Advantages of being a Virgin

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Farzana Versey at 8:31:00 pm
Great things about being a virgin
man
Women are often concerned about
losing their virginity. It is partly
psychological and often due to
what society expects, especially in
the Indian context. That is the
reason you will see desperate
queries addressed to sexologists
about how to hide the hymen
rupture from the husbands, if he
isn’t the one a woman has had sex
with.
The sexpert tells her that there is
something called trust, and she can
lose her precious tissue while
exercising, swimming, horse riding
or spending quality time with a
cucumber.
A rather regressive article that
advises women to preserve their
virginity has appeared in the Times
of India. I believe that if virginity is
so important, then men should be
equally concerned about preserving
the 'site'. So, here’s my rejoinder to
a few points.
(Disclaimer: I do not adhere to the
views in the piece or what I say. It is
purely seeing the flip side)
There is nothing worrisome
about your virgin status.
Instead you should feel proud
of it. It's not a big deal for it
can be lost anytime. We know
sex feels great, but just
remember that there are many
advantages of being a virgin.
It is one of the most special
gifts god has given you.
God did not gift virginity. A foetus
was formed in the womb, and
sometimes there are breakages of
different parts. As regards feeling
proud, why should men be denied
such pride? And there are some
goodies in store if you keep yourself
to yourself.
So, for all virgin women out
there, here is a list of few great
things about being one.
No pregnancy fears: Out of the
many advantages, this one is
the most obvious. Many
women who have regular sex
always worry about getting
pregnant. So if you are a virgin
you need not worry about this,
and also no headache of
popping those birth control
pills.
Men don’t have to worry about
getting a woman pregnant and
being subjected to baby pictures,
right from Lord Krishna with butter
smeared on his mouth to Justin
Bieber trying to sing.
No STDs: It's always safe to
be a virgin in this society
where STDs like HIV/AIDS,
herpes, syphilis are so
common. If you are not having
sex that means you are much
less likely to contract STDs.
Men should remain virgins because
these diseases can afflict them too,
and do so more often. Besides, if
they stay away from intercourse,
they can even spend less time
tapping the keyboard, and save
themselves from strain on the back
and eyes.
No emotional trauma of a
relationship: Sometimes there
is nothing left in a relationship
after sex. Love is not all about
sex so there are many things a
couple can do without sex in a
relationship. Remember, a
sexual disappointment can
make you feel hurt, lonely and
angry.
True, and men need to hang on to
their life because their seed is so
crucial to the perpetuation of the
species. They are more concerned
about how well they do in bed. So,
instead of getting many opinions
beforehand, that might reduce self-
esteem or result in raised
expectations, they can just wait for
the right time.
Your man will feel so proud
and happy: It's a fact; most
men still prefer a virgin
woman. No guys want to think
about his girl having sex with
other guys. Even though virgin
women are not sexually
experienced, men still love
them and feel more sexually
excited. He will respect your
innocence, and also there
won't be any arguments on
your past relationships.
Women find fumbling men cute.
Haven’t you heard that all that
brawn stuff just does not turn them
on as much as a guy who is
vulnerable? She will respect that
and there will be no nagging about
who you were with in the
Palaeolithic Age. You can also
spare the moment when by mistake
you utter the names of Cleopatra,
Nefertiti or Mrs Chaddha, or
uncharacteristically say “Darrling”
instead of “Honey”. Women can
catch these linguistic derailments.
You are pure as an angel:
Virgins are probably one of the
sanest people on earth. Most
virgin women have morals
and respect themselves. Also
they take relationship and
marriage very seriously.
Virgin men are like Adam, the first
man. A woman, therefore, feels like
she is in heaven. Virgin men are
sane because their other ‘brain’ has
not been used as yet. When both
brains come together, men
understand respect and as they
begin to value the relationship
between their extremes they also
value their partners.
So now, save your virginity.
Don't give it away on a platter.
Yes, men. Treat it like a crusade.
Save the endangered species. Wrap
up the dildo.

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SCIENCE NEWS
Shakespeare and Wordsworth boost
the brain, new research reveals
The works of Shakespeare and
Wordsworth are “rocket-boosters” to
the brain and better therapy than self-
help books, researchers will say this
week.
