"Like a Virgin" is the eighth episode of the first season of the American mystery television series Veronica Mars.

The series depicts the adventures of Veronica Mars (Kristen Bell) as she deals with life as a high school student while moonlighting as a private detective.

In this episode, when someone publicly releases the results of an online purity test and causes chaos at the school, Veronica goes on the case.

Meanwhile, Veronica attempts to obtain information from the confessed killer of Lilly Kane (Amanda Seyfried), Abel Koontz.

A kind cheerleader, Meg Manning (Alona Tal), loans her uniform to Veronica and then finds her friends at lunch.

Alicia is harassed by her tenant Jeremy (Joel Bissonnette) and Wallace sleeps over at Veronica's for peace.

Veronica reveals she captured their conversation on tape and hands it over to Meg to slip into the morning announcements.

He insists that he killed Lily and implies that to Veronica that her biological father is actually Jake Kane (Kyle Secor).

Although credited, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, who previously played Veronica's journalism teacher, Mallory Dent, does not appear, as her last episode was "The Girl Next Door".

In addition, the episode features the first appearance of Cindy "Mac" Mackenzie, who would later become a series regular in the show's third season.

During casting, Tal was series creator Rob Thomas's second choice for the character of Veronica Mars (after Kristen Bell).

Club, in a mixed review, stated that "As a vehicle for introducing moderately important new characters, [the episode] succeeds."