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If the character who wants to wait is male, it's usually to show him as a romantic or old-fashioned (often both), probably due to the belief that usually A Man Is Not a Virgin.
Source: Let's Wait a While -
A Sister Trope to Old-Fashioned Rowboat Date which is a similar romantic ideal that started up centuries after the medieval European period.
Source: Courtly Love -
In the Swedish kids' TV series Ebba och Didrik, 12-year-old hopeless romantic Didrik falls hard for 23-year-old Yrla.
Source: Precocious Crush
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Romantic and Old. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 07, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/old/romantic
Old & Romantic. N.p., 2016. Web. 07 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/old/romantic>.
Romantic or Old. 2016. Accessed August 07, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/old/romantic.
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