I don't think Cassandra being a virgin would be a good or bad thing, but I think it's disturbing that there almost always seem to be male people who insist that x female love interest is a virgin.
I even saw that for Miranda after the Shadowbroker DLC which revealed that Miranda met people for no-strings-attached casual sex. That is some serious mental gymnastics.
That's just... creepy. And bizarre. Ugh.
I hope she's not a virgin. I hate all the "just so you know... I haven't been with anyone else" talks that crop up out of the blue for the male romances. It's like, who frakkin cares? Why must the love interests be virgins?
I would only see it as an issue for people if she was like Isabela and diddled just about anything with legs. That could be a huge turn off. But seeing as how Cassandra did not proposition Varric during the interrogation or get all handsy in DotS, I'm going to assume (dangerous, I know) that she is not like Isabela, so there would probably be no cause to worry about a weird rash or scale itch or whatever.
She is a grown woman, and I don't think it would be very believable for a woman her age to not have had sex.
I've never understood the virgin fetish/pedestal, but that's just me. Anyway, I'm optimistic that a woman who is almost 40 has managed to have sex at least a few times.
I'm not sure why her being a closet romantic would make any more likely to be a virgin. It may make her much less likely, or completely unwilling, to enter into a casual sexual relationship. But it doesn't rule out the possibility that she may have had a long & loving relationship (or relationships) in the past, and that she partook in everything that lovers normally do with each other.
IMO a loved & lost backstory would even be more interesting than one where she has been waiting decades for the right person.
People have strange ideas about romanticism. I agree about a loved & lost backstory.
That would work out quite well. Since Cassandra is very black and white (while she is getting better she will still be stubborn) it would fallow that she would not work well with someone who works to please all sides and bend things to fit.
Cassandra is literally very black and white. Have you seen her armour? 