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.”
THE WORD VIRGIN APPEARED FOR THE FIRST
TIME IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN THE NINTH
CENTURY, BUT INITIALLY ONLY APPLIED TO WOMEN
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
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
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
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
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
“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
THE AZTECS BELIEVED AVOCADOS WERE SO
SEXUALLY POWERFUL THAT VIRGINS WERE
BANNED FROM EATING THEM
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