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Old Feb 05, 2014, 11:22 AM
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Originally Posted by endoftheworld View Post
Of course, what did you think about the other things I said in my response?
I thought that you were still holding on to the concept of technical virginity, so while you are aware of your warped logic, you are not helping the situation, yet. I suggest you take the most radical approach and drop the term "virgin" from your active vocabulary, once and for good, unless you are saying "Virgin Mary" or "virgin land". I certainly don't use it on my own, unless responding to someone who does.

There are several reasons for you to drop that term:

1. It does sound ridiculous when you are referring to a man. What are you, a maiden?
2. It is a historically laden term, when applied to a woman, and is connected to viewing women as chattel.
3. It doesn't have a good, clearcut definition, which is why you found the loophole you call "technical virginity".

There is an epidemiological term that you need to use instead. It doesn't suffer from problems 1-2 above and suffers from problem 3 above to a much lesser extent.

The term is "sexual debut". When epidemiological studies of sexual behavior in a population are done, they speak of the age of sexual debut. So tell us, please - have you have your sexual debut yet?