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Friday, September 08, 2006

Older virgin

Here's an interesting article from salon about the difficulties that women have who remain virgins into their 20's and 30's. I guess once you reach a certain point it becomes more and more difficult to actually just do it.
So what ever happened to the idea that a man's ultimate fantasy is to deflower a virgin? Well, if she's a young, nubile girl the fantasy is still out there. But can you imagine a 30-year-old virgin as the star of Internet-porn spam? What about as one of the 72 virgins waiting for the jihadists up in heaven? University of Texas psychology professor David Buss, author of "Evolution of Desire," says that one reason an older virgin becomes essentially untouchable is because "people infer that there is something psychologically wrong with the person who substantially exceeds the cultural norm in age and is still a virgin. Perhaps she has deeply rooted sexual hang-ups or some other deep psychological problem." Or perhaps they just think she's asexual or frigid.

posted by Steve at 9/08/2006 08:08:00 AM  

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