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How come you are able to formulate an opinion about an entire country, based on the personal opinion of the author, however biased she may be, even though you have never visited said country yourself?
Are you even aware that according to the CDC, a whopping of 90% of Americans have premarital sex, including the vast majority of self-procl…
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How come you are able to formulate an opinion about an entire country, based on the personal opinion of the author, however biased she may be, even though you have never visited said country yourself?
Are you even aware that according to the CDC, a whopping of 90% of Americans have premarital sex, including the vast majority of self-proclaimed Christians as well, considering 60% of U.S. population subscribes to that religion?
Or that the median marriage age in the U.S. is actually 28.6 for women in addition to 30.4 for men, comparable, if not slightly lower, to most other developed countries, debunking the implied narrative that individuals marrying at a very young age is a common occurence in the U.S.
Or even in regards to teenage sex as well as the necessary precautions about it taking place, where most Americans not only lose their virginity between the ages of 15 to 16(comparable rates to many other western countries), but they are significantly more likely to utilise contraceptive pills since they begin puberty, an occurrence that is not even common for adult women in many European countries.
Listen, I am not going to proclaim that "purity culture" does not exist in the U.S., because it obviously does, however it is not a prominent part of the overall American culture as the data indicated above.