I'm not overly religious, I've just always thought waiting was the smartest decision. No accidental pregnancies and no STD's. I feel like your partner is less likely to cheat on you throughout your marriage and if they do cheat before, it hurts, but you have no regrets. You would also be more financially stable when you are ready to have kids (if that's what you want). But does anybody really think like that anymore? Or am I pretty much alone in that?
It's the intelligent thing to do. As you said, it increases you're marital success likelihood. That's what my husband and I did. There are men like that out there, but not many who are not religious. But I would say you should try to find a guy like that anyway, especially if you're a virgin. And NEVER settle for a guy with a higher body count than yours. Even if you aren't a virgin, it's still worth the wait. Each time a persons body count goes up, their success rate goes down. So don't let the male thots here tell you the nonsense that it only works if you're a virgin. They say such because they are exactly the type of people who are unfit to give any sort of advice about relationship success.
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Before I was married, not a chance. Now I regret that I didn't wait. Having memories of meaningless relationships isn't in any way fulfilling or happy.
I think that's another bad lesson of modern feminism. Hedonism isn't happiness. Temporary sexual pleasure isn't rewarding in the long run.
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I think it's a good idea for women to wait until marriage, as the men you date will have more respect for you, as well as it protects your feelings from getting hurt if your expectations suddenly get higher after sex. You're able to have a clearer mind when you don't have sex before marriage, and make better decisions as a result.
Everyone should wait until marriage to find out that the person you just married actually hates sex and doesn't care for it at all. lol
It's okay if both partners want to wait until marriage to consummate their union. I personally think there are advantages in not waiting, making sure you are sexually compatible.
Different people here have different attitudes but I, personally, never placed one bit of value on virginity. I even think the term "losing your virginity" is stupid. What are you losing, your childhood? When your pass through puberty, do you lose your childhood or enter into adulthood. It's the same with sex.
None of my girlfriends were virgins. When I eventually got married, my wife wasn't a virgin. We had both had relationships and lived full lives before we met. That's how life should be. By the way, we chose well and have been happily married now for 26 years.
It doesn't make sense to "save yourself" for marriage. It doesn't make it more likely that your marriage will be successful.
Normal people have relationships. A relationship is how you determine if that's the person you want to spend the rest of your life with. You don't just marry the first guy with whom you become infatuated or who flatters you and makes promises.
You have to get to know each other inside out - habits, behaviors, idiosyncrasies, lifestyle, goals, values, work ethic, etc. You can't discover those things by chatting. You have to observe them over a long period of time. And you have to know if you are sexually compatible. Sex is as important as any other compatibility.
I would never consider marrying someone unless I knew that we were compatible in every way. And you have to know that you love, adored, respect, and trust each other completely. If you realize that you don't, they you shouldn't marry them. You should move on; rinse and repeat; continue the search until you find the one. That's how we gain experience, wisdom, and the maturity to recognize the right partner when we meet them.
Marriage is for the rest of your life. A relationship is testing the waters. Too many people rush into marriage out of desperation.
Don't get fooled. Don't get sucked into a life that you will regret.
I'll add that any man who doesn't see your qualities beyond the fact that you've had previous relationships before doesn't value you.
Any men who think women who have had sex before are worthless are, themselves, worthless. They are immature, shallow, and see women as objects or possessions, not as intelligent, fully accomplished human beings with common sense and standards.You’re alone on that.
1st. Religion is a cult for sheep 🐑 that need to follow something and listen to others. I learned this by the age of 20.
To want religion, is to say that you need religion in order to have a moral compass. You can’t have moral values and ethical standards on your OWN.2nd. We are all sexual. Men and women. We are sexual beings that have a sex drive. And everyone has a completely different sex-drive and libido to the other. A woman with PCOS like me, has a higher sex drive because of higher testosterone.
3rd. Sex is healthy. It’s healthy for both males and females. Scientifically and biologically. It is healthy for both women and men of childbearing age to have sex. It’s healthy to have CONSTANT sex.
Specially for women more than men.
Because men lose testosterone when they release.Women on the other hand.. are give TWO Sexual Pleasures. TWO Sexual Advantages.
Women can have both male and female orgasm.
This is why in a test of arousal, women were aroused by looking at other women and looking at men.
