Gender Influence On Virginity

As I reflect upon my research, I have come to a realization that the interviewing process was not as simple as I had originally thought. There were some difficulties with the comprehension of my questions at first, so I had to reword some of them differently and ask the question all over again. Another road block that I encountered was keeping my composure by attempting to have neutral facial expressions and repressing my bias from those who I disagreed with. However, it was fairly easy to interview those who were in my age group. Interviewees that were similar in age with me had more conversational and casual interviews which alleviated any awkward tension resulting from the subject of virginity. My own values towards virginity include the …show more content…
This particular question got most of my respondents to really think because they initially have to acknowledge whether or not they believe these gender roles exist and then figure out why they do and how it affects perspectives on virginity. I could deduce that respondent’s never really thought about the difference between gender identities and biological sex because it was difficult for older interviewees and males to define gender. There’s a possibility that this confusion could be due to the idea that genitalia and biological sex completely links with gender. Although most people identify their gender in correlation with their sex, there are people that don’t and this lack of understanding was reflected through many males and older participants who didn’t really understand how to define gender when I asked them. Another question that interviewees found confusing was when I asked them how they felt about virginity. I realize now that this question was extremely vague. However, females easily responded to this question whereas almost all of my male interviewees didn’t understand what I meant. When some of my interviews ended, some of my peers that were my respondents put into question whether losing virginity could only occur through heteronormative sexual encounters through penetration. A lot of my respondents didn’t take homosexual sexual activities or even non-sexual gestures into consideration when we talked about virginity. Although these thoughts were not addressed during their interviews, it was still something that should be brought to light because it can be inferred that my questions induced some insightful thinking