
What does being a virgin have to do with being young? Being a virgin is a choice and one that can be made regardless of age (rape and sick things like that aside). Disgusting that you would equate someone that chooses to value this as some sort of pedophile. Also, this person is valuing the decisions the woman is making in choosing to be a virgin. How is that valuing someone as an object?
What if it was the other way around? There are women out there that want their husbands to be virgins too. Simply put some people want to experience intimacy with one person for life like how swans are. It’s the same as wanting to marry someone who has less than 5 bodies or not wanting to marry someone that slept with everybody in your area. It can make someone feel lesser than if someone had to run through the whole town before landing on them.
me and my boyfriend were both virgins who waited a year until we were sure we had a plan and would marry each other. chemically and biologically having sex connects you to a person for life, and the more sex you have the harder it is to form a permanent connection with someone. waiting and actively searching for a connection with someone who hasn't had sex and isn't promiscuous is good and works for a reason, but i agree that it is hypocritical to seek that as someone who isnt a virgin
I don’t like the connection with age here. This implies that getting older will obviously come with increased sexual experience which is a) not always true and often a source of insecurity for people and b) sometimes not true by explicit choice. I’m old enough most of my friends have had sex and I haven’t—because I’m saving myself for marriage to a guy who will be relatively my age and ALSO a virgin. The very real issue you call out is when people expect something they don’t follow themselves.
How is it objectifying for a man to desire a woman with sexual discipline who sees her body as sacred? Wanting a virgin or a woman who doesn't sleep around isn't automatically ill intent. Many women openinly say sex can be spiritual, but when a man values that same idea in a woman, it suddenly becomes “objectification?” A woman’s discipline over her body can reflect discipline in many other areas too. That doesn’t mean women with crazy pasts can't be good women. Men can have spiritual standards.
As a girl I think it’s more than okay to wait for marriage and want a partner who respects that. Being a virgin does not mean being young, this feels incredibly overgeneralizing to many young ambitious women who have defined values and don’t party or f*ck around once they’re past their tweens. Your assumption creates unnecessary stigma that actually goes both ways; adults who are virgins are seen as stunted or childish while those who are active are judged for sleeping around.
Literally talk to any guy, please. An actual conversation in person. I will explain that a woman being a virgin is like a man being faithful to one woman and not be trifling man hoe. For me at least it’s not a big deal that a woman I date is not a virgin. It just how men value women, like how women value how much money a man can make. Being a virgin and getting that bag are both things that can be changed over a single decision.
to add onto that, my husband & i’s marriage prep classes had a whole section just for me about “it’s my duty to submit to my husband” it made me feel kind of icky. For us personally that’s not an issue because he only tells/expects me to listen without hesitation in extreme circumstances, but wdym ur teaching women to just never argue/ask/challenge their husbands?? Personally, he’s a better person bc i do exactly that. Idk it just was weird.
