And her suspicions have apparently been confirmed.
“And it was like, ‘Yes, absolutely she should,'” Rosin recalled thinking.
“I never knew where it came from,” Spelling said of the decision.

Tori Spelling as Donna Martin in ‘Beverly Hills, 90210’.Everett Collection
“I always suspected, and people say, like, ‘He kept his daughter a virgin.'”
“We just went, ‘Oh, yeah, that makes perfect sense!'”
he added of the writers room.
“Because we were able now to differentiate you.”
Spelling has talked about her suspicions surrounding her character’s longtime virginity before.
However, Donna did eventually lose her virginity to her longtime boyfriend, David, in season 7.
“We knew it was inevitable,” Spelling told Vulture of the big episode.
“I think at one point I jokingly said, ‘Come on, Dad.
It’s time.'”