It looks like the freaks are about to overrun the baby-makers on TLC. They’ve show us the hoarders, the people who eat disgusting things, the people who spend all their time finding bargains, and the ladies who didn’t know they were pregnant. Now they’re showcasing virgins who are so extreme they haven’t even kissed before their wedding. There’s nothing wrong with that in theory, and many find it laudable, but in practice they’re making it look really awkward and geeky. Check out the trailer above, where the couple only goes as far as giving each other Eskimo kisses before their wedding, and then look like they’re going to eat each other’s faces off once they’re finally able to kiss in front of witnesses. Here’s more, from Radar:
In a new TLC reality show called Virgin Diaries, real people go through the trials and tribulations of being a virgin in a sexually charged culture, sometimes with cringe inducing results.
In this sneak peek obtained by RadarOnline.com, men and women discuss the reasons why they’ve remained virgins – not by choice, for religious reasons, or just because.
For one couple who decided to wait until they were married to even kiss (just like Josh and Anna Duggar back in the day) when the minister says “you may kiss the bride” one kiss turns into a complete and rather sloppy make out session.
Check out TLC’s newest show Virgin Diaries Sunday, December 4 at 9/8c.
[From Radar]
Yeah, I don’t really know what to say about this. Somehow that lady who eats rocks makes me less uncomfortable.
Here’s a gif that sums it all up, thanks to Warming Glow:
LOLOL! That gif gave me life this AM.
OMG lol this may take the crown from Toddlers & Tiaras as the most disturbing.
GROSS! See you need practice before the wedding so you don’t eat someone’s face!
It does look like he’s f—ing her mouth with his tongue. I actually wish I hadn’t seen that.
Isn’t making out in public pretty much unacceptable unless you’re a high school student or drunk?
Gross. I applaud young people making responsible decisions about sex — and completely opting out before adulthood, or before marriage, is certainly that. But I can’t stand sanctimoniousness.
*facepalm*
Really?! This is a show?!
just reading *facepalm* made me snort. thank you.
(i love visuals and I’m not being a smart ass)
You may now devour your spouses face.
As is the proper and respectable thing to do.
Bahahahaha!! Oh my god you are hilarious 😀 thank you for the great comment
I have watched this FIVE TIMES. That girl is kissing like a chipmunk and the guy is trying to get away.
OHMYGOD. AMAZING.
I can feel the pain of the wedding guests. It’s palpable. If I were there, I’d probably be “trying to find something I dropped on the ground.”
Kelly LOL!! Ditto!
I’m going to use that =)
This is *weird* – I mean, I’ve heard of this before, but have these people never even seen kissing? Not even Lady & the Tramp? What they’re doing looks like it hurts – and not in a good way.
lmao “not even lady and the tramp” tooo funny!
Somehow, it looked sexier in Lady and the Tramp. Scary.
Especially when he nudged that meatball at her. Gave me the warm fuzzies all over.
That looked exactly like what you see on National Geographic when birds feed their little ones by regurgitating food into their peaks.
i almost shot my chobani out my nose. thanks for that.
There are so many awesome comments, and it’s still early in the day, but this my vote for Comment of the Day. Still laughing…
That clip was horrifying. This show is going to be a cautionary tale in how not to be a total freak.
I had to stop reading the comments about this on HuffPo. I was laughing so hard my supervisor almost came in to see what was up.
Yikes.
Oh my GOD what the hell is she doing with her mouth?
Are we sure these people know that tab A goes in slot B?
Something tells me they won’t make it that far before their heads/other things explode
I thought Courtney stodden and that Xfiles dude were already married?
LOL. When the oldest Duggar son married his wife they hadn’t ever kissed before and it was so awkward and sloppy when they got married. What are they trying to prove?
Exactly… I’d be mortified kissing for the first time in front of people who are there to LOOK AT YOU.
Now, I’m not trying to knock people’s choices… it’s nice to see that people have restraint I guess… but honestly? I don’t see anything wrong with a chaste kiss. At least a quick little peck now and then before everyone is actually watching you kiss. It doesn’t have to be sexual, but dear god, save the awkwardness just a little!
Sloppy – how on earth was it sloppy? You couldn’t see their mouths and Josh’s hands were covering part of their faces!
I don’t understand why so many people make fun of their first kiss. It was better than the kisses that I’ve seen many, MANY couples that have been together for a long time, have slept together, and sometimes even have children, have at the alter.
While I definitely cracked up at the video and the comments, I say kudos to you for not laughing and being compassionate.
O.M.G.
