Inara and the virgin.

The scene I want to discuss from this episode of Firefly is the part where Inara is hired to take a man’s virginity. The reason she is hired is because the father wants to make his son a “man”. After the deed is done so to speak the man is lying in bed next to her and says that he thought he would feel different. The sad thing about this is that in our society today this may be how the younger generation is viewing sex. More as a competition to see who can be the first to lose their virginity. I know it hits close to home with me because the rumor going around my high school before I went to college was that at the freshman building you weren’t considered cool unless you had had sex. I may be old fashioned and sounding like my mother but at the age of 15 you have no idea what you are looking for in another human being and also the hormones are raging so you are much more likely to be unstable and self conscious about it after the fact. The thought of those girls having to go through that kind of emotional turmoil fighting between what will make them popular and what they have been brought up to value makes me sick. Being a teenager is already hard as it is this added pressure is just plain cruel and sad. The worst part would be being a parent and having to just sit back and hope that you taught your child the best you possibly could so that they stay out of harms way.