Some were not, sometimes for complicated, overlapping reasons: disability, trauma, issues related to appearance, temperament, chance.
Some of the people I talked to were virgins by choice. To my surprise, messages came rolling in. I knew my first subject personally, and, after I interviewed her, I put out an open call. Lately I have been thinking about one of the first things that I ever wrote for the Internet: a series of interviews with adult virgins, published by the Hairpin.
