Marriage Quote by Darrel Ray

Present-day American society-whether through pop culture, religion, or institutions-conflates sexuality and morality constantly. Idolizing virginity as a stand-in for women’s morality means that nothing…

— Jessica Valenti

The rapid, sweeping deterioration of values is characterized by a preoccupation-even an obsession-with the procreative act. Abstinence before marriage and fidelity within it are…

— Boyd K. Packer

Abstinence is a perversion.

— Bill Maher

My views on virginity have not changed.

— Britney Spears

“The only kinds of sexual dysfunction are abstinence, celibacy, and delayed marriage.”

— Alfred C. Kinsey

Sexual abstinence limits the impact of irrational passions on the mind, thus liberating it for love of genuine goodness and truth...

— Anonymous

“I do not in general have the impression that sexual abstinence helps produce energetic, independent men of action or original thinkers, bold liberators and…

— Sigmund Freud

According to the virginity movement, men have no self-control when it comes to anything sexual.

— Jessica Valenti

“greater sexual freedom expands the grey area between consensual sex and rape”

— none

In an age of abstract experience, fornication Is self-expression, adjunct to Christian euphoria, And whores become delinquents; delinquents, patients; Patients, wards of society. Whores,…

— Allen Tate

[Virginity is] a cultural ideology that conflates passivity - the act of not having sex - with superior morality.

— Jessica Valenti

Abstinence is a window of clarity through which one can better find one's work and one's mate.

— Lance Morrow