Editing Virginity (section)

===Male virginity===
Historically, and in modern times, female virginity has been regarded as more significant than male virginity; the perception that sexual prowess is fundamental to masculinity has lowered the expectation of male virginity without lowering social status.<ref name="Carpenter"/><ref name="Bennett"/><ref name="Asencio">{{Cite book|author=Marysol Asencio|title=Sex and sexuality among New York's Puerto Rican youth|publisher=[[Lynne Rienner Publishers]]|year=2002|access-date=October 9, 2011|pages=57–64 |isbn=978-1-58826-073-4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8AlJw95JhewC&pg=PA57}}</ref> For example, in [[Mataram (city)|Mataram]], [[Indonesia]], where around 80% of the population are Muslims, unmarried women who are not virgins may be subject to name-calling, [[shunning]], or family shame, while unmarried men who have lost their virginities are not, though premarital sex is forbidden in the [[Quran]] with regard to both men and women.<!-- NOTE: This is reliably sourced. If you have any objections to this material, make them known on the article's talk page, but keep in mind that your argument should be based on reliable sources and/or other Wikipedia policies and guidelines, not solely your opinion.--><ref name="Bennett"/> Among various countries or cultures, males are expected or encouraged to want to engage in sexual activity, and to be more sexually experienced.<ref name="Carpenter"/><ref name="Asencio"/><ref name="Bozon">{{cite journal|last=Bozon|first=Michael|year=2003|title=At what age do women and men have their first sexual intercourse? World comparisons and recent trends|url=https://www.ined.fr/fichier/s_rubrique/247/english_391.en.pdf|journal=Population and Societies |volume=391|pages=1–4|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304091955/https://www.ined.fr/fichier/s_rubrique/247/english_391.en.pdf|archive-date=2016-03-04|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref name="Colón">{{Cite book|title=Singled Out: Why Celibacy Must Be Reinvented in Today's Church|publisher=[[Baker Publishing Group|Brazos Press]]|year=2009|access-date=October 9, 2011|page=30|isbn=978-1-58743-237-8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8MdD-cJwEX8C&pg=PA30|author1=Christine A. Colón|author2=Bonnie E. Field|archive-date=January 2, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160102170406/https://books.google.com/books?id=8MdD-cJwEX8C&pg=PA30|url-status=live}}</ref> Not following these standards often leads to teasing and other such ridicule from their male peers.<ref name="Carpenter"/><ref name="Asencio"/><ref name="Leigh">{{cite magazine|first=Jennifer|last=A. Leigh|title=Male Virginity Myths|magazine=[[Psychology Today]]|date=June 27, 2009|access-date=October 9, 2011|url=http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/guide-teen-girls/200906/male-virginity-myths}}</ref> A 2003 study by the [[Guttmacher Institute]] showed that in the countries surveyed, most men have experienced sexual intercourse by their 20th birthdays.<ref name=GImen>Guttmacher Institute (2003) ''In Their Own Right: Addressing the Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs of Men Worldwide.'' pages 19–21.</ref>

Male sexuality is seen as something that is innate and competitive and displays a different set of cultural values and stigmas from female sexuality and virginity. In one study, scholars Wenger and Berger found that male virginity is understood to be real by society, but it has been ignored by sociological studies.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Berger|first1=D.|last2=Wenger|first2=M.|year=1973|title=The Ideology of Virginity|journal=Journal of Marriage and Family|volume=35|issue=4|pages=666–676|doi=10.2307/350880|jstor=350880}}</ref> Within British and American culture in particular, male virginity has been made an object of embarrassment and ridicule in films such as ''[[Summer of '42]]'', ''[[American Pie (film)|American Pie]]'', ''[[The Inbetweeners Movie]]'' and ''[[The 40-Year-Old Virgin]]'', with the male virgin typically being presented as socially inept.<ref name="Carpenter" /><ref name="Leigh" /> Such attitudes have resulted in some men keeping their status as a virgin a secret.<ref>Abu-Odeh, Lama. "Crimes of honor and the construction of gender in Arab societies." Comparative Law Review 2.1 (2011).</ref>