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(L-R): English playwright William
Shakespeare and English poet
William Wordsworth Photo: ALAMY
By Julie Henry, Education
Correspondent
8:30AM GMT 13 Jan 2013
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Scientists, psychologists and English
academics at Liverpool University
have found that reading the works of
the Bard and other classical writers
has a beneficial effect on the mind,
catches the reader’s attention and
triggers moments of self-reflection.
Using scanners, they monitored the
brain activity of volunteers as they
read works by William Shakespeare,
William Wordsworth, T.S Eliot and
others.
They then “translated” the texts into
more “straightforward”, modern
language and again monitored the
readers’ brains as they read the
words.
Scans showed that the more
“challenging” prose and poetry set off
far more electrical activity in the
brain than the more pedestrian
versions.
Scientists were able to study the
brain activity as it responded to each
word and record how it “lit up” as the
readers encountered unusual words,
surprising phrases or difficult
sentence structure.
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This “lighting up” of the mind lasts
longer than the initial electrical spark,
shifting the brain to a higher gear,
encouraging further reading.
The research also found that reading
poetry, in particular, increases
activity in the right hemisphere of the
brain, an area concerned with
“autobiographical memory”, helping
the reader to reflect on and reappraise
their own experiences in light of what
they have read. The academics said
this meant the classics were more
useful than self-help books.
Philip Davis, an English professor
who has worked on the study with the
university’s magnetic resonance
centre, will tell a conference this
week: “Serious literature acts like a
rocket-booster to the brain.
"The research shows the power of
literature to shift mental pathways, to
create new thoughts, shapes and
connections in the young and the
staid alike.”
In the first part of the research, the
brain activity of 30 volunteers was
monitored as they read passages
from Shakespeare plays, including
King Lear, Othello, Coriolanus and
Macbeth, and again as they read the
text rewritten in simpler form.
While reading the plain text, normal
levels of electrical activity were
displayed in their brains. When they
read Shakespeare, however, the levels
of activity “jumped” because of his
use of words which were unfamiliar
to the readers.
Scans of brain activity during reading
show heightened electrical activity
when faced with 'challenging' texts by
great writers
In one example, volunteers read a line
from King Lear: “A father and a
gracious aged man: him have you
madded”. They then read a simpler
version: “A father and a gracious
aged man: him you have enraged.”
Shakespeare’s use of the adjective
“mad” as a verb sparked a higher
level of brain activity than the
straightforward prose.
The study went on to test how long
the effect lasted. It found that the
“peak” triggered by the unfamiliar
word was sustained onto the
following phrases, suggesting the
striking word had hooked the reader,
with their mind “primed for more
attention”.
Working with psychologists at the
university, the next phase of the
research is looking at the extent to
which poetry can provide therapeutic
benefit, using the work of, among
others William Wordsworth, Henry
Vaughan, John Donne, Elizabeth
Barrett Browning, T.S. Eliot, Philip
Larkin and Ted Hughes.
Volunteers brains have been scanned
while reading four lines by
Wordsworth: “She lived unknown and
few could know, when Lucy ceased to
be. But she is in her grave and oh, the
difference to me.”
Four “translated” lines were also
provided: “She lived a lonely life in
the country, and nobody seems to
know or care, but now she is dead,
and I feel her loss.”
The first version caused a greater
degree of brain activity, lighting up
not only the left part of the brain
concerned with language, but also the
right hemisphere that relates to
autobiographical memory and
emotion.
The brain shows minimal activity
when the text is translated into
'modern' prose
Intense activity is this area of the
brain suggests that the poetry
triggers “reappraisal mechanisms”
causing the reader to reflect and
rethink their own experiences in light
of what they read.
“Poetry is not just a matter of style. It
is a matter of deep versions of
experience that add the emotional
and biographical to the cognitive,”
said Professor Davis, who will
present the findings at the North of
England education conference in
Sheffield next week.
“This is the argument for serious
language in serious literature for
serious human situations, instead of
self-help books or the easy reads that
merely reinforce predictable opinions
and conventional self-images.”
Professor Davis hopes to scan the
brains of volunteers reading Charles
Dickens to test if revisions the writer
made to his prose spark greater brain
activity than the original text.
He is now working with the charity
The Reader Organisation to establish
reading aloud groups in GP drop-in
centres, care homes, prisons,
libraries, schools and mother and
toddler groups.
Joint research with University College
London will also study the effects of
reading in dementia sufferers.