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CelebritiesRe: After God Its Linda. I Went From Being That Girl To Laura All Because Of Her. by uchennaq(m): 1:00am On May 04, 2016
YEYE DEY SMELL
CelebritiesRe: Wizkid Climbs Mast To Perform In Zambia - Photo by uchennaq(m): 6:30am On May 02, 2016
VIPERVENOM:
Op I'm still looking for d crowd you're talking about. The stadium seats are empty. The crowd you're talking about can't even fill half of d pitch
[size=20pt]RECEIVE SENSE [/size]

CelebritiesRe: Wizkid Climbs Mast To Perform In Zambia - Photo by uchennaq(m): 10:44pm On May 01, 2016
WARRIBLOOD:
If him fall break teeth... them go say Na witches when De him village do am... Smh
Have you killed a snake and posted on Nairaland today? VILLAGER.. MALAY NEXT

CelebritiesRe: Tiwa Savage’s Mother Is A Witch - Teebillz (See Her Pictures) by uchennaq(m): 6:58pm On May 01, 2016
popcykaylah:
She looks like one..I know this type of women.they like to run their daughters marriages..
Too bad for you. You would have known Baba Ijebu lucky numbers and make yourself a millionaire. Mtchewwwww
CelebritiesRe: Tiwa Savage’s Mother Is A Witch - Teebillz (See Her Pictures) by uchennaq(m): 6:55pm On May 01, 2016
Irunmole:
This fucking, lazy, shameless, drug taking, blood sucking, gold digging, sorry arse specimen slowpoke of a man called Teebillz of a worthless man had the guts to brand the mother of his poorly treated wife and grandmother to his son a witch. It's indeed a big shame on his part for him to go so low as to resort to such extreme extent, to want to inflict maximum damage to the psyche and state of mental health if his estranged hardworking talented wife. Celia Savage, Tiwa Savage's mother is one of the most humble, kind, easy - going, good natured, mild mannered, intelligent and enlightened woman o e can be privileged and opportune to know and be around. A non assuming lady of immense quality as a human being. I say all these about having known and worked with her here in the UK, where she toiled night and day, through thick and thin to raise and support Tiwa all the way through every closed doors of opportunities until finally achieving her e dreams of stardom.

It's disgraceful and shameful for Teebillz to want to destroy his wife's career and the whole family setup of both his and his estranged wife's. Where is his dignity and swlf worth as a man? Do not drag an innocent woman, your mother in law into your self made mess. She is not a witch. You need to beg whichever God or deity you call on, or pray to, for forgiveness for the unnecessary hurt that you caused everyone, most especially, the destruction of your life and marriage through wrong choices, poor decisions and lack of care and support for your wife.

Thank you.
Irunmole.
Oga this is not necessary. By the way,why did you put your name after your so called masterpiece.

PoliticsRe: Saraki Bribed Facebook - Omoyele Sowore by uchennaq(m): 6:21pm On May 01, 2016
finalboss1:
guess you not blind.... sponsored.. dey dont sponsor ordinary page like dawt
Your the one that is blind. Sponsored simply means the page is being advertised. Is there any evidence that Saraki bribed Mark Z one of the richest man in the world. Receive sense in Jesus name
CelebritiesRe: How Tiwa Savage Implicated Herself Should Anything Happen To Teebillz by uchennaq(m): 4:05pm On May 01, 2016
This is not Tiwa's fault. She was not advised. She was hurt and didn't know the implications of most things she said. By the way Teebillz isn't the first addict.
FamilyRe: Four Children Died From Severe Heat After They Locked Themselves In A Car by uchennaq(m): 11:57am On May 01, 2016
May their souls RIP. More reason for everyone to be careful of such freak accidents.
CelebritiesRe: Tiwa Savage’s Mother Is A Witch - Teebillz (See Her Pictures) by uchennaq(m): 7:46am On May 01, 2016
We should mind how we insult innocent elderly people especially Mothers that carried us for Nine Months least we bring a curse upon our head. A word is enough for the wise, but the foolish you need to talk and talk and talk till you tire angry angry angry

I miss you Mom, you know that. You will forever live on cry
CelebritiesRe: Tiwa Savage’s Mother Is A Witch - Teebillz (See Her Pictures) by uchennaq(m): 7:16am On May 01, 2016
People are MUMU OOOO especially those saying the woman resemble witch, ABEG MY QUESTION IS HOW DOES WITCHES LOOK? Are my suppose to say her flying around with a broom? MTCHEWWWWWWW... Bunch of wankers..

