ABSTRACK This research are based on the phenomenon in recepting text and performing action that related to the text they signify. The writer selected autobiography novel Pengakuan Eks Parasit Lajang due to it became Ayu Utami respond toward her readers and became the first sexuality and spirituality autobiography novel in Indonesia. This novel was interesting because it critizised social values that considered harm women, particularly values on marriage and virginity. This research was purposed to explain the audience reception toward the marriage and virginity issues and to explain negotiation that occured between text produced by the reader and the one that produced by Ayu Utami. Type of research was qualitative descriptive research by using audience reception analysis based on encoding/decoding concept that suggested by Stuart Hall and text relation that suggested by MH. Abrams. The writer composed the research model based on both theories to find out audience reception toward marriage and virginity issues. There were six informants with certain qualifications were involved as representation of the novel readers and located in three cities, namely Yogyakarta, Makassar, and Kupang. The result of reception toward marriage and virginity issues placed the audience in two categories, namely dominant and negotiation. In recepting marriage issue, the readers were in dominant position that self open toward the definition of new relation in flexible marriage than the traditional one. Meanwhile, the readers that in negotiation position were combine traditional kind of marriage and flexible and equal concept of marriage. In recepting virginity issue, the readers that in dominant position no longer considered that it was a sign or a value that must be carried by women or men. Meanwhile, those who were in negotiation position remain hold the virginity as a value related to social situation context where they exist that the society were still hold those kind of values even though they no longer considered the virginity was important. This research showed that marriage and virginity issues in this novel was change the perspective, strengthen the perspective, and give the alternative for audience in considering marriage and virginity. The audience dominant stance in significance the novel was seeking juncture or reconcile between text which were they signify, themselves, and those that happened in their surrounding. Keywords: audience reception, novel, encoding, decoding, new text production, marriage, virginity, Ayu Utami, pengakuan eks parasit lajang