Virgin!fic

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The virginity of one (or, more rarely, both) characters may be used as a story trope in fan fiction.

Canon-compliant Virginity

Rich pickings for those who enjoy this trope can be found in fandoms where the characters are teenagers or otherwise still young, such as Harry Potter, Glee, Merlin or in High School and College AUs where the characters are depicted as meeting earlier than canon, when teenagers — aficionados of the trope may prefer older characters, however. It's also common in historical sources such as Austen or Robin Hood (BBC), especially but not exclusively among women. Characters considered less attractive such as Severus Snape are often written as virginal.

Examples

Harry Potter

Glee

Merlin

Supernatural/RPF

Star Trek 2009

Virginity in Early Slash Fandom

Virgin!Spock from Twin Destiny #1 (1983), art by Ann Crouch

The idea of one or both characters being a virgin in fanfiction goes as far back as the earliest slash stories. In This Deadly Innocence by Leslie Fish (published in Naked Times #3, 1979), Spock is revealed to be a virgin.

In fact, in K/S TOS fanfiction it is so common, it seems to be almost a given that Spock is a virgin at the time of his first sexual encounter with Kirk.[2][3][4] This is more than likely to be the result of an interpretation of canon as, in Amok Time -- the final episode of Season One -- Spock is revealed to be betrothed and appears reticent -- almost embarrassed -- when he has to explain Vulcan biology to Kirk.

While Kirk frequently 'got the girl', it was only in two other episodes that Spock demonstrated any kind of sexual impulse and on both occasions, he was under the influence of external forces.[note 1][note 2]

By contrast, in the reboot movie, Spock is in an established relationship with Uhura and as a result, far fewer stories depict him as a virgin.[1] An Star Trek reboot example with virgin!Spock is Helen's Your First Time Should Be Special, in which Spock, with relentless, implacable determination decides that Kirk should relieve him of his virginity, while Kirk just doesn't want to be the kind of guy who fucks someone's romantic life up forever. In waldorph's strive seek find yield, a fusion with The Young Victoria, Spock is a virgin until he encounters Kirk because as heir to the throne he's been closely watched all his life. Another example is Of Sentinels and Anchors by corpus_invictus, Spock is a virgin because he never learned to adequately mentally control his emotions or telepathy, especially the touch kind. Until he's spent time with Kirk, of course.

Secret Virgin Fic

front cover of Angel On My Mind #5, a Virgin!Blair zine

A type of story in which a character who is canonically known to be sexually experienced, (or at the very least, one could reasonably draw that conclusion from canon) is discovered to have been concealing their lack of sexual experience.

The most notable stories are when the character is in fact canonically portrayed as promiscuous, or having been in multiple relationships. Virgin!Lex, or Virgin!Methos would be good candidates; Virgin!Dora the Explorer would not. While it is rare, there have been a small number of Secret Virgin Kirk stories written, an example is An Opening Ceremony by spdfg, response for the st_xi_kink_meme's prompt , in which Kirk is depicted as secret virgin due to interruptus pre-coitus every single time.

Almost universally, the character's condition is remedied in the course of the story.

An unknown percentage of these stories are doubtless written for the sake of the absurd, but just as doubtless, there is a sincerely interested audience as well.

Examples

The A-Team

Harry Potter

  • Akasha the Kitty wrote The Virgin ConundrumRegistered Users Only — Hermione sets out to lose her virginity and chooses Draco. He, however, is reticent about taking hers. Turns out...well, I'm sure you can suss out why.

The Sentinel

Smallville

Star Trek reboot

Stargate Atlantis

Virginity Interpretation

Many slash stories treat first-time bottoming in anal sex as "losing virginity" even for characters who have had heterosexual sex or topped in anal sex many times before. This is often written as a profoundly meaningful turning point in slash relationships, which some fans feel puts an unrealistic importance on having one particular kind of sex, or privileges a heteronormative view of sex, where it's not real sex without penetration.

Fanfiction Challenges and Thematic Lists

Notes

  1. ^ In the 25th episode of the first season, which was shown in 2 March 1967 and titled This Side of Paradise, Spock is infected by alien spores that allow him to express love.
  2. ^ In the 23rd episode of the third season, aired in 14 March 1969 and titled All Our Yesterdays, Spock and McCoy find themselves trapped in the past, in the Sarpeidon Ice Age. This time regression leads Spock to metamorphose himself into reversal to the ways of his Vulcan Barbarians ancestors.

References

  1. ^ a b demonllama1 (2010-07-01). "Fic: Educated Differences - Chapter One". LiveJournal. Archived from the original on 2012-12-09.
  2. ^ Ray Newton (1981). "The Matchmaker". Kirk/Spock Fanfiction :: Automated Archive. Archived from the original on 2006-02-08. Retrieved 2006-01-28.
  3. ^ Cynthia (2010-03-06). "A Thin Flame". K/S Archive. Archived from the original on 2013-06-15.
  4. ^ Jenna Hilary Sinclair (2008-01-03). "Pacing the Cage". K/S Archive. Archived from the original on 2016-07-16.
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