The point of the question was to criticize the Santayana quote from the other direction—the sexual-politics position it uses to arrive at the skepticism position.
My understanding is that, often, this notion of chastity as a cardinal virtue causes people to marry people they’re sexually incompatible with (because they miss the highest-bandwidth way to check) and have unsatisfying sex lives, partly because late loss of virginity is linked to sexual dysfunctions (though I’m not sure that significant bidirectional causality is clear yet).
I was asserting that the sexual-politics position assumed in the top comment wasn’t obviously true or universally held here.
The point of the question was to criticize the Santayana quote from the other direction—the sexual-politics position it uses to arrive at the skepticism position.
My understanding is that, often, this notion of chastity as a cardinal virtue causes people to marry people they’re sexually incompatible with (because they miss the highest-bandwidth way to check) and have unsatisfying sex lives, partly because late loss of virginity is linked to sexual dysfunctions (though I’m not sure that significant bidirectional causality is clear yet).
I was asserting that the sexual-politics position assumed in the top comment wasn’t obviously true or universally held here.