GENDER BIASED VIRGINITY

Yes! from an Indian perspective, anyone would realize that this time I am venturing into a topic which comes in the category of being a Taboo. However, am sure the title must have brought about some confusion because this is not a usual thought connected with virginity.
So the underlying question here is- Is virginity gender biased?

Have you ever wondered which gender would have a higher number of virgins? No? Let me help you ponder in this unusual line of thought with regard to virginity. So I ask you now- which gender or sex (male or female) do you think has a higher number of virgins? Referring to the Indian context, most of us would immediately answer that more females are virgins. Now let us look at this statement, which seems to be a fact, from a calculative perspective.

Virginity is lost when a male/female has intercourse with his/her counterpart. So, a virgin is a person who has not had sex. Now, when we think about whether a higher number of males are virgins or females, instantly our sharp mind tells us that the answer is obviously females. However, we fail to take into account that when a male loses his virginity he loses it to a female only (not taking homosexuality into account). So, for every non virgin male, there is a non virgin female and vice versa. However, there is an exception when a female has sex with more than one virgin male and also when one male has sex with more than one virgin female.

Since we are discussing this in the Indian context, let us consider the generalizations of this context. In the Indian society, it is thought that males are sexually much more active than females. This comes from the hypocritical aspect of our society in which it is okay for a man to b sexually active but not a woman. Hence, keeping this in mind, it is clear that a man has higher chances of having sexual relationship with more than one woman.

So, analyzing the calculative perspective, we can see that we have more virgins in the male gender, contrary to the popular belief. Also, as per statistics, proportion of males in our population is much higher and thus it further validates that there are more male virgins.