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April 25, 2007

Katrina Kerns, Voluntary Virgin

Have you seen New York Magazine's new Sex & Love issue? The cover girl is award-winning Indie Rock Hottie Katrina Kerns, of Illinoisemakers fame. In the mag's Waiting Room feature, "real live New York City virgins speak out on what it means to say 'no' in the city of Yes." So shame on you who said she was banging Sufjan! Here's what the Ford model turned glockenspiel player had to say...

Katrina, 25
My initial reason for not wanting to have sex was totally a fear of not wanting to get pregnant before I got married. This was a cycle in my family. So, it was very real to me: You have sex, you get pregnant, and if you're not married, you can wind up alone or feeling obligated to marry somebody. But it's been interesting how it's changed as I've gone through different relationships, learning about myself and learning about commitment.

After the jump, a close-up of the magazine cover, and a vid of KK's modeling past.

Sorry guys, that's her fiancé, Keegan Kiedis (same initials, how cute).

Keegan, 25
It hasn't been about waiting to have sex just to wait to have sex. It's been a journey, a trust thing, about commitment. I value that type of intimacy and trust in my life more than I value my ability to have sex with anybody whom I can figure out how to have sex with.
Wonder if Kat got to keep the tour uniform?

Katrina's Pre-Sufjan "Model Search America" vid here.

And in the interest of equal-opportunity indie rocker objectification ... erotica starring Sufjan Stevens.

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Come on, baby. You can't get pregnant the first time.

Posted by: Ferris at 04/25/07 10:56 AM | Reply
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that's actually pretty cool. good for her.

Posted by: Matthew at 04/25/07 10:58 AM | Reply
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I wonder if they played "just the tip." :)

Posted by: Greg at 04/25/07 11:14 AM | Reply
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Good for her. Wow, she is amazingly gorgeous.

Is is just me or did Sufjan come off quite feminine in concert?

Posted by: Evan at 04/25/07 12:55 PM | Reply
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I'd hit it.

Posted by: Tony G at 04/25/07 1:17 PM | Reply
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"Bitch, you can't swallow hard enough to get pregnant."

or.

um....

sorry.

Posted by: Jasun at 04/25/07 1:17 PM | Reply
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Would you buy a car if you couldn't test drive it first? C'mon.

Posted by: quirkusmaximus at 04/25/07 2:38 PM | Reply
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25 year old virgins are nutbags.

Posted by: kyle at 04/25/07 3:07 PM | Reply
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"Would you buy a car if you couldn't test drive it first? C'mon."

Why would you want a car that everyone has test driven?

Posted by: eyun at 04/25/07 3:25 PM | Reply
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I can totally understand the "fear of getting pregnant" thing--two of my aunts got married to lousy men via the "shotgun wedding" deal, and both have long since been divorced from these men. Granted, you had two options if you were Catholic, unwed, and knocked up in the late '60s/early '70s--get sent to a maternity home, have the baby, give it up for adoption, then get sent back home as if nothing happened; or marry the baby-daddy. Also note that back then, birth control wasn't as accessible to unmarried people in a lot of places.

While I'm not a virgin myself, I did wait awhile myself for these and many other reasons. It was my decision, just as waiting until marriage is Katrina's. She's lucky to have someone who respects her beliefs.

Posted by: Laura at 04/25/07 3:30 PM | Reply
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People that ask the question if you would buy a car that you haven't test drove first are the people that think marriage is only about having sex with someone. They are sadly the people that will never be happy with either sex or marriage.

Posted by: Zayin_451 at 04/26/07 2:05 AM | Reply
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She looks pretty good at faking it. What gives here? This virgin model/musician is selling a story about virginity by presenting herself naked and in pre-coitalesque position with her fiance? It is annoying to say the least.

Posted by: Sarah at 04/26/07 1:12 PM | Reply
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Katrina is one of those rare people who truly believes what she believes and in herself. I wish her and her man a happy life. She is beautiful right down to her soul.

Posted by: julie at 04/28/07 9:33 PM | Reply
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Wait, Sufjan isn't gay?? When did this happen? Way to ruin my reality, stereogum.

Posted by: Porcelina at 04/29/07 1:29 PM | Reply
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umm... so keegan, how long could you hold out?

Posted by: pan at 05/01/07 1:33 AM | Reply
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"it is not that our desires are too strong,
nay, they are too weak.... we are far too easily pleased." -C.S. Lewis

maybe, just maybe, we ought to consider virginity as the most beautiful option, simply for the joy of two souls becoming one flesh for the first time; complete heart, soul, and commitment, given freely and indefinitely in love-making and marriage. Sex will never carry with it the pleasure and meaning it was meant to have, until it is backed by the purity and promise that guards against the wayward inclinations of our hearts.
Way to go guys.
It is for joy that we save ourselves. For joy.

Posted by: Mike D at 05/13/07 12:05 AM | Reply
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