Virgin Island: what to know about Channel 4’s eye-popping new show

Sure, you learn the headline proper. Channel 4’s newest present is all about what it says on the tin: individuals who haven’t but had intercourse.

Over the course of two weeks, 12 virgins will probably be collaborating in a boot camp that goals to handle the assorted points they’ve round intimacy, love and no matter could be standing in the way in which of them getting it on. By the top of that fortnight, it’s hoped, they could lastly be able to make the leap (no pun meant).

The present’s strategies are different, however contains, apparently, intercourse coaches stripping off and inspiring the present’s contributors to pleasure them, sharing their ‘hottest’ sexual fantasies with one another, and feeding one another bananas while blindfolded.

If this sounds excessive, contemplate this: the contestants aren’t alone. In accordance with a research from College School London, which surveyed greater than 16,000 individuals throughout the UK, one in eight 26 12 months olds nonetheless hadn’t had intercourse.

That’s one thing that sexologists Danielle Harel and Celeste Hirschman and a workforce of specialists try to handle through the present. With how a lot success? Who is aware of, but it surely’ll definitely be an fascinating watch: right here’s what to know.

As with most actuality TV reveals, they’re taken to a Mediterranean island ‘retreat’ that’s kitted out with tents, remedy rooms and bedrooms. They’ll even be collaborating in a sequence of workshops with Harel and Hirschman, in addition to the opposite therapists.

Considered one of these workshops entails Harel and a therapist getting it on in entrance of the group; one other entails detailed dialogue of masturbation strategies, and one other one is round letting go of their inhibitions – which entails exploring their ‘interior animal’. Apparently, this implies getting on all fours and rubbing up towards different individuals, or even perhaps mounting them. Beautiful.

The contributors are additionally inspired to work collectively by themselves – which is the place the banana-feeding is available in, in addition to massaging one another.

We don’t but know an entire lot in regards to the contributors, past their names. Considered one of them, Ben, instructed the Guardian that he had been on 50 dates during the last 10 years, however hadn’t managed to get to a extra intimate stage with any accomplice.

“I simply didn’t have the arrogance, as a result of I didn’t know what I used to be doing,” he mentioned, including that being a male virgin got here with its personal particular set of challenges – specifically, should you hadn’t but had intercourse, “you should be a weirdo”.

He signed as much as the programme as a result of he felt like “I acquired to the stage the place I believed I most likely do want some form of skilled assist.”

Fellow participant Taylor, 29, instructed the Guardian that she had had intimate experiences, however they’d all been unfavorable – one thing exacerbated by a scarcity of intercourse training at her non secular faculty, and her realising she was bisexual.

“It felt like a little bit neighborhood, like all of us had one thing in widespread, though all of us had various things to work on,” she added.

She additionally cited her expertise on Virgin Island as a constructive one. “It has modified life for me. I really feel like I do know myself so much higher. And I’m not keen to make myself uncomfortable for the sake of doing one thing I ‘ought to’ be doing.”

The present begins on Channel 4 on Monday Could 12 at 9pm: naturally, post-watershed.