That is priceless. I acutally felt uncomfortable watching it and I’m not even there.
Im sorry, but are u serious? She looked like she was trying to eat his face at an extraordinarily rapid pace-seriously, watch it again. I couldn’t move my mouth like that if my life depended on it. He looks about ten seconds to a premature ejac. AND THEY ARE DOING IT ON THE PULPIT OF THEIR WEDDING. And u don’t know why they’re getting the responses they’re getting? Best clip ever!
Ops meant to repu to the poster above u sorry
And yet this will never steal the “Best Wedding Kiss” crown from Liza Minelli & David Gest…
Oh that image just made me involuntarily shudder.
Talk about disgusting kisses, what about Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie.
How sad and depressing. Given that 50% of them will get a divorce I wonder if they will ever ask themselves whether it was worth it or not to maintain celibacy for so long. All of these people seem very creepy and misguided.
They might love each other but how the f is that man (who clearly tries to back down from the face attack) going to try and explain she needs to tone it down? It is important to discover all aspects of each other before you take the big leap into marriage. I mean, it’s cute and all but at the same time so akward and pityful. Why would somebody deny themselves physical love just for the sake of it? Maybe it’s just me but if you want it so bad (look at her face), just do it already…it’s saves you the national embarassment.
LOL this is totally awkward!
I give them credit for sticking to their principles, but the girl could have at least read a bit about kissing before gnawing her new husband’s face off.
EPIC. FAIL.
Honestly? Not having sex before marriage is like signing up for a credit card and refusing to read the fine print! Why would you put yourself in that position? I could (not really that I want to) imagine if that is how they think kissing works….oh lord
TLC – Total Lack of Class
Yes, it is so very unclassy for TLC and Discovery Communications LLC (the company that owns TLC) to try to educate people about the world, lifestyles, health, odd behaviours, and all the small but important things that happen everyday, all around the world, to all types of people.
It’s just so unclassy.
*stares*
You’re not trying to call showing a couple pimping out their 6 children (like the Gosselins) or pumping out a baby a year for 20 years like two rabbits on steroids (like the Duggars) or tricking out your little three-year-old like a street whore (on Toddlers and Tiaras) “education”, are you?
Are you? Really?!
I can’t reply to your comment for some reason, so I will respond to my own. I hope you can see it.
Something doesn’t have to be found pleasant to be educational. I will tell you how the programs you brought up are educational.
John and Kate Plus 8: This show was educational because it showed what pregnancy and life are like when one has multiples. It showed all the hassles, the effect it has on the parents both together and individually, the other children, and the multiples themselves. It showed the rewards of having them, as well, which is very important. It showed how a home has to be/can be organized to accomodate the needs of 6 children of the same age and a set of older twins. This information is great for people that have a similar situation in their home, and even for people that run daycares.
19 Kids and Counting: This show is educational because it shows the day-to-day goings on of a large family, the pregnancies, the interaction between siblings, the education of the children, the organization of the home, the relationship between mother and father, the relationships between parent and child, the way they cut costs without cutting quality, and how they meet everyone’s needs, which, contrary to popular belief, they are able to do.
Even though most people don’t have a family anywhere near the size of the Duggar family, there are tips, tricks, and methods that can be used, most of the time very easily, to help one run their home better, take more control over the education of their children to make sure it is well-rounded and meets their needs, to communicate with their children better, and to come up with their own creative ways of enhancing family life. The Duggar show has nuggets of knowledge that are incredibly useful and can be used in basically any home regardless of religion and size. It also shows the benefits of having a large family.
Toddlers and Tiaras: This show is educational because, while most Americans know a little about pageants, they probably haven’t seen much of them. This shows them what the world of pagaents is like – the good, the bad, the neutral, and the downright ugly. It can serve as a mirror for stage-mothers and fathers that might not realize how horrible they are being to their children, and can show them how to be better coaches or show them that they shouldn’t be a coach at all.
There are different types of pagaents; seeing these different types of pagaents can help a parent or child better decide what is right for them. Some parents put their children in outfits that might be inappropriate; by watching this show they can watch a pagaent without being involved, which can change what they think is ok for their child to wear.
There are even more educational aspects of these shows that I can’t think of, but make no mistake, TLC and these shows are educational because of the simple fact that they shed light on what is not often seen.
@Trek Girl – So what department do you work for at Discovery Communications LLC (I think the use of LLC gave you away)?… No offense, but it sounds like you are drinking some seriously spiked coporate Kool-Aid. Either that or you have some deeply constructed rationalization for your viewership/enjoyment of these programs.
