Is Miss America still supposed to be a virgin?!
Question: I'm watching that new TLC show about Miss America, and it's got me thinking...do they still try to make Miss America be a virgin? That would be kind of awkward in this day and age.
Answers: I'm watching that new TLC show about Miss America, and it's got me thinking...do they still try to make Miss America be a virgin? That would be kind of awkward in this day and age.
Miss America is not expected to drink.
Miss Teenage America is not expected to have sex.
Both are not investigated unless complaints arise.
But in neither pageant are you expected to be pregnant or have a child because the prizes include scholarships that get in the way of the winner having a child.
Still, the expectations are there.
I really don't think that, that should be an issue, or anyone else's business but her own!
I don't think any one is naive enough to think that Miss America needs to be a virgin...
But we also don't want her to have posed for nudie pics and starred in her own X-rated web videos, either.
"Miss America represents the highest ideals. She is a real combination of beauty, grace, and intelligence, artistic and refined. She is a type which the American Girl might well emulate."
Those words were spoken by Atlantic City Chamber of Commerce President Frederick Hickman more than 75 years ago, and they still ring true today. Miss America is a role model to young and old alike, and a spokesperson, using her title to educate millions of Americans on an issue of importance to herself and society at large.
It didn't say anything about her being a virgin.
I don't think that they medically check for that, so the contestants can claim to be whatever they want.