21-05-2025
EXCLUSIVE Virgin Island doesn't shock me one bit - I get offered silly money to take people's virginities since starring on Open House: The Great Sex Experiment
An Open House: The Great Sex Experiment star has confessed that Channel 4 's new show Virgin Island doesn't shock her, because she gets offered vast sums of money to take people's virginities.
Kirstie, 34, from Oxfordshire - who is an adult content creator - first took part in the second series of the experiment back in 2023 when she wanted to explore bringing a man into her relationship with partner Connor.
The pair had an 'amazing' experience and when they were asked if they wanted to return for its most recent season as residents, rather than a couple, they agreed to.
On the show, the couples stay in a separate room to the others, while the residents are in the pool of people that they can pick from if they get on well enough to open up their relationship with.
While Open House has got people talking about its rather sexual nature, others have been discussing Virgin Island, and although it has received backlash about using sex surrogates, Kirstie thinks that the show is a great idea.
Speaking exclusively to MailOnline about her thoughts on the new programme, Kirstie said: 'I mean, doing the job I do, I get offered silly money to take virginities.
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Kirsie and her partner Connor (pictured) appeared on the most recent series of Open House: The Great Sex Experiment
'Sometimes... I wouldn't do it and I don't want to do it.
'I don't offer any kind of service offline, yeah, it stays to online.
'So it's not something I would ever do, but it's not a shocker for me because there is so many 40 year olds out there that want that experience.
'So I think it's great to be honest...
'So why not? If there's people out there willing to give take people's virginities, and there's people out there that want to lose their virginity.
'Why not?! Like it's great TV.
'I just think it's 2025, you've got to let people live.
'Why are people so shocked by everything?!'
Virgin Island sees 12 adults, who have never had sex, go on a retreat to explore intimacy with help from experts.
Dr Danielle Harel and Celeste Hirschmam, MA, are the sex experts in charge of the adults, while Kat Slade and Andre Lazarus are trained surrogate partners who could potentially go all the way with them.
Kirstie is no stranger to sex as she works as a content creator.
During our exclusive chat with Kirstie, she opened up about her and Connor's reason for going on Open House: The Great Sex Experiment the first time around.
She said: 'We were on season two. So we initially went in to start our own non monogamy journey. We previously had added in women, so we tried that side of things.
'My partner felt that what was good for him, should be good for me.
'So he was keen, he's a straight man, but he was keen to sort of introduce a man in, so I could basically have the same experience I'd been giving him by bringing in a woman.
'But we didn't really know how to do it, because obviously, I think, where he's a straight man, it was really, really difficult for him to kind of accept another man coming into it, even though it was something that he wanted to try.
'So yeah, so we went on season two as a couple, and we went on there and explored by bringing another man in.'
Kirstie described their first time on the show as an 'amazing, amazing experience' and they are still non monogamous to this day.
But she confessed: 'We find it very hard to bring a man in still. As much as we had that experience on the show, it's not something that happens in our real lives.
'It's so, so hard, I think mainly because man are douche bags doesn't help... and like I've tried it, we got with another resident called Josh and we had a great time. But it wasn't really something that I felt, I think use bringing in for a threesome was more me experiencing my bisexual side.
'So for me, I've got my man, so I'm just not, just not really bothered by it. So we then continued to sort of like be non monogamous.
'A lot of that is through us, because we both do OnlyFans, and obviously a lot of it is like collabs or whatever as well. But we meet a lot of people within our world.'
Kirstie explained that when they were first approached to come back to the show as residents, they felt 'hesitant' because they were still on their 'own journey' and felt as if they needed to be 'experts' to be able to do it.
She said: 'But we spoke to them, and they were like, "But you guys will understand because you've been where we are".
'"So actually, you can still be on your own journey. You've not got to come in an expert", because we also very much rely on connections. We like to really get to know people before it goes any further.
'So we were like, "do you know, probably them seeing a familiar face and thinking, well, these guys have survived this enough to come back on as a resident couple", might actually make them feel better.
'Because I think my biggest concern when we went on the first time was that we were going to break up after it happened, because it was like, "what if this actually ruins us completely?
'"What if he sees me with another man and then he actually hates me?"
'But we thought, "You know what? We are living proof that we've done that. We've come out stronger the other side."
'You don't have to go on that show and then come out the biggest swingers in the world. We're not. We are monogamous, but we are so selective that it just doesn't happen that often for us, it's not that we're not open to it, but it's hard.
'It's not easy to find a couple where you're attracted to both of them. It's so difficult to do. And then if that man doesn't gel with my husband, then he's not getting a chance with me.
'Vice versa. If a girl doesn't gel with me, she's not joining us. So it's a lot harder than people think.
'I think you can look at non monogamy online and social media and think, "Oh, all these people are with all these people", and it's not easy.
'We haven't found it easy at all. We very much do enjoy it, and when we find that connection with a couple, which actually naturally has only ever happened once for us, it was amazing!'
Half way through the most recent series, which is currently airing on Channel 4, Connor had to return home for other commitments, so Kirstie stayed on as a single girl for the remaining time.
Kirstie also confessed that she did have some worries before going on the show the first time, but none the second time around.
She told us: 'I think when we went on as a couple, it was the fact that we might ruin our relationship that, combined with nobody knew that we were curious about non monogamy, so that was also we knew, once it aired, that everyone would know.
'So I guess sort of thinking like, are we going to lose friends? Are family not going to speak to us?
'So I think that was the main thing we were worried about.
'And then go back on as a resident, to be honest, I think we were just, we knew how it kind of all worked, yeah, and we thought, no one's going to be shocked.
'We know we're solid. So we're not coming off this, not together. So to be honest, we just went in as residents with complete confidence that we just have a great time.'
