Saving Sex for Marriage: An Analysis of Lay Attitudes Towards Virginity and its Perceived Benefit for Marriage

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Abstract How do young people interpret virginity loss, and does saving sex for marriage have any socially constructed benefit marriage? This study answers this question using data obtained from a peer-led Facebook group with more than 175,000 participants, mostly in African countries, particularly Nigeria. A reflexive thematic analysis was used to analyze 100 public wall posts 3860 comments posted on the between June 2018 May 2019. Four distinctive interpretations of loss comprising gift, precondition, stigma, process emerged data. These were also gendered, such that woman’s interpreted as gift but stigma men. The further suggest may some culturally sensitive benefits, including trust, marital sexual satisfaction. Altogether findings expand current understanding diverse perceived benefits move beyond honour respect complex like trust union, satisfaction ultimate marriage.

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عنوان ژورنال: Sexuality and Culture

سال: 2021

ISSN: ['1095-5143', '1936-4822']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-021-09909-7