Why virginity is so important in christian beliefs?
Hear me out. It’s to do with inheritance. In Christianity (like many other religions), inheritance centralises female virginity as key in establishing legitimate paternity of the father. Virgins have been valuable throughout history, not merely to Christians but to upper class Christians. Women are sure of who their children are because they gave birth to that child but men can never be a hundred percent sure of their paternity (without DNA testing). Way back just after hunter-gather period, priests and the like came in the form of those who owned the houses that kept grain. This is where ownership developed. Those who owned the grain through a few hundred years became religious figures and the towers they occupied became more elaborate and worshipped. As ownership became established and men began to dominate women, it became important to know who the land should be passed onto. In order to be sure that the son a woman gave birth to was his father’s son (or daughter), religious figures
