Virgins! A Memoir of the Sexual Revolution
Zola LawrenceContemporary erotic romance
Available from Argo and Cole Publishers
ISBN: 978-0-9791186-0-9
September 2007
| When the story begins we meet Zola, a college freshman who intends to become a writer. She also happens to be a virgin. She chooses to remain a virgin because of her religious beliefs, her desire to get a college degree, and her fear of pregnancy. Until the man she loves writes to her that he is marrying another and is joining the army as a medic. This news breaks her heart and she is suddenly launched into the sexual revolution headfirst.
Zola travels through a twisting, turning kaleidoscope of loves and lovers from her first sexual experience and then forward for a total of six lovers, five of whom were virgins themselves. At times she struggles to keep her sanity. The country is at war in Vietnam, her first experiences with birth control, drugs, alcohol, sex, love, death, heartbreak and her family are all part of her emotional turmoil. Zola Lawrence has written an exciting story of the period from 1967-1981 when a person loved freely, took drugs without consequences, and hitchhiked without worry. I found this to be a compelling, eye-opening story of those times. It opened my eyes to the struggles young people went through, of the drug use, how the war affected them, and the true understanding of the sexual revolution in general. This isn't a true romance story. It was a more true to life tale that at times was warm and touching and at other times I found it to be sad and heart wrenching. I would highly recommend it. Ms. Lawrence is an excellent writer and I look forward to reading more of her books.
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Reviewer: Sandra |
