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I respectfully disagree with Cary. I think saying: "If it's not necessary to reveal your non-virginity, why is it necessary to reveal your virginity?" is a little disingenuous. In most sexual encounters, a degree of mutual disclosure about respective sexual histories tends to come up, and who is to fault Virgin in Virginia for being truthful about hers? Wouldn't it be worse to lie or try to fudge it and seem like you're concealing something worse? Sure, chronologically advanced virgins shouldn't be demonized, but unfortunately they often are. It is true that not mentioning this doesn't do any "real" damage, unlike covering up an STD or something. However, why start off any kind of relationship on a deception? Will Virgin in Virginia's partners believe her after that if she truthfully tells them that she won't be a psycho-stalker?
