She ripped the hair off his chest. We laughed.

She sucked on his toe and got kicked in the face. We laughed.

The “40-Year-Old Virgin” brought tears to our eyes — partly because Steve Carrell’s comedy was still fresh, but mainly because of the topic.

Someone making it out of college a virgin?

Forget about it.

Despite the hormones surrounding our quaint campus with 96 bars nearby, my friend has refrained from intercourse his whole life.

“Abstinence is the only 100 percent way to not have a child,” John Hardison, a senior from Snellville, said.

Hardison, celebrating his 25th birthday this Monday, says he abstains not only to avoid unwanted pregnancy, but for religious reasons.

“I’m not giving into carnal lust,” Hardison said. “[Sex] is more than lust; it’s a connection between two people that supersedes the physical aspects.”

Even with three girlfriends under his belt, the physicality experienced in the relationships remained outside the realm of oral sex and intercourse.

“Sometimes I feel awkward when my friends and I are talking about girls in the past and I have no interesting sex stories.”

Despite what we’ve experienced downtown and the traffic witnessed in our own apartments, one out of 33 men and one out of 25 women are virgins at 30 years old, according to 11points.com.

The previous source was a blog. — OK, so not the most credible — but many virgins over the age of 30 posted comments about why they’ve only slept solo.

“You just get left behind somehow, because of a freak combination of circumstances (in my case, shy in high school, commuted to college, got hit by a car, had to spend two years learning to walk again, woke up one morning a 24-year-old virgin who’d never been kissed),” “Name,” 29, posted on the blog.

Whether it is by choice or circumstance, pocketing your v-card for a later date isn’t as abnormal as the movie made it seem.

Is holding on to your virginity the new (non) sexual trend?

Unfortunately for those of us who already hopped on the shaggin’ wagon, it’s one fad we can’t participate in.

Once it’s gone, it’s gone.

That’s why my advice is always to wait… until you’re absolutely sure.

“I see myself waiting for the right girl, when we’re engaged, not married,” Hardison said. “It would have to be someone I can see myself spending a long amount of time with.”

Although he is waiting for his dream girl, she may not have “waited” for him.

But Hardison said he prefers a girl who isn’t a virgin for two reasons: she has experience and later in life she won’t wonder what sex is like with other men.

Thankfully, sex isn’t like Pringles — once you pop you can stop.

But some of us need to try a few cans before we find the flavor we savor.

But Hardison has some pretty good advice for everyone, Pringles-popped or not:

“Sex can wait… masturbate.”

— Samantha Shelton is a senior from Auburn majoring

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