An Indian spin on the John Hughes playbook, this jovial, 1980s-set tale of book-smart male college nerds in Bangalore dumbly bumbling their way out of virginity goes light on the raunch by western standards, but establishes its own ground by deftly weaving local, caste-related tensions into its adolescent nostalgia.
While all the other kids were listening to David Guetta, practicing their keg stands and fumbling their way out of virginity, Justin Jay was in his dorm room, working on music.
And that's precisely what the good people at the Onion have done, with a fake-news-with-more-than-a-few-grains-of-truth report that announces that Time will be launching Time Advanced, a magazine for "adults," and, in some cases, pre-tween children soured on "out-of-touch trend pieces about virginity pledges".
The fourth-century empress Pulcheria, for example, got amazing mileage out of advertising her sustained virginity, through which she sought identification with the Virgin herself.
An army doctor has been acquitted of carrying out forced "virginity tests" on female protesters in Egypt last year, dealing a blow to activists and the women at the centre of the case.
A military court in Egypt has acquitted an army doctor accused of carrying out forced "virginity tests" on women protesters, state media reports.
Smoking and methamphetamine use among out-of-school males, and smoking and drinking among vocational school and general school/university males, predicted non-virginity, as did alcohol consumption among all three groups of females and smoking among all but vocational school females.
Finally, she just explained the concept of virginity straight out.
Nihayatul Wafiroh, MP and member of Indonesian Islamic organisation Nahdlatul Ulama, has spoken out against virginity tests.
Issues spanning loss of virginity, alcoholism, dead relatives and the emotional leftovers from secrets and fall-outs might have delivered a cataclysmic blast of downers.
In analyses of the determinants of loss of virginity, by sex, social-educational group proved to be a good summary index of familial background, conveniently washing out all parental income, education and occupation measures.