WebmastersRe: Between Blogger And Wordpress, Which Is Better? by uchennaq(m): 7:08am On May 01, 2016
Lacomus:
Intend to start entertainment and tech blog soon, pls wht do yu guys recommend ?
This is blogger running a wordpress premium entertainment theme. Check it and judge for yourself

looknigeria.com
WebmastersRe: Between Blogger And Wordpress, Which Is Better? by uchennaq(m): 7:03am On May 01, 2016
Ikwerreboy:
Blogger is easy to understand and has more advantage in terms of traffic due to google biggest search engine in the world.


Wordpress is cool also be complicated. With WordPress yu can have a classified website like olx, jiji e.t.c

But yu cnt hv a classified website on blogger.
You can, just contact good developers to build a classified theme for you or search for it on google and buy it
WebmastersRe: Between Blogger And Wordpress, Which Is Better? by uchennaq(m):
1. Wordpress is great but you can't also disregard blogger because of the wordpress premium like themes it's developers are making. This is really giving wordpress a good run for their money.

2. Do you know that with blogger, you don't need to pay for monthly hosting or yearly hosting just like wordpress? Simply pay for your domain name and connect it to your blogger. Unlike wordpress hosting for 1 year that can cost up to 20000 naira.

3. Are you aware that blogger is already SEO, hosted by blogger itself, you have an edge of getting your pages indexed if you know what your doing.

4. Also using blogger to get enrolled in adsense is easier than using wordpress according to research.

5. Another disadvantage of wordpress is hosting companies always complain that it overload their server and you risk getting shut down for minutes or hours(personal experience from godaddy).
CelebritiesRe: Wizkid Verified By Instagram After Drake Recognised Him (PHOTO) by uchennaq(m): 8:31pm On Apr 29, 2016
WHAT IS THE DEFINITION OF A HATER?

CelebritiesRe: Wizkid Verified By Instagram After Drake Recognised Him (PHOTO) by uchennaq(m): 8:02pm On Apr 29, 2016
iambabaG:
As instagram don verify am na.. Who e epp??
HATERS... WHO YOU EPP?
CelebritiesRe: Wizkid Hosted By Koroma, President Of Sierra Leone (photos) by uchennaq(m): 5:38pm On Apr 29, 2016
HATERS EVERYWHERE... THE PRESIDENT WOULD HAVE WELCOMED EBENEZER OBE.. tongue tongue tongue tongue tongue
PoliticsRe: EFCC Begins Manhunt For Ugonna Madueke by uchennaq(m): 5:30pm On Apr 29, 2016
NONSENSE EFCC.. IF I AM IN HIS SHOES, I WILL DO MORE.. EVEN EFCC IS NOT CLEAN..PRESENT GOVERNMENT NOT CLEAN, NIGERIA UNCLEAN.. SO EFCC SHOULD SHARRAAAAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPPP AND GO AFTER THE REAL CRIMINALS...BLOODY NONSENSE
CelebritiesRe: Davido To Wizkid over Drake's post -proud Of You My Brother!! by uchennaq(m): 5:20pm On Apr 29, 2016
TippyTop:
He wrote this after beating one of his fans in London abi? Anyway I still like Davido more than the kid.

Picture of Drake after learning wizkid calls women shiit names.

https://uptownmagazine.com/files/2015/03/uptown_drake.jpg
[size=20pt]HATERS.... CAN GO AND HUG TRANSFORMER....YOU BE [/size] tongue tongue tongue tongue grin grin grin grin cry cry cry

CelebritiesRe: Wizkid Hosted By Koroma, President Of Sierra Leone (photos) by uchennaq(m): 2:55pm On Apr 29, 2016
januzaj:
And some smelly pusssy mofo said they could bring you down
Ordinary councillor has never welcomed them outside Nigeria
pusssy yeye dey smell
When someone with smelly kitty-cat is at your back on a queue

PoliticsRe: Delta Monarch Gives Fulani Herdsmen Nine Days To Quit Kingdom. by uchennaq(m): 2:35pm On Apr 29, 2016
Bambless1:
Mtcheeew! #Yimu #chestbeater Make Daura Secret Service men catch you!

