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Has a conservative cultural moment primed viewers to embrace a dating show about adult virgins? Perhaps. But the obsession with virginity has always been there.
By Erik Piepenburg
Hulu’s new dating show “Are You My First?” features a cast that the streaming platform bills as “the largest, hottest group of virgins ever assembled.” Set at a sun-kissed resort, the series follows 21 conventionally attractive, self-identified virgins in their 20s and 30s who are looking for an opposite-sex partner to swipe their V-card — the “Love Island USA” of the chaste.
Several “Are You My First?” contestants say their conservative religious beliefs — Christian and Mormon, mostly — are the reason they’ve waited on “that good stuff,” to use one cast member’s memorable phrase. Not that they agree on what that means: One woman had never been on a date, while a male contestant admitted being sexually active — save for a “home run.”
