If you ask me, the hookup game that so many of us play as young adults is an unnecasary risk.
Sure we are all young and fun seeking, but was the risk worth it?
I know so many people whose lives went in a different direction because of this. Few I know regret erring the other side of it though. And this avoids any discussion of ethics.
Your view on this – like so
Virginity actually represents an expression of respect for the awesome power of sexual passion—and a manifestation of fidelity to something higher than momentary desires. It is, as essayist Sarah E. Hinlicky has written, “
dedicated to hope, to the future, to marital love, to children, and to God.” It’s also an expression of self-respect. Girls who refuse to play the hookup game are asserting that they deserve something better than sexual fumbling either with boys who want them for nothing but their bodies, or with those who may claim to care about them—but not necessarily enough to commit to a formal relationship such as marriage (or to promise marriage should an unexpected pregnancy result). Being a virgin means being truly in control of oneself: body, heart, and soul. It’s a way of determining which boys care about a girl for herself, rather than simply for her body. And although it’s no guarantee against heartbreak, virginity does ensure that a girl will never know the bitter regret of having given part of herself to someone who was unworthy of the gift. a sexuality
-Dr. James Dobson, Bringing Up Girls