May the 13th, 2025 – The controversial reality show Virgin Island is coming to the Croatian island of Obonjan this summer, where adult virgins will learn to get in touch with their bodies.
As Morski writes, Channel 4 is set to air a brand new reality show called Virgin Island, and one Croatian island is in it. The show follows 12 adults who have no sexual experience.
The contestants signed up for the show in the hope of finally losing their virginity, The Guardian reports. The reality show Virgin Island showcases Obonjan, and takes place in a resort where the participants will be counselled for two weeks by sexologists Danielle Harel and Celeste Hirschman, along with a team of experts. The location is equipped with tents, therapy rooms and bedrooms.
Each of the applicants has different problems with physical intimacy, which they will explore through therapies that “involve stripping the experts and encouraging the participants to give them pleasure”.
During the therapies, the participants are asked, for example, to write down their sexual fantasies and then read them out loud to others. The main goal is for the participants to “experience sex” within two weeks, according to Jutarnji list.
“There’s a stigma around it. There are probably a lot of people who have the same problems as us, I don’t think it’s particularly uncommon these days,” said Ben, one of the participants.
He was discouraged by being on the show and revealing to the public that he’s a virgin, but he hopes it will help others in his position. In his case, the problem isn’t attracting women, as he’s been on about 50 dates in the last ten years, but he pulls away when things get more intimate. He says being a male virgin comes with its own specific set of challenges.
“People think that if you haven’t had sex, you must be a weirdo or a misogynistic incel, which means involuntary celibate,” revealed contestant Ben. He decided to take part in the reality show Virgin Island on Obonjan because he had reached a stage where he thought he probably needed some kind of professional help. In a one-on-one session with the expert on the show, he was able to progress.
“I’m more confident in myself. I realised that I was emotionally self-harming and that if I was rejected, I thought I was ugly and repulsive and that no one could possibly be interested in me. The show was able to combat that,” said Ben.
Hirschman and Harel, sex therapists who created their teaching method about fifteen years ago, want to get people back in touch with their bodies and the reality show Virgin Island makes Obonjan the stage.
“It’s about helping people feel more connected to what’s inside them, to be more comfortable with all the experiences they have in their bodies. We’re always on our phones and in our heads. We’ve become very disembodied. Pleasure, sex, desire and arousal, all of these things come from the body,” concluded Harel.
