2015 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Virginity and Premarital Intimacy
Author : David Ghanim
Published in: The Virginity Trap in the Middle East
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
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The highly venerated cultural cult of female virginity and its concomitant process of desexualization strongly affect how men and women approach and relate to sexuality. Gender differences in premarital sexuality are pronounced and unambiguous. A study on university students in Turkey reveals that the rate of engaging in premarital sexual intercourse was only 4.3 percent among women compared with 44.2 percent among men.1