Female Virginity

Virginity is for Olive Oil

Virginity or Harlot

Female virginity is vastly overvalued by the vulgar. Women have long born the burdens imposed by ancient men who wanted to insure that the children they raised were the products of their own sperm. And chastity has for centuries been part of the propaganda of those professional virgins, Roman Catholic priests, who often knew nothing about sexuality other than their own hypocrisy.

Expecting all young women to remains virgins until marriage - assuming they ever marry - is insane and damaging. Women need to be enabled to explore and enjoy their sexual drives, needs and fantasies. Not expected to strangle their perfectly healthy lust.

There is a moral panic in America over young women’s sexuality — and it’s entirely misplaced. Girls “going wild” aren’t damaging a generation of women, the myth of sexual purity is. The lie of virginity — the idea that such a thing even exists — is ensuring that young women’s perception of themselves is inextricable from their bodies, and that their ability to be moral actors is absolutely dependent on their sexuality. It’s time to teach our daughters that their ability to be good people depends on their being good people, not on whether or not they’re sexually active.

The Purity Myth says that we are too harsh on women who are sexual