Gisele says no one waits until marriage to have sex.
Gisele Bundchen is the biggest international star on the runway during Rio’s Fashion Week, but she’s also making headlines for criticizing the Roman Catholic church’s opposition to condom use and abortion.
Bundchen, who paraded Tuesday night for the Colcci label, told the Folha de S. Paulo newspaper that the church’s take on contraception is hopelessly outdated because it was adopted when ”the women were virgins, the guys were virgins.”
”Today, no one is a virgin when they get married,” Bundchen said.
She made the comments less than a month after Pope Benedict XVI criticized government-sanctioned abortion laws and birth control during a five-day visit to Brazil, the world’s most populous Roman Catholic nation.
While most abortions are banned in Brazil, the government hands out more than 300 million free condoms each year to prevent AIDS and unwanted pregnancies.
”To prohibit condoms is ridiculous, just think of all the diseases transmitted without them,” the 26-year-old supermodel told the newspaper.
She added: ”How is it possible to not want people to use condoms and also not have abortions? It’s impossible, I’m sorry.”
Bundchen isn’t the first Brazilian celebrity to clash with the Roman Catholic church over contraception.
Popular singer Daniela Mercury was pulled from a 2005 Vatican Christmas concert over her participation in an anti-AIDS campaign promoting condom use.
June 6th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
Well just for the record, I’m 25 and a virgin. I’m waiting for marriage. So…it’s not true that NO ONE is a virgin when they get married.
June 6th, 2007 at 4:15 pm
Fernandala, first, who cares? Second, you’re going to be inexperienced (i.e., boring) and have no idea what you’re doing. Do yourself and your future whatever a favor and start exploring life a little bit. Sheesh!
June 6th, 2007 at 4:26 pm
Wow that was rude I know quite a few young women that are saving themselves for marriage. Whatever rocks your boat, man. My mother told me from my teenage years not to sleep with every man that comes along, but also not to marry the first one, either. Again, whatever works for you. Oh and inexperienced is NOT always boring LOL
June 6th, 2007 at 5:20 pm
@ Zhudokhchichtskov
seriously stfu.
Im a guy, and when she gets married she”ll have years and years to learn from her husband. Instead of her being some old rag that got banged by half her town. I’d take a virgin wife over a slutty one every day of the week, and im pretty sure 99% of the male populace does.
June 6th, 2007 at 6:21 pm
Zhudokhchichtskov sounds inexperienced at life to be making this comment!
Gisele - well she’s hot, but she’s got it wrong, I know of a few true virgins out there waiting to be married. I couldn’t do it, but obviously some people can.
And NO, being inexperienced is NOT always a bad thing
In fact, sometimes that is better.
June 6th, 2007 at 6:45 pm
Regardless ofsome people’s virgin status I hope we all agree taht condom use is sane. Bravo for spaeking up Gisele.
June 6th, 2007 at 6:47 pm
I don’t care. I know I won’t suck. Just because I haven’t yet doesn’t mean I can’t be kick ass at it. It’s going to be like a volcano erupting after waiting forever and my husband is going to love it.
June 6th, 2007 at 7:22 pm
Good for you Fernandala I’m sure your future husband won’t mind practicing with you until you get it right. I’m sure a guy would fell lucky to marry a girl who hasn’t spent her life being the village bike. I think condoms are needed for sex its much better than abortion but I think she was naive to say no one is a virgin its just not the majority anymore. The really pretty VS model is an outspoken virgin I think her name is Adriana Lima??
June 6th, 2007 at 7:59 pm
Good for you, Fernandala. Seriously, how many of us regret not waiting for the right person before giving something as little as your first kiss to the wrong person? You don’t have to be experienced to be “kick-ass” and you’re probably right; your husband will probably love it.
June 6th, 2007 at 8:35 pm
Do none of you understand hyperbole? Obviously she doesn’t me literally not a single person gets married a virgin. But she’s 100% right that for the Catholic church to oppose condoms is rediculously out-dated. The Catholic church doesn’t even allow condom use between married people, because they think if they can trick all their members into having 18 kids that the church will grow…
June 6th, 2007 at 8:46 pm
For the record, having sex before marriage DOES NOT equal being a slut! C’mon, you’re telling me that the only ’special person’ in anybody’s life will be the future husband?
She’s just putting things in perspective. All Giselle is saying is that when the Chruch first condemned the use of contraceptives things were different, it was custom to wait until marriage. Nowadays, a lot of people (or, as somebody said, the majority… anyway, it’s a generalization) starts having sex before that, and wether you like to sleep around or not, it’s more likely you’ll have sex with more than one person throughout your life. So yes, it’s important that the Church revises their views on that subjects.
