Girls are expected to go from their father's house to their husband's, virginity intact.
The new study does not suggest that virginity pledges are harmful, says Andrew Goldstein, M.
The girls are not locked up by managers who arrange to sell their virginity.
Syeda said that Lama's father also was concerned about the virginity of his 5-year-old daughter.
In traditional Indian society, virginity before marriage is cherished and rape carries great stigma.
She has also defended the right of state orphanages to enforce virginity tests on older girls.
' After she lost her virginity to the man, she felt 'very heartbroken.
In rural Peru, for example, 24% of young women say they lost their virginity to a rapist.
As a boy, Harouni had slept with maidservants, lost his virginity to one of them at fourteen.
Jerry Falwell reminisced about getting drunk and losing his virginity to his own mother in an outhouse.
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The 30-year-old Jones has raised eyebrows for everything from declaring her virginity to posing semi-nude in ESPN Magazine.
Dylan said she was inspired by a report of a Peruvian woman who put her virginity up for sale.
The documentary filmmaker is in the process of finishing her second feature, entitled How To Lose Your Virginity.
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If caught, they are liable to be taken to a reception centre where girls are given compulsory virginity tests.
Some female democracy protesters, fighting for their rights, were later subjected to " virginity tests" by the Egyptian military.
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He was fulfilling his role as aggressor, knowing that the young lady would fulfill hers as protector of her virginity.
Despite the fact it has yet to be widely released, How To Lose Your Virginity is already garnering critical buzz.
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Only girls in Kayunga district who pass a virginity test will qualify for the bursary, which will start next year.
The groom, an engineer, applied for an annulment because his bride, a student nurse, had lied to him about her virginity.
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Alma is a Mason Gross student, one of those Sonic Youth, comic-book-reading alternatinas without whom you might never have lost your virginity.
It contains his likes, dislikes, college transcript, job pursuits, how he got into Yale, and possibly the night he lost his virginity.
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Instead, says the report, women are often subjected to crude "virginity tests".
One South African woman in three loses her virginity to a rapist.
Rosenbaum is concerned that abstinence-only sex education programs that promote virginity pledges may also promote a negative view of condoms and birth control.
The demonstrator said a man in a white coat later carried out a 'virginity check' on her and she was threatened with prostitution charges.
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Child marriage rates are also higher in refugee and IDP (Internally Displaced People) camps, where girls are encouraged to marry early to safeguard their virginity.
Yet, many other women complained such thinking was demeaning and kept them on a "mother-goddess" pedestal, with their virginity as the touchstone of family honour.
Yet virginity and chastity especially for women, but also men remain prized virtues.
Indians on the other hand are more anxious to cover up a rape, because of fears that loss of virginity might reduce the chances of marriage.
Sometimes programs are measured by how many teens take virginity pledges, not whether the teens stick to them, avoid sexually transmitted diseases or unplanned pregnancies, says Rosenbaum.
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