PoliticsRe: 55 People Stole N1.34tr – Lai Mohammed by uchennaq(m): 12:26pm On Apr 26, 2016
[size=20pt]YAWN.....[/size] sad sad sad sad sad

CelebritiesRe: Linda Ikeji Is The Reason Why Many Men Want Me - Laura Ikeji by uchennaq(m): 6:57pm On Apr 24, 2016
buharisbae:
yeah! some men re gold diggers huh

#teamlinda
Good you said some men, what of other men? I think over sabi might also be a problem. Like they said here if you have used a manual clipper go and get married. Stop dreaming of Alice in wonderland fantasy. There must be someone out there who loves you. If you know what your doing, you will see him whether he is rich or poor.
PoliticsRe: Suffering And Smiling: Nigerians Blast I Stand With Buhari Group (photos) by uchennaq(m): 4:26pm On Apr 23, 2016
Ohamzee:
Because the price has CHANGE.
[size=20pt]BUT WHY DID THE PRICE CHANGE? THIS IS LIKE FROM FRYING PAN TO FIRE OOOO[/size] angry angry angry angry angry angry angry angry
PoliticsRe: Suffering And Smiling: Nigerians Blast I Stand With Buhari Group (photos) by uchennaq(m): 3:38pm On Apr 23, 2016
[size=20pt]IF YOU TELL ME THAT IN THIS MAN'S REGIME CALLED BUHARI THAT LAWMAKERS WOULD BUY CARS OF 35MIL DURING THIS SO CALLED ECONOMIC MELT DOWN AT THE EXPENSE OF COMMON MAN. I WON'T FUCKING BELIEVE IT.. [/size]

PoliticsRe: Suffering And Smiling: Nigerians Blast I Stand With Buhari Group (photos) by uchennaq(m): 3:31pm On Apr 23, 2016
[size=20pt]PLEASE WHY IS PURE WATER NOW 20 NAIRA A SACHET[/size]
BusinessWhy Is A Bag Of Pure Water Now 250 Naira And A Sachet 20 Naira? by uchennaq(op): 3:25pm On Apr 23, 2016
I thought I should post this for deliberation here and possibly get feedback from pure water dealers. I have been buying now for 20 naira a sachet @somewhere in Lekki, now this isn't funny as 5 sachet is 100 naira. Is Nigeria water cooperation not working? What has this country turned into? Our lawmakers purchased cars of 35mil naira each. I can't believe that this will happen in buhari regime.
RomanceRe: 10 Reasons Why You Shouldn't Indulge In Sex Before Marriage- Danceville by uchennaq(m): 2:42pm On Apr 23, 2016
SORRY TO SAY BUT THIS THREAD IS FULL OF HYPOCRITICAL NLANDERS... GOD IS WATCHING ALL THESE SELF ACCLAIMED VIRGINS AND MR RIGHT
RomanceRe: 10 Reasons Why You Shouldn't Indulge In Sex Before Marriage- Danceville by uchennaq(m): 12:00pm On Apr 23, 2016
DanceVille:
Yes dear... I am.
STOP DECEIVING YOURSELF DEAR.. VIRGIN OR NO VIRGIN NA FOR YOUR POCKET OOO.. grin grin grin THIS IS THE LEAST CRITERIA I WILL CONSIDER BEFORE GETTING MARRIED. I LIKE MouthAction AS pre-intimacy BEFORE SEX, BUT SOME GIRLS FIND IT IRRITATING. WHAT OF GIRLS THAT LOVE ANAL E.T.C. YES FORNICATION IS A SIN, I RATHER KNOW IF MY PROSPECTIVE WIVE IS SEXUALLY ACTIVE THAN LIVING IN A MIRAGE WORLD THAT WILL LEAD TO BREAKUP AND MORE ADULTERY AND FORNICATION. I WILL REPENT AND ASK GOD FOR FORGIVENESS. TRUST ME, HE WILL UNDERSTAND.
RomanceRe: 10 Reasons Why You Shouldn't Indulge In Sex Before Marriage- Danceville by uchennaq(m): 10:05am On Apr 23, 2016
[size=20pt]Sex Before Marriage: 5 Reasons Every Couple Should Do It[/size]

