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While promoting The Book of Sheen on Impaulsive, host Mike Majlak asked the actor about some of the details in the book, which included drug use, losing his virginity to an escort at 15 years old, and having slept with 47,000 women by his count.—Diane J. Cho, PEOPLE, 10 Jan. 2026 The history of side-saddle, for example, comes from the fear that riding astride risks breaking a woman’s hymen, compromising the evidence of her virginity and, therefore, her value.—Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 13 Nov. 2025 Burr plays a gruff American record-store owner who convinces a ragtag gang of teenage misfits that their best, and possibly only, chance to lose their virginity before graduating high school is at a massive open-air mass for the visiting Pope.—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2025 That’s realized quite literally by the prolific Swedish actor Stig Järrel, who plays Satan as an aristocrat in a state of perpetual ocular discomfort due to Britt-Marie’s insistence on holding onto her virginity.—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for virginity