{"id":6145,"date":"2008-10-10T15:59:36","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T23:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=6145"},"modified":"2008-10-10T16:01:42","modified_gmt":"2008-10-11T00:01:42","slug":"the-worlds-oldest-virgin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=6145","title":{"rendered":"The World’s Oldest Virgin?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I always like to leave an inspirational story at the top of my website when I step away for the Sabbath or to perform some other mitzvah.<\/p>\n

From the Sun of London<\/a>:<\/a><\/p>\n

BRITAIN’S oldest virgin who celebrates her 105th birthday this weekend says no sex is the secret to her long life.<\/h2>\n

Having known she would remain single from the age of twelve, Clara Meadmore abstained to concentrate on earning a living.<\/p>\n

She has never had sex because she was "too busy" for intimate relationships which seemed like "a lot of hassle".<\/p>\n

The retired secretary said sex equalled marriage in the 1920s and 1930s and she did not buy into the idea.<\/p>\n

\"Former<\/p>\n
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Former self … Clara in her late 30s<\/p>\n

She says she is proud of remaining a virgin.<\/p>\n

"People have asked whether I am a homosexual and the answer is no. I have just never been interested in or fancied having sex," Clara said.<\/p>\n

"I imagine there is a lot of hassle involved and I have always been busy doing other things.<\/p>\n

"I’ve never had a boyfriend – I’ve never been bothered about relationships. When I was a girl you only had sex with your husband and I never married.<\/p>\n

"I’ve always had lots of platonic friendships with men but never felt the need to go further than that or marry."<\/p>\n

\"Virgin<\/p>\n

Virgin … Clara Meadmore<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I always like to leave an inspirational story at the top of my website when I step away for the Sabbath or to perform some other mitzvah. From the Sun of London: BRITAIN’S oldest virgin who celebrates her 105th birthday … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[13466,13465,13463,13464,13462,13461],"class_list":["post-6145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sex","tag-earning-a-living","tag-inspirational-story","tag-intimate-relationships","tag-london-britain","tag-meadmore","tag-platonic-friendships"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6145"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6147,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6145\/revisions\/6147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}