Written by Kiri Blakeley on CafeMom’s blog, The Stir

A lot of teens these days are taking something called the “purity pledge,” wherein they vow not to have sex until they get married. Hey, I’m all for people putting off sex until they’re adults and can handle the ramifications. Because even with safe sex, sex comes with responsibilities. It does tend to emotionally bond you to someone, and that can mean getting emotionally attached to the wrong person. Once sex enters the equation, a relationship is never the same. But one woman recently wrote about her “purity pledge” that went wrong. It led to an incredibly short starter marriage. Once she realized that she and her new husband had absolutely zero sexual chemistry, she counted down the days until she could get a divorce, which happened six months into their marriage. Here are five reasons to get rid of that purity pledge and do the dirty before you say “I do.”

Sexual chemistry.

Jessica Ciencin Henriquez, who kept her “purity” until her wedding night, writes in Salon:

Our bodies wanted different things from one another, so what we ended up with was a horizontal battle. I would hear married girlfriends talk about the joys of make-up sex and continue to sip my coffee in silence. We would fight, and then have bad sex and then fight some more. Every flaw in our marriage and in him seemed much more miserable when combined with the possibility of faking orgasms until death did we part. There was no relief. Six months into our marriage, the idea of separating seemed more appealing than feigning headaches for the rest of my life.
As Jessica found out, sexual chemistry is something that can really only be ascertained by, well, having sex. Jessica would make out for hours with her husband before their marriage, so she thought that would translate into awesome horizontal mambo. But it didn’t.

Sexual identity.

I know too many couples where one partner was able to cover up his or her true sexual persuasion because he or she simply didn’t have sex with anyone. Not having sex with the opposite sex can also mean you ignore those longings you might have for the same sex, and therefore don’t acknowledge them.

Sex itself.

Not everyone is great in bed, and most people don’t start out very good at all. A lot of good sex is about listening to your partner and being able to respond accordingly. But how do you know if someone is a good listener or responder unless you try it first?

Size.

Don’t you want to know if your husband is packing a hunting rifle or a tiny little plastic kid’s pistol? After all, he knows how big your boobs are. I’m not saying size would be a dealbreaker, but don’t you have the right to know what’s down there?

Sexual issues.

Sexual problems like premature ejaculation, inability to get an erection, or even an allergy to your partner’s semen are all possibilities, wouldn’t you rather deal with those issues before you’re married? This way you know if your future is even going to address them.

Let’s face it, sex plays a big role in marriage. Just like you should discuss children, religion, and where you both want to live before tying the knot, sex is too big a part of a relationship to leave to chance.


[size=20pt]Why Sex Before Marriage Is the Moral Thing to Do[/size]

Americans love to tout the value of waiting until marriage to have sex. We teach abstinence-only education in schools across the country, and even comprehensive sex-ed programs often point out that "abstinence is best." Pop stars from Britney Spears to Jessica Simpson, to the Jonas Brothers, to Miley Cyrus, to Justin Bieber routinely assert that they're waiting 'til marriage – putting them into the Good Role Model category (at least, until someone leaks a sex tape). There's a booming "purity industry", complete with jewelry, elaborate events, books, t-shirts and DVDs.

Our state and federal tax dollars have long been spent promoting "chastity". While conservative commentators are happy to assert that waiting until marriage is the best choice for everyone and people who don't wait aren't doing marriage "the right way", sex-positive liberals hesitate to say that having sex before marriage is an equally valid – if not better – choice for nearly everyone.

So here it goes: having sex before marriage is the best choice for nearly everyone.

How do I know? Well, first of all, nearly everyone has sex before marriage – 95% of Americans don't wait until their wedding night. And that's a longstanding American value. Even among folks in my grandparents' generation, nine out of ten of them had sex before they wed.

