
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.
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.
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
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.
I think it is only valuable if the man himself also chooses to be a virgin. In that case, it’s shared values. But if the man himself is not a virgin yet demands a virgin wife? He is absolutely treating her as an object whose worth is based on amount of people she’s slept with - and he’s decided the rules don’t apply to himself.
I think op might’ve been trying to say the person really would value both young and a virgin bc it’s most desirable, so correlating how being a virgin can mean on a deeper level they want someone who’s young. Also in this case people want a virgin because no one else has touched them, so objectifying them
exactly. and just the ideology to judge a woman for not saving herself is weird. i understand if it’s in your religion and something you follow, but it’s the response when a woman says she isn’t a virgin. society forces woman to feel bad for not saving themselves… but it’s okay that the man doesn’t… the double standards
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