Daily Inspiration Quote by Joyce Brothers

Male virginity gets framed as a defect not because sex is inherently ennobling, but because masculinity in modern America is treated like a credential you have to earn. Joyce Brothers, the TV-friendly psychologist who spent decades translating intimate life into mass-market advice, is naming a stigma that thrives on a brutal double standard: women are policed for having “too much” sex, men are policed for having “too little.” In that bind, virginity stops being a personal fact and becomes social evidence in a trial about competence, desirability, and status.

Her phrasing matters. “We think” isn’t a softener; it’s an indictment. Brothers points at the collective machinery that produces the judgment - peer groups, locker-room mythology, pop culture punchlines, even therapeutic assumptions - and reminds us it’s not nature talking, it’s a script. “There’s something wrong with them” captures the cruelty of the leap from behavior to identity: not “he hasn’t had sex,” but “he is wrong.” That’s how shame sticks.

The context is a mid-to-late 20th-century culture that sold liberation while keeping rigid gender scorecards. Sexual openness expanded, but it expanded unevenly. Men were expected to want sex constantly and achieve it effortlessly; failure reads as social incompetence, queerness (as insult), or hidden pathology. Brothers’ intent is diagnostic and corrective: if we can hear the prejudice as a “we,” we can stop treating someone’s timeline as a symptom and start treating it as a choice - or simply a circumstance.