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Well, look what we have here…

Billy and Chloe have single handedly kick-started a revolution. Starting this very evening, Channel 4 is launching its ‘Virgin Season’. A series of three documentaries, it starts tonight with ‘Virgin School’, and it looks like a cracking show – although the Daily Mail wasn’t convinced.

Featuring James, the 26 year old virgin, this documentary follows his progress as he journeys to Holland, (where else), and the curiously titled ‘Aquarion’ School.

A school for ‘love and leadership’, Aquarion will take James through a four month course ‘designed by experienced professionals to boost self confidence – both socially and sexually, and will culminate with the opportunity for James to lose his virginity to a sex therapist coach’. Gulp.

No pressure then.

The fact that a major British broadcaster is devoting an hour to a programme about a 26-year-old man who has never had sex is possibly the most pertinent point in all this. Don’t get me wrong, I am all for it, but it is interesting that in today’s society; James is considered such an anomaly. We simply cannot get our heads around the fact that some people can’t or don’t have sex.

As you can imagine, if you continually search for people to interview about virginity loss, as I have, you encounter a fair few people who say, ‘I can’t help you because I have never actually had sex’. People of all ages, married (YES!), single, gay, straight, whatever. There are all sorts of people out there, who, for all sorts of reasons, have never lost their virginity.

So, James, I haven’t watched your programme yet, but whatever the outcome, Bravo! Get out there and go where no man has boldly gone – to lose your virginity in full view of a large television audience.

You are a brave man.