12/7 Sitting with my 85 year old mother in a coffee shop one afternoon and she spies an old classmate from high school. They chat and conjure memories. The woman wobbles, cane in hand away. Mom strains her neck towards my face opposite her. “She wasn’t a virgin”.
“What?” I say confused.
“You know…She was loose.”
My mind reeled, after all those years that was all my mother could say!?
Let me assure you that the double standard (what men can do vs. what women can do) still exists. I doubt it will ever disappear. But the value placed on virginity has shifted dramatically since even I was in college.
