Is promoting virginity harmful to young girls/women?

[Esquilax]

You say then that "Sex is entertainment" and sex should be "considered a sport".

And, yes, I can see a large part of our culture will adopt that very view.

I think that's sad, because it devalues something very precious. And so people will then enter marriage with that devalued view of sex, no longer seeing sex as intimate or the preserve of a special intimate relationship. I would question whether such a downgrading of sex, from intimacy to 'entertainment' and 'sport' would actually do much more damage to the hope of a life-time of marriage than restraining from sex before that marriage. I wonder also whether it is more men than women who see sex as 'entertainment' and 'sport', and perhaps more a view of those outside of faithful and stable relationships. I wonder if more women would see sex as part of an emotional, intimate, stable and faithful relationship, rather than as 'entertainment' and 'sport'?. If I get the time I'll have a look at the research literature on that one.

Why is it that you think "entertainment" sex and "intimate" sex are mutually exclusive, or that a haver of one is incapable of later enjoying the other? That's like saying that a person who enjoys mindless action movies will so devalue film that he'll be incapable of enjoying a genuine masterpiece of cinema.