This book was extremely insightful, I did not know that something as seemingly simple as virginity can be so complicated, political and albeit varied in different cultures, yet still centralized across various religious sects and ethnicities internationally.

It opened up my eyes to the strange surgeries that women undergo in the name of 'purity', because of some of these regimes.
Imagine my shock when I read that a Woman in one of these Gulf States, committed suicide after she had sex for the first time with her husband, but she didn't bleed, so he disputed her virginal status, and she killed herself.
That's so sad...

But then again, doesn't my own culture, the Zulu Culture, have some custom where virgins dance for the king or something, called the Reed Dance?
I actually remember hearing people talk about how they're heading to 'Umhlanga' and how they'll trick the virginity testing women, because they've fornicated, but they need to go there to prove that they're still virgins to their parents.
Other African countries have FGM.
Culture. Religion.
Wild.

Anyways, the world is so big and strange, yet small and familiar isn't it?

This book touches on many important myths such as virility, celibacy (voluntary and involuntary), and the influence of religions and even social media when it comes to our fears and worries about first time sex and sex education in general.

Furthermore, this book, is proof that, medically and socially (internationally and locally), most advice pertaining to sex is outdated and viewed on a primitive, virginal (for women), virile( for men) lens, and we definitely need more progressive sex education in the 21st Century that isn't so obsessed with the chastity of women and the chauvinistic virility of men, because both these views are definitely not affecting anyone positively!

This book is a step in the right direction.