/lit/ - Literature

>>20950829

>>18382647
Not even the anon you are arguing with, but this is old news faggot

>>16250928
What happens when someone falls in love with other people?

>>11959246
Oxytocin (love hormone) is only released to a significant degree with a woman’s first sexual partner

>>10334894
Very conservative church congregations. Here's one: LDS

>>6992631
>I would like you to step back a moment a think about how many people's first relationships were also their last.

Means absolutely nothing to say this. Absolutely HIV+ ridden logic. These values aren't values that people hold universally, and the notion that people who have multiple relationships (who clearly don't value these things) have "better" relationships later on doesn't disprove anything.
They're valuable to me, and to my partner. This isn't advocating that it's objectively valuable to everyone. The same applies to honor, bravery, etc.

>>6987615
b-but this study is flawed

>>6655201

>>5924479
'nuff said

>>4748057


thats a nice story anon, but its just that, a story. statistical evidence shows a massive correlation between abstinence before marriage and longevity of marriage, greater than ~1 no. of partners beforehand correlates to exponential increases in divorce risk per interval.

Joan R. Kahn and Kathryn A. London, "Premarital Sex and the Risk of Divorce," Journal of Marriage and the Family, 53 (1991)
Edward O. Laumann et al., The Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the United States, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994)
Tim B. Heaton, "Factors Contributing to Increasing Marital Stability in the United States," Journal of Family Issues, 23 (2002)
Jay Teachman, “Premarital Sex, Premarital Cohabitation, and the Risk of Subsequent Marital Dissolution Among Women,” Journal of Marriage and Family 65 (2003)
Anthony Paik, "Adolescent Sexuality and Risk of Marital Dissolution," Journal of Marriage and Family 73 (2011)