While to your point, these programs might take you “inside” a certain world and you “learn” things about that world you might never have known, that is still a far cry from being educational. By your same rationalization we can classify Jersey Shore as educational… Lord knows none of us knew about the difficulties of binge tanning and drinking in a sub-section of the New Jersey Italian community.
bahahahahaha! Thank you for making my morning. If the kiss was this awkward, can you imagine how bad the wedding night will be? Poor things.
lol!! oh dear, that might be a train-wreck…I imagine him widening his eyes at some point during coitus and whispering “its in…”
Here’s “the thing”. If you don’t want to engage in sexual activity or kissing before marriage, good for you. If that comes from personal conviction and thought and soul-searching, I am all for it. But why-oh-why would you put something that personal out for public consumption? I’M A VIRGIN!!!!!! I WAITED FOR MARRIAGE!!! THIS IS MY FIRST KISSSSSSS!!!! PUT IT ON TEEVEE!!!!!!!
Doesn’t this kind of devalue the “message”? So much for modesty and chastity, I feel like throwing VIRGIN!!! around is very sexually exploitative. See Stodden, Courtney.
THIS!
^ This!
I’m just thinking. It’s like they’ve never even SEEN someone else kiss. I remember my first kiss, and how nervous I was etc. But I at least tried to see how it was done and maybe practice a little on my own 😉
Exactly. This, to me, means that this is more of a reflection of their personalities, and not a reflection of the people that decide to save their first kiss for marriage.
I’ve seen plenty of couples who save their first kiss for marriage and their kisses are not awkward, gross, or anything like this. More often than not they are sweet and sometimes passionate, without being inappropriate.
that was really awkward to watch….kudos to them for their choices for staying virgins and all but i think someone has been watching a few too many movies to learn how to kiss…
Wow, that honeymoon is going to be a hilarious National Lampoonesque affair, “I dunno honey, i think it goes in the belly button…*OW*, damn it!”
I’ve been pondering on this all morning, and I just don’t see how this is not a put-on! I mean, look at them – they’re like a Saturday Night Live skit. In fact, I don’t think Saturday Night Live could do it better – ok, I’m throwing down the gauntlet: Kristin Wiig and Bill Hader, give it your best! Or Seth Meyers. But I just don’t think they could, because these little creatures are like awkward little birds. The butterfly kiss .gif cracks me up every time!
Funny you should say that, because when I saw the screenshot and headline in the Daily Mail I assumed it was a new movie. You know, starring Michael Cera. That kind of thing.
OMG if you’d like to see the honeymoon version of this virgin couple, watch the movie “Forgetting Sarah Marshall”. There are two supporting characters (man played by Jack McBrayer from 30Rock) that remind me so much of this couple’s Christian-based virgin awkwardness
When the guy discovers what he’s to do in sex he says… “Let me just say that if God was a city planner he would not put a playground next to a sewage system!”
lol, that’s exactly spot on.
The wedding night won’t be that great either—it’ll be like an automatic soap dispenser. She’ll put her hand near his “ahem” and ka-boom!!!
She won’t put her hand near anything, she’ll get down to her skivvies, he’ll explode and they’ll both think to themselves ‘Thank Christ that’s over’.
hahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaa thanks for making my day! soooo funny!!
AHAHA! That comment killed me.
I have always said, why buy the car before you test drive it? Case in point right here folks. That had to be one uncoordinated, awkward honeymoon.
Oh gosh….I couldn’t get past the kiss…the last thing I want to think about is them actually trying to have sex!!!! Gag, snort!!
Are they trying to eat each other?
Oh god the video and the comments just made my lunch hour.
SOOO awkward. Like you can’t practice on a pillow or something? Or watch a movie?
Kind of reminded me of a momma bird feeding her young…and that’s what it almost made me do….puke!! I mean really, wouldn’t you watch other people kiss more so you don’t look like you’re going to swallow the other persons face?! LOL!!!
I can’t even begin to imagine what their first intercourse was like. I hope he didn’t try to shove it into her belly button.
Probably like the Christian couple in Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qRjk8NB1FI
I am so excited about this show! Trainwreck City!!!!!
At what point does TLC cease to mean The Learning Channel?
When they realized they could make more money showing freak families.
Yep. Pretty much.
I miss the old days when it was on par with the Discovery Channel 🙁
Exactly.
Time for a channel name change.
The Lechery Channel perhaps?
I watch a lot of their programs and every single one of them is educational.
TLC is owned by Discovery Communications LLC, which also owns The Discovery Channel, Military Channel, Animal Planet, Discovery Health Channel, and some others.
