LET'S LOSE "VIRGINITY"

virginity is a destructive social construct & i want to lose ittt

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SOURCES & FURTHER READING

The Purity Myth by Jessica Valenti

Virgin: An Untouched History by Hanne Blank

Hymeneutics: Interpreting Virginity on the Early Modern Stage by Marie Loughlin

Masculinities, Childhood, Violence: Attending to Early Modern Women—and Men by Amy Leonard

RFSU Guide to the Hymen (Vaginal Corona) - http://www.rfsu.se/Bildbank/Dokument/...

Honor-Based Violence Awareness Network -
http://hbv-awareness.com/

You Can't POP Your Cherry (Sex+ video) -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qFojO...

Losing Your VIRGINITY (Sex+ video) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdYtYv...

Secondary virginity as an ongoing gendered social construction -
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Virginity sells on ebay for $780,000 - http://newsone.com/2066873/virginity-...
Woman must pay husband $7500 for lying about virginity - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04...
Alabama teen killed with bleach for losing virginity - http://www.scarleteen.com/blog/heathe...
Pakistan teen killed with acid for looking at a boy -
http://now.msn.com/anusha-a-15-year-o...

SUMMARY
Virginity as a social construct is best understood by understanding where virginity and myths about the hymen came from in the first place. I talk about the origin of virginity and how holding on to this concept negatively affects people. I argue that instead of thinking in terms of "losing virginity" we should think about sexual acts as equal and think of the start of sexual activity in terms of a "sexual debut".

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