Move over MILFs, Virgin Island is the hot new dating reality show
Hulu is currently seeking contestants for its new reality dating series for celibates, Virgin Island
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Even 30 Rock couldn’t have come up with a cutaway gag so pure (pun intended) as Hulu’s latest dating competition reality series. The show is called Virgin Island, and it’s exactly what it sounds like: a group of people who have never had sex before looking for their perfect, also-untouched match. Currently, ITV America (the production company behind Love Island USA and Queer Eye) and Plimsoll Productions (Shark! Celebrity Infested Waters and A Real Bug’s Life) are seeking “stunningly attractive and confident singles” who are also self-proclaimed virgins to appear on the show. If that describes you, you can apply here!
Per Variety, this 10-episode series will follow a group of people who haven’t had sex with anybody as they try to decide if they want to have sex with each other. Each episode will feature contestants going on dates and participating in “romantic activities.” The logline reads, “As the cast finds heartfelt connections and explores their varying reasons for waiting, there will be plenty of unexpected twists, including new arrivals and departures, all culminating in a dramatic finale where burgeoning relationships are put to the test.”
The best one can possibly hope for is that this show destigmatizes the idea that there’s any “right” age to have sex for the first time, that there are all sorts of reasons that a person might wait, that there’s no shame in being an adult who hasn’t had a sexual relationship yet, etc. Mostly, though, this is just another version of “send hot people to an island to flirt,” which we have seen a few times now. It’s probably too much to ask that Hulu educates the masses on virginity being a social construct in a show called Virgin Island.
Hulu has been investing in the reality dating space, recently acquiring the UK’s first queer dating series I Kissed A Boy and the follow-up I Kissed A Girl, hosted by Dannii Minogue. In 2022, the streamer aired Back In The Groove, hosted by Taye Diggs in a nod to How Stella Got Her Groove Back. It’s about three women staying at a Dominican resort and pursuing younger men—so, basically MILF Island. (Not to be confused with the very similar MILF Manor, where a bunch of older women mixed and mingled with each other’s sons.) Reality is often stranger than fiction, but 30 Rock did indeed get a lot right, didn’t they?
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Finally a reality show for me! Uh.. I mean, a friend I know…
I wish there were a reality show about dating girls from Canada who you wouldn’t have met, to reflect my experience.
Just remember: Her NAME is Alberta, and she LIVES in Vancouver.
Her name is Thunder Bay and she lives in Moose Lips . . . AH SHIT!
Now I’m starting to think she doesn’t exist!
Maybe see if your uncle who works for Nintendo can get his friend in the TV industry to make it.
apparently lots of guys trying to get on the show are claiming they were rejected for being “too nice” while “only macho assholes” got cast, according to their very patient (but very tired) friends.
Attractive and confident virgins? If attractive adults are virgins (and it’s not because they’re hyper-religious loons), they probably have confidence issues.
talk about stigma lol
Or they have chosen to be celibate for other reasons, which very likely means they aren’t interested in finding “love” on a reality show.
You gotta figure there’s at least a handful of people out there whose reason for celibacy includes, “Just in case anyone makes a virgin dating show.”Probably not enough of them to cast a whole reality show though.
Guess we’ll see…
I’m sure we’re all going to have our expectations subverted and learn a powerful lesson in the end from VILF Visland.
“Hi, I’m Vilf Visland, and tonight, I’ll be your guide through a journey of probate and goblins!”
There better be Mrs. Pell’s Fishsticks on Vilf Visland.
Oh yes! They’re even better when you’re a virgin on an island full of virgins!
I recently read the wikipeida article for the incel Elliot Rodger (spoiler alert: he went on a killing spree.) It was absolutely fascinating. Obviously he wasn’t your “normal” human being but he seems to have a ton of undeserved confidence and I wouldn’t call him ugly (on the outside anyway.) I know I shouldn’t laugh ‘cause he murdered people, but some of the stuff in the article, my god.Rodger experienced intense jealousy towards one of his roommate’s black friends who shared that he had lost his virginity at the age of 13. This deeply upset Rodger, driving him to retreat to his room in tears and reach out to his mother…Rodger’s envy toward his six-year-old stepbrother intensified, particularly as his brother secured opportunities to appear in television commercials.[63] Consumed by jealousy, Rodger began plotting the murder of his stepbrother, fearing his sibling would surpass him in popularity with girls.
Doesn’t sound like confidence to me.
Oh for sure, not those bits. but if you read the article a huge part of his thing seemed to be thinking he was amazing so why can’t he get laid. The dude would post up at a cafe and be baffled that attractive blond women weren’t flocking to him.