Of course, just because lots of people do a thing doesn't mean it's a good thing. But sex is. In terms of happiness, sex is better than money, and having sex once a week instead of once a month is the "happiness equivalent" of an extra $50,000 a year. People with active sex lives live longer. Sex releases stress, boosts immunities, helps you sleep and is heart-healthy.

Sex is good whether you're married or not, and certainly folks who wait until marriage can have a lot of sex once they tie the knot. But waiting until marriage often means both early marriage and conservative views on marriage and gender – and people who marry early and/or hold traditional views on marriage and gender tend to have higher divorce rates and unhappier marriages. We know that, on the other hand, there are lots of benefits to marrying later and to gender-egalitarian marriages. Couples who both work outside the home and also share housework duties have more sex. Financially independent, college-educated women who marry later in life have extremely low divorce rates.

It turns out that feminist values – not "traditional" ones – lead to the most stable marriages. And feminist views plus later marriage typically equals premarital sex.

Most adult human beings naturally desire sex. And despite the rightwing emphasis on concepts like "purity", having sex does not actually make you a dirty or "impure" person. On the contrary, sex is like most other pleasurable things in life – you can have sex in ways that are fulfilling, fun, good and generous, or you can have sex in ways that are harmful, bad and dangerous. Marriage is not, and has never been, a way to protect against the harmful, bad and dangerous potential of sex (just read the Bible if you want a few examples). Instead of fooling ourselves into thinking that waiting until marriage makes sex "good", we should focus on how ethical, responsible sexual practices – taking precautions to protect the physical and mental health of yourself and your partner; having sex that is fully consensual and focused on mutual pleasure – are part of being an ethical, responsible human being.

Sexual morality isn't about how long you wait. It's about how you treat yourself and the people you're with.

Sex, of course, isn't all ponies and rainbows. The United States has one of the highest unintended pregnancy rates in the world. We have one of the highest abortion rates. We have one of the highest rates of sexually transmitted infections. But our problem with sex isn't that we're having it before marriage; it's that we've cast it as shameful and dirty. And when our collective cultural consciousness says that sex is shameful and dirty, we don't have the incentive – or the tools– to plan for sex, to see it as a positive responsibility and to make healthy sexual choices.

We're obsessed with sex on television, in music and in advertisements, but we somehow lack the ability to talk about sex as a positive, moral, pleasure-affirming choice that, like any other adult decision, comes with a set of responsibilities. And when government money is going toward telling people to just wait until marriage, we are literally funding an idea that has never worked in all of human history, instead of supporting tried-and-true policies that could mitigate the harm of a sex-obsessed, but pleasure-starved, culture.

If waiting until marriage were simply an individual choice with no political consequences or backdrop – if it were as arbitrary a marker as waiting until the third date, waiting until you knew your partner's middle name or waiting until she wore really awesome high heels – it wouldn't be a problem. And personally, I don't really care when you, as an individual, choose to have sex. As long as you feel ready and it's consensual, I say you do you. But "waiting until marriage" as a cultural phenomenon – albeit one that isn't actually happening for nearly everyone in the western world – has some nasty views about women and sex lurking behind it. Using "purity" as shorthand for "doesn't have sex" by definition means that people, and mostly women, who have sex before marriage are impure, dirty or tainted. As Jessica Valenti says in her book The Purity Myth:

"While boys are taught that the things that make them men – good men – are universally accepted ethical ideals, women are led to believe that our moral compass lies somewhere between our legs."

It's all the more troubling when those beliefs are federally funded.

From a more practical standpoint, not everyone is going to get married, or even legally can get married. The instruction to wait forever to experience a fundamental human pleasure is pointless and cruel. And while the old adage tells women that men won't buy the cow if they can get the milk for free, if I'm buying a cow, you can bet I'm going to make sure the milk is to my liking. But our cultural view of premarital sex as morally tainted makes it harder for couples to engage in real talks about their sexual needs and desires before marrying, the same way they would talk about their religious values, how many kids they want or whether the wedding cake will be chocolate or vanilla.

