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Troll_Bait

Joined: 04 Jan 2006 Location: [T]eaching experience doesn't matter much. -Lee Young-chan (pictured)
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Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 3:10 am Post subject: Does losing your virginity make you "a man"? |
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Does remaining a virgin mean that you are not yet "a man"? Does losing your virginity make you "a man"?
In "Blood On Blood" Bon Jovi wrote: |
Danny knew this white trash girl
We each threw in a ten
She took us to this cheap motel
And turned us into men |
The crux of the whole movie The 40-Year-Old Virgin was that, despite being forty years old, independant, well-educated, gainfully employed, and having interesting hobbies ( ), the protagonist was, in some way, "incomplete" because he was still a virgin. |
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butlerian

Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Location: Korea
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Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 3:14 am Post subject: |
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Haven't you got anything better to do with your time?  |
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jazblanc77

Joined: 22 Feb 2004
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Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 4:01 am Post subject: |
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Having sex doesn't make you a "man". IMO, when you have a child as a result of that sex and then accept responsibility for raising that child, then you are a man. |
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hubba bubba
Joined: 24 Oct 2006
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Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 4:30 am Post subject: Re: Does losing your virginity make you "a man"? |
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Troll_Bait wrote: |
Does remaining a virgin mean that you are not yet "a man"? Does losing your virginity make you "a man"? |
No, putting yer wee wee in her ya hoo doesn't make you a man.
But it comes down to semantics at this point. |
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CasperTheFriendlyGhost
Joined: 28 Feb 2007
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Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 4:46 am Post subject: |
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I'd say it's at least 50% of it. |
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blynch

Joined: 25 Oct 2006 Location: UCLA
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Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 4:49 am Post subject: |
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Clothes make you a man |
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 4:59 am Post subject: |
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It certainly wasn't only that move (40 year old virgin) where the entire focus was on getting laid. "American Pie" was another, and the one about the guy who gives up sex for 40 days (not having sex but still obsessed with it). Oh well, people think about so much, I suppose these movies are not completely unrealistic. |
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pkang0202

Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 5:41 am Post subject: |
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Being a virgin or not doesn't make you a man.
I think being a "man" incorporates a lot of different things. Some of those are:
1. Keeping your word.
2. Admitting when you are wrong.
3. Having courage to stick by your convictions.
4. Loyalty
Those are the 4 that just came to mind. I'm sure there are more. Basically, I think a real "man" is someone that you want by your side with the shi*t hits the fan. |
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butlerian

Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Location: Korea
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Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 5:43 am Post subject: |
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pkang0202 wrote: |
Being a virgin or not doesn't make you a man.
I think being a "man" incorporates a lot of different things. Some of those are:
1. Keeping your word.
2. Admitting when you are wrong.
3. Having courage to stick by your convictions.
4. Loyalty
Those are the 4 that just came to mind. I'm sure there are more. Basically, I think a real "man" is someone that you want by your side with the shi*t hits the fan. |
You sound like the kind of man I'd respect as a friend. Good to hear that there are people like you who exist on these forums. Most people here are twats. |
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the_beaver

Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 5:43 am Post subject: |
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All it really requires is having a *beep*. |
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IlIlNine
Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Location: Gunpo, Gyonggi, SoKo
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Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 5:44 am Post subject: |
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Taking someone's virginity though... that makes you a man! |
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cdninkorea

Joined: 27 Jan 2006 Location: Seoul
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Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 5:46 am Post subject: |
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pkang0202 wrote: |
Being a virgin or not doesn't make you a man.
I think being a "man" incorporates a lot of different things. Some of those are:
1. Keeping your word.
2. Admitting when you are wrong.
3. Having courage to stick by your convictions.
4. Loyalty
Those are the 4 that just came to mind. I'm sure there are more. Basically, I think a real "man" is someone that you want by your side with the shi*t hits the fan. |
I think that qualifies you as a responsible adult more than manhood. If a female possesses these qualities, is she a man? |
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butlerian

Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Location: Korea
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Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 5:49 am Post subject: |
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cdninkorea wrote: |
pkang0202 wrote: |
Being a virgin or not doesn't make you a man.
I think being a "man" incorporates a lot of different things. Some of those are:
1. Keeping your word.
2. Admitting when you are wrong.
3. Having courage to stick by your convictions.
4. Loyalty
Those are the 4 that just came to mind. I'm sure there are more. Basically, I think a real "man" is someone that you want by your side with the shi*t hits the fan. |
I think that qualifies you as a responsible adult more than manhood. If a female possesses these qualities, is she a man? |
What takes a man? A male anatomy. That's all. Everything else is a social construct. Buy into it if you want, but you're more the fool for doing so.
The key:
Be who you are. |
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JohnTeacher
Joined: 10 Mar 2007 Location: Ansan-Si, South Korea
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Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 5:55 am Post subject: |
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If you don't lose it with a woman.....I am pretty sure it doesn't qualify in any way, shape or form.... |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 6:44 am Post subject: |
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This is part of a larger issue. Our society is devoid of any kind of manhood ceremony. Many cultures have some kind of ceremony that tells a male "you are now a man, you're now responsible for your own actions". |
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