TLC deals largely with lifestyles, life events (such as pregnancy, weddings, marriage, child rearing, etc.), careers, health, behaviour, odd disorders, odd addictions, life under extreme circumstances, and many other topics. For a lot of people these shows don’t seem educational, but they are because they are about how people around the world live, and all those things, like odd addictions and health issues, that most people wouldn’t believe existed if they didn’t see them. Heck, the show “I didn’t know I was pregnant” catches a lot of flack because people think it is ridiculous, but it show shows just how wide a range of symptoms and signs, or lack of symptoms and signs, a woman can experience during pregnancy, and it shows just how few people know about them.
This show, “Virgin Diaries”, is about some of the choices that people make when it comes to dating/courting, engagement, marriage, and intimacy; how, pray tell, is this not educational?
It stops being educational when it starts taking advantage, when it merely sensationalizes things that aren’t the norm and when any form of actual information takes a backseat to the famewhoring and sideshow spectacle of the actual supposed educational content.
kate and jon and eight and no john and kates new haircut – whilst perhaps informative at first (due to its before unseen subject) ceased to be educational a long time ago. It became a glorified soap opera
Duggers and her overworked womb – was never informative , nor educational. It’s all about voyeurism into something “weird” (no judgement on their choices or beliefs there, just making a point on how TLC chooses to portray “not the norm”)
virgin diaries – I hazard a guess is less educational and more sensational than anything.
I agree. There are MANY educational shows out there (and I LOVE most of the other LLC channels you listed). But…
If you want to educate yourself on polygamy, I suggest other outlets beside sister wife’s.
If you want to learn about the challenges, not sponsored trips to Disneyland, of multiple births, again, there are many programs and documentaries out there. These are NOT on TLC.
At this point, TLC is just an entertainment program disguising itself as education.
And don’t be fooled… you think these virgins are doing this to educate you on their life choices? Or for the money???
@Trek Girl After reading this latest post of yours, if you don’t work at Discovery Communications LLC, they should hire you to write their sales and pr materials!
Honestly, just enjoy the shows, have no shame, and then no need to share these educational rationalizations with us snarky, cynical commenters… we won’t believe them anyway.
trek girl, what exactly are we learning here? how can we apply it in our daily lives? the answers: nothing, and we can’t. TLC is not showing us how people around the world live, they are showing how dysfunctional people in the US live. If people are interested in how virgins kiss on their wedding day, let them go to youtube. It’s either time for TLC to change their name to TEC (teh exploitation channel) or start developing some truly educational programming instead of this crap.
@TrekGirl: Methinks you’re confusing educational with exploitational.
No, I know the difference between educational and exploitational.
Just because a topic isn’t pleasant, or is downright weird, doesn’t mean people can’t benefit from knowing about it, even if the benefit is just knowing that something exists.
Ugh, that put me in mind of a terrier worrying a dog toy.
I had a serious gigglesnort just now. Those poor kids.
Their honeymoon is gonna be so sad. I can just imagine her eyes widening in horror as she sees ‘it’ for the first time.
What you want to bet she keeps her eyes shut through the entire thing? Which shouldn’t take more than 90 seconds from start to finish (provided they already know where to insert what).
CB: Please let this story roll to page two. The picture is freaking me out. It looks like twins attached at the head.
I don’t understand how rubbing eyelashes is any more acceptable than rubbing lips against each other. Seriously! You are still in close contact, and if its all about being pure, I don’t get what the difference is there. I can understand why people wait until marriage to have sex (well, I can kind of understand) but just to kiss. That sounds terrible.
but butterfly kisses? gross.
Looks to me like a good way to pick up a nice case of pinkeye.
ha ha
It looks like someone gave this girl a how-to video and she watched it on double speed by mistake.
if aliens are watching out tv shows to see what kind of life is here…they’re going to see this and keep moving on…
I have a friend from high school who waited until his wedding day to kiss his wife for the first time. I’m from New York City.
It happens. It’s not “weird”, it’s just a different belief system. He is super-christian and they’ve been married for a couple of years now. Good for them!
Yeah, that’s cool and all. But did your friend put his wedding kiss video on television? or did he consider his and his wife’s sexuality to be a private, personal matter?
No, just as most people don’t air their wedding on TV.
I stand by my assertion that waiting for marriage to kiss is not “weird” or unheard of. While it’s unusual, it’s definitely a lifestyle choice (pun intended) made by some uber-christians. To each their own!
I agree, Iggles.
