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Lidewij begins her quest by outing herself as a virgin to her close friends. Together with her friends from her football team, she looks up what the definition of a virgin is in a dictionary. To her surprise, that description is not yet very much adapted to contemporary standards. Via a tip-off from her colleague Chloë, she ends up with Christelle: a woman who Lidewij has interviewed before for ‘Everybody Famous’ and addressed her then in connection with premarital sex. Lidewij also visits her former neighbour Huguette, who remained unmarried all her life, and meets her new neighbours, all four of whom are nuns.

The search for new club members brings Lidewij to ‘the final year’. Seven years ago, she interviewed a class of eighteen-year-olds for ‘Everybody Famous’ and the taboo of premarital sex played an important role then. With any luck, she will know thirty-somethings who are still virgins because of their faith. In addition, Lidewij also comes into contact with an ordained virgin who followed her vocation to become a bride of Christ. Since 7% of over-30s are still virgins, Lidewij takes her chances with her colleagues at VRT and RTBF. Percentage-wise, there should be at least 100 virgins walking around there. A conversation with sex coach and sex toy expert Ruud then brings surprising insights on how we as a society view sexuality.

Because the taboo around virginity is even greater for most men than for women, Lidewij throws her search in a different direction. In the countryside, she looks for men who have never had a relationship and even the red light district of Brussels is not spared. In the Netherlands, she then finds two coaches who help men get rid of their virginity. Both are willing to make an appeal to their clientele. But the search for female club members also continues. Through a tip-off from sex coach Ruud, Lidewij gets to know two fellow sufferers who, like her, suffer from vulvodynia.

Through a new tip-off, Lidewij comes into contact with a deliberately single mum who has a child but has never had sex. And from her neighbours with migration roots, she learns that virginity often has a very different connotation in other countries than it does here. After hinting at asexuality, Lidewij also meets a man who is on the asexual spectrum and has never had sex. Thus, the number of members of the virgin club quietly begins to grow. But because the search is at times laborious, Lidewij also decides to use crude means: a pack of flyers and posters should make the virgin club known to passers-by on the street. But will this new tactic lead to thirty-plus club members?

In de vierdelige reeks 'De maagdenclub' (uitgezonden in oktober/november 2023) ging Lidewij Nuitten op zoek naar dertig maagden van boven de dertig die samen met haar het taboe rond maagdelijkheid willen doorbreken. Met alvast acht clubleden op de teller eindigde de reeks met een grote oproep: wie wil nog graag een lidkaart? In deze slotaflevering opent Lidewij haar mailbox en ontdekt ze hoeveel extra leden zich bij de maagdenclub aansluiten. De verscheidenheid aan verhalen is alvast groot: voor sommigen is maagd zijn een bewuste keuze, maar voor de meesten is het een ongewild gevolg van hoe het leven is gelopen. Ook weinig zelfzekerheid, nare ervaringen in het verleden, transseksualiteit en medische blunders of problemen komen vaak in de verhalen terug. Hoog tijd, vindt Lidewij, om alle leden uit te nodigen en samen te klinken op datgene wat hen verbindt: het loslaten van de schaamte en het omarmen van zichzelf!