Anyway, is virginity not something women (or society) values as much in men?

I don’t get it.

They’re not drug addicts, criminals, or people who will scream at them and/or smack them around. You’d be surprised what else they’ll tolerate when those criteria are met, and it’s a lot. Throw in being halfway decent with their children and that seals the deal, and you get a lot of people like the ones I see here in Massachusetts…serially unmarried “unconventional” family structures, kind of making it from one month to the next.

Massachusetts loves those kinds of families, because they fly apart very easily and the pieces of them all need State assistance.

The problem is that men themselves have been devalued to the point that a lot of good women are having to choose the “best of the dregs.” Men allowed this to happen to themselves.

The absolute worst and shortest-lived relationships, if you can even call them that, were the ones based on instant gratification. There were a few, and I’m quite sure that both parties regretted, or at the very least felt bittersweet about them afterward.

Aside from that, never neglect the Fark Factor in news that is reported by the Daily Telegraph. It’s a painful lesson to learn. Remember: it’s not news, it’s Fark!

I have the feeling that most people still aren’t promiscuous: they tend to joke around more than they’re serious about spreading it around. That’s because both men and women still know, despite all the licenses society has given them, that when you love someone, you really do love them, or something is wrong, probably with both of you.

It would be nice if more music reflected that again, though. There really aren’t very many good love songs today. I miss that. I miss songs like this:

This is just one of the simpler ones, there are many, many others. The world has become much coarser in that sense.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to go find that deed to the Brooklyn Bridge. I know it’s around here somewhere…

And, since the idea came from the experience of her sister, whose chastity and purity was certainly gone by the end of the first week if she ever had it at all, I think the woman’s observation is a fair one.

I also think it naive to claim that chastity is the power of female sexuality – there is a reason prostitution is called the oldest profession and it is not because men like to pay for chastity.

A-freaking-Men!

As for the value… If this woman is willing to sell herself as a common prostitute to the highest bidder, where is the purity? There isn’t any. She had demonstrated far less purity than most sexually experienced women as a consequence of her offer of prostitution (bogus or real).

But of course the virtue of chastity is fully compatible with the sacrament of marriage. The idea that the Christian tradition “hates” sex is perfect stupidity.

But I did not present it as an instance of moral decay. I presented it as an instance of irony.