I think maybe it's the product of pressure from guys who want to get laid, combined with feminist backlash against the centuries of shaming of women who decide that the sexual double standard is unfair, a person's worth is not related to what's between the legs or whether it has seen action, and they want to have fun, now, without the fuss and bother of ceremony or contract or later obligation. There might also be some reaction to abstinence-only education that's been so popular (and popularly ridiculed) in recent years in the mix, too.
Now, if you're talking about male virgins, it's because having sex with a woman is proof of masculinity. And a man isn't a man unless he proves it regularly. Plus, this "agency" thing? Men don't need no stinkin' "agency." They got needs. So says popular culture, anyway. Centuries of it.
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Date: 2010-07-08 02:03 am (UTC)From:I think maybe it's the product of pressure from guys who want to get laid, combined with feminist backlash against the centuries of shaming of women who decide that the sexual double standard is unfair, a person's worth is not related to what's between the legs or whether it has seen action, and they want to have fun, now, without the fuss and bother of ceremony or contract or later obligation. There might also be some reaction to abstinence-only education that's been so popular (and popularly ridiculed) in recent years in the mix, too.
Now, if you're talking about male virgins, it's because having sex with a woman is proof of masculinity. And a man isn't a man unless he proves it regularly. Plus, this "agency" thing? Men don't need no stinkin' "agency." They got needs. So says popular culture, anyway. Centuries of it.