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To: epicure who wrote (231870)	5/22/2007 9:29:10 AM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Of course. I can't think of any society where male virginity was prized. While there are good biological reasons for men to want their women to be virgins (notice I do not say that biology pressures women to be chaste- since that is not the case), the biological pressure on men is to spread themselves around. I was talking to a historian once that during her research of various villages in England [~1600s as I recall] found a village where a woman was never married until after she gave birth to her first child. Her speculation was that some time prior to the existing records that there was a period when there were frequent miscarriages and/or deaths during childbirth in the village. The societal value was a woman had to "prove" she could deliver a healthy child. jttmab