Most girls are single and many never marry

 

How to interpret this graph? It does not show that 50% of women never marry. It says that from the female population 18-44, half are still unmarried. Unsurprisingly, 90% of 18-year-olds are single, and it could well be that at age 44, all are married. If so, the graph is misleading and worthless.    

I worked with several nice women at the University of Tel Aviv, and never bedded any of them. In moments of unavoidable pre-intimacy, they talked (not to me but for themselves) about how difficult it had been for them to get married, and how they would never risk having an affair. The point is that I was not flirting; the girls were disciplining themselves - not me. Perhaps they were begging me not to try, but I was so naive that I never knew and never even tried.