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 Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 5:29 am
((Okay, get ready for a rant. I must say that it felt so freaking good to finally write all of this stuff down.))
Yeah, most of society was actually very religous and held higher morals before WW2. I guess that the reason is because the kids growing up at that time didn't have any father figures to look up to as examples, because they were all away at war. Also, the mothers were busy working their tails off in factories, producing tons of equipment and supplies to be shipped over to Europe. Those kids, in turn, grew up to be teenagers with no code or standard to go by in a rapidly changing world, thus sprouting the group known as hippies. The hippies of that time had these radical and fantastical ideas to change the government, that put simply, aren't very good ones. Nowadays, those former hippies are serving in governmental positions, and they pas bills to try and fufill their ideals, which are destroying eeverything that made America a great nation in the first place. So, todays kids are going through schools, beaing taught about having high self esteem, because they are their own person and everyone should respect their individuality, but, when they get to the real world, they are ottally unprepared for the cruelty, racism, and unacceptance of people out there. Thus, suicide rates are up, because young adults don't know what to do with themselves, when someone doesn't treat them fair, when all they were taught was that the world was fair, when, of course, it is not. So, it goes in a vicious cycle that will eventually lead to the crippling, and, not long after, downfall of the United States of America.
Well, myself being a Christian, i can answer that, besides it being a moral sin, it is also saving yourself for the one you will marry someday. Knowing that, first of all, you had the self control over your rapidly fluctuating hormones as a teenager, not acting solely on impulse. It also encompasses that you loved them enough before you even met them, because you knew they were out there, that you could save you purity for them. Premarital sex is one of the worst sins you can commit in Christianity. This is for the afore-mentioned reasons, and also for all the health and responsibility issues that can occuer, involving STDs and pregnancy.
I agree with you on that last point, for sure.
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Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 5:48 pm
Coal Bat I just flipped into ED, a place I tend to avoid for various reasons, and read a person's post on sexual morals. While I have nothing wrong with her sexuality and some of her arguments, something did strike me as curious: she argued that virgins are held as a certain moral highground in society.
Frankly, from my experience, I don't tihnk most people feel that way any more. In fact, my sexless-ness has been a cause for embarassment among my friends and has made me feel ashamed and infantile at times. *Only at times. I may have low-self-esteem, but I'm not going to let it get me down.*
I just wanted to know, and this probably would apply to any older users here seeing as I'm 22 and older, but what has your experience been? Depends on yur outlook on life. Virginity has been prized throughout history so that when guys had children they expected to be 100% sure that the kid was theirs. Religious people are also very similar in their outlooks. I would say that virginity is still prizd but not nearly as much as it had been. Otherwise people saying that they are "saving themselves for marriage" would be laughed at for sounding "stupid" to some people. Though I might be too oyung for this response. I am 20.
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Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 1:12 am
Thanks for your responses, especially religious ones, and I think some of my opinion has been confused. I honestly don't care about how others feel about their own virginity, it's the reactions I've recieved from others that I've found troubling.
But not too troubling, because the trick is to not care... anyway, it's late and I'm tired, but yeah. I just wanted to see how people were feeling in their own circles with being virgins or asexuals because it seems to amaze me that it should be such a big deal.
And yes, video games trump all.
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Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 6:03 am
I tend to be very reclusive about this kind of thing and I don't talk to people about my emotions or personal views much at all. So for that reason, I haven't gotten any kind of notable reactions from anybody... simply because they don't know. It has made some people wonder about me, I'm sure, but they rarely confront me about it.
College is also the first time that I have been so aware of people "doing the deed". >_> I now know some non-virgins personally and of course I don't see them as any less of a person for choosing what they do. It has actually been pretty enlightening to get to know some people like that... in the past I had mainly stuck to people much like me and thus gotten a rather stereotypical view of others. Not everyone who appears superficial to us actually is. I have now known people who have done things far outside my values (i.e., getting a boyfriend, going "all the way", and breaking up within the span of two or three months) and learned that they can still be great people. Not superficial... just leading a different kind of life.
Sorry, that was a bit of a tangent there.
The problem with being reclusive about it is that people get curious... and at the slightest sign of anything, their mind goes giggly wild. Of course I'm shy about love, but I guess they assume I could be being shy about a physical side that they imagine might exist, too. :/
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