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The weirdest conversation I never actually finished happened like this:
I was in university, walking with my friend after class. Talk turned to relationships, sex, virginity. He said that he wanted any girlfriend of his to be a virgin, and that if he ever found out that anyone he was dating wasn't one, he'd break up with her immediately. I said (half-shyly, half-defiantly, I was just discovering I had a voice) that I understood where he was coming from but that virginity should not be the only criterion by which to judge a person.
He stopped, stared, spluttered, "So you want t-t-to", he waved his hands around wildly, lost for words until his eyes lighted on the trees across the field. "You're saying it's fine if every girl here in $university suddenly decided to devirginate themselves on the nearest branch?!?!?!"
(His words, his intonation).
I opened my mouth, blanked out completely, shut it, and walked away.
It has been three years. I still haven't thought up a good comeback.
I was in university, walking with my friend after class. Talk turned to relationships, sex, virginity. He said that he wanted any girlfriend of his to be a virgin, and that if he ever found out that anyone he was dating wasn't one, he'd break up with her immediately. I said (half-shyly, half-defiantly, I was just discovering I had a voice) that I understood where he was coming from but that virginity should not be the only criterion by which to judge a person.
He stopped, stared, spluttered, "So you want t-t-to", he waved his hands around wildly, lost for words until his eyes lighted on the trees across the field. "You're saying it's fine if every girl here in $university suddenly decided to devirginate themselves on the nearest branch?!?!?!"
(His words, his intonation).
I opened my mouth, blanked out completely, shut it, and walked away.
It has been three years. I still haven't thought up a good comeback.
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Date: 2008-12-04 06:30 am (UTC)A BRANCH, FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY...! ::wheeze::
According to an OB-GYN I once read, a virgin is no longer virgin after she engages in sex, bottom line; as hymens can be broken by various means other than the one described in bodice-rippers. ::ebil grin::
But on a more serious note, I have no idea how this male being would determine the virginity of his girlfriend. By word of mouth? Not very reliable, that. From first-hand evidence? Errrrm...oh, dear.
Honestly, there are no words with which to come back to a pronouncement as that.
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Date: 2008-12-04 09:40 am (UTC)I did not even think of that :O
Poor poor boy!
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Date: 2008-12-04 10:40 am (UTC)It is to be hoped that should he find marital happiness, the particular gene controlling mental outlook will not be passed on to the next generation. Such a jurassic POV deserves to go the way of the dinosaurs.
/end snark
:)
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Date: 2008-12-04 03:19 pm (UTC)