.5 % of women claim divine birth

[King David]

Who wants first crack at this stat?http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/12/17/about-one-in-two-hundred-women-report-having-had-virgin-births-according-to-new-research/A tiny percentage of modern day Americans are reporting having had virgin births, according to a new paper published in a respected medical journal Tuesday.In the longitudinal study of adolescent health, 0.5% of the 7,870 female respondents consistently affirmed their status as virgins, yet reported a virgin birth without the use of reproductive technologies.At first, statisticians at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill thought they’d made a mistake in their analysis of their data tracking sexual development into adulthood. Turns out they didn’t, said Amy Herring, lead author of the study published in the Christmas edition of the British Medical Journal. Many of these answers remained the same over years of responses and appear to be consistent with other answers that support a life in which virginity is valued, she said.“It wasn’t a programming error, that is how they responded,” said the professor of biostatistics in the university’s Gillings School of Global Public Health. “They did say, ‘I am a virgin,’ and they did say ‘I have had a pregnancy.’”

The virgins who reported pregnancies were also 30.5% more likely to have taken chastity pledges than the non-virgins who had reported pregnancies, the study found. Their average age was 19.“Some of the associations we saw where women who had signed chastity pledges were more likely to report in this way, that sort of leads you to think ‘maybe there’s some sort of respondent bias’ where they don’t want to actually say they had sexual intercourse, and that’s driving the response,” she said.Religious people are also more likely to sign chastity pledges, she said — something that might align with a lifestyle and value set in which virginity is held in high regard.The parents of the virgins who had reported pregnancies were also more likely than parents of non-virgins to admit they didn’t know enough about sex and birth control to discuss it with their adolescent daughters, nor were they comfortable doing so.I think that’s highly unlikely, that people truly believe they are having a miraculous birth.It’s important to point out respondents did not explicitly claim they had had a virgin birth, Prof. Herring said. The respondents started answering long surveys for the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (also known as Add Health) in 1994-95 at age 12, and did so four times until 2007, when they were age 28 and a half. The study defined virginity as “consistent reporting of no history of vaginal intercourse,” the study read. “Women were classified as having virgin pregnancies if they reported a pregnancy before sexual debut.”While more virgins gave birth to boys — 59.8% — or may have learned they were pregnant during Advent, those trends were not statistically significant, the study read. Virgins were also younger on average at the time of birth of their first child, about 19-years-old, while non-virgins were about 21.While there are massive limitations to self-reported studies, especially on sensitive subjects such as sex, these responses were elicited with state-of-the-art technology — laptops, on which the respondents could type in their own answers, rather than verbally share them with an interviewer in person or by phone.Still, despite the religious influence, lack of education from parents and the consistencies in their answers, Prof. Herring won’t lend too much credence to the notion that these women believe they have something in common with the Virgin Mary.“I think that’s highly unlikely, that people truly believe they are having a miraculous birth,” she said. “I think it’s much more likely that it’s mis-classification or that the respondent, for whatever reason, doesn’t want to say they had intercourse.”National Post

 

KD

[aeonicentity]

This probably has to do with women's definition of 'virginity' in modern schools.

 

I had a friend who considered anything but vaginal penetration sex that wouldn't make her loose her virginity. many young girls may think (or were convinced by their boyfriends) that if sex was done with a condom it doesn't count.

 

Concievably a woman could get pregnant by dryhumping her boyfriend, and accidentally getting semen squirted at her, who knows.

[Wesley]

It was less than a minute! There is no way that counts!

[kalmia]

Women are good at fogging out unpleasant memories. The sex was awful, so it didn't count in their mind.

[masonman]

[PatrickC]

lol, 'sometimes you have to think outside the box'.. too funny.

[Culain]

There was an episode of House where they do a segment on this. Basically the Boyfriend has not had sex with the girlfriend yet the girlfriend is pregnant. She denies having sex with anyone else and claims to be a virgin, but it's an obvious lie. House in one of the few times in the whole series lies with his results and declares the woman to be a virgin to save the couples relationship.

[King David]

This is the type of news that Stefan warns about when he was reading his version of the daily news.  "Boogga boogga" (I loved it when he did that, I can't remember the episode though)

 

This is my version.

 

Radio bleeps: dut dut dut duuuut duh.

 

"This breaking news story from the station that loves you!"

 

"New advanced science that none of you could ever understand! has spent billions in this remarkable project and now after years, the long awaited results are in.  Contrary to popular beliefs that are perpetrated by this and all other media hubs; women are not vessels of chastity, truth, and moral entities that we naturally assume them to be.  They are in fact, not perfect.  Thanks for tuning in, make sure to leverage your home in the endorsement of our vendors this pagan holiday season, to please your over entitled and ungrateful demon spawn of children."

 

KD

 

ps nice video btw masonman lol