Jessica Valenti Quotes About Virginity

Quotes about: Virginity

• According to the virginity movement, men have no self-control when it comes to anything sexual.

  Jessica Valenti

  Men, Self, Virginity

  Jessica Valenti (2009). “The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women”, p.107, Seal Press

• [Virginity is] a cultural ideology that conflates passivity - the act of not having sex - with superior morality.

  Jessica Valenti

  Sex, Morality, Ideology

• Present-day American society-whether through pop culture, religion, or institutions-conflates sexuality and morality constantly. Idolizing virginity as a stand-in for women’s morality means that nothing else matters-not what we accomplish, not what we think, not what we care about and work for. Just if/how/whom we have sex with. That’s all.

  Jessica Valenti

  Sex, Mean, Thinking

  Jessica Valenti (2009). “The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women”, p.24, Seal Press

• I think virginity is fine, just as I think having sex is fine. I don't really care what women do sexually, and neither should you. In fact, that's the point. I believe that a young woman's decision to have sex, or not, shouldn't impact how she's seen as a moral actor.

  Jessica Valenti

  Sex, Believe, Thinking

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