Chief rabbi prohibits single women from going to mikve

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In an attempt to stem a trend of quasi-condoned premarital sex among young modern Orthodox men and women

Rabbi Yona Metzger has issued a prohibition against allowing single women to use mikvaot (ritual baths)

use mikvaot to circumvent one of the severest prohibitions connected with sexual intercourse

"It is absolutely prohibited to allow a single woman to immerse herself in a mikve,"

Jewish law proscribes sexual relations with a woman during and after menstruation until she immerses herself in a mikve

Traditionally, only married women have been permitted to remove the prohibition of nidda via a mikve, so they can have sexual relations with their husbands

single women have traditionally been prevented from using a mikve because it would, in theory, remove the main prohibition against sexual intercourse.

There is no Biblical prohibition against a male and a female having sexual intercourse once the obstacle of nidda has been removed