An expensive troika and a curious virgin. Notes on "Virgin School"
So. The magic on line alarm didn't work (I presume because the laptop went to sleep, yet isn't this what the alarms are for?..), but I managed to wake up on time due to the panic of my biological clock.
As promised previously in Some Like it Koud I would like to post a few thoughts on a program I watched a few weeks ago on the TV here in the Neverlands.
One might think at first that a program like this could only be possible in the Neverlands. That's what myself thought. Yet I was quite surprised by the fact that at first this documentary The Virgin School was actually shown on the UK's Channel 4 last May. Talk about British conservatism.
Yet on the other hand I am quite convinced that Aquarion - the school for love and leadership as the founders call it (although I don't remember any references to the 'leadership' in the actual documentary) - could only be possibly founded in the Neverlands. While we should give the credit to the 26-year-old virgin hero James (and the lucky hero I would say - with Bridget and the salt, the snake, the touching, the Tibetan bowls, the massage... no wonder majority of the clients wait for The moment until their third or fourth session ), I was fascinated by the women who run the venture. Pricey women. A quick look on the English version of the website of Aquarion and we find out that sex coaching is only possible after "an intake", which is 2 hours (whether personal or written+phonecall: € 220). Personal, tele- and mailcoaching will cost € 575 (which is 5 hours of mental coaching on love or the absence of it with expected homework). Subscription into a personal and tailor made Sex Course lifts the bar - € 1.000. The course itself is € 3.500 - € 4.000, with travel and stay expenses not included. And when a visit to the Neverlands is not possible or wanted, coaching conversations about sexual problems or a dull relationship can be arranged at a total of € 120 per hour with a minimum of 3 conversations. By the way, the price list on the Dutch version of the website was quite different, again I don't understand much, but that's how it stands:
Het standaardbedrag voor het 10 uur durende persoonlijke liefdescoachingstraject is € 900,-. Mensen met een meer dan dubbel modaal inkomen en/of een flink eigen vermogen, betalen € 250,- meer; zij ontvangen een dan wat intensere begeleiding.
Actually, it seems that there is no Sex Coaching for the Neverlanders. SexCoaching valt niet onder het aanbod. This is the only sentence on the Dutch version where sex coaching is mentioned. I understand it means 'sex coaching is not on offer'? Talk about leadership? The women definitely seem to know how to do business.
I'm sure the lucky hero got all for free (sadly, the school is quite expensive, I actually think some lessons could possibly be useful to quite a few boys out there, let's say, the visual ones about the utmost secret places). But besides making money - why do those seemingly warm middle age Venuses are engaging in this sort of enterprise? Two out of three of them admitted that their first times were not great (let's admit - they're not so sugary sweet mostly, rarely there are candles and they are not accompanied by violin or flute sounds). Are they being good samaritans? Revolutionising by devirginasing? Having a lost mother-son conversation with explicit illustrations? Celebrating their withering bodies? Love and leadership they say? I couldn't feel much love there. As for the leadership... sex is definitely about power (even though the documentary seemed to neglect the leadership element). Whichever the boy (he came as a boy to the Neverlands and I still saw a boy James when he left Aquarion, even though without the 'virgin' label) learned, he said he didn't have sex after the documentary was shown and was still looking for love. In the meantime I suppose the troika of Aquarion were looking for more of the likes of James who could be drawn to this gateway out of virginity. What I'm waiting for now is for somebody in the Neverlands to start a school like this targeting the female audience. And that would deserve Donna Haraway's or Judith Butler's scrutiny, not just my modest footnotes.
As promised previously in Some Like it Koud I would like to post a few thoughts on a program I watched a few weeks ago on the TV here in the Neverlands.
One might think at first that a program like this could only be possible in the Neverlands. That's what myself thought. Yet I was quite surprised by the fact that at first this documentary The Virgin School was actually shown on the UK's Channel 4 last May. Talk about British conservatism.
Yet on the other hand I am quite convinced that Aquarion - the school for love and leadership as the founders call it (although I don't remember any references to the 'leadership' in the actual documentary) - could only be possibly founded in the Neverlands. While we should give the credit to the 26-year-old virgin hero James (and the lucky hero I would say - with Bridget and the salt, the snake, the touching, the Tibetan bowls, the massage... no wonder majority of the clients wait for The moment until their third or fourth session ), I was fascinated by the women who run the venture. Pricey women. A quick look on the English version of the website of Aquarion and we find out that sex coaching is only possible after "an intake", which is 2 hours (whether personal or written+phonecall: € 220). Personal, tele- and mailcoaching will cost € 575 (which is 5 hours of mental coaching on love or the absence of it with expected homework). Subscription into a personal and tailor made Sex Course lifts the bar - € 1.000. The course itself is € 3.500 - € 4.000, with travel and stay expenses not included. And when a visit to the Neverlands is not possible or wanted, coaching conversations about sexual problems or a dull relationship can be arranged at a total of € 120 per hour with a minimum of 3 conversations. By the way, the price list on the Dutch version of the website was quite different, again I don't understand much, but that's how it stands:
Het standaardbedrag voor het 10 uur durende persoonlijke liefdescoachingstraject is € 900,-. Mensen met een meer dan dubbel modaal inkomen en/of een flink eigen vermogen, betalen € 250,- meer; zij ontvangen een dan wat intensere begeleiding.
Actually, it seems that there is no Sex Coaching for the Neverlanders. SexCoaching valt niet onder het aanbod. This is the only sentence on the Dutch version where sex coaching is mentioned. I understand it means 'sex coaching is not on offer'? Talk about leadership? The women definitely seem to know how to do business.
I'm sure the lucky hero got all for free (sadly, the school is quite expensive, I actually think some lessons could possibly be useful to quite a few boys out there, let's say, the visual ones about the utmost secret places). But besides making money - why do those seemingly warm middle age Venuses are engaging in this sort of enterprise? Two out of three of them admitted that their first times were not great (let's admit - they're not so sugary sweet mostly, rarely there are candles and they are not accompanied by violin or flute sounds). Are they being good samaritans? Revolutionising by devirginasing? Having a lost mother-son conversation with explicit illustrations? Celebrating their withering bodies? Love and leadership they say? I couldn't feel much love there. As for the leadership... sex is definitely about power (even though the documentary seemed to neglect the leadership element). Whichever the boy (he came as a boy to the Neverlands and I still saw a boy James when he left Aquarion, even though without the 'virgin' label) learned, he said he didn't have sex after the documentary was shown and was still looking for love. In the meantime I suppose the troika of Aquarion were looking for more of the likes of James who could be drawn to this gateway out of virginity. What I'm waiting for now is for somebody in the Neverlands to start a school like this targeting the female audience. And that would deserve Donna Haraway's or Judith Butler's scrutiny, not just my modest footnotes.
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