Boybands and Virginity: The Unspoken Trend

With groups like One Direction and the Wanted making themselves known to the charts (and the fantasies of teenage girls), it seems like the boyband phase has come back with a vengeance. Every several years, it seems like American teens need to get excited about a pop act, and we need a lot of variety in that act. Cute boys who can sing and dance seem to be exactly what we want on the menu right now.
But I happened to notice a trend in Hollywood that seems to pop up right around the time a boyband or two begin to collect fans as tribute: virginity. Yep, the v-card decides to make itself known once again, and this time around, athletes like Tim Tebow and Lolo Jones have been waving their white flags with pride.
This is something I've realized recently. Don't see it? Let me remind you.....

New Kids on the Block

NKTOB assembled in 1984 and found popularity with their second album in 1988, Hangin' Tough. But back in 1985.....

Brooke Shields

Actress and model Brooke Shields admitted in her autobiography On Your Own, that at age 20, she was still a virgin. Then later, we had.....................

N*Sync and the Backstreet Boys

 

 The Backstreet Boys and Nsync, arguably two of the most popular boy bands in American music history, were at the height of their success in the lates 90's and early 00's, right around the same time of...

Jessica Simpson and Britney Spears

  Megastar Britney Spears and pop singer Jessica Simpson were popular for their conflicting sex appeal and claims of virginity, Jessica stating that she planned to wait until she was married. More recently for us 90's kids.....

Jonas Brothers

The Jonas Brothers reached fame in the mid-00's with Disney, appearing on the hit shows like Hannah Montana and Disney Channel original movies Camp Rock and Camp Rock 2, even getting their own show Jonas L.A. The fam-band had huge success, even drawing comparisons to the Beatles (not by me, let's just get that fact straight). They also famously wore purity rings, promising their parents and God to remain pure until marriage. Hey, that sounds an awful lot like....

Jordin Sparks and Miley Cyrus

Jordin Sparks slammed MTV VMA 2008 host, Russell Brand, for making of the Jonas Brothers and proudly showed her purity ring as well. Even Disney starlets Miley Cyrus and Selena Gomez (exes of Nick Jonas, coincidentally) both wore purity rings for a while. Now, in 2012, we have....

One Direction

....five boys, trying to convince us that we don't know we're beautiful (hate me, Directioners, hate me). We have yet to find another band (aside from the Wanted, but do we really count them?) to contend them for the #1 spot, but while we're waiting......

Tim Tebow

Athletes like football player Tim Tebow and Olympics gymnast Lolo Jones have come out of the white closet. And once again, virginity in Hollywood is drawing interest.

Maybe boybands and virginity being popular at the same time is coincidental; maybe there's no correlation between the two at all. But this looks pretty legit to me. Maybe some scientists have already done a study about it and I just didn't notice, but I thought this was a pretty interesting discovery. Why does abstinence spike when boybands do? Do record sales go up when purity pledges are signed? The world may never know....