Figures from the National Center for Health Statistics in the US showed a rise in pregnancies of single mothers, more than half in their 20s, with 1.5 million births in 2004. The $50m Abstinence Education Program from the Department of jC S Health and Human Services suggested that women abstain from sex until their 30s.

Blaze the trail break in the balls break the teacup bury the hobbit cherry harvest coitus acceptus crack the pipkin cut the cake deflower ^ has-been lost honour pick-a-lock pop the cherry pluck a rose ^ ruin the rug Turkish delight ‘The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginityof the soul.’ William В Yeats

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When not at war, Math, the uncle of Welsh goddess Arianrhod, could only survive with his feet resting in the lap of a virgin. Arianrhod’s brother Gwydion suggested she could help in this department since she was still chaste. To test her purity, she first had to step over Math’s magic rod, but her wanton […]

… touched for the very first time. Virginity — some lose it, others prefer to hold on to their ha’penny. ‘Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old time is still a-flyingAnd this same flower that smiles today,Tomorrow will be dying.’ Robert Herrick (1591-1674), To the Virgins, Make Much of Time Cherry Boys About a quarter […]

The beginning Adam and Eve 1300bc Women were virtuous, free and strong, but gradually lost their influence over men 500bc Socrates on marriage: ‘By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher’ 480-400вс The Greek words eros and agape — carnal […]

► The oldest sex manuals date a moral ritual of shared pleasure from about 2,500bc, thanks to Huang-Ti, the Yellow Emperor, and were way ahead of the West’s efforts. ► The first educational literature on sexual intercourse was written in India. The most ancient texts were the Vedas, in which sex wasbetween married couples. ► […]

Although scientists don’t know about the exact origins of sex or early intimate relationships, they do know humans have been doing it since the beginning of their existence. After all, where on earth would we be without it?   AND ADAM ‘KNEW’ EVE   I^IMany believe that Original Sin is ‘sex’, but in the Bible […]

Meredith Chivers of the Center for Addiction and Mental Health and J Michael Bailey of Northwestern University exposed 18 heterosexual men and 18 heterosexual women to two films, one of human sex, the other of bonobo monkey sex. The study, published in 2005, found the men were aroused by female humans only, while the women […]