Of course there are woman who want their men to be virgins, but i believe the person who posted this is looking at the majority of who is targeted the most for not being a virgin; woman. it’s okay to have a preference but it isn’t okay to respond to someone and degrade them when you can’t even hold yourself to that standard
That stance is inherently slut shaming and it would never be the other way around except for in a few instances because men are not systematically slut shamed the way women are. Additionally, women do not have the same taste (wanting younger looking partners) even lesbians prefer older looking women to women rhat look significantly younger than them
But I don’t see where stating “I want my wife to be a virgin” or “I want my husband to be a virgin” is degrading. If feels like people are making assumptions based off of insecurities or something else because if the sentence continued with slurs disgust me it’s not targeting women or men in a demeaning way. Let’s not assume everyone has ill intent in this matter and see it from a big picture perspective. Not everyone has malice in their heart
Because seeing sex between two consenting adults as a bad thing is regressive and if you make a personal choice thats one thing but to look down on people who are not virgins or immediately write them off regardless of the personality is degrading especially when it happens disproportionately to women
I would say look at my comment to 15. You’re making an assumption that someone who says that has malice intent. The only way that double standards continue to exist is if you accept them. I don’t and we all should hold each other to the same standards. A man that sleeps around is a slut too and we all know it. You are speaking on a specific type of man which is not all men same as not all women who has more than 1–2 bodies is a slut. Some people want intimacy with one person that’s okay
you’re 100% correct that different people have different intents. but the majority of men hear “you’re not a virgin? you’ve been ran through” which follows with degrading slurs, and MOST (not all) of the men saying this have similar if not higher body counts than the woman they’re degrading. but logistically this primarily happens to woman and not the other way around
I agree but i think that some of the examples you use are exceptions that doesnt necessarily reflect my point. People do have more sex as they get older, that is just basic reason based on college, marraige, going to bars, etc. my point is that is that wanting a virgin falls into thw same catagory to me as wanting hairless, skinny, obeident wife who will do anythong to stay looking young
Okay and they’ll have the rest of their life’s to practice. They don’t need to practice with other people first to get it that’s such a weird and odd thing to say. Are you seeing the people who you are in a relationship with as someone just to practice sex with until the right person?
also let’s just discuss the fact that the vagina is a MUSCLE. whether or not the guy pulls out before a woman becomes pregnant, the vagina retracts to the same size it was before insertion. the vagina before and after sex would feel the same because it’s a MUSCLE. it doesn’t just continue to get bigger. like u said these men need a bio lesson 🤦🏻♀️
and both of those are 100% fair reasons in the partner you choose. the problem that most woman are getting at is the hypocrisy. men are stereotypically praised for getting with as many females as possible, but if a woman were to do that she is slut shamed. it’s okay to have personal standards, what isn’t okay is to shame someone who doesn’t or not hold yourself to the same standards your preaching
Then you should have specified that in your post which you didn’t and is why we are having this conversation. You made it seem like all men feel this way when they don’t and that people who want a virgin partner has malice intent behind it. You should have stated exactly what you told me as your post not what you originally stated
I don’t think a woman not being a virgin degrades her. I just don’t think that if a man wants a woman who is a virgin, that it means he prefers little girls. To me idc if a woman is a virgin or not as long as she doesn’t have more than me. I have 2 so anymore than me and I find you to be less valuable as a dating partner. But that’s just my preference.
It's preferance. I think a women has all the right to think the same way. Though it may be difficult to find a virgin, doesn't make seeking wrong. Just because it's normalized to sleep around doesn't mean it's wrong to want purity. You get me? & also, just because one person has done wrong, doesn't mean they can’t want somebody who hasn't done that very thing. Just don't look at the people who don't align as less than. But as far as the line, to each is own.
& people need to stop equating preference to right and wrong. For example, just because a woman wants a man who is tall, doesn't mean she thinks it is wrong for a man to be short. If a man wants a women with little to no bodies, it doesn't mean he has to view other women as bad and disgusting, it can be an innocent preference, just like women liking taller men. People should stop avoiding sexual accountabiliy, both men and women.
See but like I don’t think wanting a virgin falls into that same category. Because the reasons a man would want a skinny hairless docile wife are pretty much all disgusting, but the reasons a man might want a virgin range from disgusting to highly valuable and spiritual depending wildly on the person. Men who want virgins despite not being one are clinging to this dumb misogynistic idea that women are supposed to be “pure” for men, which is really not in the same category as all that other stuff
Like I do think infantilization of women/wanting a woman as young as possible is a huge problem. I just don’t think the virginity conversation is part of that issue—I think it’s largely separated. They may overlap occasionally for some people but by and large there’s so much else at play in both conversations that I don’t think it’s useful to make them a single point, y’know? But I don’t disagree with you.
