Cultural views on virginity

For example, in some states in India, people have gathered to protest by kissing in public as a way of going against the cultural stigma that surrounds the act. What was relevant centuries ago has to change to reflect the mores of modern society. Virginity is treated as a commodity that can be lost. Many groups that practice FGM come from patriarchal societies. As for that sham of a Childrens Act

The role of competing discourses of sexuality in personal experience. Therefore, in the West there is less of a 'fear' to become pregnant or at least there are options if one does become pregnant e. For a woman living in a patriarchal society with no access to land or education and no effective power base, marriage is her main means of survival and access to resources - and FGM is her pre-requisite for marriage. Virginity and premarital sex in contemporary China. If you're ready to subscribe, please go directly to our secure server. Purity is highly valued in a woman because women in Asian societies are supposed to embody innocence and their expected main role is to be a housewife. Back in the days before paternity tests and birth-control, who a girl had sex with told a lot about who got her pregnant; and pregnancy was the key.

Auwais Rafudeen I ; Lindiwe P. Butt out over Virginity Tests, Minister Told. Their scholarships would be renewed as long as they maintained their virginity during their studies and to prove this they would need again to periodically undergo the test. Virginity testing is embedded in a set of relations and practices that are oriented towards a cosmological hierarchy: I'll keep my comments to myself. If she's been with other men, then she has experience.

Subscribe to our newsletter. In Thailand, it is common to cheat on partners, while in Ireland, the Catholic community would deem cheating as immoral. You say they know nothing of needle sharing, what about rape? Those girls are proud to be virgins and you now want to come and remove that sense of cultural pride and breed communities that think being a virgin is taboo. Yet, perhaps more interestingly- and this another implication of Taylor's thought upon which we can reflect- is why we feel the need to question at all. This subjectivity is then fundamentally shaped by the worldview of a particular society and is manifested by acting according to the rules, comportment and decorum it requires. The NewsActivist community has moved!