Importance of Virginity

[kmo_9000]

I know the question may seam kinda random but It's something that's been on my mind.

I'm currently single and I don't know too many Catholic or even christian girls. The ones I do know don't live close and already have boyfriends (which soon become engaged). I guess the question may also come out of some temptations I am facing.

Anyway mainly from the perspective of if you are single or when you were single, how important is it that the man or women you meet and eventually marry be a virgin?

I only ask this because really when you ask this anywhere else people talk about it as if its a naive question. They will say "don't save yourself because she obviously isn't." The secular culture sees sex as something your suppose to "achieve" when your around 20 or so. I really don't have anyone to ask this type of question so I'll ask it here.