Student To Lose His Virginity In Live Sex Performance For Art

[marmar]

A gay student plans to lose his virginity live on stage -- all in the name of art.

Clayton Pettet, a 19-year-old art student at Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design in London, plans to have sex in front of a crowd of between 50 and 100 people in London on Jan. 25, 2014, for a project called "Art School Stole My Virginity," according to the Daily Star. He and his anonymous partner will have sex until completion and then hold a Q&A with the audience afterward.

His aim is to explore the ideal of virginity.

"I've held on to my virginity for 19 years, and I'm not throwing it away lightly. Basically it's like I am losing the stigma around virginity," he said, per the Daily Star. "I want the audience to see if anything has changed between me and my partner. Since culturally we do hold quite a lot of value to the idea of virginity I have decided to use mine and the loss of it to create a piece that I think will stimulate interesting debate and questions regarding the subject."

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"This idea becomes more complex when one considers all types of sexual relations," he writes. "Men and men, women and women? Virginity has almost become heteronormative in its definition, given that in the most graphic of terms it is the moment when a penis first penetrates the vagina. Therefore when is the moment of loss for a human male? And is virginity even real, for women and men? Or is it just an ignorant word that was used to dictate the value of a woman’s worth pre marriage." .................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/25/gay-student-virginity-sex_n_4163730.html

[BlueJazz]

1. I looked at this story for 3 minutes and then it hit me. I have zero interest in it.

That's not good or bad...just is.

[enlightenment]

2. You and me both.

I clicked to see what the young man's rationale was for this "performance", but was unimpressed with his reasoning.

So, meh.

[seabeyond]

4. lol. only took me like 10 secs looking at it. lol. but, you made me laugh cause i was doing the

same.

[Starry Messenger]

3. Because learning how to draw is just difficult.

(I went to a fancy art school, I can make fun )

[seabeyond]

5. fuck virginity.... lol, ya. the whole concept of the word is stupid. i really wish we would simply

let that one go.