Yes, totally, though the problem with summaries--and ratings and warnings and pairings and disclaimers, oh, how I hate them all!--is that it gives too much away; I mean, you want to read the line in context, I think, and not give your hand away before the story starts about who's a virgin and where and why (in fact, in that way, John's almost a red herring; midway through the story, you think, oh, he's the virgin, and I hope there was some readerly surprise when it was revealed that, no, the others all are too.

And yeah, totally, renewal should be hard! These villagers know how to throw a ritual cleansing, by God! *G*