Well, first you better explain to me what “post up” is. Because if it’s whipping your piece out at a cafe then I can reasonably explain his getting laid difficulties.
Just sitting there, waiting for something to happen. As far as I know his dick was contained.
Was he on fleek at the time? That might be important.
Oh god I don’t know what that means. I only know “post up” from the high school reunion episode of Always Sunny where Dennis states his plans to post up at the bar and wait for his minions to come pay tribute.
Pretty sure it’s gonna just be an island full of said hyper religious loons.
Maybe they’ll all kill each other. In His name, of course!
It takes a lot of confidence to go on a reality show and think you won’t look like an idiot asshole.
One of the twists will obviously be that one or more people are not actually virgins (“self-proclaimed” LMAO). Bonus points if two non-virgins hook up with each other and then act all mad about the deceit of the other.
I mean, how are they going to verify virginity?
Interviews with exes/former roommates/parents/hotel staff, checks made out to prostitutes, receipts for condoms, hidden cameras in their homes for the past two years . . .
“I was simply investing in that prostitute’s new mail-order candle startup!”
So that’s what they mean by “yanky candle”
You really think they’re gonna spend the money to do that?
You are taking this waaaaaaaay more seriously than I am or is warranted, LOL.
that’s what makes it fun!
Well sorry, we’re not all elves who can verify virginity by gazing into each others’ eyes for 4 or 5 years of the trees until Varda Herself confirms it.
I was going to laugh at the notion of someone paying a sex worker with a check. Then I remembered a US congressman used Venmo to pay an underaged girl for sex.
We would not have had the Jerry Springer show without a politician paying with a check.
I keep reading that a significant(?) number of GenZ aren’t quite as outgoing, sexually, as their predecessors.
Is it cutting into your numbers, Bread?
‘”I mean, how are they going to verify virginity?”’I imagine they could… Do some STD screenings. Obviously if someone has a Sexually Transmitted Disease they’ve had sex and aren’t a virgin. Having thinned out the herd from that they’d do some follow up biological screening for other signs of them having had sex prior to the show. Also for the female participants they could check for their current state of pregnancy, if any. If they’re currently pregnant then obviously they’re not virgins.
Well, for the ladies . . .
‘”One of the twists will obviously be that one or more people are not actually virgins (“self-proclaimed” LMAO). Bonus points if two non-virgins hook up with each other and then act all mad about the deceit of the other.”’Actual future dialogue:“You betrayed me!”“I betrayed you? How did I betray you!?”“You said you were a virgin!”
If we sacrifice them all, will we get a better show next season?
This would be amazing.“Sorry, Tammy – your time has come.”“I can’t believe you voted me off the island!”“Oh, well, to be clear, you weren’t voted off the island per se. See that volcano?”
Now that’s interesting, lol.
Will one of the virgins be a strong-willed aspiring writer named Jane? Who looks like Gina Rodriguez?
Turning this into an Avengers-style team up of hot celibates from film and TV would make this appointment viewing.
I can get you a mildly-willed cellist named Wednesday who looks like Jenna Ortega.
Only if HUGE TELENOVELA STAR….and Jane’s father Rogelio is in it!
There was a time when a fateful decision was made that the plural of “milf” should be “milfs” instead of the far superior “milves”, and that was the day that America died.
I think it should be MsILF, as in Moms I’d Like to Fuck.
Hey, not all of them are unmarried.
but some of them are, right?
I hate this trendy ‘take’ on acronyms.The letters are short representations of full words. The idea that M can stand for ‘mom’ but not ‘moms’ is weird.Also MsILF defeats the purpose of having an acronym. How do you say “msilf”.If you want to be pedantic and make grammatical sense… just treat the acronym like moose where singular and plural are the same.“Your mom is total milf. Honestly, she’s the hottest of all the milf.”
“trendy”? Like, other people have made this same take?
Buttsoup’s Mom has got it going on!!!
Is NOMFUP (NOt My FUcking Problem) still okay?
How do you say IBM? Not all acronyms can be spoken. Also, M can’t stand for mom and moms both. One MILF and two MILF?
LsR (Lilis Reinhart)
All because we refused to use the milveric system…
How are the participants proving that they are virgins? After the show premiers I wouldn’t be surprised if people claim that so-and-so is not a virgin and then folks will have something else to argue about.
They’ll inspect potential contestants for chastity belts, I guess.
Hot, sexy DTF virgins on a tropical island? Series should last about 3 minutes.
So did they contact most of the readers of AV Club for casting? 🙂
I’m checking my messages!
Gotta keep hitting refresh! Fingers crossed! 🙂
And how many of the guys will be closet cases like Colton Underwood?