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Strangers

The Waxing Virgin — Then and Now

Strangers

Lea Thau

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.86.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Four years ago, we met Becca, a virgin in her 30s who waxed genitals for a living. On this episode we play her original story, along with an update about what Becca has been up to since then…

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0:00.0

Welcome to Strangers. I'm KCW and Radiotopia. I'm Leah Tau. And while we gear up for our spring season premiere on January 29th, we're posting a story today from our first season with a pretty interesting update about where our storyteller is now. We'll call her Becca, and lots has happened since we first met her.

0:23.4

So I caught up with her recently, and you'll hear about that later in the show.

0:27.8

But first, here's Becca from almost four years ago.

0:32.4

I'm a female in my 30s, and I'm a virgin.

0:38.6

But in the past year, I've had my hands in more genitals than I can remember.

0:43.1

Because I'm an esthetician, which means I do mostly waxing and facials.

0:48.2

So I wax vaginas like several times a week, balls once a week, sometimes twice a week when it's a good week, because

0:54.9

men pay a lot more to get their junk waxed. But I'm a virgin because I come from an Orthodox

1:01.4

Jewish Persian family. When I was a kid, my father used to come home with bags of foreskins

1:09.6

and we would bury them together in the backyard.

1:12.3

Because he's a rabbi, and according to Jewish law, all body parts are sacred and need to be buried.

1:17.8

So whenever he would do his circumcision, we would do that together in the backyard.

1:23.4

When I was born, everyone was a bit disappointed because I was the first child and they were expecting a boy to carry on the 13 generations of rabbis that I had come from.

1:34.3

But I was a girl, let everyone down.

1:36.2

And then my sister came after me.

1:38.8

She also let everyone down.

1:40.5

And then finally, when I was about nine, my brother was born.

1:44.2

And the whole community was so excited.

1:47.1

It's like he was basically the firstborn.

1:50.0

They had a huge brisk for him, and a thousand people showed up.

1:54.3

And he got so much money, which he used recently to buy a condo.

1:59.6

Like, that's how much money he made off his little ding ding.

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