I am not saving myself for marriage I want to get married I know it is essential to my spiritual growth, completeness and love, everyone keeps going on at me for wanting to get wedded, I know why too? it is the generalisation that marriage is a monotheist/biblical doctrine, so when anyone who knows me repeats that I intend to find a bride to wed, they loose their rag and start going off at the handle. calling me hippy and all sorts of nonsense, well here is the bombshells, the institution or practice of marriage is not Christian or Islamic in it's origination, it was not until the Christian church & Islam popularised marriage after claiming to purify the ungodly disbeliever, savage and heathen, even their methods of prayer in origin belonged solely to non Christian and non Islamic faiths, when you hear someone says ''I am going to tie the knot'' meaning to get married, that is an indigenous American term of marriage the first nation use to use and still do, method of marriage is to tie a rope around the hands of the man and woman who wanted to be joined in spiritual union, they also practice polygamy which is to have more than one wife and still do practice polygamy to this days. When you hear someone says ''I am going to jump the brood stick'' meaning to marry the woman you love , that is another non Christian practice incorporated into Christian terminology and also termed in the south, by stepping over the broomstick it signifies the end of promiscuous practice and the bonding of man to woman in all they do, it is a well known warrior practice to marry, marrying was and is a sign of completeness of life having attained warrior status, if for one moment they could stop thinking like Christian or Muslims they would be able to get over that stumbling block of dogma which many people have when it comes to conventional religions, in effect most people whom want to complain about the choice to wed are being nothing more than childish, I put the unconventional practice in the modern term of non organised religion first , so loosing your noggin after hearing I want t to wed, makes me think your childish in the head., seriously there, the are not just physical advantages there are spiritual advances being one together, the purity of waiting depends on the strength of the person wanting to join together having sex before marriage dose not make him or her any less decent or less holy however agreeing to wait should be a joint decision or singular and they should consider their ability to endure the period of waiting leading to marriage, the advantages can lead to the ideal choice for love and life.