@Valar. @I.R.A @Metanoia is this a fair argument?
i can safely say chastity does not equal virginity and marriage does not equal sex in theology.
The Quran ....... clearly mentions it "Marry each other but carnality (shehwat) shouldn't be the motive " its inbuilt its given, it would happen automatically if you do it with lights on or lights off, you caress and fondle before it or jump straight to drill ..... it will happen. Marriage mainly is for society building, human race building focusing too much on the process of breeding when its the only way is going astray and fantasizing and waking the beastly side of us.
...... the Quran doesn't order anyone to marry virgins only, no. Its us who think we would have plenty of sex in heaven with the virgins (based on our fantasies and hormonal imbalances). The Book clearly mentions "don't slander", it clearly tells us how to treat the people who have been proven to have committed adultery (not stoning them to death) and it clearly stresses on lowering the gaze, and covering the bosom ....... why would the Book pay attention to this detail? ......
As I said the existence of hymen and resultant bleeding from its stretching is the nature's verdict on this, feminists can curse the nature and in the meantime try to evolve and shed their hymens ...... but its there for a purpose. Aids and STDs didn't happen out of wed locks, these things happened out of playing too much illegally with the hymen.
And its no brainer to identify a man who has been on a spree injecting different cavities and resultantly ended up having STD(s). No brainer, while he is still at it. If a woman worries that his to be husband is not virgin, she should have courage asking straight upfront and letting it known about her own status .... marriage after all is a contract, and hiding something critical in dealing is a fraud, cheating.
Chastity and virginity ....... well an adulterer and a prostitute can anytime mend their ways and end up being the most pious of people. Linking virginity and making it a precondition for chastity is playing God, closing the doors, making it a no return, no forgiveness thing ...... which we petty humans cannot decide.
And people who think that a girl who stretched her hymen because of say riding, exercising would behave the same way compared to a girl who has been sleeping in different places ....... no .... its not rocket science ..... with or without hymen ..... it would come to light ..... but then again doesn't the book say "Try keeping others' secrets, try covering their personal shortcomings, don't make it public"?