(January 9, 2015 at 10:29 am)Spooky Wrote: I still don't get most religions' obsession with virgins. Not male, but specifically female ones.
Why is the virgin birth and its so called divine cause so important?
(Not trying to hijack...no pun intended)
Virgin = valuable
Simple hijacking of the human male reproductive strategy.
1) virgins will have high reproductive worth
2) offspring will be of unquestionable paternity
3) some lesser likelihood of STD
Therefore they are highly in demand, particularly by frustrated young adult males who have been denied sexual outlet by their overbearing cultures.
Even females accept that high reproductive worth females are valued above males. Women don't fight the dictum, "Women and children first." very hard when push comes to shove.
Note that nobody ever thinks that the "72 virgins" means the females are virgins and 72 years old. You can't bribe people with dross.
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat? 