So if most couples who wait are fairly normal, why would TLC use the most awkward freakish clip in their promo? Oh yeah, to EDUCATE us about a lifestyle ..No exploitation here. None at all.
… and the Norse Gawd came unto Earth to enjoy sexual relations with one of the Vestal Virgins; and having satisfied her mightily, informed her, “I AM THOR!!”
She giggled and said, “I am, too, but it thure wath thweet!”
Okay that surprised a guffaw out of me!
😀
seriously! how do they come up with these lamo show ideas?
I have to say one thing. I live in one of european country and last year they started broadcast this channel in my native language and WOW. When I’m watching shows like “Toddlers&Tiaras” or “I didn’t know I was pregnant” I am speechless. This channel is very disturbing. No wonder that you Americans are who you are.
Europe has it’s own faults as well. They’re just wiser and choose not to use reality shows to broadcast their flaws.
And besides, I hate being lumped in with other people that I have no similarities to, except the fact I live in the US.
For the record, I do not watch the Learning Channel, or any reality shows, save for a few like Swamp People, or shows like Cops.
Yup, thats right. We are all “like that” :eyeroll:
I could make a few observations about supercilious, stuck-up Europeans, but I’m going to be nice today.
So you can make observations about a whole continent? About 27 member states of the EU? Impressive, you must have a lot of experience in traveling and insight into the social structures of each country to think you can offer information about countries who each have their own systems and beliefs which are split up again between the people themselves since everybody is different.
And stating that Europeans are “supercilious” and “stuck-up” is not only already giving an observation (based on nothing no less) but the words are synonyms so it’s nice you want to throw in a difficult word (well for me it is) but you could at least make sure they’re not the same in meaning:
supercilious: haughty disdain, arrogant
stuck-up: arrogant or snobbish
The general idea of Europe is good. Bringing countries and cultures together. Opening the gates for other people. People can just move to a European country instead of immigrating which is a difficult process. For young people especially it encourages them to travel without much problems or paperwork. I know it’s not perfect in practice and the politics behind it are not always good spirited but a lot of people are grateful for the opportunities that Europa can give them. If you want to rag on that, fine. But generalizing European people is arrogant, close-minded and childish on your part because each of them have there own personality and cannot be put in one simple box Cheyenne. To think you can categorize and look down on so many people you never met is delusional and sad and again says a lot about how you view other people. I guess you only fancy your “own people”. Sad.
NM, before you got your big girl panties all in a wad, you should have read the post I was replying to, in which Trollson got all snarky about Americans. Turnabout’s fair play, no?
Now un-wad your panties and lighten up. This is a fun thread and we’re all having fun on here.
In Belgium children grow up with American shows (I know most of them). Everything that is succesful is either broadcasted on our channels or they make an own version of it (Idol – Idool, Big Brother – the same, X-factor, Fear Factor, Jersey Shore – Oh oh cherso (Holland)…).
Americanization…
But we also have a lot of foreign films in the evenings, also German shows or French shows. It depends. The good and the bad pass. Whatever is popular.
I can understand the whole waiting until marriage thing. When I was 13 I did that whole true love waits thing, but obviously that didn’t pan out too well. LoL.
But I don’t get why you’d wait until your wedding day to have your first kiss.
I shudder to think what their first time will be like.
How about this: a show where unemployed college grads try to make ends meet and find some kind of employment. I think that would put some reality into “reality Tv”.
Now sadly that is reality.
THAT would be awesome. And might finally shut up some of those “quit bitching just get a job” Um… there aren’t really any jobs, no matter where or how you look
Ok… Off soapbox
Preach =)!
I’ll admit to spending too many hours glued to reality tv shows – millionaire matchmaker, cake contests, survivor, real world, even real housewives in the beginning :/
but I’ve been off the cable for two years and I guess I’m not missing much. I think of getting it again at times until I see things like this.
It’s all a train wreck but this would give me nightmares.
no first kiss looks like that.
I know a couple that did this. It was cute. Not two fish fighting for air.
Kissing is something you just know how to do instantly, like breathing. No need for special skillz school, no need to practice. Why they kissed sloppily like pecking birds, I have no idea.
Yeah, I’m going out to make out with someone.
Dying laughing! They couldn’t save that until after the vows? Oh, man. Wow. I mean, wow.
I didn’t get quite what everyone was on about until I watched the video…GOOD LORD.
Haven’t they seen people kiss in movies…? And I’m not talking about the zombies that get it on in Braindead!! D8
Apparently these virgins have never even SEEN anyone kiss…especially the bird bride.