Virginity is the condition of someone who has never had sexual relations.
Virginity is the condition of a virgin : that which preserves purity or the person who has not yet had sexual relations . The term comes from the Latin word virginĭtas .
The most common use refers to the individual who has not made his sexual debut . The scope of the notion, however, varies according to culture and time. Virginity is generally linked to not having had intercourse (copulation, which includes penetration).
Maintain virginity
This means that men and women who have never copulated are virgins: they retain their virginity. If we focus on this definition, having maintained other types of sexual relationships (such as oral sex ) does not imply the loss of virginity.
Maintaining virginity is a decision made by each person, usually linked to religious and moral issues. Christianity , for example, stipulates that virginity must be preserved until marriage . This precept, however, has lost validity since many Christians, regardless of their beliefs, do not arrive virgins at marriage.
Virginity is very important in Christianity.
The issue in heterosexual men
In general, and especially outside the religious sphere, virginity becomes a "problem" that people need to solve as soon as possible, once they have reached puberty . This seems to especially affect heterosexual men, since not having sex with girls can mean that you are not virile enough, or that you are not sure of your sexual orientation, and the more closed portion of society does not view these issues kindly. eyes.
For a typical heterosexual teenager, losing his virginity is one of, if not the most important priority; Needless to say, this does not happen with geniuses or with those beings who feel the call of a vocation from an early age and who dedicate themselves to developing their abilities while their environment worries about banal issues. Seen from adulthood, this "urgency" does not usually bring positive consequences, since in more than one case it leads to unwanted pregnancies, but the brain of a 15-year-old boy cannot always process all this information simultaneously.
Since machismo makes clear distinctions between the way in which men and women should relate to their sexuality , it is normal for girls who lose their virginity during adolescence to be negatively criticized , for their decency to be questioned. In other words, boys are usually admired for having had sex for the first time, while girls are condemned.
One of the most absurd aspects of this obsession with losing virginity is that a large part of adult heterosexual couples end up losing sexual interest or mutual attraction, which is why they stop having regular relationships or seek satisfaction from third parties.
No matter how wonderful sex during puberty seems to us, the passage of time demystifies it and shows us that it is just another function of our body , something we can all do, and not a unique ability. At the end of the day, something that can disappear from one second to the next should not be so strong as to define our lives.
religious virginity
Religious virginity is central to the tradition of Christianity. Those who decide to become priests or nuns must abstain from sexual relations (vote of chastity ) and from having a partner (vote of celibacy ).
A clear example of the importance of virginity in Christian dogma is that the Virgin Mary became pregnant by the work and grace of the Holy Spirit , and not because she had sexual relations with her husband, Joseph . In this way, Mary was able to give birth to Jesus without losing her virginity.