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Let people value virginity if they want to.
The problems here (as in virtually all areas of life) are double standards, self-righteousness, hypocracy, deception, and self-deception.
Get rid of those, and you might have a working relationship, whether the most puritanical or the most super-slutty.
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This is the most amazing line of the linked article: \"Boubakeur, a doctor and a moderate Muslim, says the Quran does not address premarital virginity.\"
So this ridiculous, ignorant, women-phobic, fearmongering behavior is not even based on the scripture.
Awesome.
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A sizable number of women I know had absolutely no problems their first time, and no, they weren't all members of the Horseback Riding and Bicycle-Grinding Club. I wonder what women in virginity-obsessed cultures even do when their nonexistent hymen doesn't bleed.
There's always \"scheduling your wedding for when you have your period.\" Sounds like fun!
Or the classic \"shove a chicken liver up there so it will bleed, damnit.\" At least I think it was a liver, but it may well have been some other bit of innards. Ahh, the middle and dark ages; what can't we learn from you...
Of course American consumerism is a thousand times better than the nasty misogyny of a religion which dictates that its women (oh yeah, it's men too) stay virgins before marriage. THE HORROR! Did you know they can't drink, either? Absolutely disgusting vicious ANIMALS aren't they? God bless America.
I have some saudi arabian friends who have talked about this being quite common in the middle east.
The drinking rule is not as enforced however, they enjoy wine with their families quite frequently.
Just goes to show you, for every religion-based superstition or custom, there's somebody willing to make a buck off it.