JFL "Can Virgin Island heal the nation’s incels?"

[Oneitiscel]

Can Virgin Island heal the nation's incels?

This is a refreshingly positive piece of reality TV

www.newstatesman.com

I am hardly a reality TV aficionado, so pay attention to what I am about to say: there is nothing currently streaming more compelling than Virgin Island. Twelve British adults, aged from early twenties to mid-thirties, coalesce on a Croatian resort to confront their sexual hang-ups. Guided by a team of “intimacy coaches”, we watch them take their first steps towards sexual awakening.

Really, it should be called “Incel Island” – these men and women baring their souls (and much more) for the cause are all involuntarily celibate. They want sex, or at the very least want to be able to want it. But numerous barriers are in their way: severe issues with body image; self-loathing; anxiety; past experiences of trauma, bullying and sexual harassment; neurodivergence that causes terror about social interactions, let alone sexual ones; guilt and shame, especially for the guests exploring their sexual orientation; a fundamental belief that no one could ever find them attractive, let alone love them.

Yet unlike the incels who have populated the manosphere, blaming women for their lack of sexual fulfilment and spiraling down a rabbit hole of vitriol, the virgins understand that change starts with them.

The shock factor of the show is the work the virgins do with their “surrogate partners”. (There is a lot of intimate touching. Last season one adventurous young man even had sex – I’d love to have been a fly on the wall for the Ofcom discussions on getting this greenlit on Channel 4.)

The cast may think it is the roleplays to which the sexologists subject them that is making the difference. But what really changes them are their interactions with each other. Through conversation, the grieving gamer grows into a really quite adorable chap that lots of women would go on a date with. The women paralysed by insecurity metamorphose into social butterflies the moment someone laughs at their jokes.

The show’s premise is that the sexual crisis that plagues this generation – with one in eight 26-year-olds still a virgin – calls for extreme measures. I took away something different: get a group of people who believe they’re social pariahs in a room together without their phones, and watch them flourish. If only the incels would take note.

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"Just isolate yourself on an island & IMPROOVE BRO!!!"

 

[Cryo]

Yes please take me out of my third world country

 

[nazianime]

JFL, there is a paywall to read this garbage.

 

[Oneitiscel]

JFL, there is a paywall to read this garbage.

No such thing as a paywall if you click the refresh page button & cancel before it loads

 

[The Judge]

There is only one virgin island for me.

 

[nazianime]

There is only one virgin island for me.

Not open to the public

 

[The Judge]

Not open to the public

only.

 

[NIGGA BANBAN]

only.

@AtrociousCitizen will smuggle us in

 

[The Judge]

@AtrociousCitizen will smuggle us in

Meanwhile, I'll purchase this map to provide him with an infiltration route.

 

[outerdarkness]

Because reality tv is totally real.

JFL, normies actually believe this shit.