Is virginity a social construct?

DubsPackage · 2020-04-11T04:38:20+00:00

Virgins are women with intact hymens.

Women who are virgins who take anal are called "greek virgins" and the important part is considered that nobody nutted in her to establish paternity, in other words, you broke the hymen so there is no question that the children are yours.

"Rape" originally meant breaking a woman's hymen that you didn't pay for, and "shotgun weddings" were a thing to force you to compensate the woman by supporting her and support your own offspring, otherwise her father was stuck with an unmarriageable daughter and kids from some random guy that he had to support in his old age, the punishment is typically by hanging.

All of the above is 1800's era thinking.

Everything that came after is "social construct" and has no physical bearing.

Birth control and DNA testing turned everything 180, no longer was sex = pregnancy, and paternity could be established with multiple men cumming inside a woman's vagina (altho the theory of telegony/chimaerism casts some doubts on the absolute certainty of DNA paternity, the theory is that random bits of DNA are sampled by the woman and incorporated into the fertility process. The science on this is sketchy/unsubstantiated.)

In modern times it's possible for the hymen to be reconstructed, and many Christian women are "born again" virgins.

PlatinumBeetle · 2020-04-10T22:49:19+00:00

I've known a couple of women who became born again Christians and then later went around fully believing that they were in fact virgins now.

WickedAtReddit · 2020-04-10T22:10:06+00:00

N19864 · 2020-04-10T22:41:42+00:00

No it isn't. The word use to only apply to women because it is a physical trait and not a social construct. It has extended to apply to men, but other cultures still only apply it to women.

A woman with an intact hymen is a virgin. There are no physical change in men, just mental.

bopbeepboopbeepbop · 2020-04-10T22:16:51+00:00

I would say yes, considering the fact that what "virginity" is is different to everybody.

It's not a personality trait, it's not a physical trait, it's a social construct.

What else would it be?

Brief_Cattle · 2020-04-10T22:10:40+00:00

Do you feel honored to be the chosen one?

Title	Is virginity a social construct?
Author	Brief_Cattle
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Comments	23
Date	April 10, 2020 10:09 PM UTC (6 years ago)
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