1 in every 200 young American women claims to have experienced a “virgin pregnancy”.
Roughly one out of every 200 American women claim to have become pregnant as virgins, according to a recently published study.
Did the women really think they became pregnant as virgins? It isn’t clear. Women were asked when they started having sex and when they got pregnant – and might have misremembered one date or the other, said UNC-Chapel Hill professor Amy H. Herring, one of the authors of the study.
“They might also want to put their best foot forward. Maybe they don’t want to admit it,” Herring said.