Yes, maybe males are wired to spread their seed. But women can have multiple orgasms in one day. A man cannot. A woman is capable of having sex with 15 different men in one entire day. In 24 hours a woman can have 20 males. And she can experience the 20 orgasms that those 20 men provided her.A man can only have 1 orgasm in one ☝️ day. That is it. He has to wait 15-20 hours to be able to have sex again and release again. A woman can have as much sex as she wants.
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4th. Contrary to popular belief. Women are just as sexual as men if not more so. While men maybe animalistic, and always ready to have sex. Women, during their “fertile window” , when they’re ovulating.
Women are the most Aroused and Ready to Go.. during these 6-days of fertility.
We become just as H—NY as men.
If not, more so. Because your egg begs your body for fertilization. You crave sex like never before. Right before your period..
5th. Marriage, Just like religion. Marriage is a cult created by men, to control women. Marriage is a social construct. Social conditioning.
It’s not based on reality. On biology. On genetics. On science and reproduction. It’s based on belief and myth.
So if you want to live a life based on ideology, beliefs, and myths. That’s your destruction, and that’s your fault. 🫵 Marriage cannot ensure that a human with carnal needs, will stay faithful to you for his/her entire youth and existence. That’s a miserable existence. Sex takes a 5 minutes. You cannot prevent someone from experiencing those 5-10 minutes with someone other than you. It’s unrealistic and based on fairytale.Men want variety. Biologically they want variety. Women want the best most healthy and strong male for the best fit offspring.
Marriage and Religion was made to cut down the population and control human reproduction. Like sterilization. Also made to mainly control female sexuality. It’s why many cultures CUT the Female Clitoris.
Because men feel entitled to CONTROL and POLICE female sexuality. Cutting the Clitoris out. Imagine. It’s like Chopping the Head Of the Penis Off. ‼️‼️
https://www.youtube.com/embed/HN1mulqwv5gFrom my experience, and the experience of others, that is a risky position to take. I have relatives who did that and lived to regret it, and have read stories of other women who did that and ended leaving their husband due to them being incomparable.
Personally, I would rather marry a woman with a lot of sexual experiences, although that does open the door to many unknown factors. My wife was very experienced, and had 30 sexual partners before me married. That said, I did not find her to be the experienced woman you might think.
She claimed no masturbation in her life, and I never understood what she considered being sexually satisfied, was. Then. too, I was ignorant, and put her on a 'pedestal' in that I would not let her suck me nor did I ever eat her out... Stupid on my part, so I never really knew what her sexual response was?
Sex and sexuality is so weird, and fluid, I really don't know what to think about experience/inexperience as it applies to a successful marriage.
See I think waiting till marriage increases the chances of cheating and affairs. I think going into a marriage just thinking you'll be sexually attracted to someone is a bad idea, I think you need to actually find out what you like before marriage. I'm not saying you have to fuck the whole town but I think it's good to have sex with at least one person before marriage, make sure you aren't gay or something, you never know, seems to many people marry the gender their church yells them too, then the sex sucks, and then we have the stereotypical secret gay affair. Or maybe you thought you wanted vanilla sex with clear and often vocalized consent with clear communication only to find out that shit gets annoying and you just want someone grabs a handful and takes charge.
You get the idea, I personally would never marry someone I haven't had sex with, I need to know if they are just gonna lay there like a doll cause if they are I may as well just buy a damn sex doll. I need to know we have similar interests.If you want to do that for religious or moral reasons, that is apurely personal choice and it is neither right nor wrong. It is just your choice.
Unwanted pregnancy? There is so much available for birth control that this shouldn't be a consideration for anyone smart enough to use contraception.
STDs? I have had several relationships in which we were both tested for STDs and shared the results with each other before we started having sex. Of course, this requires that you trust your partner will be faithful to you. . . but you have the same concern in a marriage.
If your eventual partner places great value on virginity, then saving your virginity for that partner, after marriage, may have some significance. However, not many guys care about whether a girl is a virgin, especially when the girl is in her late 20's.
So, it might make you much more desireable to a rather small segment of the male population, but I don't think it accomplishes much more than that.
It’s a smart move for women.. but it only affects the stuff related to sex. It has nothing to do with financial stability. That is a separate matter, as well as the cheating thing. Some people cheat because they are scum.. and in no way am I condoning cheating, but a lot cheat because they are unfulfilled. Like, women cheat because they aren’t getting emotional or physical or mental fulfillment. Men cheat because they aren’t getting physical fulfillment most times. This is why women cheating is a whole lot worse and there isn’t coming back from that.
