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Originally Posted by InfiniteNow
My conjecture is that it's the concept of spoilage. Much like we don't like to eat off the plate of a stranger, or wear someone else's dirty underwear, we don't like to follow into the vaginal canal where another man has already deposited his seed (and potentially some STDs too).
The female is the vehicle to pass on my genes to the next generation. I don't want that vehicle being driven by some other guy ALSO trying to pass on his genes to the next generation.
A virgin essentially guarantees that it's mine, and is not being soiled by some dirty smelly diseased other guy. Also, I believe the "suction" effect will be greater.
I apologize for the extremeness and short hand used. It's not my intent to be offensive with this, just clear and straight forward... sincerely. I think that the basic point is one of cleanliness/disease, unwillingness to share, and tightness.
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There is some scientific evidence to challenge your view.
http://www.epjournal.net/filestore/ep021223.pdf
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Originally Posted by Gordon G. Gallup
Semen Displacement as a Sperm Competition Strategy in Humans
Abstract: We examine some of the implications of the possibility that the human penis may have evolved to compete with sperm from other males by displacing rival semen from the cervical end of the vagina prior to ejaculation. The semen displacement hypothesis integrates considerable information about genital morphology and human reproductive behavior, and can be used to generate a number of interesting predictions.
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Originally Posted by DameYanky
I understand it was popularised by religion. What keeps it alive today?
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Virginity is not universally an issue/meme, through either time or place, and while religion may have a part in some circumstances, that does not preclude secular concerns from having a say in the matter. Given the slow rate of human gestation, perhaps the idea of virginity originally came from observing procreation in livestock.
Today it may serve an individual as positive feedback regarding self-control, and regardless of what the instigator is for adopting the meme.
Not to ignore the 800 pound religions in the room; well, you know religions and their propensities to shame folk.
i hear Baptists are allowed to dance these days, so maybe there is hope yet that the virginity meme in humans will die out.
