Yeah i see your point, although part of me wonders, how can we TRUELY desire for something which we have not experienced? Sure people say 'i'd like to go to spain' or 'i'd like to go to that new restaurant' but in reality untill we have experienced these things we cannot surely pine for them?
You are confusing the issues. You don't have to "experience" something to know you want it. The "experience" gives you options on what your tastes are, not whether or not you wanted it. You've never wanted to drive an Ashton Martin? You've never wanted to wear a Rolex? You've never wanted to wear a $2000 suit? You've never wanted to go Italy? I'm dying to drive an Ashton Martin, but I've never done it. I could also tell you I'd rather sleep with Jessica Alba than Jessica Biel, but I've never done either. I'm sure everyone here who likes hockey would love Game 7 tickets 10 rows up from the ice, even though they have never been to a hockey game before.
Which leads me to believe that in reality, the only reason we put so much emphasis on sex and more specifically loosing our virginity is not because we truely feel that way, but rather because of the pressure placed onto us by our peers and society?
No one's pressuring anyone. If everyone you knew was a virgin, would you not sleep with that girl? Of course you would, because you wanted to. The bottom line is sex sells.
Without the negative stigma among young people especially that being a virgin is like being 'half a man' wouldn't we all be alot more generally chilled out about sex and girls in general?
Perhaps, but that can be applied to anything. There is a negative stigma about being a garbage man, there is a negative stigma about being from the middle east, there is a negative stigma about supporting gay rights, there is a negative stigma about adoption overseas. Everything is cause and effect. If September eleven didn't happen, wouldn't we be alot more generally chilled about Afghanistan? If people didn't try to take your belongings, wouldn't we be alot more chilled and not lock our car? You can't isolate sex.
I know i sure felt the pressure