[size=20pt]Sexually frustrated marriages are both miserable and common – the inboxes of advice columnists from Dan Savage to Dear Prudie are filled with letters from couples with mismatched sex drives and bad sex lives. We'd be a lot better-off if we recognized that sex is incredibly important to a lot of people, and, for most couples, sexual compatibility is necessary for a great marriage. You really can't tell if you're sexually compatible unless you have sex. The insistence that premarital sex is dirty or perverse makes it a whole lot harder to have necessary conversations. And a worldview that positions sex as shameful and bad also isn't going to evaporate on your wedding night.[/size]

[size=20pt]Purity peddlers construct a false universe where there are pure virgins who wait until marriage, and then there are slutty whores who are going home with different men every night of the week. The truth is that most adults will have a great many important relationships in their lives – some of those relationships will be romantic, and some of those will be sexual. That's a good thing: our relationships with other people, sexual or not, are how we grow, evolve and learn about ourselves. They're how we figure out what love is, what we like physically and emotionally, and how to negotiate our own needs with someone else's. Despite the claims of the wait-till-marriage camp, waiting to have sex won't protect you from heartache, frustration or love lost. But a variety of fulfilling relationships, sexual and not, will make you a more well-rounded, compassionate and self-assured person.[/size]

[size=20pt]My point isn't that everyone should have sex before marriage – people should determine for themselves when they are ready to have sex. For the vast majority of people, that's going to be before they're married. Making that choice isn't a moral failing. On the contrary, it's often a great, healthy, overwhelmingly positive choice. Whenever you choose to have sex, the cultural message that waiting until marriage is the best choice is simply wrong. And it's wrong for almost everyone.[/size]

[size=20pt]@OP FROM YOUR PIC, YOU MUST BE A NOVICE WHEN IT COMES TO MARRIAGE. THERE ARE SOME THINGS/RULES YOU BEND TO LIVE A HAPPY LIFE. YOU ARE NOT MARRIED, SO YOUR NOT QUALIFIED TO POST THIS. GET INTO A SERIOUS RELATIONSHIP FIRST, YOU WILL SEE THAT HOW YOU LOOK AT THINGS IS NOT HOW THEY SEEM TO BE. [/size]
RomanceRe: 10 Reasons Why You Shouldn't Indulge In Sex Before Marriage- Danceville by uchennaq(m): 10:01am On Apr 23, 2016
Rexhenrex:
U didn't answer my question in thr bible God frowned against fornication and adultery believe iy or not you know the truth and u can't hide it from your self its bad thats period
[size=20pt]
YOU ARE DEVIATING FROM THE ISSUE AT STAKE. PLEASE CLARIFY YOUR ARGUMENT. ARE YOU SAYING FORNICATION IS BAD WHICH WE ALL KNOW OR ARE WE ARGUING ON KNOWING YOUR PARTNER SEXUALLY BEFORE GOING INTO MARRIAGE WHICH IS FOR LIFE.
[/size]
RomanceRe: 10 Reasons Why You Shouldn't Indulge In Sex Before Marriage- Danceville by uchennaq(m): 8:45am On Apr 23, 2016
[size=20pt]Sex Before Marriage: 5 Reasons Every Couple Should Do It[/size]

Written by Kiri Blakeley on CafeMom’s blog, The Stir

A lot of teens these days are taking something called the “purity pledge,” wherein they vow not to have sex until they get married. Hey, I’m all for people putting off sex until they’re adults and can handle the ramifications. Because even with safe sex, sex comes with responsibilities. It does tend to emotionally bond you to someone, and that can mean getting emotionally attached to the wrong person. Once sex enters the equation, a relationship is never the same. But one woman recently wrote about her “purity pledge” that went wrong. It led to an incredibly short starter marriage. Once she realized that she and her new husband had absolutely zero sexual chemistry, she counted down the days until she could get a divorce, which happened six months into their marriage. Here are five reasons to get rid of that purity pledge and do the dirty before you say “I do.”

Sexual chemistry.

