Lilly Singh smacks down society's obsession with virginity in under 5 minutes

Double standards, prepare to be obliterated.
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Shannon Connellan
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Lilly Singh smacks down society's obsession with virginity in under 5 minutes
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Society is obsessed with virginity, even fetishising it, and Lilly Singh has had enough.

The A Little Late host slammed the double standards that surround the concept of virginity, smacking down patriarchal ideas about women's virginity being "fragile and helpless," and the complete omission of people having any other type of sex than with the opposite sex.

"The whole idea of virginity is heteronormative," she said. "It's based on one type of sex: V and P. What about gay and lesbian and everything in between? There are folks who would be classified as virgins even though they're the LeBron James of having orgasms out here."

The clip is especially worth watching for her spectacular drag of worst dad ever, T.I., who made headlines for saying he had his daughter's virginity tested annually at the gynaecologist. Singh's burn is 11/10.

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Shannon Connellan
UK Editor

Shannon Connellan is Mashable's UK Editor based in London, formerly Mashable's Australia Editor, but emotionally, she lives in the Creel House. A Tomatometer-approved critic, Shannon writes about entertainment, tech, social good, science, culture, and Australian horror.


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