On Being a Virgin

The other great news for the week was the Royal wedding of Prince William and Catherine which was a breath of fresh air. Katie looked so Virginal; even if she wasn't.
When the Commoner, Kate married Prince William, the Church said it would not be fitting for her to wear white on her wedding day because it was known that she had co-habitated with university students in a house which included Prince William.
Why should the Church, headed by men, be allowed to tell Kate that she should not wear a "white" ( a virgin color) wedding dress, just because they presume she is not a virgin.  What color should Prince William not be allowed to wear?
Being a virgin is really overrated; just ask Mary. She's probably tired of being referred too, as "the Virgin"; especially after having more kids.
It reminds me of Anne and King Henry VIII. She enticed him with her virginity, intact; until he married her; only to have her head cut off after she gave herself to him.
What does that tell you? As long as you remain a virgin, your head is safe?
Must be true: a young Libyan woman was taken by Gaddafi's Muslim soldiers and repeatedly raped for several days. The same Muslims who would have stoned her to death if she had willingly given up her virginity before marriage.
And when she cried out in a public forum for being defiled; Gaddafi's secret service escorted her out of sight. Where is she now?
So if the act of a man upon a woman makes her of less value; what does that make a man during the same act?
Being valued as a virgin is a man-made idea for the sole purpose of control. Once her virginity is gone; she is of less worth because his curiosity is quenched.
It's also a form of competition and control between the men. Who will be the "first" to have her.
After Prince William decided to stop dating Kate back in 2007 when she brought up the "M" word, this after going together for about 5 years; I had wondered if he had slept with her and now he was done with her.
Good advice from her Mum who told her to get on with her life.
One way to get a man interested is to make him jealous by dating other men. I think it's just in a man's DNA to want something another man has; until he has it; only to lose interest once he has her, too.
It's, as if, a woman has to be playing games all her life, making men compete with each other. I know there are men out there somewhere who can be satisfied with a good woman without having to draw swords or fight a duel for her.
The men who are too old  to lift a sword.
I say this in jest, of course.
Maybe
After 3 months of drowning in his beer, Prince William decided Kate is a good caught when he saw her out and about on the town with other men.
If she had stayed home, waiting, being faithful to him; he probably would not have been as interested in her.  
She would have been too easy  a caught.
 
Maybe, that's why men like fly fishing?