This is http://www.essayz.com/a9305121.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %VIRGIN CONTROL ADDICT DOUBLE STANDARD ABUSE 930512 The traditional double standard under which females had to be virgins to be acceptable brides for dominant males who did not have to be virgins to be acceptable as husbands, suggests that the concept of virginity as a virtue has more to do with men's desire to control females, than it does with promoting both personal and communal integrity. If virginity is truly good for females before marriage it must also be truly good for males. It is not for males to enforce a standard for females which males refuse to enforce equally for males. When males attempt to enforce such a double standard they reveal their addictive rationalizations for what they are (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================