Been there, haven't done that : a virgin's memoir

A Harvard graduate puts a hip, acerbic, thoughtful spin on romance in this first-person account of one woman's quest to save herself for Mr. Right.Articulate, attractive, and sexually aware, Tara McCarthy is a virgin who looks at sex as something that means something and not just a form of exercise.

In this highly original chronicle, she describes her real-life escapades -- from first kiss to French kiss to everything but -- with a cavalcade of suitors.

She also tells what it's like to be intercourse-free in a sex-crazed world, and in so doing sheds new light on the virgin stereotype and what it means to be an independent woman in the late '90s.