Woman Between Islam and Western Society
4. The Problems Facing Modern Civilization
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champions of permissiveness as a way of life are
now beginning to turn against it.
A survey, carried out in America on more than 1400
college students aged 18-19, reveals that young
women are more attracted to male virgins than they
were 10 years ago.
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The New York psychologist,
Mr. Srully Blotnick, whose company carried out the
survey, said: “The male virgin may not make the
best lover, but usually he’s eager to learn — and
he’s the safest.” The safest, that is, from the risk of
AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases. Mr.
Blotnick said it was the risk of sexually-related
diseases that makes the male virgins so attractive to
women. His latest survey showed that 22 percent of
college women now want their next lover to be a
virgin, compared to just nine percent 10 years ago.
This same report was published by the
Hindustan
Times
under the title, ‘Male Virgins in Vogue.”
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At the outset of the women’s liberation movement,
virginity as a condition for marriage was ridiculed,
more particularly as it was an obstacle to sexual
licence. It was depicted as a preposterous
concoction of the religious imagination. But