I think it’s great that she speakes up and rises awareness on this issue. It’s not about your beliefs, it’s about a reality (specially if you think about what’s happening in developing countries): preventing the spread of HIV and avoiding unnecesary -and dangerous- abortions.
June 6th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
For the record, having sex before marriage DOES NOT equal being a slut! C’mon, you’re telling me that the only ’special person’ in anybody’s life will be the future husband?
She’s just putting things in perspective! All Giselle is saying is that when the Chruch first condemned the use of contraceptives things were different, it was custom to wait until marriage. Nowadays, a lot of people (or, as somebody said, the majority… anyway, it’s a generalization) starts having sex before that, and wether you like to sleep around or not, it’s more likely you’ll have sex with more than one person throughout your life. So yes, it’s important that the Church revises their views on that subjects.
I think it’s great that she speakes up and rises awareness on this issue. It’s not about your beliefs, it’s about a reality, specially in developing countries: preventing the spread of HIV and avoiding unnecesary -and dangerous- abortions.
June 6th, 2007 at 11:31 pm
I’m 23, a virgin, and plan on being one until I’m married. I also expect to marry a virgin, so neither of us will have previous experience, which means it’s an even playing field. We’ll learn together. I’ll never regret the decision to wait.
June 7th, 2007 at 12:59 am
The logic of some of the arguments presented here is interesting. The Church is old-fashioned, out-dated, out of touch. The Church needs to update her teachings because people are behaving a certain way … think about that for a second. Something the Church has always taught (wait til marriage, no artificial birth control, etc.) needs to change because people suddenly can’t handle it.
What about the possibility that God Almighty wants people to wait until marriage, and that He considers condom use sinful, and that He forbids us to destroy human life through abortion? If those things are true, then the Church is simply transmitting what is true according to the Creator of the universe. In that case, some of you are essentially saying that God needs to update his thinking …
June 7th, 2007 at 2:54 am
What about the possibility that not everybody is a Catholic, right? And the possibility of the Church having a lot of influence in many governments’ decisions around the world… especially in Third World countries where this is a major issue?
The Church doesn’t limitate itself to transmitting… it interprets. Besides, if we begin to take everything literally, and we don’t ‘update’; might as well get me some slaves (Leviticus 25:45) and kill my sister for going to work last Saturday (Exodus 35:2).
June 7th, 2007 at 7:55 am
says who Giselle, maybe tats how shes sees it but not in my book.
June 7th, 2007 at 11:01 am
Every single girl (and one guy) that I know who “waited” until they got married are now ALL divorced. And I know sex was the main reason in at least half of those splits (which, including the guy and his wife, makes six.)
And for the record, not being a virgin doesn’t mean you’ve banged half the guys in town, as one poster said. I certainly haven’t, and I’ve still found a guy who wants to marry me.
Young girls look up to Gisele, and I would say the majority of them aren’t going to wait until they get married, so props to her for advocating the use of condoms.
June 7th, 2007 at 11:06 am
LittleWing, I realize that not everyone is Catholic, but the debate here was about what the Roman Catholic Church should teach. As to the possibility that the Church has major influence in some governments … good.
If your definition of interpreting means that the Church teaches things that God doesn’t want her to teach, then you are not correct. The Church teaches what God wants, and Christ promised that the Holy Spirit would guide the Church in truth.
I did not say to take everything literally from the Bible, and neither does the Church. Christ gave us new understanding in the N.T., but we are not free to update now because human weakness continues to manifest itself (i.e., people give in to their sexual urges as if they were simply animals rather than beings to whom God has given a soul).
June 7th, 2007 at 2:04 pm
i used to like gisele well not anymore. im a virgin and will be until im married.
June 7th, 2007 at 2:31 pm
Holy Moly there seems to be a virgin epidemic!!
June 8th, 2007 at 12:18 am
I was a virgin when I got married and I’m not sorry. I promised myself when I was younger to wait and I’m glad I did. It doesn’t mean I didn’t have fun though! :)!
June 9th, 2007 at 9:00 am
Although I don’t always agree with the hardline of the Catholic Church, I would hardly take my moral teachings from some slutty supermodel who poses naked. I was a virgin when I got married, and I am still happily married to the same man for 17 years.
