Friday, August 15, 2008

Religion and Virginity


By Paolo La Rosa (545)

Let me begin by emphasizing that I mean no insult to any religion or anyone’s beliefs and values.

Almost every religion requires virginity until marriage, and this fact sometimes influences the life and the habit of the people because to be “Virgin” means to be “Pure”. But, virginity is provable only in girl and not in man because girl is anatomically/morphologically different than man and sometimes this fact is used to discriminate men from women.

I think that sometimes religion is like a “mask” to do something convenient that somebody (men in this case) want to do. I know somebody that say to be really religious but only about the convenient thing for him. In fact, he require a virgin girl for wedding but also he is enjoying with girls and he isn't respecting his religion because he is not virgin anymore, of course!!! In a lot of cases, is the religion that require the virginity or is the guy that use the religion to require a virgin girl? Is religion problem or "honor men" problem?

My religion, which is Catholic, also requires virginity until marriage. The truth is that nobody (men and women!!!) respects this kind of rule about virginity because the society grows and I think the religion needs to change also. In my country nobody cares about virginity, I mean not only woman about man but also man about woman. Before marriage doesn’t matter if one or both is not a virgin. I think that in the society that we live in, everybody has the same rights, men and women. Men like enjoy with women and women like enjoy with men in the same way.

What do you think about? Is the virginity in your religion required for wedding or not? What is the common habit in your country? If a guy looks for girls to enjoy and he sleeps with a lot of girl, what do you think about the guy? If the girl does the same thing that the guy, what do you think about the girl?

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

Actually, I don't have a specific religion, but I have my own belief. I believe myself. Some religions require virginity for wedding in Korea. The one of example is catholic. However, it depends on person. Even though someone has religion, they don't follow thire rules. I think instinct takes precedence over their belief of religion.

Abo Suhaib said...

In fact, I am Muslim. Im my religion the virginity is required not only for the wedding ,but also from we were born. and the virginity are for both women and men,and there is no difference between them excpt who did good deeds for him/her self ,or towards anyone.

Unknown said...

i think that it depends on person. My opinion is almose same as june's comment.many people have their own religion but some people they don't follow their religion's rule, so i think even if their religion require some rule, for example, virginity before marry, the people who is in a religion wouldn't care about that rule. i think many people want to do the most important thing for them. just it is up to each person.

-Kelly-

taejin said...

Absolutely !
I have my religion. It says we must be virgin before marry.
So I believed like that too, but nowadays culture is changed and opened so even if I'm not virgin, it's not shamful. But it's wrong from my religion so I don't know what should I do.ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

Haruka Kabeya said...

In Japan,people usually have religoin, but most of people don't have strong belief include me,so our religion don't care about virginity or not.If some religions must be verginity,most important thing is respect for each other.

Sharon said...

The most commit religion in China is buddlish and they didn't set up virginity before wedding but China people keep virginity very strict in their mind. Especially in country side. In past, the lady drowned to died if they don't keep virginity before wedding.Nowsday, the world is changing women will not get any punishment but it's still have no good on thier reputation. I know some guys they don't mind but still have some guys are very concern about this in China.

Steven said...

Generally, this is different from previous generation. Some of people follow their instinct, others rely on their principle of religion. We have to respect everyone religion, I think there are one thing more important than virginity, the person who is match or not with you. If I find a Ms.right, but she is not virginity, I'll not care about it because the perfect person is hard to find.

RYOUKO said...

I think it really depends on person. In my opinion, now a days many people are not strict on their religion, so in my opinion,they don't need to follow their religional lae.

Jen Shao said...

Those guys that want to have virgin for bride, are usually themselves fuckers that go around to be share by everyone all the time, but they expect their wive have to be a virgin. What kind of mind set is that? All I see is double standard set against women, while men gets free pass in life.

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