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• If men aren't supposed to be virgins and women ought to, how do men lose their virginities?
  • Ever hear of "the world's oldest profession"?
    • But where do the "professionals" come from, if women are supposed to be virgins in the first place? The only way it can make sense is if men were expected to only have sex with men (at least before marriage). But that carries its own problems...
    • It's called the principle of, "Tropes are trends and values, not absolute and immutable truths about the universe."
    • People still don't understand that A Man Is Not a Virgin and My Girl Is Not a Slut are antithetic.
    • The long and short of it is that IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE. You're on a website documenting, and occasionally analyzing, common devices and conventions in media and all the subcultures and reflections of human society contained thereof. That is to say, get used to it.