70-year-old virgin Pam Shaw says she is ready for love.
The 2005 film "The 40-Year-Old
Virgin," grossed nearly $200 million worldwide based on the premise of a
man who went without sex into midlife. But one real-life woman has managed to stay a virgin up to her 70th birthday.
That could be about to change. "Now's
the time. I'm ready to take the plunge for the right bloke," Pam Shaw
tells the Sun."My standards are still very high, though. I'm hoping to
bag a tall, dark and handsome millionaire."
Shaw says she doesn't believe in
sex before marriage and has been too busy with her career as a cabaret
dance to settle down. "I feel I am ready to give marriage a go and maybe
go to bed with a man," she said. "You are never too old for anything.
Just look at Joan Collins."
According to worldwide statistics, the average person retains his or her virginity until 17.3 years of age.
A 2010 Yahoo! reader survey found similar numbers, with readers giving
an average age of 17.5 before having sex for the first time.
Shaw in the 1960's
The paper notes that despite her voluntary lifelong abstinence, Shaw
goes by the stage name "The Sexational Pam," and once fraternized with
male sex symbols like "It's Not Unusual" singer Tom Jones and James Bond
actor Roger Moore.
"Tom Jones was very good looking
and we used to chat occasionally before I went on stage as the opening
act," she said. "In the late 60s we performed together. There was only a
curtain separating our dressing areas."
Shaw says she lived with her
mother until she passed away at the age of 97 in 1995. Ironically, Shaw
says men have often made incorrect assumptions about her sex life, or
lack thereof, because of her career in the entertainment industry.
"I've never really been intimate
with a man, just a bit of kissing. I had a sexy stage name and dressed
sexy but that was all for my career," she said.
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