For her part, Marziali is looking for a man whom she’s already nicknamed “The Rock Star.” She wants him to be “strong in character, a leader and have Jesus as his centre.” Marziali insists she and her sexually inexperienced friends are not romantic dreamers seeking the ideal, non-existent “perfect” man.

“Confessions of a 29-year-old virgin.” That’s the title of the emotionally revealing blog of four virgins from British Columbia’s Fraser Valley who are looking for some good men for marriage and “holy” sex.

The Abbotsford, B.C., women’s online “virgin diaries” have suddenly made them media stars. Their quest for guys led to a video about them appearing Wednesday on the popular show of Ellen DeGeneres, who proceeded to get in some virgin jokes.

The virginal British Columbians, all of whom are 29 or 30 and evangelical Christians, were also set to be videotaped Wednesday night for an upcoming appearance on HLN’s Dr. Drew Show.

And this Sunday evening three of the four young B.C. women will be starring on a pilot program called The Virgin Diaries on the TLC network. The program includes video of the young women dating eligible men, all of whom also happen to be virgins.

The extroverted B.C. women, all members of a small church in Abbotsford called The River, began their blog four months ago because they were tired of being stereotyped as defective for being virgins (actually one confesses to being a “born-again” virgin who wants to start over). They are fighting back against a sex-saturated culture, and looking for guys, in the name of spiritual “purity.”

“We’re in a culture filled with sex, where sex sells. And it’s sold every day. And we believe it shouldn’t be sold,” said photographer Lisa Marziali, the online ringleader for the virgins. Marziali notes that sex is “God’s idea” and should be held for marriage.

Marziali and her friends want to be “cheerleaders” for virgins. They say it’s sometimes difficult to be among so many friends who are married.

The four young women’s crusade for virginity before marriage goes against the grain of North American culture, where a poll released this week by online polling system SodaHead suggested 70 per cent of North Americans think cohabitation before marriage is a good thing.