Because I simply don’t want a partner that has been intimate with a lot of people. Sex is a connector and naturally increases feelings emotionally and spiritually. It’s also in your most vulnerable state. I don’t want to be with someone who has experienced that with a lot of people. It’s my standard. Has nothing to do with insecurity lol
If it had nothing to do with insecurity then you would be holding yourself to the same standard. I understand wanting someone inexperienced if you’re also inexperienced as like a comfort thing, but you’re saying your partners shouldn’t have any more experience than you based on just a number which is clearly an ego thing. I hope you can dig deeper eventually and improve this double standard
the problem with today’s society is precisely that: it has become normal to have casual sex with multiple people, and it’s a perfect example of how modern-day feminism is intentionally destroying the family structure, the most fundamental building block of civilization. the fact that it is at all socially acceptable to sleep with multiple people prior to marriage is incredibly backwards and will lead to our demise as a society if not amended immediately.
men have been sleeping around for the entirety of human existence btw. in many cultures men literally took multiple wives, and women are the ones destroying the “family structure” that is sooo important to life?? (it’s also not youre just brainwashed by western propaganda). feminism fights for women to not get slut shamed for having past experiences.
yeah i was waiting for someone to say some dumb shit like this. completely ahistorical bs. people are having less sex, casual or otherwise, than ever before, you can look this up but i’m confident you have seen the headlines. it’s never been the case that people weren’t having casual sex. hell, brothels were probably more popular in the time periods you’re romanticizing. the nuclear family is just one of many possible and perfectly viable family structures, and it’s a new one at that.
unfortunately the fact is there ARE people who perceive those who’ve been raped or sexually assaulted as no longer being virgins/as a sort of “damaged goods,” and it all stems from the same kind of bullshit as virginity being a thing in the first place. thankfully we’re moving away from that explicit attitude as a culture but i think people are just. still weird about this topic subconsciously from the way i see people talk about it sometimes
i was gonna give a more well reasoned answer but yeah actually. for having values i disagree with. that’s the long and short of it. not that there are people just spewing the same ahistorical, scientifically inaccurate, irrational bs ideas that have been around since before we even had proper plumbing and which have been disapproved, it’s just cause people disagree with me personally.
i think there’s nuance to either side of this particular argument but the point is that while YOU might care about your partner and her pleasure, be open and willing to learn how to better/best pleasure her (from her), there are women who end up with men who AREN’T like this and because they don’t have any prior experience they might think (or be led to believe) that sex is just supposed to be unpleasurable for them, that they don’t have a say in it, or that it’s their fault if it’s that way
the double standards make me SO mad. also the fact that half the dating pool looks down on virgins like crazy and will only chase girls who put out, but then turn right around and say non virgins aren’t wife material??? don’t even get me started on men thinking that if you’re hot & friendly you’re automatically getting with everyone even if you ARE a virgin. you can’t win
that’s why some people are saying it’s a bit weird and can also be this sign of a potentially controlling, insecure and mediocre man. a woman with experience is a woman who can potentially be more discerning and demanding/assertive about her own wants and needs, who can and will leave for better, rather than setting herself aside and settling for a man who doesn’t actually care about her beyond her capacity to pleasure and serve him and him alone.
and you might be like “oh who is actually thinking like this” it’s. the andrew tate types amongst others. like you will actually see these alpha male podcaster bros talking about wanting young women explicitly because of their lack of knowledge/experience, so that they can “mold” and “train” them like they’re fucking dogs. nb4 “well those are the extremes” those extremes made their way into fucking elementary and middle school classrooms, and the ideas they’re parroting aren’t even new
that said i don’t think you Have to have had sex in order to get to know your own body and what you loke and dislike, and how to communicate that to your partner(s). there are resources out there for learning these things and you can explore your own body. but it is Also true that we live in a society with bad sex ed and which is weird about sexual exploration and which often tells women to set their own pleasure aside, be ashamed of it, act like it doesn’t exist, etc. soooo
acting like op is being unreasonable meanwhile i’m assuming it’s majority men in these comments with the audacity to share such rancid takes and proving her point to the T. mind you most people who say they don’t like men don’t even mean a personal distatate for individual men, but the harmful ways that men are socialized and behave, the way they’re prioritized in society
I mean, I personally think dudes should be trimming a lot more than women since we sweat so much more on average but you’re wrong with pubes. Feel free to trim, but if you’re shaving, it actually has the opposite effect where you’re losing protection. Regardless of whether or not you trim or keep a bush you just need to make sure to shower. As a bisexual whore, I prefer women with bush versus most dudes who think showering is optional and store more cheese on dick than the US reserve.
