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UNIQUE THINGS WE'VE LEARNED ABOUT VIRGINITY OVER THE YEARS

Added on: 21st Dec 2016

 

THE TERM VIRGIN IS RELATED TO THE LATIN

ROOT VIRGA, MEANING “YOUNG SHOOT,” AND

VIRGINEM, MEANING “MAIDEN, UNWEDDED

GIRL OR WOMAN, FRESH, UNUSED.

Roman painting

 

 

THE WORD VIRGIN APPEARED FOR THE FIRST

TIME IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN THE NINTH

CENTURY, BUT INITIALLY ONLY APPLIED TO WOMEN

virgin with angels

 

 

THROUGHOUT THE CENTURIES PEARLS HAVE BEEN

SEEN IN MANY CULTURES AS A SYMBOL OF FEMALE

VIRGINITY AND PURITY, ESPECIALLY IN THE CONTEXT

OF MARRIAGE OR RELIGIOUS PORTRAITS

pearls

 

 

ANOTHER POPULAR SYMBOL OF VIRGINITY IS THE

UNICORN. ACCORDING TO VARIOUS WORLD

TRADITIONS, ONLY VIRGINS COULD TAME

UNICORNS, MEANING ONLY VIRGINS COULD

CALM MALE ELEMENTS WITH THEIR FEMALE ONES

symbol of virginity: the unicorn

 

 

FLOWERS HAVE TRADITIONALLY BEEN

ASSOCIATED WITH FEMALE SEXUALITY

BECAUSE THEY SUGGEST GROWTH AND

FERTILITY AND VISUALLY RESEMBLE FEMALE

GENITALIA. TO BE MORE SPECIFIC, THE LILY

IS ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY ASSOCIATED WITH

VIRGINITY AND ITS WHITE PETALS AND

GOLDEN STAMEN ARE A VISUAL REMINDER

OF THE ACT OF PENETRATION

flower

 

 

HAVE YOU EVER HEARD THE PHRASE

“A LORD’S RIGHT”? IF YOU’VE SEEN

BRAVEHEART, YOU MAY RECALL IT.

FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVEN’T SEEN

THE FILM OR KNOW THE PHRASE, IT

REFERRED TO A BIZARRE AND TRAGIC

MEDIEVAL LEGAL RIGHT IN BRITAIN THAT

ALLOWED THE LORD OF AN ESTATE TO

TAKE THE VIRGINITY OF THE ESTATE’S

VIRGINS ON THEIR WEDDING NIGHT

painting

 

 

IN CERTAIN COUNTRIES, ONE’S VIRGINITY WAS

SOLD AS A VALUABLE COMMODITY. IN JAPAN,

FOR EXAMPLE, GEISHAS WOULD SELL THEIR

VIRGINITY IN A RITUAL CALLED MIZUAGE,

BUT THAT RITUAL BECAME ILLEGAL IN 1959

Japanese women

 

 

“TECHNICAL VIRGINITY” IS A PHRASE AND

CONCEPT USED TO DESCRIBE A PERSON

WHO HAS ENGAGED IN OTHER TYPES OF

SEX SUCH AS ANAL AND ORAL BUT NOT VAGINAL

painting

 

 

THE AZTECS BELIEVED AVOCADOS WERE SO

SEXUALLY POWERFUL THAT VIRGINS WERE

BANNED FROM EATING THEM

Avocados

 


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