Jessica Ciencin Henriquez, who kept her “purity” until her wedding night, writes in Salon:

Our bodies wanted different things from one another, so what we ended up with was a horizontal battle. I would hear married girlfriends talk about the joys of make-up sex and continue to sip my coffee in silence. We would fight, and then have bad sex and then fight some more. Every flaw in our marriage and in him seemed much more miserable when combined with the possibility of faking orgasms until death did we part. There was no relief. Six months into our marriage, the idea of separating seemed more appealing than feigning headaches for the rest of my life.
As Jessica found out, sexual chemistry is something that can really only be ascertained by, well, having sex. Jessica would make out for hours with her husband before their marriage, so she thought that would translate into awesome horizontal mambo. But it didn’t.

Sexual identity.

I know too many couples where one partner was able to cover up his or her true sexual persuasion because he or she simply didn’t have sex with anyone. Not having sex with the opposite sex can also mean you ignore those longings you might have for the same sex, and therefore don’t acknowledge them.

Sex itself.

Not everyone is great in bed, and most people don’t start out very good at all. A lot of good sex is about listening to your partner and being able to respond accordingly. But how do you know if someone is a good listener or responder unless you try it first?

Size.

Don’t you want to know if your husband is packing a hunting rifle or a tiny little plastic kid’s pistol? After all, he knows how big your boobs are. I’m not saying size would be a dealbreaker, but don’t you have the right to know what’s down there?

Sexual issues.

Sexual problems like premature ejaculation, inability to get an erection, or even an allergy to your partner’s semen are all possibilities, wouldn’t you rather deal with those issues before you’re married? This way you know if your future is even going to address them.

Let’s face it, sex plays a big role in marriage. Just like you should discuss children, religion, and where you both want to live before tying the knot, sex is too big a part of a relationship to leave to chance.


[size=20pt]Why Sex Before Marriage Is the Moral Thing to Do[/size]

Americans love to tout the value of waiting until marriage to have sex. We teach abstinence-only education in schools across the country, and even comprehensive sex-ed programs often point out that "abstinence is best." Pop stars from Britney Spears to Jessica Simpson, to the Jonas Brothers, to Miley Cyrus, to Justin Bieber routinely assert that they're waiting 'til marriage – putting them into the Good Role Model category (at least, until someone leaks a sex tape). There's a booming "purity industry", complete with jewelry, elaborate events, books, t-shirts and DVDs.

Our state and federal tax dollars have long been spent promoting "chastity". While conservative commentators are happy to assert that waiting until marriage is the best choice for everyone and people who don't wait aren't doing marriage "the right way", sex-positive liberals hesitate to say that having sex before marriage is an equally valid – if not better – choice for nearly everyone.

So here it goes: having sex before marriage is the best choice for nearly everyone.

How do I know? Well, first of all, nearly everyone has sex before marriage – 95% of Americans don't wait until their wedding night. And that's a longstanding American value. Even among folks in my grandparents' generation, nine out of ten of them had sex before they wed.

Of course, just because lots of people do a thing doesn't mean it's a good thing. But sex is. In terms of happiness, sex is better than money, and having sex once a week instead of once a month is the "happiness equivalent" of an extra $50,000 a year. People with active sex lives live longer. Sex releases stress, boosts immunities, helps you sleep and is heart-healthy.

Sex is good whether you're married or not, and certainly folks who wait until marriage can have a lot of sex once they tie the knot. But waiting until marriage often means both early marriage and conservative views on marriage and gender – and people who marry early and/or hold traditional views on marriage and gender tend to have higher divorce rates and unhappier marriages. We know that, on the other hand, there are lots of benefits to marrying later and to gender-egalitarian marriages. Couples who both work outside the home and also share housework duties have more sex. Financially independent, college-educated women who marry later in life have extremely low divorce rates.

It turns out that feminist values – not "traditional" ones – lead to the most stable marriages. And feminist views plus later marriage typically equals premarital sex.

Most adult human beings naturally desire sex. And despite the rightwing emphasis on concepts like "purity", having sex does not actually make you a dirty or "impure" person. On the contrary, sex is like most other pleasurable things in life – you can have sex in ways that are fulfilling, fun, good and generous, or you can have sex in ways that are harmful, bad and dangerous. Marriage is not, and has never been, a way to protect against the harmful, bad and dangerous potential of sex (just read the Bible if you want a few examples). Instead of fooling ourselves into thinking that waiting until marriage makes sex "good", we should focus on how ethical, responsible sexual practices – taking precautions to protect the physical and mental health of yourself and your partner; having sex that is fully consensual and focused on mutual pleasure – are part of being an ethical, responsible human being.