I don’t know why you don’t see the correlation between the two which is really weird to me because it’s everywhere in our culture. Purity culture and pedophilia go hand-in-hand skipping down our sidewalk every day man. Dude like two generations ago mamaw was pregnant at 15-23. You might see some older virgins now but like that’s much more common now only because women have been given more rights and have been slightly more freed of purity culture and predatory practices like Mamaw’s “love story”
You don’t want someone who experienced having intimacy? Because the intimacy needs to be reserved for you? Like yeah bro sex can be like really deep for some people but why does it matter if she has more experience being intimate than you? Also, what if they were just hook ups does that change anything for you?
I hate to tell ya but we’ve been having casual sex as dudes for forever. Also, the family structure has been ever changing since forever and marriage is new- we have had so many different varieties of family between nuclear extended found or whatever since the dawn of time. We don’t need a copy paste of a white picket fence 2 parent 2.5 child structure everywhere to function as a society. Our founding fathers cheated left and right even raping innocents-“family values” never existed for dudes
The only way that double standards continue to exist is if you push against them, bro. Also, the answer to slut shaming is not slut shaming dudes too. 💀 just let people have sex. It’s not that deep. If two people want that as consenting adults that’s fine but you can’t pretend that the double standard doesn’t exist by ignoring it
I agreed with the first half and then you called someone who has sex a slob. I’m pretty sure OP kind of put this out there to get rid of the double standard and Stop villainizing people having sex. This is not puritan anymore. Can we please just like Stop attributing negative connotation to a completely neutral act between two consenting adults for the love of God.
Purity culture and pedophilia have always gone hand-in-hand bro. Also, considering most of our mammals got married between the ages of 15 to 23 and immediately started popping out some kids being an older virgin is more common nowadays- but being a young virgin was the expectation for women until you start popping out, babies left and right for your husband
Listen I can’t make stupid smart. So I’m not arguing with you stupid. Where in any of my comments am I telling people to not have sex. Yall love to warp what people say that you disagree with into some other argument. Always moving and shifting the goal post to make it seem like I said something “underlying” in my comments or to continue “arguing” I said and I will stand firmly on it. You want to be a slut/sleep around be a slut just don’t be mad that someone doesn’t want to be with you.
Preference exists and just because you’re not someone’s preferred choice doesn’t mean someone else wouldn’t want you literally the whole point to my statements. That’s like saying “I like my partner hygienic!” And someone crying out because they like to rub themselves in dirt that that person doesn’t want them.
The more sex you have doesn’t change anything except maybe experience. Can we like not tell people there’s something fundamentally wrong with him if they cannot form an emotional connection through sex or promote purity culture that tells people that they will lose the ability to form any connection if they so much as look at a penis or vagina? Also if it works so well, why are the divorce rates so high in religious communities that uphold purity culture and tell CSA survivors they’re gum wads?
everything everyone else under here has said but also i just think it’s incredible how people try to oversimplify the vastness of human emotion and experience because of their own world view they want reality to conform to. there are people who remain deeply emotjonally attached to those they’ve never even dreamed of having sex with, and there are people who fuck casually with little to no real regard for their partners. sex isn’t the end all be all of love and intimacy
You say “fault” like sex is a bad thing and not a completely neutral act. Why do we romanticize the days when men had mistresses, raped strangers bc they were “too tempting” with an ankle, and we blamed their wife who was like a fucking 17 year old child for “letting their husband be led astray”. We are mammals, bro. Your God may be in your bedroom 24/7 like a creep but the god i grew up on is like chill and normal and doesn’t give a shit if you’re gay or have sex
I’m just replying to everyone at this point that keeps on trying to go for the pedophilic argument. Purity culture is inherently pedophilic, bro. I would love for you to look at a single image of a purity promise ball between a daughter and her father! Almost all of it is rooted in religion patriarchy and pedophilia. they all go, hand in hand girl.