All in all, it’s good for both parties to practice waiting until marriage. For sex, and if that’s the cause, I highly suggest men put the same standards on paying for dates and doing things that cost money. If that is a women’s stance on sex til marriage, then a woman isn’t privileged to my resources and provisioning until marriage either.
I hear a lot of woman say, well, it shows that the man can take care of me and our family.. all from one or three dates.. lol I would argue them same thing for sex I need to make sure you will satisfy all my needs in bed.. but if we are going for equality in 2023 this is the way to go. We can actually do free stuff and spend good quality time and have fun. So yeah, waiting until marriage in all areas in dating is ideal.Absolutely terrible idea.
Sex can be learned and it will take time till a couple really is on par with each other.
If you start with it only after marriage you will firstly have unrealistic expectations because you never had sex and are probably corrupted by whatever the internet said that it's the best thing in the world whatever.
After the first time which will be more funny and can be painful for her it will leave a bad taste for him and for her and it can lead to not wanting anymore but forced to be together with that person because you are already married.
I think it's absolutely terrible to wait.I wish I'd waited. Married 20 years now and my greatest regret is I can't tell my wife she's the only lover I've slept with.
While I am a Christian that's never been the reason for the only genuine regret I have. I'm sure it's impacted our relationship and my wife has similar feelings. It's impossible even after 20 years together not to still "compare", and as we get older the comparison doesn't get kinder.
It's not like we had multiple partners - just 2 for me and 1 for her. But it's a comparison we regret.Just because you're married doesn't mean you're financially stable.(and vice versa). I think that's somewhat of a separate issue
I don't see why waiting until marriage would make it less likely that the guy you're with won't cheat on you. There are people who waited and latter cheated and there are also people who didn't wait and stayed faithful the entire relationship. Maybe there's something I'm missing, but i just don't see the connection
There are effective ways to prevent unwanted pregnancies and STDs without waiting, but if you want to be extra extra careful I can definitely see why waiting until marriage would be beneficial.
I personally have 0 interest in waiting until marriage. I enjoy sex with my boyfriend way too much. Haha. But if someone else wants to wait and finds value in that I don't think there's anything wrong with doing so
Waiting until marriage is laughable and embarrassing in some cultures.. and in other cultures it's actually the norm.. marriage itself is quite extinct in some cultures lol... So, it depends on where you live actually.. so that you don't feel like a weirdo and also to know what to expect from the people you date.. waiting till marriage and having a partner that really lives up to the expectations is the ideal thing... but is it guaranteed to happen? Is it guaranteed to happen while you're still in your prime years? unless you meet someone who's like your soulmate.. It's a gamble.. So, you're just there torn between chasing the perfect thing that may not happen for you or having relationships and flings just for the sake of not being alone and missing out..
My thought is about the same way I think of the typewriter - it's out of date. That doesn't mean sex on the first date or even for a while. Once you're sure there's a solid commitment, and I mean really sure, I think it's a good idea to make sure you're not sexually incompatible!
" I feel like your partner is less likely to cheat on you throughout your marriage"
I can't find any statistics that support your feeling. Do you know of any?You might find this interesting and informative:
That was most definitely not for me, thank you very much.
I thoroughly enjoyed "test driving the cars" before I found the right one!
I would not say it is a bad idea. I personally did not wait. But I married the guy I lost my v-card to. Alternatively, I would encourage you to wait until the time feels right. Whether that is now, later, during an engagement, after marriage. When the time feels right for you. All the best. 🥰
i have too many gfs that got divorced over bad sex.. all 5 of the 6 waited until marriage to see his penis, and they were very disappointed.. the husbands all were "wham bam, thank you ma'am" and sex was bad.
so i would never wait until marriage to find out my man is bad at sex, cannot properly pleasure me, and end up cheating..i feel like sexual chemistry is often a deal breaker in relationships. so i think waiting til marriage for sex is unwise. i'd rather find out about our sexual chemistry before marriage rather than get married and have it dissolve as result of not finding out
I have a slightly different opinion. I intend to wait until I have an official engagement and after wedding announcements have been given and/or mailed to our families and friends.
I wanted to wait until marriage initially, but I never found a woman to do it with, so I just went on ahead and went for it... I still think it's the best option.. People place a lot of importance on the sex as if it makes the relationship.. It shouldn't.. It's important yes, but you'll much more time with your SO than just sex.. Plus, the love and devotion to each other will eventually lead to great sex if you actually care about their needs and satisfaction..
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