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Outrage as US rapper TI says he has daughter's hymen checked annually
Virgin territory: why the Japanese are turning their backs on sex | Roland Kelts
The internet exploded. Yes, what TI said is deeply disturbing, suggests an abusive family situation, and deserves every bit of derision being heaped on it. But it could also force a more intelligent conversation on women, sex and virginity.
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The requested article has expired, and is no longer available. Any related articles, and user comments are shown below. The root of this is multi-faceted, but the biggest culprit is the work culture. Combine the long hours with uncompensated overtime, and it's worse.
If it seems as though taboos about sex have lifted in these ostensibly open-minded times, there is one that holds steady: the stigma over never having had sex. It may be that later-in-life virginity is dismissed as a problem with an easy fix. And the most recent data available, from , suggests that just 2. Yet there are many reasons that a thirty or fortysomething might never have had sex, says Libby, a year-old Canadian. It could be due to a childhood of abuse, or physical health issues like cerebral palsy, or a religious upbringing, or even lack of comprehensive sex education. When she was well, she found that medication — for her mental health, and oral contraceptives to mitigate her very painful periods — wiped out her libido. Richard also identifies poor mental health as a factor in his virginity. He is now on antidepressants and — following substance abuse in his 20s — sober. Dating apps are no solution — for him or many others. He is articulate, even wryly humorous, about his virginity, even as he says it causes him day-to-day unhappiness.