1: i think it’s fine if you don’t PERSONALLY like it as long as you’re not then looking down on others who have sex outside of marriage 2: you gave a bit of a circular reason here, just saying “it’s gross because it’s gross.” WHY is it gross though what about a lack of commitment is gross to you is it a physical thing? an emotional thing? it sounds right now like you’ve just ascribed morality to a gut feeling you have
To add onto that, it puts people who have trouble forming intimacy during sex in a position where they’re seen as deficient. Tell me I could enjoy a game of Monopoly or we could have fucking sex. I don’t give a shit either way. It’s an activity. One is just with less clothes involved. I don’t find intimacy from sex. I find it from my old girlfriend who remembered my favorite cake is cheesecake and got it for my birthday or my old boyfriend who always got my favorite drink at the bar!
i think your first point is fair to an extent but also, there is all manner of birth control we have nowadays and have had for a while, so you can have sex with little to no risk of having kids if you don’t want ‘em for whatever reason furthermore even people in marriages cheat and can be irresponsible with how they raise their children. take it from me, who has a sister who’s husband is abusive, has cheated, and who is neglectful of their kids…and these are “good christians”
on the other hand my mom and dad were never married and my own personal gripes aside with certain things, i was never left wanting as i grew up. they might not be committed to each other, but they were/are committed to raising me alright, and were/are respectful of each other regardless of commitment. obviously this is my own annectdotal experience of course, but like that, it makes it hard for me to think commitment and responsibility only exists in the bounds of marriage
Did you realize that when you said manwhore you had to put man in front of it? You had to distinguish that we are talking about a man because the default for the word whore has been mainly targeted for women. Also, while we’re at it, let’s look at the etymology of the word and the history of how long whore has been around versus manwhore.
as for your second point, i do think that’s cute as well, but also subjective. but i am coming it at it from the point of never having had sex before myself and also of the attitude that sex is what you make it…and i don’t know it feels much more optimistic and romantic to like. choose which sexual experiences you hold to be special or not based on your own values/judgement? if that makes sense
maybe i’d had sex with X person, but it was while i was young and inexperienced and i wasn’t that into them. or maybe that is still an experience that’s valuable to me. i don’t think that should then mean that if/when i get with Y person i think will be my long term partner, or just someone i love a lot, that experience with X should inherently devalue this one that i’m having right now. it’s a different thing with a different person who means something different
EXACTLYYY seriously i wanted to follow up with how if sex was really this always magical thing that permanently pair bonds people together or whatever, you wouldn’t have so many accounts of people having dead bedrooms and then ultimately failing marriages on account of people (often men) not meeting the other needs of their partners (often women). precisely things like remembering their favorite dessert or favorite drink. the sex would be enough but it ends up being unimportant
Oh so sorry sir lemme rephrase stop being a little bitch about ppl having sex. Also I can question your preferences for puritan culture the same way I question anyone who sleeps with only Asians or chases trans ppl. Just bc it’s your “preference” doesn’t mean it’s not rooted in something gross.
For example of the extreme circumstances, i accidentally ate a food i am allergic to and started going into anaphylaxis. was arguing bc i didnt want to make a scene in front of friends. He was very very firm and calm about it, just said “I’m not arguing with you. Get in the car or i will put you in the car”. first off, hot. Can we get a private ER room? second, yeah valid. i didnt need to be arguing i literally almost died.