please, don't mistake this genuine question as an attack on your opinion - why have you made this decision? do you feel as though this benefits you some way? if so, how?
again, i'm not trying to debase you/your beliefs/opinions, i'm just curious.
Risks: disease, child support, being viewed as "used goods" and otherwise debased, wasting high-value years that could go to raising a family (why buy the cow if you're getting the milk for free?), increased severity of a broken heart, wanting to avoid falling for used goods (increased divorce risk, awkward comparisons...), greater chance of false rape accusation...
Note that even non-broken condoms do a poor job of protecting against herpes and warts. You can somewhat treat them, but there is no cure.
Casual sex doesn't require that one be promiscuous, it's certainly possible to have repeated casual sex with a close friend with whom you have no romantic attraction.
And even virginity can be a gray area, I once dated a virgin who was willing (and eager) to do pretty much anything except vaginal intercourse. So she could still have casual (non-intercourse) sex without giving up her virginity.
>Casual sex doesn't require that one be promiscuous, it's certainly possible to have repeated casual sex with a close friend with whom you have no romantic attraction.
Wha...? I'm having a hard time imagining this person.
"Yeah, I had sex with that person, and only that one person, and I'm trying to stick to that...but no, they're not special."
In the situation I'm familiar with it was a girl in school that wanted to have a sexual relationship, didn't want to devote the time or emotional effort into a serious relationship and didn't want to have a series of short-term partners. So she hooked up with a friend regularly (and he was free to see other people (and did)).
My point in saying this is to say that not everyone believes in casual sex. I am a living counter example. What you think about what promiscuity means does not contradict that.
Since I do not want ambiguity in my description of my non-existent sex life, I will say that I use the medical definition of sex. That means any contact with gentialia is sex and that is what I thought I was saying when I said promiscuous.
My point is that people have differing views on what they call "promiscuity" and even how they define virginity.
Granted, using your own definition of what constitutes "sex", no one would ever say that you're engaging in "casual sex" or are "promiscuous", since you not willing to have any sexual contact at all.
But in the wider societal view, it's still possible to have regular casual sex with a single partner without also being branded as "promiscuous". And since "virginity" doesn't have a single definition, even possible for one to engage in some sexual activity while remaining a virgin.
That’s the number of Gen Next Americans (18-25 year olds) who say today’s youth are more likely to have casual sex than were young people 20 years ago. Only 7% of Nexters say their generation has less casual sex and 17% say they have about the same amount. Gen Nexters offer some other fairly harsh assessments about how their behavior and lifestyle compare with the generation that preceded them."