June 12th, 2007 at 8:10 pm
hahahaha i stand up for what giseles is saying catholic rules suck
June 22nd, 2007 at 1:53 am
She complains about abortion and AIDS, but if women stayed virgins until marriage, wouldn’t those problems diminish greatly?
Anyways, she’d meet millions of unmarried virgins if she travelled anywhere beyond the Americas and Europe.
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June 28th, 2007 at 6:53 pm
Catholics are not the ONLY groups who advocate abstinance til marriage. Also the rule is NOT for girls alone,but men too. YES there are male virgins,NO they are NOT gay or ugly. Girls who wait are not cheated on adn are NOT boring.
I waited for marriage and am still married for almost 9yrs and we are HAPPY. My husband unfortunately was not a virgin(he repented & religion is NOT wrong,hopping from partner to partner is),but guess what this virgin made him forget even feel repulsed by the loose booty chics he knew before he married me.
My younger siblings are waiting too. Which include a very handsome and intelligent 18 1/2 yr old brother. Yes its something hard to practice but it won’t kill ya. Your life definitely is not dependant on pre-marital sex. And when you do get married how would you like your husband to screw around if you should get sick and can NOT have sex for a time? Is it illogical for him to wait? And its harder to wait when you’ve had it,trust me,I was on bedrest with all three of my pregnancies.
If abortion is to save a life (like sick mother) or rape victims it should be allowed. But if more people,men & women alike,waited til marriage then there would not be so many abortions nor would there be so many HIV cases.
Also its funny how people expect the church & other religious entities to change their beliefs. How are they outdated?
If you don’t believe you just don’t believe.
Don’t blame,churches,mosques & temples for your lack of faith.
I am not conservative(I am 4 justice) but for those who claim to be liberal its funny how we should all be free to do as we please unless it is not what you believe????
All the virgins much respect,you can do it .
As for the divorce rate,its crazy to base statistics for a whole population on ones group of friends.
Plus its much higher among those who had their share of sex partners. Biggest issue???? Infidelity…… I’d rather have a person with self control who is willing to learn than an experienced man-whore.
Oh and just like being a virgin does not make you boring,premarital sex does not make you great in bed either.
anyway good day & excuse typos.not feeling up to revising this….
June 28th, 2007 at 9:22 pm
alright.
you’re all missing the point here.
the catholic church has rules.
they (the pope, magisterium, etc.) decide whether or not and when the rules change.
period.
now, whether or not you like the rules is not the catholic church’s problem.
don’t like them? don’t be a catholic.
want to use a condom? choose a different religious denomination.
want to have sex before marriage? nobody’s stopping you. disobey the bible. have fun.
there is absolutely NO point to complaining about the church’s rules. they aren’t about to change regarding this situation.
as far as gisele goes…
”How is it possible to not want people to use condoms and also not have abortions? It’s impossible, I’m sorry.”
…you can’t really tell the church that their stance is impossible to have because, clearly, they have that stance on the issue. (duh)
you see, the church’s rules build off of each other. if, hypothetically, both you and your spouse were following the rules and not having sex before marriage, you wouldn’t need a condom to prevent disease.
as far as pregnancy, obviously married catholic couples interested in following the church’s rules aren’t going to have an abortion. the church’s position on birth control involves the utilisation of natural family planning, always has and always will. deal with it or find a new religion.
mind you, this is all from a noncatholic. i just happen to have a lot of respect for the church for maintaining relative order by standing their ground on theological issues.
July 10th, 2007 at 5:03 pm
Gisele is only speaking for herself and other people that are whoring around when she says “no one is a virgin when they get married. show me the virgins!” Please…I know sooo many girls and guys that were virgins before they got married! Are you kidding me Gisele?? What an ignorant comment! It’s just an excuse for yourself! If I slept with my first love, who broke my heart and almost had me drop out of college, I would have regretted it all my life! It is best to wait because that is the way you are safest! What’s wrong with that? Hey one or two mistakes if you really love somebody are forgivable but someone as proud of not being a virgin as Gisels is….I don’t think she feels like she is being a bad example in advocating just whoring around and giving yourself away to people!!! My advice MAKE SURE the person loves you that they would put you before them and Respect what you want to do with your body…that doesn’t happen all the time and girls and guys get hurt with sex without love!
And if the women isn’t in the right emotional condition to be having a child sleeping around with odd-balls (hahah get it) isn’t going to put her in the right emotinal condition either!
Also condoms don’t block HPV, which is a nasty STD out there that condoms don’t protect against…believe one of my friends just got it and she’s been having “protected” sex and she’s not happy about it!