Sexual morality isn't about how long you wait. It's about how you treat yourself and the people you're with.

Sex, of course, isn't all ponies and rainbows. The United States has one of the highest unintended pregnancy rates in the world. We have one of the highest abortion rates. We have one of the highest rates of sexually transmitted infections. But our problem with sex isn't that we're having it before marriage; it's that we've cast it as shameful and dirty. And when our collective cultural consciousness says that sex is shameful and dirty, we don't have the incentive – or the tools– to plan for sex, to see it as a positive responsibility and to make healthy sexual choices.

We're obsessed with sex on television, in music and in advertisements, but we somehow lack the ability to talk about sex as a positive, moral, pleasure-affirming choice that, like any other adult decision, comes with a set of responsibilities. And when government money is going toward telling people to just wait until marriage, we are literally funding an idea that has never worked in all of human history, instead of supporting tried-and-true policies that could mitigate the harm of a sex-obsessed, but pleasure-starved, culture.

If waiting until marriage were simply an individual choice with no political consequences or backdrop – if it were as arbitrary a marker as waiting until the third date, waiting until you knew your partner's middle name or waiting until she wore really awesome high heels – it wouldn't be a problem. And personally, I don't really care when you, as an individual, choose to have sex. As long as you feel ready and it's consensual, I say you do you. But "waiting until marriage" as a cultural phenomenon – albeit one that isn't actually happening for nearly everyone in the western world – has some nasty views about women and sex lurking behind it. Using "purity" as shorthand for "doesn't have sex" by definition means that people, and mostly women, who have sex before marriage are impure, dirty or tainted. As Jessica Valenti says in her book The Purity Myth:

"While boys are taught that the things that make them men – good men – are universally accepted ethical ideals, women are led to believe that our moral compass lies somewhere between our legs."

It's all the more troubling when those beliefs are federally funded.

From a more practical standpoint, not everyone is going to get married, or even legally can get married. The instruction to wait forever to experience a fundamental human pleasure is pointless and cruel. And while the old adage tells women that men won't buy the cow if they can get the milk for free, if I'm buying a cow, you can bet I'm going to make sure the milk is to my liking. But our cultural view of premarital sex as morally tainted makes it harder for couples to engage in real talks about their sexual needs and desires before marrying, the same way they would talk about their religious values, how many kids they want or whether the wedding cake will be chocolate or vanilla.

Sexually frustrated marriages are both miserable and common – the inboxes of advice columnists from Dan Savage to Dear Prudie are filled with letters from couples with mismatched sex drives and bad sex lives. We'd be a lot better-off if we recognized that sex is incredibly important to a lot of people, and, for most couples, sexual compatibility is necessary for a great marriage. You really can't tell if you're sexually compatible unless you have sex. The insistence that premarital sex is dirty or perverse makes it a whole lot harder to have necessary conversations. And a worldview that positions sex as shameful and bad also isn't going to evaporate on your wedding night.

[size=20pt]Purity peddlers construct a false universe where there are pure virgins who wait until marriage, and then there are slutty whores who are going home with different men every night of the week. The truth is that most adults will have a great many important relationships in their lives – some of those relationships will be romantic, and some of those will be sexual. That's a good thing: our relationships with other people, sexual or not, are how we grow, evolve and learn about ourselves. They're how we figure out what love is, what we like physically and emotionally, and how to negotiate our own needs with someone else's. Despite the claims of the wait-till-marriage camp, waiting to have sex won't protect you from heartache, frustration or love lost. But a variety of fulfilling relationships, sexual and not, will make you a more well-rounded, compassionate and self-assured person.[/size]

My point isn't that everyone should have sex before marriage – people should determine for themselves when they are ready to have sex. For the vast majority of people, that's going to be before they're married. Making that choice isn't a moral failing. On the contrary, it's often a great, healthy, overwhelmingly positive choice. Whenever you choose to have sex, the cultural message that waiting until marriage is the best choice is simply wrong. And it's wrong for almost everyone.
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