Wanna Fuck?
I get letters at Savage Love every day from 20, 30, 40, and 50 year-old virgins—male and female—who want to know what they can do to lose their virginities. I’ve long advised these unhappy virgins to floss, bathe, exercise, drink, dance, and hit on people. Well, it looks like I need to add one more item to my standard response: vow to abstain from sex until marriage. A new Harvard study has found that half of all people who pledge to remain virgins have sex within a year.
Virginity pledges, in which young people vow to abstain from sex until marriage, have little staying power among those who take them, a Harvard study has found. In fact, more than half the adolescents who make such signed, public promises give up on their pledges within a year, according to the study released this week.
So if you’re anxious to get laid, kids, make that virginity pledge today!
Taking a virginity pledge - like becoming vegan for your new hot girlfriend, or maybe attending a few bible classes with you're new hot boyfriend, or maybe getting shitfaced (or inversely, giving Straight Edge a try) at the local all ages club you see all these cool kids coming in and out of - amounts to just that; a simple hoop some young people are willing to jump through in order for them to fit in with a crowd. It’s an empty, and probably harmless gesture for ninety percent of the people that take it. As for the remaining ten percent, they’re probably the same 100%-behind-the-cause wack-jobs that exist in any ‘scene’.