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From: js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag)
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Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
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Date: Fri, 25-Jan-85 10:07:45 EST
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> /* ---------- "Re: Virginity Paper" ---------- */
> >>I'm going to be doing a term paper on "The Social Effects of Virginity In
> >>Adult Life" for my Psychology of Human Sexuality course.  Thus, I go to the
> >>net community with this plea for any assistance ...
> >Ok, all you net people!  Are you now, or have you ever been, or associated with
> >a virgin?

     I don't think I could be of much help in researching your paper, but this
does seem to be a reasonably interesting topic to discuss.  From my own 
observations, virginity seems to be a MUCH overvalued quality in our society.
Sure, your first time should be special, but I think EVERY time should be
special.
    What kind of social effects does this overvaluation cause?  Well, there are
the people who decide to save themselves for marraige.  I'm sure that a good
many of these discover, *after they're married*, that they and their partner
are relatively incompatible in the sack.  I wonder how many women who responded
'hugs' to the recent Ann Landers survey did this?
    And there's the stress and other unnecessary brouhaha associated with 
the first decision to 'go all the way'.  And sometimes disappointment, since
how often does the first time work out well, from a purely erotic point of
view?
    And what kind of society puts a positive value on female virginity and a
negative value on male virginity?  It wouldn't work out at all, if there 
weren't this ONE girl in every high school class ...   :-)
    I don't want anyone to get the idea that I have anything against virgins.
It's just that, well, I wouldn't want my sister to *marry* one.
-- 
Jeff Sonntag
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