{"id":4454,"date":"2018-10-29T06:50:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T10:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=4454"},"modified":"2018-10-29T16:53:25","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T20:53:25","slug":"why-is-there-a-stigma-against-being-a-virgin-who-cares-why-is-it-a-big-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/10\/29\/why-is-there-a-stigma-against-being-a-virgin-who-cares-why-is-it-a-big-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"why is there a stigma against being a virgin? Who cares? Why is it a big deal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4436\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4436\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/AW10292018-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4436\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/AW10292018-2-300x298.jpg\" alt=\"why is there a stigma against being a virgin? Who cares? Why is it a big deal?\" width=\"300\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/AW10292018-2-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/AW10292018-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/AW10292018-2-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/AW10292018-2.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4436\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">why is there a stigma against being a virgin? Who cares? Why is it a big deal?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Attitudes about sex are complicated everywhere, not just here. Here&#8217;s a sampling of some sociological literature, with several different perspectives: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-virginity\">bit.ly\/bc-virginity<\/a>. Even our library catalog, which contains a lot from a Church perspective on the subject, still shows a really broad range of approaches and attitudes: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-virgin1\">bit.ly\/bc-virgin1<\/a>. The Wall is a little baffled also.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attitudes about sex are complicated everywhere, not just here. Here&#8217;s a sampling of some sociological literature, with several different perspectives: bit.ly\/bc-virginity. Even our library catalog, which contains a lot from a Church perspective on the subject, still shows a really broad range of approaches and attitudes: bit.ly\/bc-virgin1. The Wall is a little baffled also.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4454"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4463,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4454\/revisions\/4463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}