The weird obsession with FEMALE virginity.
Not sure if this belongs to this subreddit, but I need to ask and say it out loud, and Reddit feels like a good place to do so.
I grew up (and still am) with parents who aren’t married (this part is importnant, since it’s connected to being and not being a virgin for some reason) , don’t talk about sex and basically I’ve learned all about it from porn, friends, movies, internet in general. My grandma was the only person when I was little to tell me more about sexual life, she was also the one to enlighten me women give birth from their vaginas and that the baby is actually in the uterus. (thanks to the women correcting me for this part)
I was 12 the first time I heard about the term “virgin” and I was genuinely confused, since I never felt like it was a big deal, I only knew that when I feel like it I can have sex with somebody, lover or not, so it was hella confusing and out of nowhere.
My friends are mostly religious as hell and lowkey living in the 18s, since they’ve asked me “are you a virgin?” (makes me feel hella uncomfortable, since it’s not their bussiness If I have sex or not), I always reply with “yes, why?”, guess what, they never reply lol.
The past couple of months I’ve been kinda scared of judgment, when I have sex, since I feel like people will see me not that worthy or shit like before. I also hate hearing people say “losing virginity”, “I lost my virginity”, “He/she took my virginity”, like PLEASE you do NOT lose anything, you only gain, you gain the achievement in life of having sex, be for real. People back in the days were even having sex parties all day long (talking about the ancient times when we would praise greek Gods).
Another thing that bothers me is the people, men and for some fucking women, that think If a woman has sex, she loses her dignity. You know I’ve never heard somebody saying that if a man has sex, he’s used.
I know misogyny plays a BIG role here, aswell as patriarchy, the world was patriarchal for a VERY VERY long time. So it’s gonna take time to cut off those myths, theories and shit.
And like you cannot know if a woman is a virgin or not, you do NOT take anything.
Yeah this got too long anyways. Hope people wake up and realise how stupid this virginity fetish propaganda looks.