Is virginity sacred or something?

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5. Jesus was not born as a virgin

There is no such thing as virgin birth for mammals. Humans are mammals, specifically apes. Virgin birth of Jesus is a myth. Ask yourself, if Jesus was born of a virgin, where did he get his X chromozome? Whether Jesus was a virgin is unknown. Traditionally, Jewish Rabbis were expected to marry and produce children. We don't know if Jesus was married, because the New Testament doesn't say. The New Testament doesn't say because either it was never recorded, or because it was purged.

Ancient people, until modern times quite actually, didn't know how babies were made. Oh they certainly knew how to have sex, and that it took a male and a female to make offspring. In addition to human sex, they also bred livestock. But they didn't know that it is male, who determines the sex of children. They thought that females were just empty vessels into which males deposited their seed, and it was the woman's "fault" if she had female babies. The thing about Virginity is that in a patriarchal society the only way to insure that a man's children were his own was to marry a virgin and keep his harem isolated from other men.

In a matriarchal society, it doesn't matter who the father is, because children and property belong to the women. A man is responsible for his sisters and female cousins' children. In some matriarchal societies, young unmarried women, who already one or more children were prized as potential wives, because that had already proved that they could successfully give birth to healthy babies.

Go read Margaret Meade's "Coming of Age in Samoa."