The 2005 film “The 40-Year-Old Virgin,”
grossed nearly $200 million worldwide based on the premise of a man who went
without sex into midlife. But one real-life woman has managed to stay a
virgin up to her 70th birthday.
That could be about
to change. “Now’s the time. I’m ready to take
the plunge for the right bloke,” Pam Shaw tells the Sun.”My standards are still
very high, though. I’m hoping to bag a tall, dark and handsome millionaire.”
Shaw says she doesn’t
believe in sex before marriage and has been too busy with her career as a
cabaret dance to settle down. “I feel I am ready to give marriage a go and
maybe go to bed with a man,” she said. “You are never too old for anything.
Just look at Joan Collins.”
According to
worldwide statistics, the average person retains his or her virginity
until 17.3 years of age. A 2010 Yahoo! reader survey found similar numbers,
with readers giving an average age of 17.5 before having sex for the first
time.
The paper notes that
despite her voluntary lifelong abstinence, Shaw goes by the stage name “The
Sexational Pam,” and once fraternized with male sex symbols like “It’s Not
Unusual” singer Tom Jones and James Bond actor Roger Moore.
Shaw dressed as singer Tina Turner (John
Robertson/Barcroft Media /Landov)
“Tom Jones was very
good looking and we used to chat occasionally before I went on stage as the
opening act,” she said. “In the late 60s we performed together. There was only
a curtain separating our dressing areas.”
Shaw says she lived
with her mother until she passed away at the age of 97 in 1995. Ironically,
Shaw says men have often made incorrect assumptions about her sex life, or lack
thereof, because of her career in the entertainment industry.
“I’ve never really
been intimate with a man, just a bit of kissing. I had a sexy stage name and
dressed sexy but that was all for my career,” she said.
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