they didn't have any complications or religious guilt.

I've been teased since high school for this dream and even sexually harassed by men who learned that I am a virgin. I have been called a lesbo and a freak. And people can't seem to believe that I am not doing this out of religious hang-ups.

Why are people so threatened by virgins? WHen I model, I work with girls who are sluts, lesbians, and bisexual, even a girl who used to be a guy. None of them are harassed the way I am. Can't they accept something different.